Strategy Development to Facilitate Gender Equity in Sports
Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+.
We are looking for team members to explore and research social barriers for these groups to participate in sports in Canada and ways to remove those barriers. The project will include the following activities:
- Research on social barriers that prevent equity-deserving groups from participating in sports.
- Strategies to remove the barriers and increase sports participation.
We are looking for convincing and persuasive social research and strategy recommendations.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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This project will involve:
- Research on social issues and barriers for equity deserving groups to participate in sports.
- Literature reviews of the existing studies on the subject matter.
- Writing reports on specific topics, e.g. women in sports.
The final deliverables should take the form of:
- A final report
- 30 minute presentation
Students will be assigned a subtopic depending on the company's needs.
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+.
We are looking for team members to explore and research social barriers for these groups to participate in sports in Canada and ways to remove those barriers. The project will include the following activities:
- Research on social barriers that prevent equity-deserving groups from participating in sports.
- Strategies to remove the barriers and increase sports participation.
We are looking for convincing and persuasive social research and strategy recommendations.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
This project will involve:
- Research on social issues and barriers for equity deserving groups to participate in sports.
- Literature reviews of the existing studies on the subject matter.
- Writing reports on specific topics, e.g. women in sports.
The final deliverables should take the form of:
- A final report
- 30 minute presentation
Students will be assigned a subtopic depending on the company's needs.
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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We will provide at least 5 hours of mentorship and supervision. Regular recap and goal-setting sessions with students will be conducted.
Supported causes
About the company
- https://www.centre-solaris.org
- 2 - 10 employees
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
The mission of the organization is to promote active and healthy life among underprivileged kids from families with low income, to provide relief from poverty by supplying food and other basic supplies to persons of low income, and to render assistance to the low-income unemployed to find jobs and selfemployment. The clientele comes from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
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