Looking for project ideas

[Star09]

I'm trying to find a project to work on for my service and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Others are raising funds for a Zoll, another is trying to organize a blood drive, someone else is researching a GPS system. It's a small rural service. Thoughts?

[GAmedic1506]

Look at your needs first, and look at what you have expertice in or a passion for. If you cant find anything, how about improving community CPR training, and the purchase/placement of AEDs.

[buckeyedoc]

Look at your needs first, and look at what you have expertice in or a passion for. If you cant find anything, how about improving community CPR training, and the purchase/placement of AEDs.

I would have to agree. I would research information for public grants for schools, malls or any other public gathering place to receive free AED's. Now that's customer service. We did the same thing for strip malls (not the adult ones) and were able to help them get free AED's. We haven't had a need for them yet, but they're there if we ever do.

[PRPGfirerescuetech]

Hmmm.

You want a zoll? start there. Before you look at public grants on PAD's, try fund drives for internal upgrades.

Set up a public "heartsaver" drive. Set your goal at whatever you need for a spec'd Zoll, x 2 for a spare. Hold a coin toss at an intersection, shoot for a few grand. Use that to create advertising and flyers for the event, wait a month or so (so the coin toss peeps forget they gave) and send a mass mailer fund drive to promote the event and ask for donations.

Now...Its summer, fairly warm.

Throw a fundraising barbcue at your service with the rest of the coin toss cash. Invite the local radio station (free promotionals for the event) bring down a few vendors from the area to sell some wares, sell food for a few bucks, and send some people through the crowds with buckets and promotional advertisers, explaining the purpose of the drive.

Great PR, wonderful tool for the event. You will have your pretty lil' zolls quicker than you think.

Then, use public grants simultaneously to purchase the PAD's

Also, if anyone needs a PR guy to throw and create drives like this, www.setatraining.org/setaconsultants

[paramedicmike]

Also, if anyone needs a PR guy to throw and create drives like this, www.setatraining.org/setaconsultants

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[PRPGfirerescuetech]

SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT! SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!!!

Oh come on! You knew I had to give you a hard time about it!

lmao...YEAH, I FIGURED SOMEONE WOULD.