The community that I choose is Kingwood, Texas, this area is located in the north area of the City of Houston, located mainly in the Harris County with a small portion of Montgomery County. The boundaries for the Kingwood community are the roads: North Park Drive at north, West Lake Houston Parkway at west, Highway 59 and the Loop 494 on the east, and FM 1960 at the south; the San Jacinto river runs through the…
The Chick-fil-A, Inc. extends beyond their illustrious food menu as the company is heavenly involved in the community and committed to providing excellence customer service. Throughout the years, the company has donated over $68 million to over 700 educational and charitable organizations, such as: A Commitment to Higher Learning, Disaster Relief, and Military Appreciation. Convoy of Hope (2013), published an article entitled, “Chick-fil-A Colorado Relief Drive”. The article discusses that Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Colorado and Wyoming partnered Convoy of Hope in October to provide disaster relief to Colorado residents impacted by recent flooding. Dedicated employees of the company supplied food to the families of flood victims and first responders.…
Better Way of Miami is a great example of how agencies in the helping field should advocates for clients who are caught up in the legal system as a result of felony charges such as possession, parahernalia, or habitual drug use in addition, these clients have been repeated offenders since adolescence and most of their charges are closely related to finding mean and way to get more drug. For that reason, BWOM sends representatives who are more than ready to advocate on the behalf of the client resulting to continue stay in rehabilitation in lieu of serving jail time. Furthermore, majority of the clients have a history of childhood abuse, domestic violence, child negligent, rape and the like which has played a significant role in their drugs use and criminal behavior.…
The organization I’m choosing to evaluate is Chick Fil A, in 2014 Chick Fil A’s earnings per restaurant were 3.1 million (Peterson, 2015). Compared to their top competitors McDonald’s, KFC, and Taco Bell, Chick Fil A has managed to make notable earnings despite having few stores and less hours of operation. Chick Fil A has a devoted following and their customer service sets and exceeds the standard. With the statistics and rave reviews I just gave Chick Fil A one would question what else can they do to improve? I have two words dinner menu, for sure Chick Fil A is the place everyone will go to when they need to grab a quick lunch or fulfilling breakfast however, Chick Fil A’s dinner menu needs to be address. What are the chances that people…
ImprovedLives Foundation comply with the highest industry standards in ensuring that the information on clients are kept confidential and updated. This is important for validating the eligibility of clients getting social services, e.g. food stamps. It is important to develop an ethical culture in the organization in their delivery to their clients. When making decisions, employees are expected to be more ethical, more in tune with compliance, practice confidentiality, be aware of the culture in which they work, and be aware of the cultures that they serve. The policies in the organization are shaped by the ethical code (NOHS, 2015) adopted by the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS).…
The Kansas Food Bank in its mission statement promises to provide a comprehensive and compassionate Hunger Care whenever and wherever it is needed to families in Kansas. As a result of their mission statement, their operations have improved over the years and have grown tremendously to now serving over 85 counties within the state of Kansas, which includes over 530 hunger relief partners. Over 11 millions pounds of food was distributed just this past year. Deliveries are made to the different schools and agencies based on needs and the delivery schedule is clearly planned out by KFB administration. There’s no sign of stopping as they currently have a five-year plan that includes five more counties. This plan will be rolled out on a yearly basis for the next five years. This will add to the current distribution of 11 million pounds of food on a yearly basis. One would imagine that an operation of this magnitude and being done on a weekly basis would require more labor hours and truck space to carry out this massive scale of operations. To our surprise, they only have one truck and one driver that delivers all this amount of food. So there lies the bottleneck of this operation: they have enough food to deliver to the clients and enough clients to receive the food, but not enough manpower hours and truck space to do all the deliveries within a decent amount of time. Some of the delivery routes can take up to three days to complete. What if the truck breaks down and repair takes more time to fix than what was anticipated? What if the driver falls sick and is off for days? What would happen to the delivery operation? It was clear to us that they were putting all their eggs in one basket, in this case, one truck and one man. We were told that the driver is on the verge of a burnout since he’s been doing the deliveries all by himself for such a long time. Having to do all the deliveries by himself in a short amount of time, one can imagine the stress…
