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.…
The organization that I chose is a Nonprofit Organization in which I was working some time ago; its name is “Franciscan Outreach Association” (FOA) and its primary focus is on serving the poor providing a variety of services.…
The food pantry disbursed food at Empowerment House or delivered food baskets to the homes of deserving clients.…
The Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida is a non-profitable organization which is also known as the Lee County Food Cooperative. The main responsibility of the organization was to distribute many food products that were held by the federal government to all families and individuals in need. Their mission was to overcome hunger throughout the counties of Southwest Florida. Throughout this essay I will get more into debt about the history and people behind this organization, the functions, and how people can join and help others through this voluntary work.…
Once a month, our organization, Ketchikan CPOA helps the local Salvation Army Soup Kitchen prepare meals, serve and clean up, I have dedicated three years of monthly service to helping plan, prep, and cook and serve the citizens of Ketchikan, AK who need it. This service has had a profound effect on my life. The most memorable time I can recall was my first time attending the soup kitchen. I enjoyed meeting the staff at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen, working with my fellow Coast Guard men and women to prep the meal, and to meet the patrons who attended breakfast that day.…
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…
I served as a student volunteer for Hammer and Nails a non-profit organization that works to serve the community with the mission of improving the quality of lives for low-income families through home repair. Most of the home owners in Canton, Ohio faced financial hardship and could not fund the extensive repair and renovation that their homes needed and thus relied on volunteer services for help. Through my time spent with Hammer and Nails I savored learning about the families within the community and how their lives were impacted by the local volunteers throughout many years. I enjoyed helping in the office with administrative work and with home renovations through painting and carpeting. I learned that a healthy life begins at home, and a clean and well-constructed home contributes to good physical and mental health.…
It was about two different groups of volunteers who attended, and we supported with handing out food to the people who need it. Has a community, we cannot just sit at home and act like the things that are occurring in the society does not affect us as well. Helping the people the community and seeing how some people need these kinds of organizations shows that we as a community are doing the job. The people are part of the society, and as a college student in the Public Administration field, it showed me that to move ahead as a society we have to carry everybody along. Also, by providing these resources, it keeps many of these people out of the street; and it makes the community improve as a whole. After seeing how this organization helps the community and also hearing what people say that we the society are not helping the poor, I believe that it is…
This summer I took a trip with my church to the Appalachian mountains on a service project. The trip was through an organization called the ASP or Appalachian Service Project. The goal of this organization is to make homes dryer, safer and warmer for people in need of better living conditions. Durring my trip there we helped a family with four children all under the age of four. They had electricy but they did not have suffiecent running water. As the week progressed my team of people from my church helped fix the house. We helped this family close a hole in the side of their house made from the previous winter, we helped fix the stairs up the side of the mountain to their house and we gave their plumbing system back to them. All of the things we did made their house safer to live in. The hole that was fixed in the side of the house would cut down the amount of money the family would have to spend on keeping the house warm in the winter, The stairs we built gave them access to their house without the change of slipping down the side of the mountain. The plumbing was fixed and we were able…
i stole the crisp ten dollar bill you let on the edge of the table for your waitress, and not my grimy six year old hands.…
The organization Feeding America interested me through the way they help people and how they help people. Throughout my own observation, the people who received their aid were grateful and blessed. As a result, I was immediately fascinated in this organization. Understanding this organization will help people realize the seriousness of hunger in the U.S. Feeding America is a United States non-profit organization that was created 35 years ago to fight the war on hunger.…
Many years ago, I worked at a mission as a counselor for their summer program that reached out to the inner city kids. Obviously, it was a Christian based ministry and were required to share the Gospel with the children. It was so fascinating to see how hungry they were to receive the word. Many of them came from broken homes and parents that abused drugs and cared very little for them. Those eight hours a day I got with those kids made as much of an impact on me as it did them.…
When I did my capstone project at the Oregon Food Bank it was a new experience because I helped people without even seeing how they looked, the experience that I had in the Oregon Food Bank made me change my perspective of food, and try to live a life of gratitude, even if one dosen’t get there favorite food one should still eat it unless they’re allergic, because there's so many people that die every year because of not having anything to eat. I also believed that volunteering there made me feel happier because I saw how fortunate I was instead of living in poverty. The great thing of volunteering there was the thought of helping people that really needed help. My message to the people is that One should also live a life of gratitude because…
One of the positive impacts the volunteer work at the Global Village School has had in my life has to do with appreciation of myself and life in general. Prior to my experience at the Global Village School, I just took so many things for granted I never imagined that the things that I obtained and enjoyed almost without incurring a cost would be so expensive to somebody. For instance, as a teenager, I never cared about peace. In fact, I did not know how it felt to be denied basic needs such as food, shelter and clothing as a result of war. It never occurred to me that an innocent teenage girl could take on the responsibilities of a father and mother. I never imagined myself spending a day, let alone weeks, without food. In short, the encounter with the girls at the Global Village School made my world make a turnaround. I began…
The volunteer hours I did really opened my eyes to public generosity and how organizations work. I volunteered for the Kidney Foundation of Canada only once but it was enough. I volunteered with a friend, which made sitting in Sobey’s all day a little more bearable. I sat at a table, dressed up with posters, numerous pamphlets, and magazines on kidney disease and health. I asked shoppers leaving Sobey’s if they’d like to donate to the Kidney Foundation. Some people would walk passed without so much as a glance, but many others stopped to hear what we were and what the organization did for people. Sometimes people stopped on their own, before we even had a chance to ask the question. It really made me see the generous side of Fonthill and it made me really happy to see that people wanted to be a part of a difference.…