Grant Administrative and resource development assginment3

WORKSHEET 1.1: Proposal Idea Questionnaire

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

Project A:

Build Orchard State a Mega Library, stuff it with tutors, librarians and coaches who will be taking through the Middle level school goers on their assignments and tests in improving their learning and reading skills. In addition, upon completion of the library, necessary education personnel such as the funders, federal and state government and the community to select members who will run the library to ensure it is sustainable through management, finance, and technology.

Project B:

Purchase and supply additional electronic devices like laptops, desktops Tutorials, video classes, and lesson to the 20 schools in Orchard State. This will help in enhancing enhance the learning and reading skills among the students.

Project C:

Purchase of gifts, and equipments to be used in the program’s co-curricular activities such as spelling, spoken word, writing, and reading competition. Purchasing these equipments will help in awarding the students, helping in improving the reading skills of students and improving their self-esteem confidence and strength in communication. These resources will also promote a conducive learning environment in the 20 Orchard Middle level Schools.

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

Project

Compatibility

A

State’s Mega Library

Implementation of mega Library in Orchard, a relatively poor community in dire need of education will help in providing the communities with affordable, accessible education services and material s and will undergo the organizational programs to improving the reading skills of the Middle, elementary and High school students in Orchard. The 20 Middle level Schools will be able to access learning materials and the services will be available also on weekends and holidays to enhance reading and writing skills among the middle level school goers.

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

Purchasing new electronic learning equipments like computers, laptops, video classes, and lessons, besides tutorials will help the children in understanding the modern electronic form of learning, and education and can sort more learning material online that will help in improving their reading skill and education performances. The current tutorials have vast strategies, and information that are resourceful in helping the 20 schools in Orchard states improve their student’s learning and reading skills. .

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments and making the need adjustments to accommodate all students will help in integrating the students, ease and break the communication barriers, enhance confidence, self-esteem, and reading skills of students through spelling, spoken word, and essay writing competitions. These activities will also enable an integration with the society that plays an important part in making the organization’s programs a success.

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

Project

Uniqueness

A

State’s Mega Library

The Orchard’s mega Library will the only state library to be build. This library will be the only one of its kind in the entire 47 states to have tutors and coaches will be present all-round the working hours, during weekends and holidays to help the community students in enhancing their reading and learning skills. The Mega library will be free to the Orchard state students and will help to promote the community’s culture rooted in education. This is because they depend on the young generation to run their future society but when they are educated only.

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

The XTY organization offer onsite, in-person tutoring and counselling services that will help bring back students who dropped out, reducing the cost of tuition fees and improving the reading and learning skills of Middle level school students through availing vast knowledge in digital and traditional form.

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

Purchasing co-curricular material s and equipments will be important in making the co-curricular activities a success. These activities include spelling, article writing, spoken word, and reading competition that will improve the children’s reading abilities, bring the society together, and witness the activities of the organization. This program will engage the

Community, their children and the State government, a factor that will help in achieving cohesion and sustainability of the organization after its completion.

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

State’s Mega Library

Currently there are no projects or organizations doing the same activities undertaken by the XTY organization (State’s Mega Library) in Orchard State

Possibly, we can collaborate with other states in an interstate collaboration, private companies, and religious organizations like Catholics and Presbyterian churches in Orchard to bring the program activities to completion successfully.

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

Currently there are no projects or organizations doing the same activities undertaken by the XTY organization (Purchasing more electronic learning Devices) in Orchard State

Possible collaboration with Private electronic Companies like Samsung, Huawei, and HP since they also have a budget of programs that directly relates with ours. This will enable use get quality, reliable and affordable equipments that will cut and save on expenditure.

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

Currently there are no projects or organizations doing the same activities undertaken by the XTY organization (Purchasing to co-curricular materials and equipments) in Orchard State

Possibly, we can collaborate with children organizations, health and counseling organization, the national government and other foundations to help in purchasing the required equipments. The national Education Sports organization will be our preferred choice since it fits in the organization’s checklist.

