Volunteering Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

I must admit that I had my own preconceived ideas and notions about the mentally retarded persons all along and before I had an opportunity of volunteering in a facility that provides care for the mentally ill. Even at the moment when we were given an opportunity to volunteer in a mental health facility, I had my own ideas of what I would see, experience, and what the patients or the mentally retarded would be like. These notions had been built into me and developed throughout my life through listening to popular opinions from people and readings from the media. I ...

The venue for the sports event was at the local football stadium. The means of transportation for participants travelling long distances to the event was organized separately. However, the stadium is readily accessible and parking as well as easy access for mass transit was facilitated. Some of the local government requirements that had to be fulfilled before the sports event included informing local authority of the event as well as gaining relevant approval. This also involved checking if there were any other scheduled events for the same location and date. This was followed by a thorough preparation of the event’ ...

A Promotion Plan

Habitat for Humanity ReStores: A Promotion Plan
Background
ReStores of Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1991 as donations in kind to help building homes accumulated. People organized themselves to get donations of previously-owned home furnishings and other materials that would support Habitat for Humanity’s activities. ReStores has served as Habitat’s drop-center and selling outlet for donated materials. Through the sales of the products, it has served as one of Habitat’s fundraising channel. The donated materials themselves were used in building homes for qualified people. The store also served as a volunteer recruitment center for Habitat, ...

Project Description

Purpose
This project aims at organizing grade 12 volunteers of Westside High School in collecting blankets, clothes, and shoes from donors in both the school and the community. The items will be delivered to the Heartland Hope Mission to supplement the resources it offers to the needy. The target outcomes for this project is to instill a greater sense of social responsibility and citizenship in the participants and reinforce the strategic plan of the school to strengthen its outreach to communities. From the community resource analysis, it was evident that Westside Schools fell short in reaching out to minority ...

Voluntourism Analysis: Positive Development for Local Communities?

The term ‘voluntourism’ suggests just that. But while intentions of the travelers may be pure and noble, the outcome and propensity of accomplishing truly positive achievements in a geo-developing world context may be questionable, doubtful, or downright detrimental for the people in local communities. The goal herein is to evaluate the pros and cons and make a position.

Untrained youth in volunteerism is a problem. In Doc Zone Volunteers Unleashed (2015), most of the young volunteers are privileged white girls from Western societies. Statistics bear this out, placing most of the voluntourism sectors ...

My agency Blue Water Safe Horizons Homeless Shelter helps the victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, homelessness and elder abuse through providing them shelter and other support services. It is based on the organizational theory of rationale-legal model since the role of every volunteer and employee and the distribution of their authority has been defined formally in a hierarchical manner whereas the impersonal rule leading to the assignments to positions, the rights and obligations of each position and the power distribution are universally accepted (Hasenfeld, 2010).
The case manager, being me, with the support of the coordinator and spiritual ...

Martin Health System is a healthcare center founded by three medical practitioners, namely Van William Burns, Walter F. Davey, and Julian D. Parker in 1939, in Stuart, Florida. It was originally based on the principle that all patients should have access to medical care and treatment irrespective of their racial or financial background. Originally, it consisted of a facility that had twenty-three bed, ten workers, and three physicians, which has now expanded into one MediCenter, three hospitals, a free-standing Emergency Center, as well as, many outpatient clinics. It is a non-profit community based healthcare organization that provides preventive and ...

Hall, Ward, and Comer’s (1988) “Published Educational Research”

Abstract

In this educational research analysis, the topic is about the quality of published educational research articles. The authors’ main research question is about the quality of previously published articles based on the evaluations of 178 volunteer judges. The quantitative research methods consisted of integrated literature review, random selection of judges, and evaluation instruments. In the data analysis, chi square value of 11.28 (df = 6) suggested that the distribution of quality among the three types of evaluated journal articles were significant at alpha = .02, which suggested that primarily research and related ...

