Step 3: Deliver

Summary

After a year of Designing and Developing your Action Plan, now is the time to Deliver. Once your Action Plan is completed and implemented including its reflections, your final step will be to write up a summary of your years work. A conclusive analysis of your Action Plan from concept to creation, and everything in between--the project as a whole: pros, cons, experiences, success, frustration--we want to hear it all.

Publishing

After you have taken the time to write up your summary, the finishing touch to Delivering your crowning achievement is publishing it! This is the most rewarding and essential aspect of the AP process. Once you have published it on the GSA website, your AP becomes a “Success Story” found within the Action Group you based your AP on. This Success Story is a living testament of your hard work and dedication! It will serve as guide to your peers, teachers, and administrators, as well as all those in the GSA community who wish to utilize your story to implement their own Action Plan. You will also be able to reference this published work in college applications and any future career endeavors.

Time to report back!

“CONTACT YOUR APA
Your APA will send you instructions and guide in the process of creating your Summary and being Published.”

Tips + Tricks

  • While you're doing yourAP, using different methods of social media can boost your project's popularity, making it easier to gain traction. Blog, post on Facebook, make sure everyone knows about the awesome stuff you’ve done! And don’t forget to check out what your peers have been doing because it can be great inspiration.

  • Your work isn't just a project that you do, and it's done. As it lives on the GSA website, you can reference it in your college applications and resumé as a "service project" or whichever category it satisfies. Utilize it!

  • Still need help? | The GSA website has a host of resources that logically live under the "Resources" tab of each of the Resource Groups. The Action Group categorization for your specific AP should be a hint as to which Action Group's resources would be most beneficial to you. But as a useful go-to tool, check out 350.org and its tips for community organizers looking to make a difference in their neighborhoods!