WORKSHEET 1.1: Proposal Idea Questionnaire (Continued)

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

Project

Need Addressed

A

State’s Mega Library

The State’s Mega Library will provide educational services inform of online tutoring, lessons, personal coaching and counseling to the Middle school level students who dropped out, have reading problems, or those who need to improve their learning reading that communication skills. This will entirely increase the level of literacy based on the books used, improvement in reading that will enable the students to proceed to high school and university levels. The library will also create opportunities of employment to the community’s interns and individuals who will be willing to help in book arrangement, building, cleaning, and offering security services. Besides being an academic and literacy facilitator, it will raise the living standards in Orchard since it will reduce the level of unemployment in Orchard State

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

Providing up-to-date electronic equipments from new computers to new and latest electronic media in forms of eBooks, tutorials, and video lessons will help the students in communicating with the tutors. Consequently, these resources will enhance the access reading and writing skills online, and increasing their knowledge capacity The students will be able to complete their homework faster and can send it for review from any point since the library will be contain online resources.

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

Purchasing co-curricular equipments will help in boosting the self-esteem of student; integrate the society in the programs activities, a factor that will show respect and value to the culture and presence of the community. Besides bringing the parents and children to on platform, this project will help the parents assist t in nurturing their children in the right way, preventing rise in community gangs.

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

State’s Mega Library

Students, teachers, the Orchard state department of education, and the parents will encourage their sons and daughters to take advantage of the either opportunity to gain formal learning skills or employment opportunity to increase the societal employment levels and standards of living.

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

The area schools will in support of the purchasing of new electronic resources and devices since it will help the children in learning and seeking support and advice during their sessions of reading lessons and writing.

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

The social media will be an instrumental aspect in educating the children and the community. Coming together will give the organization ease, strength to achieve its long-term goals. The social media will help the co-curricular programs reap big benefits to the participants and the entire 20 schools in Orchard State.

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

State’s Mega Library

X

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

X X

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

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

State’s Mega Library

The civil engineer and architecture will be board members

Government’s quality assurance officer and auditor

B

Purchasing more electronic learning

devices

Interns who study education, IT graduates, retired but not tired teachers, tutors and currently employed teachers.

C

Purchasing co-curricular materials and equipments

Some chosen members of the community, teachers and students..

WORKSHEET 9.1: Organization Background Exercise™

XTY Organization

Accomplishments

Personnel

Location

123 PineHill Street

Orchard, VT 0232116

The XTY organization is a state based non-profitable organization, formed to eradicate learning and reading problems among Middle level school goers in Orchard State. The Current location of the organization is along the PineHill Street, Orchard VT building, paid by the finances of the organization. The organization has managed to improve the learning and reading skills of middle level students reported by a recent survey in one major Middle Schools in Orchard county.

We partnered with a non-governmental organization Albright Foundation and a Spanish company t help in the supply and delivery of electronics equipments

Legal status

The XTY organization is a 601(D) 2 of the Orchard State’s non-profit licensed educational rescue center, in perfect condition and an updated inspection.

The XTY organization is a state based non-profitable organization, formed to eradicate learning and reading problems among Middle level school goers in Orchard State. We managed to conduct co-curricular activities that saw many students and parents turning up to support their kids. The Current location of the organization is along the PineHill Street, Orchard VT building, paid by the finances of the organization. The organization has managed to improve the learning and reading skills of middle level students reported by a recent survey in one major Middle Schools in Orchard county.

In every organization’s activity, we in dire need of a legal personnel who will be interpreting terms and conditions of the agreements we were signing. Thus in the after the organization’s 3 months, the organization hired a legal persnel,

Date of founding

The XTY educational organization 25th march 2017

was incorporated on 24th May, 2017.

