The Development Society’s YEAR END SURVEY REPORT

I. ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE ORGANIZATION VISION : Inspired by the Ignatian value of persons for others, the Development Society envisions a community of development catalysts both aware and actively involved with the social issues affecting the Philippine nation. MISSION : The Development Society aims to form a community of development catalysts by creating venues for social awareness, holistic competence and proactive social involvement.

Thrust for the School Year IMAGINE BETTER How we view a better world starts with our imagination. It paves the way for the many ways we can all contribute to building the nation.

Organization Chart

Project Outcomes PlanSem part 1 PlanSem part 2 Obama and CO Forum RecWeek Interviews 1st GA 2010 Candidates Forum Tambay Week Release of SONA Primer Project Manager’s GA Tick Tick Boom Midsem Committees UBE

Project Outcomes One Tama Week One Tama Kapihan Session DevSoc UBE International Coastal Clean-up

Project Outcomes Many Roads to Nation Building Merchandising Many Roads Forum EvSem 2nd GA Christmas Party for a Cause Voter’s Ed Exhibit

Project Outcomes Weekly EB Meetings Monthly: –ExeCom Meeting –Newsletters Year-Round Multiply site and Facebook group

Financial Report

II. EVALUATION OF THE GOALS A. Organization Development Leadership Development Goal: To be able to train committee deputies through workshops and active engagement in the projects for better leadership transition for the next year –Not achieved Internal Communication Goal: To make efforts to improve inter- committee linkages through constant communication and project collaboration. –Achieved

External Communication Goal: To improve linkages with other organizations inside & outside Ateneo through representation and partnerships. –Achieved Membership Formation Goal: That a majority of recruited members participate in the planning and implementation of the organization’s projects. –Not achieved Project Management Goal: To be able to fully implement the organization’s project management system and monitor all the projects from the planning stage to the implementation and evaluation stages. –Achieved

B. Core Competencies Providing Avenues for Social Awareness Goal: To provide effective dissemination materials, organize events that promote awareness of national issues, and present opportunities for active volunteerism –Achieved Avenues for Social Involvement Goal: To provide opportunities for active volunteerism –Achieved Goal: Capacity Building Goal: To provide opportunities for capacity building in development management –Achieved

III. BEST EFFORTS FOR THE SCHOOLYEAR Organization Development Effort –External Communication Tie-ups inside Ateneo: Environmental Science Society, Matanglawin, and Sanggunian. Outside organizations: Got Heart Foundation, One Tama, Youth Trip, World Youth Alliance, Youth Vote, Code NGO and One Tama. –Through its external relations, Development Society also became more aware and was influenced by other groups in other organizational aspects. This allowed for a more reflective analysis and initiated improvements in other organizational features such as leadership development, member formation and project management.

Core Competencies Effort –One Tama Week “One Tama is a campaign that asks a very simple question: If all of us say we want a better country anyway, why don't we try it out for one day?” The week-long activity was a success, with a total of 185 Ateneans pledging to do something good for the week. The One Tama Week proved to be a very simple yet meaningful and successful project.

Synergy Effort –The Many Roads to Nation-Building –An NGO fair featuring various organizations advocating the development of various sectors in the country –Aimed to provide Ateneans with the various “roads” or opportunities to become socially involved –The project has greatly strengthened organizational development especially in terms of project management, member formation and external communication

IV. FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS ON THE MIDYEAR RECOMMENDATIONS 1.Have both qualitative and quantitative measures for the goals and success indicators for clearer and better reports. 2.Focus more on membership involvement for the second semester. 3. Have more projects that will clearly project the youth-oriented advocacy image chosen at the start of the year so that the organization will have more personality. 1.All necessary support documents have been collected and a deliberate effort to put more numbers in the reports was done to make the report more understandable for outside readers. 2.Due to the lax nature of this year's recruitment, a lot of members without enough passion for the org were still recruited. The organization hopes to avoid this next year. 3.The Development Society took on a clearly youth-oriented path this second semester by organizing events that are all deliberately chosen to attract the Ateneo students.

V. Conclusions This year, the organization faced many challenges. Despite this, we, the members of Development Society, are proud to say that we have indeed imagined better. By exploring more possibilities on what it means to be socially aware and socially involved, we were able to provide a wide variety of projects for members and non- members alike. There is still a lot to improve, but we hope that as the future unfolds, it can only get better.

The Development Society’s YEAR END SURVEY REPORT