Problem: Free Geek Toronto (FGT) lacks a long term plan for securing corporate partnerships, maintaining a steady workforce, and earning useful technology donations. Over-reliance on grants and sales is risky in the future, hence, we plan on mitigating the risk through a structured approach alongside a supplementary technical product. We believe that solving these partnership absences will resolve many of the other bottlenecks that the business faces.

Proposed Solution:

CSR Equivalency Calculator to provide partners with an idea of the positive impact they are making on the community, alongside an ready to use action line for boosting PR.
Targeting TDSB SHSM educational placements.
Writing an ethical policy document to sign deals with corporations and sponsors so the company's identity remains untouched.

Brief Timeline (Educational Partnerships):

Months 1-2: Identify possible TDSB schools, contact SHSM teacher sponsors, and secure school level pilot improval.

Months 3-5: Manage student placement, and write an impact report (keep track of hours spent on training as this can be used as credible outcome in the future).

Month 6 and onwards: Use the results to solidify FGT's reputation in TDSB and grow the partnership. Note: The presentation dives deeper into the timeline covering the details with more depth!

Team Members: Arthur Tran, Sid Ramgopal, Prakhar Sood