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WORKSHEET 1.1: Proposal Idea Questionnaire

1. What new projects is your organization planning for the next two to three years?

Project A:

Open a Quick Bites Café to offer nutritional food in the form of a light breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner for children attending the Children’s Care Academy. Upon approval of the café, a certified dietician would be invited to sit on the board for instruction and guidance during implementation process and beyond.

Project B:

Acquire additional electronic devices; new computers and iPads to help enhance the growing tutoring program and aid in the expanding homework need for wireless technology required for children’s homework assignments.

Project C:

Purchase handicap accessible equipment for the facility to welcome physically challenged children into the academy. The facility currently does contain the proper equipment such as an outside entrance ramp, a handicap accessible bathroom facility and other equipment deemed necessary to properly care for the children.

2. Which of these projects are most compatible with your organization’s current mission and purpose, and in what way?

Project

Compatibility

A

Quick Bites Café

Implementing the Quick Bites Café will assist families by providing nutritional food to help ease the burden of care before and or after cancer treatment. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy can be effect the body to the extent of not being able to care for family children properly; this can especially be a hardship on the single parent. Providing nutrition to children will be an added outreach feature than can significantly help improve a family during a time of need.

B

Acquire additional electronic

devices

Acquiring new computers and iPads will help enhance the on-site tutoring assistance program with more current and up-to-date programs and devices. The tutoring outreach program will have an advantage with new equipment and further navigate children toward success with the availability to complete homework with wireless technology on site affording more quality family time at home.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

Purchasing handicap accessible equipment and making the required adjustments will aide in a safer environment and offer the opportunity to accept a wider variety of children and families with physical limitations.

3. What is unique about your organization’s project?

Project

Uniqueness

A

Quick Bites Café

The Quick Bites Café will be the first of its kinds in that the food provided through the café will be entirely complimentary for families in need. The academy stands committed to providing the best possible care that will afford the most comfort to each family during times of need. Offering a food program will not only provide nutrition to the children, but will also help ease the burden of care at home, with the hopes of permitting more quality time in the home.

B

Acquire new electronic devices

The Children’s Care Academy offers complimentary on-site tutoring services for school-age children. The new electronic devices will aide the program to further enhance the tutoring program as well as offer homework assistance and additional resources for children’s homework assignments. This program feature allows children to continue to learn, finish homework assignments and allows for more free time at home to play and spend time with the family.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

Purchasing handicap accessible equipment is necessary to help provide a safer environment for children with physical limitations. It is unique in that most child care facilities are not fully handicapped accessible for children with physical limitations. Ensuring a fully handicap accessible facility will help expand the academy’s outreach program to better serve the community.

4. Who else is doing this project? Is there duplication of effort? Is there potential for collaboration?

Project

Duplicate Project (with whom)

Possible Collaboration (with whom)

A

Quick Bites Café

Currently there are no childcare facilities offering complementary nutritional breakfast, lunch or light dinner for children in Pinellas County.

Possible collaboration with neighboring grocery stores and restaurants to provide essential donations to help supplement the Quick Bites Café food services.

B

Acquire new electronic devices

Currently there are no childcare facilities providing complimentary tutoring and homework assistance with up-to-date electronic devices for school-age children in Pinellas County.

Possible collaboration with national electronic stores in seeking donations for computer software packages and necessary supplies for the expanded learning program.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

Currently there are no handicap accessible childcare facilities in Pinellas County offering complementary childcare.

Possible collaboration with a neighboring durable medical supply store for suitable equipment donations. The Children’s Care Academy handicap accessible facility could be a huge asset for the American Cancer Society’s list of resources for cancer patients undergoing treatment with children with physically limited children needing childcare.

WORKSHEET 1.1: Proposal Idea Questionnaire (Continued)

5. What community need does each of your organization’s projects address?

Project

Need Addressed

A

Quick Bites Café

The Quick Bites Café will provide nutritional food to children whose parents are receiving cancer care such as chemotherapy and radiation. Providing a light breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner will help the parent who may not be able to provide a nutritional meal before or after receiving treatment. The Café would help raise cancer treatment awareness to the public as the concept takes hold and proves to help ease parental responsibility if even for one meal. Most everyone knows what cancer is, most, however do not realize how taxing treatment can be on the affected individual.

B

Acquire new electronic devices

Providing up-to-date electronic devices in the form of new computers and iPads will help provide the opportunity for children to enhance learning skills that may help them excel in school. Having the opportunity to complete homework assignments during their stay at the academy may afford more quality family time at home.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

The purchase of handicap accessible equipment will provide the community a safe childcare facility for children with with limited physical abilities during parent’s cancer treatment.

6. What members of your community—including civic leaders, political figures, the media, and your organization’s clients or constituents, and other nonprofits—support each project?

Project

Supporters

A

Quick Bites Café

The parents who utilize the Children’s Care Academy will be the greatest supporters of the Quick Bites Café. Parents can leave their children with the academy knowing they will be receiving a nutrional meal or snack during their stay.

B

Acquire new electronic devices

Area schools will support the acquisition of new electronic devices that will help offer further assistance to children’s learning. Seeking potential support and advice from other non-profit organizations with connections to edcuational software would be an asset to the facility.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

The media will be instrumental in educating the community about the handicap accessible facilty. The handicap community will reap huge benefits with a fully handicapped accessible child care facilty.

7. Does your organization currently have the expertise to undertake each project? If new staff is necessary, can the organization manage growth in infrastructure (HR, technology, supervisory oversight, etc.) effectively? (Check each category that applies to each project.)

Project

Expertise Human Resources Technology Other(specifify)

A

Quick Bites Café

X

B

Acquire new electronic devices

X X

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

X X

8. Is there internal (board and staff) support for the project? External support (community leaders, clients, neighbors, etc.)? (Check the category that applies to each project.)

Project

Internal Support (specify)

External Support (specify)

A

Quick Bites Café

The Restauranteur serving on the board is a chef.

B

Acquire new electronic devices

A retired teacher on staff taught computer science and is very knowlegable in modern technology.

C

Purchase handicap accessible equipment

An emplpyee’s family member has two handicap children and will be instrumental in assisting with appropriate equipment to implement in the facilty.