Papanui Project Pipeline - 84 ideas
During discussions on re-invigorating Papanui Rotary Club for the future it was pointed out that, when new members join they are expecting to participate in something to do with helping others in the community. It was agreed that we rarely have a list of activities that provide the opportunity to do something useful.
There are significant activities each year such as:
- Gift Wrapping
- Ronald McDonald House
- Trailer Raffle
... but we need more smaller projects with hands-on involvement.
Papanui Rotary is not short of new ideas. Ideas for projects, events and fundraisers come up all the time whenever Rotarians meet.
Many ideas come when we meet people at our meetings, from other clubs at movie nights, Quiz nights. Changeover, club visits and generally observing what we see happening in the community.
These light bulb moments rarely get recorded and many are worthy of further action.
The whole idea is that there is a place to submit ideas as they come up and they don’t simply “fly off” and are never seen again.
The Papanui Rotary board has started the Papanui Project Pipeline.
It is a simple plan is to provide a place where ideas can be captured and someone else will evaluate them. Basically ideas are captured and put on a register.
They are then evaluated by club members through a simple process which provides more informed information about each so further evaluation or resources can be applied if required.
Some may be put on hold as the idea could be good but the timing is not tight. See the image below:
Some may be so small the initial evaluating members might just decide to make it happen themselves.
Also, the person coming up with the idea has no accountability to have ongoing involvement in making it happen (unless they want to).
They would obviously have to expand on their initial idea with a short discussion or couple of paragraphs. A sample of the Pipeline is shown below:
The idea was presented to the club on 8 November 2018. New ideas were asked for. On the first night 72 new ideas were submitted. The list is now up to 84.
This means that, once the list is filtered and prioritised Papanui Rotary, should be able to offer a variety of interesting activities for new members, friends of the club, university and school volunteers.