Drawing on your previous assignments, your final project will demonstrate your understanding of the context and purpose of the task force, will propose an approach and assessment of the community collaboration, will present rationale and reflection of your recommendations, and will demonstrate communication skills. You are to consider yourself as the leader of the task force and an employee of the organization based on the Unit 4 assignment. You are to use the community identified in the assignment in Unit 2 and the social problem identified in the discussion in Unit 5. Your audience is the task force comprised of stakeholders from the assignment in Unit 7.
Your final project will consist of three pieces:
· An overview of the initiative (1000–1250 words) plus title page and references.
· An appendix of communications with the task force.
· A PowerPoint presentation to introduce the stakeholders to the new initiative, potential approaches, and evaluation methods. Use slide notes to indicate what you would say during the presentation.
Initiative Overview: This section of your paper is 1000–1250 words plus references that provide an overview of the task force, your organization as lead, the community and its social problem, historical issues, and diversity in stakeholders.
Based on the current community problem that has been identified, you are to consider different community outreach approaches to address the issue. While you may present several options to the task force, you need to determine which ones are most appropriate and, specifically, which one is the best fit. As you recognize that the task force is going to be held accountable for its work, you also need to propose assessment approaches that would pair with the community outreach approaches you propose. In addition, you will need to support recommendations with theory, models, and scholarly literature. The paper will be a scholarly reflection presenting your rationale for your choices in approach, in assessment, and in communication.
Appendix of Communications: This is a collection of exemplars on how you as the task force leader communicate with potential stakeholders and, specifically, task force members. Each item in the appendix should come with its own face sheet describing the type of communication, its purpose, its audience, and the rationale for this medium of communication. Literature is recommended to strengthen your choice of content and medium.
As a good practice, a leader would e-mail the task force an agenda, handouts, and PowerPoint slides as note pages with narrative prior to the meeting. These documents will be your appendix for the paper.
A PowerPoint Presentation With Speaker Notes: This is a presentation that would be given to the stakeholders to introduce the new initiative, potential approaches, and evaluation. Utilize the slide notes to present your narrative to accompany the slides and strengthen the demonstration of integrating the literature through in-text citations.
As the task force leader, you are to provide structure and direction for the newly developed initiative. To lead this task force, you will need to orient the group to the purpose and context of the task force as well as provide options and recommendations for proceeding with this interagency community collaboration.
Project Requirements
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements:
· Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
· Number of references: Minimum of eight scholarly references from appropriate periodicals, newspapers, and journals.
· APA formatting: The paper must be completed using APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
· Paper length: Your paper should be 8–10 pages, not including the title page and references.
· Paper format: Break your paper into sections for each of these areas:
· An overview of the initiative (1000–1250 words) plus title page and references.
· An appendix of communications with the task force.
· PowerPoint Presentation: Your presentation should be 10–12 slides long and include title and reference slides. It should be visually engaging, and include slide notes showing what you would say during the presentation. APA style need not be followed except for references.
Identifying Stakeholders for a New Community Initiative
Taliegha Carter
Prof Andrea Muse
HMSV8406
2/27/22
Poverty level has been the most challenging aspect to the communities in New York. Therefore, different organizations have come up to help reduce the region’s poverty level. One of the most notable organizations that have been fighting poverty in the region since 1897 is the Bowel Mission organization. The organization was formed to provide food, protection, and health care to the poor individuals within New York and give hope to them by promising them a brighter future. The organization is considered the best performing nonprofit organization that the government does not head. The organization aims to eradicate poverty in the region has been supported by different individuals and other organizations that have come up to help through the Bowel Mission organization to help assist the people of New York. Different stakeholders involved in reducing the poverty levels in New York with the cooperation of bowel mission include the organization employees, New York government, individual donors, organizations partners, volunteers, and the local community.
Bowel Mission has quite a large number of employees who have different responsibilities within the organization. Employees are part of the most important stakeholders in any organization. There is no organization or project that can run without the employees; thus, they play an important part in the organization’s mission (Miragaia et al., 2016). The employees of Bowel Mission conduct activities such as identifying people who need help from the organization, providing food and shelter to the identified individuals, and giving counseling to the poor individuals by giving them hope for better days to come. The organization does not pay its employees as much as they are usually paid in profit organizations (Miragaia et al., 2016). Some of the employees are college graduates who work as an internship within the organization. Thus the organization’s employees are very important in reducing poverty in New York.
The New York government also plays an important in ensuring that the organization has a fund to continue in its mission of helping the needy. The New York government finances the organization (Raj, 2021). This helps the organization in conducting its activities. To offer help to a large group of people, the organization needs many funds. Because the organization does not have direct sources of funds from its services, it’s therefore needed to have internal sources such as the funds from the government.
Another important stakeholder is individual donors. Individual donors involve peoples who individually offer to donate funds to the organization. The aim of these donors is always to help the organization continue to conduct all its services (Raj, 2021). Funding the organization will help eradicate the poverty level within New York communities (Sandage, 2021). Donors are usually the most important stakeholders of Bowel Mission since the organization usually depends on donations to help in carrying out its operations. Therefore donors play a very important aspect in the operations of the organization.
Organization partners involve other outside organizations that offer to participate in helping Bowel Mission in helping the poor individuals in the community. The outside organizations offer to assist the organization with funds, goods, and services essential to Bowel Mission in conducting its operations (Rupp et al., 2014). For example, organizations that produce foodstuffs such as flour participates in helping Bowel in feeding the poor individuals within the community. Therefore it’s important when Bowel cooperates with different organizations that offer help to the organization in carrying out its operations.
Other stakeholders include the volunteers who offer services to the organization without gaining any personal profit. This includes working for the organization without payment. Individuals or organizations can offer to participate in Bowel Mission operations without being compensated. Some of the volunteers’ services include participating in fieldwork and offering to assist the organization’s employees in carrying out their activities (Sandage, 2021). The volunteer’s main aim is to reduce the poverty levels in the community by cooperating with the organization.
The final stakeholders within the Bowel Mission organization are the local community. The local community involves the citizens who benefit from the organization’s operations (Miragaia et al., 2016). The local communities are the people of New York who require help. The local community plays a part in reducing the poverty level in the community.
Stakeholders in nonprofit organizations are always important in ensuring the success of the organization’s objectives. Hence stakeholders for Bowel Mission are very crucial in the operations of the organization. It’s therefore always very important for the organization to make clear steps in looking for their stakeholders.
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