Theoretically speaking, the term 'stakeholders' refers to "any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of organizations objectives" (Freeman, 2010). It is obvious to expect the differences in stakeholders expectations for a profit business to that of non-profit organizations.
The biggest difference is the monetary expectation. As non-profit organizations don't make monetary benefits from their operations, stakeholders cannot expect financial benefits. The goals of these firms are, usually, providing a charitable and educational service. As such, stakeholders including funders, volunteers, participants, clients and government officials may have different expectations ranging from providing quality service to ...

Part 1B: Policy Analysis

Typically policies are subject to change over time. Policies, however, good or bad are not permanent and there is always an option of changing or altering them in the event that one does not like them. It is at this instance where the option of social change comes in. due to different circumstances and changing environments, there is always the possibility that the applicability of certain public policies become invalid. This therefore necessitates change in the social policies so as to be relevant and applicable in the prevailing situations.
Thus nature of policy to keep changing demands that ...

Hamilton’s rule states that social behavior of organisms is supported by natural selection but only if rb-c>0, where r represents the genetic relatedness between actors and beneficiaries, b denotes the benefit that the social behavior confers on the beneficiary, and c is the cost that the social behavior imposes on the actor (Alonso, 2002). It is important to note that the rule suggests that the cost will most certainly diminish the appropriateness of the agent and on the other hand that the benefits will increase the suitability of the agent. Although this is the case, the rule is ...

Critical Thinking: Reflection

A college degree increases chances of improving my career opportunities. This is because college degrees involve the deep understanding of the career's main concepts as well as detailed practical on the daily activities involved in my field of study. In particular, the understanding of the concepts enables me to apply those skills to solve different situations pertaining to my field of specialty. On the other hand, practical skills like internship programs and volunteer works widened my experience in the field extensively to enable me to adopt various working conditions. Therefore, extensive understanding and application of the concept coupled with ...

Introduction

Fundraising has been essential for a lot of organizations, particularly charities and non-profit making organizations. Numerous organizations opt to host fundraising events to gather for expenses for needed programs or services. Raising funds have several other benefits besides securing funds for the entities. A consistent and solid fundraising plan assists the organization to spread its mission and to achieve its goals (Larson, & Gray, 2011).
This paper will examine Student Fundraising-Project Case Study and discuss and study next steps that the Council of Fraternities and Sororities (CFS) need to take. It will also evaluate three fundraising projects CFS can take ...

If there is a law that mirrors true American idealism and altruistic spirit, the American Disabilities Act or ADA would certainly be one of them. The ADA, which was signed into law by then President George W. Bush, sought to bring heaven on earth by compelling Americans, particularly employers, to embrace the most underprivileged of their brethren through an integration mandate that punishes those who would exclude disabled Americans from employment. The law even extends the concept of disability to the mentally ill, even the seriously mentally ill, according to Burnim (2015), as was illustrated in the ADA case ...

(Professional/nursing care plan)

Introduction

- A brief introduction to setting and the chronic health condition

Critical application of a chronic disease model of care used to inform self-management.

Articulation of short and long term goals.
Identification and critical examination of specific strategies/interventions to support self-management.
Identification of the tasks/actions necessary to complete each strategy, as well as who will
Conclusion
- Examination of the effectiveness of the self-management plan (i.e. how the achievement of goals will be evaluated)

Abstract

This report contains a self-management care plan for a diabetic patient with an associating chronic condition. A brief introduction to the setting and chronic health condition will be outlined. Critical application of the ...

Today, service organizations are operating in the global market to satisfy all his customers all over the world. However, their success greatly depends on the services they give to their customers. This includes offering appropriate and quality services and giving customers their needs at the right place, time and price competitively and continuously. To enhance productivity of a service organization and become the best performers, it should develop policies and employ strategies that will always deliver services on time, satisfy expectations of all customers and lower cost of services while at the same time maintaining and improving standards of the ...