IU Corps is now accepting student START applications through Friday September 19th, 2025 or until projects are full.
Please review the following projects and apply for the one that makes sense for you based on your skills, career interests, and experiences.
Fall 2025 START Projects:
Community Partner: Brown County Community Foundation (BCCF)
Strategic Comprehensive Social Media and Marketing Plan
The BCCF needs a broad social media and marketing plan for the entirety of their operations. The START student team will meet with a designated representative(s) of Brown County Community Foundation before and throughout the project to gather organizational background information, past and current marketing strategies, goals & objectives, target audience information, core messages, brand guidelines, resources & constraints, upcoming events & key dates, peer insights, receive feedback and edits, and communicate any additional needs.
The strategic plan should include:
- Updated market strategies and analysis
- Audience analysis
- Competitive and SWOT analysis
- Implementation Plan (including timelines, tasks, responsibilities, resources, milestones, and contingency plans)
- Proposed social media posts and/or templates
Community Partner: Brown County Community Foundation (BCCF)
Website Update and Audit
START students will perform a website audit of Brown County Community Foundation’s website and create a comprehensive document with suggested alterations. START students will create a mockup of suggested updates. START students will make minor updates to the website as well.
Website Audit Report:
- Overview of findings
- List of issues (e.g., slow-loading pages, missing meta tags)
- Priority levels (high/medium/low)
- Actionable recommendations
- Screenshots or tool outputs
Community Partner: Center for Women’s Ministries (CWM)
Strategic Comprehensive Business Plan
The Center for Women’s Ministries is transitioning its business model and needs a broad business plan and implementation guide for its centers. This plan should help express the plan, stages, and step-by-step guide.
The strategic plan should include:
- A comprehensive plan for all stages of implementation
- Plan that understands and acknowledges the power of volunteers
- An analysis of the legal compliances for each state
- Competitive and SWOT analysis
- Strategic implementation plan with schedule
- Suggestions for marketing and center buy-in
Community Partner: Real Recovery
Funding Portfolio and Sustainability Plan
FUNDING PORTFOLIO
The top priority of this project entails locating potential funding options available that are available to Real Recovery and compiling a portfolio so that Real Recovery has a large and concise data pool of opportunities when they are ready to start applying for them.
Reasearch for portfolio should include:
- Type of funding (grant, private donor, foundation, etc.)
- Sponsor (who is providing grant/donation)
- Amount of funding
- Mission of company
- Due date for submission
- Basics of requirements
Could also create an outline/framework/template containing general grant information about Real Recovery.
SUSTAINABILITY PLAN
Real Recovery needs a broad sustainability plan for the entirety of their operations as a whole. This plan should look at who Real Recovery operates and where they can add some sustainability planning to their operations.
The sustainability plan should include:
- A comprehensive plan for all areas of Real Recovery
- Updated market strategies and analysis
- An analysis of the audience
- Competitive and SWOT analysis
- Strategic implantation of plan with schedule