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Organizations around the world come together to create products with enhanced nutritional value, to minimize losses, and help millions of people in need of food. The world has enough food to feed everyone, however, the United Nations estimated that today about 800 million people worldwide (approximately one person out of nine) suffer from malnutrition. Most of them live in developing countries, where more than 14% of the population do not get food in the quantities needed to meet the energy needs of the organism (Butler, 2016).
For 25 years develops a cooperation of Food Bank Task Force with the organization Feeding America. The company supports the Feeding America in the framework of various projects and programs, providing funding for the organization, product donations and volunteer assistance (Weber, 2016). Through its own network, which includes more than 200 food banks, Feeding America serves 61,000 organizations that provide assistance to the hungry across the United States. The activities of Food Bank help to reduce the waste of food. Simply put, the Food Bank is taking food where it is too much and delivers where it is lacking (Our History, 2016). Customers shopping urge to sacrifice one or the other bought a product with a long shelf life for the benefit of people living below the poverty line. 100-200 volunteers take part in such events. In its activities, the organization has a strict observance of rules of hygiene and quality requirements for the products. Food bank never buys and never sells products. Distribution of food products is carried out through the mediation of a network of collaborating organizations, which includes local charities and social institutions that have established direct contact with the needy (Feeding America, 2016). Through these organizations free food assistance can get people with incomes below the subsistence minimum. Food Bank relies on the help of volunteers who are engaged in the collection, warehousing, assembly, packaging and distribution of products (Why Feeding America, 2016).
For the last three years I have been a volunteer at the local Food bank, which distributes meals to the less fortunate in your community. Until now, the Food bank has managed to meet the community’s needs with donations from local businesses, but an influx of poor residents makes it necessary to raise $ 20,000 to balance the coming year’s budget. The Food bank’s director has asked me to facilitate the work of a new committee to develop realistic options to raise the necessary funds. Thus, I must be sure that the approaches I present will work, and that my volunteers will support them, so I present my program of developing.
The program aims to achieve the following objectives: systematization and coordination of the associations and groups engaged in volunteer activities in the field of food production. To achieve this goal we will address the following objectives: the formation of managerial skills among the members of the company, development of a database of vacancies for volunteering associations seniors, organizational support for the implementation of social projects all population, coordinating the work of associations for the volunteer direction, improving the efficiency of the social activities of United Food Bank, the organization of information exchange between the representatives of various associations.
As for the implementation of the mechanism, it consists of four stages. Stage 1 is the collective planning, planning activities for the implementation of the program of the project, monitoring the presence of volunteers in the city; informing stakeholders about the range of opportunities of the volunteer activities; basic research sites and orders for the implementation of voluntary activity of different populations of miles, forming partnerships with potential employers. Stage 2 is the preparation of the schedule of volunteer affairs, conduct of the information of the gathering project with teachers, organizers, leaders of associations; collection of proposals and applications for voluntary activities of voluntary associations; conclusion of agreements with customers on social organizational and technical issues of volunteer actions, development of the company position on unions contest, performing volunteer activities; consolidation of the responsibilities of team members for the inclusion of volunteer work in the association of a particular area of the city (coordinators in districts); the formation of volunteer schedule affairs (volunteer calendar).
Stage 3 is the implementation of voluntary cases, conducting home city of volunteer action, informing stakeholders about the calendar volunteer through letters to educational institutions and placing on the website of the Department of Education of City Hall, advising potential participants on the specifics and requirements of the volunteer sites call for applications for service of volunteer sites of associations, the implementation of voluntary activity, the analysis of the effectiveness of the association (responsible assessment of the project members, a review of social customer, the collective analysis of volunteers - participants of the action), a substantive report on the implementation of the association of volunteer action. Stage 4 is the summing subtotals, holding the final gathering of volunteer associations; better definition of the volunteer association (in the competition for the best volunteer association), the formation of the bank volunteer sites for a new year.
With regard to the material and technical base, the program involves the use of the base of educational institutions, culture and youth on the basis of which we will carry out volunteer actions. The main executors of the project are members of the program and volunteers Bob Smith, a long-time volunteer, energetic, disorganized, and prone to socializing at every opportunity, Jane McManus, a local restaurant owner with good ties to the local business community; she is smart, dedicated, very opinionated, and has little time for ‘time wasters’, Mikako Sato, an economics graduate student from Japan - she is very insightful, but also very quiet and avoids any sort of confrontation and Carlos Soares, a professional musician, passionate about the arts, whom I suspect to steer the group toward some sort of fundraising concert. For the realization of the project we will involve the following information resources: youth portal of the city, the site of the Department of Education of the City Hall, local newspapers and social networks.
The expected results will be the formation of stable relationships and the system of volunteer work associations, coordination of clubs volunteering direction forces elected a coordinating body, improving organizational skills, self-organization skills and self-awareness volunteers, increase knowledge, awareness of the possibilities and prospects of development of the activity of public organizations, using available the possibility of support from the authorities of the state youth policy of the city.
References
Feeding America (2016). Become a Food Bank Volunteer FeedingAmerica.org. Retrieved 28 May 2016, from http://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/volunteer/
Our History (2016). FeedingAmerica.org. Retrieved 28 May 2016, from http://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/about-feeding-america/our-history/?s_src=W165DIRCT&s_subsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingamerica.org%2Fabout-us%2Fabout-feeding-america%2F
Why Feeding America (2016). FeedingAmerica.org. Retrieved 28 May 2016, from http://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/about-feeding-america/why-feeding-america/?s_src=W165DIRCT&s_subsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingamerica.org%2Fabout-us%2Fabout-feeding-america%2F
Weber, A. (2016). “Why volunteer at a food bank?” Feeding America. Retrieved 28 May 2016, from http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/news-and-updates/hunger-blog/why-volunteer-at-a-food-bank.html?s_src=W165DIRCT&s_subsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingamerica.org%2Ftake-action%2Fvolunteer%2F%3Fs_src%3DW165ORGSC%26s_referrer%3Dgoogle%26s_subsrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.feedingamerica.org%252Ftake-action%252Fvolunteer%252F
Butler, P. (2016). “Poverty: six steps from the jobcentre to the food bank”. The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2016, from http://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2016/may/26/poverty-six-steps-from-the-jobcentre-to-the-food-bank
