Stakeholder Research

We are looking for a volunteer who can conduct a stakeholder research initiative for our organization.

Our organization needs a clear vision of who we trying to engage in our programming, fundraising, and partnership efforts. We are hopeful that intentional research on our organization’s core stakeholders can help ensure that our messaging hits all the right marks. This project will include: gathering and analyzing information about target demographics, ideal forms of outreach, and/or what worked well or not during past outreach drives. This research could include digging into what our expected stakeholders are reading, who they’re influenced by, where they live, and demographic details. Your research could also fuel the work of building user personas: a mock-up of your organization’s ideal individual donor, corporate partner, hands-on volunteer, or foundation partner.

By synthesizing this information, you will empower our team to make better, data-backed decisions on how to progress toward our mission's goals.

This work will directly support our organizations ability to fundraise and support STEAM education initiatives for Chicago area students. We also want to get an idea of how our work with STEAM education and gun violence awareness cross stakeholders.

To prepare for this project, we have outlined who we believe our current core audiences are and who our aspirational audiences will be. We plan to implement the results of this research project through better alignment of our mission and vision, as well as more programming efforts targeting our key stakeholders for fundraising initiatives.