What support is needed?

After completion of a project a long-term task force should be identified and set up to ensure sustainability, with a member of staff overseeing the task force. The Foundation could assist this process by helping to identify volunteers with specific skills to cover shortfall areas. A goal of task groups should be to ensure transfer of knowledge between volunteers in a task force and across task groups. This would help to achieve sustainability of projects. The Foundation could assist in this by pooling resources and skills of volunteers to set-up long-term task groups. A tool in assisting the task groups in achieveing their goals could be to set up conference calls so volunteers in a task group could work on projects together, identify solutions, provide feedback. A volunteer could be appointed to develop: a glossary of terms, with the purpose of defining the terms in the context of the task force, and to develop a timeline for the project, to ensure deadlines are met. The Foundation could assist this process by developing (with the aid of volunteers) an archive that contains information on previous task forces, the goals, the glossaries, the timelines, lessons learned etc. This would assist future task forces.