Brainstorm Possible Goals
Now that you’ve done your research, zeroed in on how your Focus Issue affects your community, and learned what other organizations are doing to address the problem, you probably have some ideas of what your group could try to accomplish in your civic action project.
Use this brainstorming activity to list all of the possible goals that you think would help solve the Focus Issue. These don’t have to be original ideas: Feel free to borrow from another organization already working on the same or similar Focus Issue. (Remember your research from Step 2!)
A brainstorm is a little bit like a heavy rainstorm—it’s lots and lots of ideas at once. Good ones, bad ones, truly terrible ones. It doesn’t matter.
Rules of Good Brainstorms
Build on each other’s ideas.
Each person should contribute at least one idea.
No judgment. All ideas have potential.
Think BIG!
REMEMBER TO “SAVE” YOUR WORK
Over the next few pages, you’ll learn what makes some goals better than others, especially for the YSU civic action project. By the end of Step 3, you should be able to choose one goal to focus on for the rest of your project. (Don’t worry now about how you’ll achieve your goal—you’ll tackle that in Step 4.)
