Instructions
1. Select a social issue
- This should be the same issue you used for your research summaries (Summaries attached)
2. Research Watch this quick video on how to create an elevator pitch
- Utilize your research summaries to understand the key aspects and implications of your social issue.
- Look into what sector primarily handles issues related to that issue.
- Create a solution, policy, or idea that can positively impact that social issue.
- Find a person, organization, or agency to specifically address in your elevator pitch.
3. Craft your elevator pitch
- Develop a succinct pitch that communicates the essence of the social issue, its urgency, and potential solutions that can be implemented by the sector you are addressing.
- Write a script that you will follow. This will be turned in for credit.
- Ensure your pitch is between 30-60 seconds (This will be recorded)
Here are some things to help you get started:
- Pick one thing that can be done to help improve the social issue. Think about your plan to address the social issue in more detail (i.e. open a state-funded homeless shelter that offers programming for the homeless, create a campaign to help bring awareness to certain topics, create a community garden to address food scarcity).
- Identify which sector could make a large impact on that social issue and that could help you implement the plan you just identified above.
- Your video must be 60 seconds or less.