Successfully rented an office floor where all the organizational activities would be coordinated. During its formation we anointed DUE Robinson to take the logistics and supply mantle.

The XTY educational organization was founded based on a reported alarm in rise in children with reading and learning problems in Orchard state. The organization was thus formed by a group of learned members of the Orchard community with the aim of improving reading and learning skills in all Orchard Middle Level schools.

Mission

The XTY organization exists to eradicate reading and learning problems among Middle Level school goers in Orchard state. Our focus is providing the 20 schools in Orchard state with reading, learning and co-curricular materials, and resources that will directly enhance the reading skills in the 20 schools. Our goal is to create an accommodative, comfortable, free learning environment for the orchard students and their teachers that will enhance their experience in learning and reading.

In the first ear the program had little human and capital resources that only enabled it to reach to one school that was highly affected with a report indicating 150 students in middle class level did not know how to read and write.

All the board members, interns, volunteers, educated, skilled and unskilled communities members joined hands in the supply of materials, distribution and other informal activity that did not require paperwork since the organization was still small with little capital to utilize.

Target population

The XTY organization takes care of all the Middle level school goers in Orchard state age bracket of 11 years to 14 years. The organization also targets all teachers in the 20 Middle school level. The students get reading and learning assistance through couching and training, co-curricular competitions, supply of reading resources like books, novels, and tutorials. Teachers receive a regular training on the latest models and techniques to ally in teaching their students how to read, write, and learn.

The XTY organization, in their first year of operation eradicated reading problems among the 150 students reported to have reading skill problems in Orchard Major Middle level school that is the largest school in Orchard areas.

David Hume, the organization’s members and the school fraternity played an important role in accepting the students who were affected, David Hume sponsored the program in its first phase and the school fraternity gave the necessary resources (teachers, books, and classrooms) for the sessions.

Programs

Academic tutoring, supply of academic reading books, organization of the co-curricular activities like spelling, and spoken word competitions are the most important services XTY provides in Orchard to promote and improve the reading, learning and writing skills among the Middle school level goers. The organization promotes a conducive learning environment for the students and teachers. The educational services are also organized during holidays and weekends to monitor the reading progress of students with co-curricular activities improving the communication, confidence, and self-esteem of the students.

Education Philanthropist and Professor of Psychology David Hume was honored in Orchard New Times as the most influential philanthropist in Orchard by guiding the organization, teachers and students in the first organization’s project in Orchard Major Middle Level school. He also donated $800,025 towards the organization’s first project of improving reading and learning skills in Orchard Major Middle school.

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The XTY receives tutoring aid from volunteering professionals from active, learning and practicing educators within and out of the Orchard state. The tutors hold a degree (Bachelors) in Middle and elementary education, certified by the state in Orchard and have exclusively educated beyond the boundaries of Orchard State.

The tutors not only train and couch the students but also update the teachers through the organization’s education seminars on the latest methods used to improve classroom learning and reading skills among the students.

Partnerships

The XTY collaborated with David Hume, our fist funder, the State government and the local community authority. The state provided the organization all the legal protection and validation to perform their activities under the supervision and assistance of the department of education. The local community helped is delivery, supply, and mobilization of the students, cleaning of schools and supporting their children during the organization’s reading, competition. David Hume on the other hand was he first sole founder of the organization’s first programs in 2017 immediately after its formation.

Twice a month, the community helps in arranging for the co-curricular competition, and help in encouraging and supporting students the spelling, spoken word and reading competitions. The community also donates other material like chalks, markers and cleans the schools where the competition would take place

The community would come to help in cleaning the sport and ceremony venues.

How unique

The XTY organization is the first organization of its kind in Orchard to help Middle level school kids in improving their reading and learning skills. The organization also offers free services to the schools by supplying learning materials, building school libraries and help in promoting the community culture of valuing education of their young generation. Another Unique aspect of the organization is it will continue to operate even after the completion of its plans and will be handed over to the States department of education to ensure its financial, structural managerial and financial sustainability.

