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After Action Review

By Julianna Arvin

1. What was planned?
               a. Objective: To have sustain students collaborate with  

               GleanSlo to create a trial backyard harvests program
               b. Planned: We scheduled a backyard harvest day where our

                  method would be tested. We planed:
                               i. To make fliers
                               ii. Scope out neighborhoods with threes
                               iii. Hand out fliers
                               iv. Have a drop of location where people

                                   would bring fruit
                              v.Pick peoples fruit
                              vi. Pick up peoples fruit
                             vii. Make signs
                            viii.  Be there on the day to collect drop offs
                             ix. Review and evaluate our process
2. What actually happened?
             a. Our backyard harvest idea got changed then what we

                originally thought. It was going to be a drop off, pick up and

                harvest fruit day. We originally thought we could do all

              three of them.
             b. It turned out that on the fliers we mainly publicized the fruit

                   drop of.
             c. We did make fliers, we scoped out neighborhoods, we handed

                 out fliers and we had a collection drop of location and fruit

               collection.
                                     i.We had volunteers stay at the drop of

                                          location to collect donated fruit
                                     ii. We also had volunteers go out and pick

                                         fruit from homes that registered their tree

                                           online
            d. We collected 1463 pounds of fruit!
3. Why did it happen?
            a. I think out original idea got changed because sustain students

              did not really communicate with our community partners our

              vision. We kind of were passive in the process and so our voice

              didn’t really get heard. I think if we had expressed our opinions

              to our community partners then it would have been more

              helpful. Although when working with others compromise is

              necessary.
           b. For our gleaning event I don’t think we got as many drop off,

              as we had wanted. I think this was due to our time constraints

              with publicity.
          c. I think we let the community partners take control of the project.

            We were still involved but more as other volunteers then as co-

             planners.
                              i. I think this had to do with the limited amount of

                                time we could provide to the project and lack of

                                expressing our voice.
          d. Overall, the first neighborhood-gleaning project was a success.

              We did collect a ton of fruit to donate to the Food bank
4. What can we do next time?
          a. I think next quarter the sustain volunteers can try to be more

              expressive in their voice.
          b. I also think that we need to work on publishing aspect of

             events/gleanslo.
         c. Perhaps even looking at a different aspect of their program to be

            involved in. Such as efficiency, publicized …ect.
         d. I also think our group needs to meet without our community

             partners to decide what we all want to do.

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