Outreach & Sustainability Plan for Epilogues Project

Outreach:

Community Resources:

1. Refugee Support Services
   • We have already reached out to RSS, a refugee resettlement agency in Charlotte, and we have not heard back. If we do, we would like them to help us connect with refugees in the Charlotte area. We plan to reach out to them over social media to look over our project and promote it because of their connections to refugees, and we will promote their program on our website.
2. International House
   • We have contacted International House, a refugee resettlement and support agency in Charlotte, informed them of our project, and asked them to let individuals they work with who may be interested in participating know about the interviewing opportunity. We have not yet heard back. Whether or not we find participants through their organization, we will promote their organization on our website, send them a link to our project, and request for them to promote our project on their website or social media presence. 
3. Dr. Joubin
   • Dr. Joubin has already given us advice for the project and has helped connect us to a Davidson student who we might be able to interview/who could connect us to other interviewees. We will share our project with her because she has already helped us and may provide more feedback as we go.
4. A Davidson student/potential interviewee
   • We have been in touch with a student at Davidson via email and met with them to discuss the project on March 10th. They and their family are potential interviewees, and if we interview them, we will reach out after constructing the website to ensure their continued consent to being a part of our project. We have scheduled an interview with them over Zoom on April 13th. 
5. Catholic Charities
   • We have emailed Catholic Charities, an organization encompassing several outreach programs including refugee support, and didn’t hear back. We reached out hoping that they might be able to put us in contact with refugees who may be interested in participating in our project. If they had replied, we would have worked with them and the contacts they provided throughout the project, and eventually emailed them a link to our completed site. We still plan to promote their organization on our website as a potential source for refugee readers.
6. Our Bridge for Kids
   • We will reach out to Our Bridge either via social media or email. Our Bridge is a Charlotte-based organization that provides after school services for immigrant and refugee children and resources for parents. Although we will only consider individuals above age 18 to interview – and may not even consider additional interviewees – Our Bridge could still be an important link to other organizations who work with refugees in Charlotte. We may inform them of our project, and ask them to connect us with other organizations and individuals who may be interested in participating. Whether or not we find participants through their organization, we will send them a link to our project and request for them to promote our project on their website or social media presence. We will include information about their program on our website.
7. Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency
   • We will contact CRRA, a refugee resettlement agency in Charlotte, either via social media or email. We will inform the agency of our project and ask them to let individuals they work with who may be interested in participating know about the interviewing opportunity. Whether or not we find participants through their organization, we will promote their organization on our website, send them a link to our project and request for them to promote our project on their website or social media presence. 
8. Make Welcome
   • We will contact Make Welcome, an organization in Charlotte which teaches refugee women sewing skills, inform them of our project, and – if we are still looking for interviewees – ask them to let individuals they work with who may be interested in participating know about the interviewing opportunity. Whether or not we find participants through their organization, we will promote their services on our website, send them a link to our project and request for them to promote our project on their website or social media presence.

Social Media:

We will reach out to different organizations, professors and potential interviewees via email. If email does not work and a number is provided, we may make phone calls as well. Most likely we will use social media only to market our website once it is up and running (if only in prototype form).

We will also give the organizations we connect with an opportunity to help us promote our project once our website is complete. We will send a link to our completed project along with a description that they can use to feature our project on their website or social media presence.  

Social media (Twitter):

• Follow our community resources/refugee support agencies on twitter
  • International House – twitter
  • Our Bridge – twitter, facebook, instagram
  • RSS – facebook and twitter (links on bottom of their site)
  • Catholic Charities – twitter specifically for Charlotte

• Provide a link to our website in our bio
• Find and list relevant hashtags
• Like and comment on posts by community resources/agencies
• Ask community resources/agencies to share our project on their social media accounts

Sustainability:

1. We will build the site on Annelise’s account, and it can remain there until May 2022 when she graduates. She will maintain the website.
   • By the end of the semester we will discuss moving the domain onto the digital projects site. That would be ideal, but if it does not happen it can stay on Annelise’s domain for the near future.
2. This site will remain live until May 2022. We hope that it will be a community resource, in which case it would benefit others by remaining live.
3. Annelise hopes to continue updating this site over the next couple of years, although it is hard to know for sure. We will gauge team interest/discuss plans for continuation by the end of the semester, depending on how far we get with the project.
4. As of right now, we have a “contact us” or “feedback” form that viewers may respond to. Annelise will be in charge of responding to those comments, and she will check the website periodically to approve or respond to comments.