Business Development Summer Intern

(The quick ask for those who are looking for it: If you need no further introduction, please consider donating $50-$100 today to help us raise funds for a paid summer intern (and beyond)!)

Intro - Paid Social Innovation Intern

Hello! The Freedom Café continues to grow, and expand on the vision set by our founders to raise awareness, empower action and financially support efforts to end human trafficking around the region and globe. 

To build greater capacity, sustainability, and tools to track and communicate our social impact, we have partnered with the UNH Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise to host a Summer Social Innovation Internship and plan to host a 40 hour/week business development intern from May 21-July25, 2018.

Internship Focuses

The two major themes of their internship will be:

1. To help put in place major reporting and analyzing functions across the organization, to benefit both our Donors and Café Guests AND our Staff and Volunteers as they work on (and drink to!) the mission.
   
   This will mean visually effective graphs and reports that keep YOU in the know about how we're doing, and what you can continue to do to help! (It will also mean the other important stuff like stronger financial accountability, building capacity to take on larger grants and donations, and more effective communications and actions to support our mission)
   
   
2. To create a regularly administered Impact Analysis survey that is statistically significant, with an eye towards possible Academic publication.

This summer's intern will work closely with Board Members and other volunteers to achieve everything laid out here in our internship posting. (More on the "Why?" and "What?" of the two themes above explained below the break!)

The Ask - Help us fund?

To support this project, we are inviting our friends, founders, and alumni to invest in The Freedom Café internship program. The Freedom Café has already had great success hosting UNH internships in areas of communications, women's studies and community leadership. These opportunities create space for students to develop important job skills while also improving the reach and effectiveness of our programs. 

Please consider donating $50-$100 to support our 2018 summer internship and our ongoing internship efforts. 

Thank you,

Bryan Bessette, Sean Matthews, and The Freedom Café board.

Appendix- More Details

Below are further descriptions, motivations, and details for what the Intern will be assisting with and why.

Impact Analysis Survey

From the moment we first heard about the Freedom Cafe from our friends at Amherst, MA, we fell in love with not just the model (whereby the simple act of drinking sustainably sourced coffee and tea, we'd help fund efforts to combat human trafficking) but the potential for creating an outsized impact on our behaviors and the behaviors of friends, family, and strangers alike.

As a founding community, we were frustrated with the high ideals and aspirations we all discussed regularly and desperately wanted to achieve, but couldn't find ways to make an impact.

So, when the Cafe concept came around, we thought of it as more than just a feel-good idea, but a radical way to influence the minds and behaviors of our local community and future leaders. The hypothesis has always been this: By providing a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere and high-quality beverages and events, we could introduce truly difficult topics to wrestle with and start nudging people in a direction that impacted their daily spending, consuming, donating, and working habits. 

We believe fully in creating a more just and peaceful world, and doing so sustainably so that the changes we desire can last for generations to come.

Time to put that hypothesis to the test.

Our survey will focus on 3 subsets of people:

• Past and Current Volunteers (Alumni)
• Past and Current Cafe Guests
• People who have never heard about the Freedom Cafe (our "Control" group)

And it will gauge the short-, mid-, and long-term impact of the following:

• Cafe Programming
• Cafe Messaging
• Cause Messaging
• Volunteering vs. being a Guest only
• Sustained donations vs. One-time involvement
• Other meaningful non-Cafe movements, opportunities, and organizations (potentially to model after or partner with)

Other benefits/goals of the survey:

• Provide and share a survey and process model with other organizations looking to measure the impact of their programs/services/products/missions on the behaviors and minds of this customers/people
• Re-engage former volunteers and students who have "gone out into the world" who can provide insight or offer their expertise to further the cause

Reporting and Business Analysis

For a long time, the Cafe has operated via systems that have helped in the day to day management of the Cafe space and our programming. However, we have not put in place high level dashboards or generated reports that help us gauge trends in the business and our programming. 

Perhaps most important, we have not put together a process and system to allow us to more readily and transparently share our metrics with YOU. 

Why?

As with any movement, the effectiveness of our mission and strategy is important to gauge. Of equal import is informing our supporters, the people actively engaged in the movement, and people who are choosing organizations to support, about how effective we are.

What?

Working with the Board, the intern will be putting together:

• Database of all former and current Volunteers, Donors, Staff, and Guests
• Dashboard for Key Performance Indicators
• Reports for prior years and months effectiveness
• Marketing/Cause related materials for both web and print consumption