Advice on Survey and Focus Group Design

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Overview

Role: 
Advisor
Estimated Time: 
Ten to twenty hours, but fewer is still helpful.
Start Date: 
Spring 2016
Collaboration style: 
Set own schedule. Volunteer in-person and remotely. Volunteer on advisory team. Work closely with professional staff.
BlueStar

Scope & Deliverables

Progressive Jews who support Israel often feel out of step with both their progressive peers and the mainstream pro-Israel community. Intersectionality has made “anti-Israel” stances one of the required checklist items for members of the progressive community, so many pro-Israel progressive Jews must either keep their pro-Israel views hidden - or join the greater progressive fight against economic and racial injustice, which now seems to include Israel, which is often cast as an illegal, colonizing, genocidal, and oppressive regime.

In addition, pro-Israel progressive Jews often feel out of step with the mainstream pro-Israel community because of its unwillingness to acknowledge the dangers of certain Israeli policies and actions, including settlements and the control of marriage laws by the Orthodox rabbinate.

Our goal is to ensure that pro-Israel, progressive Jews are prepared with resources that encourage them to speak their mind on Israel within the progressive movement, and within the greater pro-Israel community.  To support them, our goal is to develop and disseminate fliers, videos and presentation source material eagerly received and widely used by progressive Jews.

The consultant or a team of consultants would provide advice on any or all of the below tasks. We are entirely open to consultants taking on only a portion of the engagement.

  • Designing an online survey and focus group questionnaire
  • Attracting respondents
  • Evaluating results of survey
  • Selecting focus group participants
  • Facilitating a live focus group
  • Evaluating results of focus group
  • Synthesizing take aways to inform resource development (fliers, videos and presentations)

Project Results

Our goal is to provide progressive Jews with the tools they need to engage and lead both their progressive peers and the pro-Israel community on both issues to help inform both movements.

Organization Description

Located in San Francisco, BlueStar's mission is to humanize perceptions about Israel. We use visual media to build support for Israel's case as a Jewish democracy within secure, recognized borders. Our goal is to inform campus and community conversations on Israel.

Required Skills/Experience

Experience in survey and focus group design and evaluation, marketing research, or focus facilitation.