Besides being unique, the organization’s programs will benefit the community at large. In this case, when applying the cost benefit analysis, the social benefit is greater than the social cost, similar to the social marginal benefit to the social marginal cost. The organization’s programs also exhibited a positive net present value; imply that besides improving the learning skills of students, the organization had spillover effects to the community. For instance, it created temporary and permanent employment opportunities that benefit the community in Orchard State.

We currently have partial support from the State government, and a strong support from our Spanish private company the federal government and the community whom despite lacking show up and participate in social activities like cleaning at the Middle level schools.

Special recognition

The XTY was featured in Forbes, in 2017 as one of the most influential non-governmental organizations in Orchard state, in Orchard New Times as a unique remedy to the Orchard Middle level schools. The State and federal governments recognized the organization’s efforts in the education sector and pledged their support for future activities and programs.

The XTY organization offered onsite, in-person tutoring and counselling services that helped bring back students who dropped out, reducing the cost of tuition fees and improving the reading and learning skills of Middle level school students through availing vast knowledge in digital and traditional form and was recognized by the Forbes Magazine under the influential companies.

All members of the organizations (internal) participated in making the progress a success.

Summary of need statement

The purpose of XTY organization’s first mission is to improve learning conditions in the all Orchard Middle level schools by first improving the schools’ learning equipments in the Orchard region. The Organization is the first step that ensured the 20 Middle school have current learning materials that would enhance and increase the reading skills of the pupils. This came after one school, Orchard Middle School, the largest middle school in the area has over 150 students at risk with poor reading skills behind their current grade levels.

The organization managed to raise $1,000,025 for the fist phase of the program. Currently, the XTY organization targets a higher budget to expand its operations to cover 20 schools in Orchard State.

XTY did not need any personnel since this stage entailed a direct communication between the funders and the officials of the organization. Therefore, in the beginning, there was no formal personnel needed since the members were equal to the task of presenting the organization’s proposal to the funder David Hume.

Financial

The XTY continues operations through corporate funding, private donations, and annual fund-injections from the State and federal government. For instance, Since XTY has a current multiple year project, our organization’s proposed budget was $3,000,056 for the entire project’s life cycle of 3 years. This amount will enable us to execute the first year’s plans effectively since $1, 325, 869 will be used in the first year alone due to the number of activities set to start. From our international donors from Spain, State government and the federal government’s funding, we managed to secure $2,800, 045.

Audited, and allocated resources equitable according to the Cost benefit analysis that made the organization specialize and intensify on the areas that had higher social benefit returns.

Finance manager closely works with the Human resource in knowing the amount to release based on the number of employees. He Finance manager also relates with the logistics, supply, and data management in getting the exact facts and data concerning the programs’ activities and amount of resources needed for purchasing the required resources.

Board and staff

The XTY organization is run by an active board of directors comprised of the founder, and Chairman, project coordinator and manager, counselors (2), tutors (4), Human resource manager (1), Data analysist and supply chain manager (2) relations and mobilization manager (2) and finally the Education department of Orchard as the oversighting body.

The unpaid internship programs mainly constitute of the local community’s graduates and it helps the organization in cutting management’s recurrent expenditure, and portraying the community’s good reception and rapport with the organizational values, goals, and objectives in Orchard State.

All staff, interns, paid and volunteers undergo a rigorous background check with more emphasis on character, communication skills, and relation with kids, and education background. The Finance manager handles the day-to-day operations such as scheduling and payroll. The Finance manager closely works with the Human resource in knowing the amount to release based on the number of employees. He Finance manager also relates with the logistics, supply, and data management in getting the exact facts and data concerning the programs’ activities and amount of resources needed for purchasing the required resources. The counselors, help is motivating and treating student with low self-esteem and confidence, tutors enhancing reading skills in students and training teachers on the latest strategies and methods of enhancing classroom reading and learning.