Most organizations have documented core values, and objectives that ultimately contribute to their mission or cause. These documented or stated values are intended to shape the culture of the organization, and should also serve as a framework for the development of corporate strategy and the development of short and long-term goals. The climate of the organization can result in an unspoken culture which can be in alignment or contrary to the stated intent. The external environmental factors such as market competitors, the state of the economy, new technology and political environment also impact an organizations culture. Organizational culture impacts all facets of an organization and ultimately can impact the ability to accomplish their mission. This paper will examine Feed the Children's current culture, impacts of the identified culture, and the rites and rituals contributing to the overall state of Feed the Children.…
The national food stamp program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides recipients cash and food benefits. The United States Government Accountability Office (2014, pg. 2) reported that in fiscal year 2013, SNAP, the nation's largest nutrition support program, provided about 47 million people with $76 billion in benefits. The TANF and SNAP program is designed to prevent pregnancies and encourage two parent households. Floyd and Schott (2014) say, “Recipients have a time period to receive benefits, a work-focused window, TANF benefits need to do a better job of enabling families to meet basic needs so they can focus on finding work and/or increasing their skills in…
The immersion of a holistic education is and remains to be one of my greatest values. My desire for comprehensive studies is manifested in my attendance of a liberal arts institution. I’ve had the privilege of being exposed to various academic fields and disciplines through my time at secondary school and university. Yet, developing one of my primary interests wasn’t incited in a classroom, but rather in a food pantry. My experience working for a nonprofit pantry program developed my passion for marketing and extensively the field of business. Through serving the nonprofit and observing the remarkable progression of the pantry’s success, I witnessed the power of marketing for businesses and nonprofits alike. It is my intention to further learn…
In my arrogance, I underestimated how small actions such as cooking can unknowingly provide a touching effect on others. Internally, I complained about about how I felt that my actions were insignificant while people in the same building are living through moments of emotional pain and torment. I realized that my attitude was immature and inconsiderate. Due to the emotional distress that these families are currently enduring, they need relief from the additional stress of getting food or paying for electricity. By cooking and volunteering, we may have been able to momentarily alleviate some of the burden these families face and allow them more time to focus on the health of their…
Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. They have recently closed a couple of stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city, reportedly because these two stores were consistently losing money. After years of requests from customers, all of their stores have started offering a very limited amount of health-conscience and organic products—all of which were high margin items. When asked by the area’s food bank for donation of day-old products, management declined deciding instead to throw the food away, citing worries over lost revenues due to possible fraud and stealing by employees who might say they are donating the food.…
Food stamps is an amount of money that American government gives to low income people and help them get food. American government are providing less food stamps to low income people, which put low income people into a situation: they don’t have enough money to purchase food. What will happen if low income people can’t afford to buy more food?…
As a member of group 2, introducing University District Food Bank(UDFB), I work on what does UDFB do in Seattle and why does this social issue matter in Seattle. I read a lot of articles on the topic of hunger in the United States and in Washington, trying to provide supportive statistics to speak out how serious hunger issue is. Also, I try to analyze the rhetorical usage from the Food Bank website. However, when I start working on the powerpoint, we shared on Google Drive, I find others have already done my job. At first, I just simply believe it is my problem that I don’t communicate well with my partners. On that day we meet to practice presentation, everyone seems courtesy to each. So, we always comply with the one who has suggestion. The night before the presentation, I…
Going to feed my Starving Children was a great experience for me. From the name of it I thought that we would be putting nonperishable items into a box for families. When I got to the building and seeing what was there I was very surprised to see what it was actually. When I was there with my classmates I think we had a good time putting the dry ingredients into a plastic bag that was sealed up and put into a box to be shipped somewhere. Not knowing where it was going was a question I had in my head as I stood there packing it up. I have always heard my parents tell me that I am wasting food and that there are children out there without food. I never really took it to heart until the moment of…
FOOD SECURITY: 95% of all communities agree that there are challenges about food security due to the loss of land. However, the massive interest of foreign companies representing bio mass group of investors, coming to the provinces with the interest of grabbing bigger portion of land for planting poses serious additional threat for the natives to secure adequate and improved portions of land to grow their food for livelihood and food security. Such intensive agricultural inputs by non-natives or investors promote large scale grabbing farm lands to be utilized by natives or traditional smallholding farmers. Communities in the stud condemned such promoted scheme by government and accusing them of not promoting the use of arable land by indigenous…