The San Francisco State MPA program is dedicated to graduating students who are capable of working in teams both as team members and as team leaders. Nearly every class in the program has a team project requirement, sometimes with assigned teams and sometimes allowing students to develop teams on their own. This has allowed me to learn how to work with people with varying working habits and styles, how to remain flexible, and how to leverage the team environment so as to produce a better product than any one person could have produced on their own.
Over the course of the program I worked on two team projects which were completed at the request of local non-profit organizations. The first project below, an analysis of 2005 survey data of San Francisco Food Bank customers, was a semester-long project completed with a team of five which required the analysis of quantitative data to answer research questions and provide suggestions to help the Food Bank in the future. The results were presented by me and another team-member to executives at the Food Bank. The second was a semester-long program evaluation completed by one other student and me for a local non-profit that works with children and families. The project gauged the success of one of the organization’s programs through the use of surveys and provided data which the organization could use to report back to funders. The third document attached below is a team project completed by a team of five addressing a hypothetical organizational behavior issue.
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