A tentative title for the next advocacy post: Senior & Student Think & Pitch Tanks
Let's start with a few excerpts from the "Think & Do" article of June 2007 which targeted retirees:
How many retired professional and business leaders will use their time, talents and perspectives to benefit their city and region? How many will use their intellects in networking with locals to attack & solve local problems?
1. Determine the goal.
2. Identify the highest-leveraged approach.
3. Discover the ideal technology for such approach.
People in their 60s and beyond need productive relationships. Discovering and implementing needed solutions to intractable problems gives purpose and structure to retirement work that matters.
The Test:
Where's that collaborative can-do & will-do spirit?
Do retiring Londoners have the creative spark to launch Think & Do Tank(s)?"
The current project challenges senior students with a two-step project of Four Hundred Words plus a Three Minute pitch on a solution to a community problem.
The first step involves a thoughtful guest post on an established advocacy blog. The second step relies on a local service club to provide three minutes for the verbal pitch, with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners -based on content & delivery- receiving recognition in the local newspaper.
PS #1
The formats of the 2007 blog post and the June 2018 proposal were for larger arenas and hence, are not necessarily ideal templates for a county effort.
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