Discussion And Assignment 4, 5

Discussion and Assignment 4 and 5

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Module 5: Assignment 4- Program description and Methods

The study conducted by Giving Hope Inc. established that there is a gap in the Denton Community, which needs to be bridged. The poverty index is high resulting in lawlessness, early pregnancy among teenagers, school dropout and drug abuse. These issues have impacted the community negatively and therefore, immediate attention, which can give hope to the community, is required. In order to meet the objectives and aims of this project, our organization intends to offer a mentorship program to both teenagers and adults, build homes and provide food services to the community under the dire need of food and shelter. This is a temporary plan to address the immediate needs of the community.

However, the permanent solution would be to provide mentorship and entrepreneurship seminar to women and other interested parties and help them establish small scale businesses. The mentorship program would help in addressing the school dropout menace and drug abuse to give the community hope for a better future. The entrepreneurship program is to ensure that members of the community have suitable businesses especially women who are the cornerstone of most families in Denton Community. Helping women and other interested parties to establish businesses would give an individual member of the community a self-sustainable income and this would help in reducing the poverty index in the community.

Giving Hope Inc. intends to partners with community centres within the Denton community to establish a long term mentorship program. The organization shall employee mentors to work closely with the community centre to address issues affecting the community. The mentorship program shall run for six two years, whereby Giving Hope Inc, shall train community mentors to work forever within the community. This shall include entrepreneurship training and giving money to individuals who have completed both mentorship and entrepreneurship training to start their own businesses. The money or funds shall be provided under a program called “Table banking” to help in establishing businesses for profit making. The program would be conducted within the community centre and shall run for a period of one year. It is expected to train over 500 women from Denton Community on entrepreneurship skills and also offer mentorship program so that they can become family mentors to address problems the community faces.

Reducing Homeless in the society has been the main concern for people and therefore, Giving Hope Inc, intends to build houses to host many homeless as a permanent solution to the problem of homes. Giving Hope Inc intends to acquire land, through a partnership with the state department to construct affordable and modest houses for the homeless. The acquisition of land and construction of homes intend to start three months after the organization has acquired the funds. And therefore, within one year eighty per cent (80%) of construction shall have been completed and several people shall have moved in to use the house for permanent occupation.

Module 5: Assignment 5 - Timeline

Giving Hope Inc. intends to run three simultaneous programs under its "Safe Alive" program. These are the homeless program, mentorship and entrepreneurship. These programs shall be inclusive and take a period of 24 months before the organization handed over the said program to the community for their own management. Giving Hope shall first conduct an assessment, then planning, which includes a budget to ensure that all areas are covered efficiently. After planning the hiring of mentors, purchasing of land and construction equipment shall be under to ensure that the program is completed within the time frame. The training shall be completed within 3 months for each group and after that funds to be given to them start their own businesses.

Table 1: Time Frame

Activity

Duration

Assessment

3 Month

Planning

1 Month

Purchase of equipment and Land

1 Month

Hiring mentors

1 Months

Construction of Houses for the homeless

12 months

Training on Entrepreneurship

6 Months

Mentorship Program

12 months

Table Banking issued to Women for business

3 months

Discussion 4 - Sharing own experiences

A story is inspiring. It gives a real-life situation and therefore, it gives a clear situation of what is transpiring on the ground. This kind of story is what is needed for a grant to convince funders since it lets the funder to have the knowledge of what the fund intends to do in a real-life situation. It also allows the funders and the organization to understand the need for the funds and with this kind of video, it is very easy for convenient for donors to put in an investment into a project. Based on the video it is important to have a real life story video besides a proposal to forward to the donors or funders of a project. It is, therefore, important to state that the video is a really convincing story, which is necessary for effective communication.