Project LINQ

Abstract

We students in Professor Carol Bogash’s Fall 2025 Sourcing, Securing and Servicing Partnerships course at the University of Maryland Baltimore County were given the mission of identifying, evaluating, prioritizing and recommending potential partners for the Maryland Department of Aging (MDOA) to consider while implementing the Longevity Ready Maryland (LRM) initiative. Accordingly, we focused our efforts on meeting that challenge and as the semester comes to a close, we are now ready to share details of theprocess we utilized to flesh out prospects and rate their sutibaility, and also to submit our final partner recommendations to the MDOA. To open our work on this project, we divided into four groups and began by familiarizing ourselves with the LRM and the Epic Goals and their corresponding Objectives. We then moved to our research and brainstormingphase, identifying an initial group of potential partners. Next we developed a series of evaluation forms to rate our prospective partners in a standardized and objective manner, and subsequently utilized the resulting evaluations toprioritize our recommendations. Finally, we compiled our information into this document to offer a comprehensive and robust explanation of the process and provide our prioritized partner recommendations.