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Youth & Families Services: School Drop-Out Prevention; Increasing Parental Involvement; Violence Prevention; Substance Abuse Prevention

Martia A. Lyles

Mark Knapp

HUM5060

07/07/2021

Youth & Families Services: School Drop-Out Prevention; Increasing Parental Involvement; Violence Prevention; Substance Abuse Prevention

In the first week, Georgia Community Foundation Inc. was selected as the focus organization for the proposal. The organization’s information can be accessed through the company website, http://www.georgiacf.org or the URL, https://www.guidestar.org/profile/58-1960821. Georgia is one of the states affected by high school dropout cases, violence, and drug and substance abuse.

As a result, the choice of the Youth & Families Services: School Drop-Out Prevention; Increasing Parental Involvement; Violence Prevention; Substance Abuse Prevention option was based on the needs of the community. Georgia Community Foundation Inc. was chosen due to its influence on the state's different communities this far. Georgia Community Foundation Inc. works to promote Georgia education and facilitate other charitable activities in the State (Candie, 2021). As a result, Georgia Community Foundation Inc. was seen as a good choice for the project. Since a large concentration of the proposal is on improving the people's livelihood, such an organization like Georgia Community Foundation Inc. was the best fit to work on the project and implement it to success.

To come up with this proposal idea and HSO, a search process was conducted. The first activity was to identify the challenges which the people of Georgia face. To understand these challenges, I used different researches on community activities in Georgia and the social interaction of the people of Georgia. Additionally, as a resident of Georgia, I understood some of the challenges that the people were facing, which needed urgent interventions. The challenges of the people thus resulted into the choice of the option of proposal idea to pitch. The second step was to identify the different organizations that work in Georgia and their activities. This was to identify some of the organizations which could fit the proposal idea to solve the real challenges of the people of Georgia. The organization search was conducted on GuideStar. Three organizations operating in Georgia were identified. The mission and activities of the organizations were checked, and Georgia Community Foundation Inc. was the best match. Some challenges were faced during the selection process. One of the challenges was identifying the exact activities the different organizations had undertaken and proved their effectiveness. Getting to know the effectiveness of a project may require one to have background information from where the project was undertaken and how it is influencing the people. Also, it was hard to predict whether the organizations would positively react to the proposal if handed over to them for implementation.

Reference

Candie. (2021). Georgia Community Foundation, Inc. GuideStar. Retrieved From: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/58-1960821