Briefly describe the Community Partner Organization’s mission. What are they trying to do? What
problem does their work solve? Education is part of their mission. What information do they want to
communicate and to whom? How can volunteers help fulfill their goals? How are you going to contribute to the
mission of CSUN@Home? Your volunteer contributions will be unique. What to you bring to the organization in
terms of skills, interests, location and or perspective?ConnectionsThe ecological issues you are learning about
in this course are: population growth and density, invasive species, climate change, community dynamics,
spread of diseases, fisheries, nutrient cycling / eutrophication, soil fertility, designing sustainable technology
and environmental policy. The work of your Community Partner Organization overlaps with some or all of those
challenges, directly or indirectly. Identify and elaborate on some (3-5) How can volunteers help fulfill their
goals?of those connections.Focus TopicResearch one aspect of your Community Partner Organization’s work
that interests you most. It does not have to be exactly the work you will be doing for the project. Any topic
related to the mission of the CSUN Institute of Sustainability is great. Choose something that you want to
know more about. Explore that topic using the resources available to you in the Oviatt Library, summarize what
is known and what the greatest challenges are in that area. Use at least 5 reliable sources of information to
support your writing (at least 2 of them must be peer reviewed sources). Do not use direct quotations from
them but paraphrase what you learn from those sources. Vision…What is the outlook for the future of your
chosen focus topic? How are the challenges you described above likely to be resolved? What would you
consider the ideal outcome? Support your writing with your source material.
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