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2015 Autumn | Education & Outreach

The Benefits and Challenges of Creating a Successful Outreach Program with a Focus on Obtaining More Volunteers

Student(s):

Chelsea Bogrow

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Jeff Adams

Partner(s):

  • Washington Sea Grant

Faculty advisor(s):

Jason Toft

For my capstone, I worked with Washington Sea Grant on a program that is focusing on eradicating a non-native, invasive crab species. My goal was to help the organization expand their outreach program with a focus on obtaining volunteers. One of the ways I did that was by developing a list of targeted stakeholders who would then be sought out to for possible interest. In relation, I did research on what different forms of outreach are commonly used in projects that have already been established. I found that forms of electronic outreach were regularly used which complimented my work at WSG.