A proposal to Phillip Heavensbee, the president of your company, to implement a program that would pay employees for volunteering in the local community (assume the company has 100 employees). Specifics of this proposal:

• Employees could dedicate up to two hours of their normal, weekly work schedule to volunteering.
• Employees would be paid for their time spent volunteering, up to two hours each week

Then, prepare a persuasive email message for the audience of your assigned topic that applies the techniques you learned in Chapter 10. Specifically, your message should include each of the following elements:

1. Gain attention.
2. Raise a need.
3. Deliver a solution.
4. Provide a rationale. (Remember that your readers are likely to remain skeptical unless you provide convincing support. To accomplish this, consider performing some “light” research of facts or other statistics that might help to support your solution.)
5. Give counterpoints.

Call to action.