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Social Entrepreneurship Proposal

Core Mission

The mission of Food Bank Program is to relieve hunger in Bullock County by soliciting, collecting, growing, and packing food to distribute through a network of agencies and programs and ensure self-reliance. Services of the project include food programs, emergency housing, meal sites for congregate, domestic treatment services, and children's initiatives.

Strategic Resources

Food Bank Program will use three main strategic resources;

Human Resources

Human resources simply incorporate all the employees that will be at our disposal. The right team of staff will provide the program with the competitive advantage needed to thrive. The management will manage their human resources, through recruiting the needed type of employees by staff retention.

Capital Resources

Capital resources are the resources we will use in the production of goods like collection vehicles and equipment. Capital resources will be expensive and time-consuming to acquire.

Natural Resources

Natural resources are those that are naturally provided by the environment; for this case, the land will be integral to the youth farm project. We will take advantage of the tracks of land in Bullock County.

Partnership Network

The partnership network includes agencies and programs such as; local banks and credit unions who help to collect money donations and actively involves partnering food vendors, wholesalers, and manufacturers who contribute foods.

Service Interface

Nearly 20% of Bullock County residents are qualified for help through Food Bank Program. Low-income citizen, more so families, who want emergency intervention to put food on the table will be assisted by this proposed initiative. Almost half of the populace to be served are children and while almost one-fifth are senior citizens. In the beneficiary families, there is, at least, one individual working (Edge, 2014).

Food Bank Program accumulate food in the central warehouse in the city of Union Springs and distribute the food to charitable social service agencies and programs in Bullock County. Majority of the food to be distributed is packaged in emergency boxes. Persons or families are qualified to be given up to 15 emergency per year. Each package have a 2-5 day supply of high-quality food. The other part of the resources will be devoted to provide food to domestic treatment facilities, luncheon programs, youth service hubs, nurture families, children's initiatives and much more.

Organization Chart – Initial

Food Bank Program administration team comprise of a board of directors and an executive director of the top management. The program will also comprise five coordinators in the initial management.

1. Volunteer coordinator;

2. Supplies coordinator;

3. Dispersal coordinator;

4. Warehouse coordinator;

5. Youth farm coordinator.

Organization Chart – Proposed Future

The future organization chart will assume a different structure with only the top management remaining with the addition of an executive assistant. Other positions will be created as below.

Survey

Food Bank Program is a food bank serving Bullock County, Albania. The program's emphasis is to find and exploit resources for food in the county so that they can reduce hunger amongst low-income residents and precisely families in the region. The program will undertake the following;

1. Solicit and dispense food to community agencies.

2. Operates a youth farm project for young residents.

The population base for Bullock County is 587,200. Roughly 17% of the county's population is considered as low-income. This denotes 120,000 residents who are potential beneficiaries of services from Food Bank Program.

Children denote 47% of the county inhabitants who needs Food Bank Program services. The program has recognized children and their households as the main target consumers. It is estimated that low-income number of children will go up in Bullock County by 18% in the next five years. By 2020, children will represent 55% of Food Bank Program's consumer base (CG, 2015). With good involvement, the debilitation impact of hunger can be eradicated. Subsequently, the residents will be in a better position to successfully provide for their children.

Budget – 12 Month & All Sub Detail

Fundraiser Plan (detailed) 

Food Bank Program will instantly embark on a Fundraising campaign that will emphasis on engaging the local banks and credit unions to accumulate donations to combat hunger. Normally, food collection starts in October and November. Food Bank Program will have donation bins in partnering banks and credit union. Additionally, consumers in local retail food stores may contribute money to Food Bank Program at the checkout zones.

Food Bank Program's monthly proceeds for the 2014-205 calendar year will oscillate based on different seasons. In the autumn season, the program will undertake its main fundraiser. The summer months are estimated to be having weak food collection months.

The list below shows Food Bank Program's fundraising and food soliciting programs:

1. Food Collection (FC)

Partnering vendors, wholesalers, and manufacturers will donate food stuff. These contributors will contribute donations on a monthly basis.

2. Fill the Bucket (FTB)

Each autumn season, Food Bank Program will drive a fundraiser via local banks and credit union. Small bins in the shape of bigger versions of Food Bank Program food bins will be positioned at the counter of every teller.

3. Food Rescue Express (FRE)

Food Bank Program will assemble donated food from local cafeterias to be instantly dispersed to programs in the region that will, in turn, disseminate the food to their customers.

4. Gleaning

Harvest remains and unsold produce from farmers' grounds will be collected by Food Bank Program associates. Each year thousands of kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetables are abandoned to rot or get plowed under the field. Gleaning will minimize waste while nourishing people. Food Bank Program will essentially recruit gleaning teams from the local support program.

5. Youth Farm (YF)

The youth farm uses children in digression program or local program to cater for "at risk" children to offer a learning environment that make these children’s’ life turn around. The harvest will be sold by the youth farm team members at an on-site produce store. All revenues will be used to support Food Bank Program programs.

Food Bank Program's start-up cost stand at $200,000. A big percentage of the cost is contributed trucks and food collection vehicles, as well as a storage warehouse facilities. The remaining portion incorporates the expenses generally related to opening an office. The program will be funded by contributions from ten distinct corporate donors, a grant from a private charitable trust, and Bullock County. The assumptions are shown in the following table and chart (Macleod, 2013).

Government Grants to Pursue

Food Bank Program will be funded from different and various sources of capital. This will include public and private entities. There is the anticipation that funding will upsurge in the next five years. The executive director and the board of directors are the responsible heads in reviewing the program expenses and making alteration to ensure the program solvency. Government grants to pursue in the initial phase will include Bullock County social kitty allocation (Svala, 2006).

References

CG. (2015). Colorado Grants. Retrieved from Colorado Grants: http://www.coloradogrants.org/assets/pdf/centerville-community-center.pdf

Edge. (2014). Social Enterprise Business Ideas. Retrieved from Edge: http://www.thesedge.org/whats-new/22-awesome-social-enterprise-business-ideas

Macleod, M. (2013). UK's first 'social supermarket. Retrieved from The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/09/goldthorpe-social-supermarket-community-shop-food-poverty

Svala, H. D. (2006). Nonprofit Food Bank Societal Plan. Retrieved from Plans: http://www.bplans.com/nonprofit_food_bank_business_plan/market_analysis_summary_fc.php