...Alternative Funding HSM/270 October 22, 2014 Nicole Nightingale Alternative Funding Non-profit organizations such as PEACE Domestic Violence Agency, after receiving grants, may continue to struggle finding adequate funding options.. Grants are not always easily obtained and most donations are a one-time contribution. Discovering alternative methods for obtaining funding may take an ample amount of brainstorming for PEACE Domestic Violence Agency as grants will not cover the cost to effectively run the organization. Alternative funding methods are an excellent alternative. Examples of alternative funding options to explore include fundraisers, opening a thrift store, soliciting local businesses, selling commemorative bricks and/or benches, and holding special events in the community .Fundraisers may include bake sales and carwashes organized and conducted by the staff only to protect the identity of the victims. The agency can open a thrift store selling donated items and handmade crafts the victims will create within a therapy group and all the proceeds will benefit the organization. Special events can also be organized and can take place in the community. A talent search contest where the contestants pay an entry fee and the crowd will vote on the best performer. These events can also include information booths regarding domestic violence education and prevention and the specifics of what PEACE offers to victims and the community. Event goers can also have the option...
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...Alternative Funding Alternative Funding Alternative Funding Researching, ingenuity, imagination, and creativity are the keys to getting funds other than traditional grants. Santa Rosa Philharmonic Youth Symphony can raise funds to ensure financial security from alternative sources. The youth will participate in the fundraising. Their contributions will be bringing different things to us to raise monies. We will have bake sales, raffling off different item like iPods, Digital cameras, car washes, carnivals, a $100.00 charity ball, different types of games for $50.00 or more. . We will get the community involved. We are aware funds are available through conventional sources even though some may be difficult to access. These types of funding include intermittent funding from foundational resources. Obtaining this type of resources involves making regular inquiries given that these funds are not widely publicized. Most projects that are small and local are available to health foundations, and religious groups. An additional way that we can generate funds is through establishing communal activity ventures. If the organization offer training for a fee to surrounding communities, and other organizations they will earn extra funds also. Contributors are motivated to give goods, like unused clothes, vehicles, which one can write off as a tax-deductible contribution. However, we can list all the previous donors by writing letters...
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...Alternative Funding Non-profit organizations, such as PEACE Domestic Violence Agency, after receiving grants, may continue to struggle finding adequate funding options. The obvious ways to obtain funds is through grants and donations. Grants are not always easily obtained and most donations are a one-time contribution. Discovering alternative methods for obtaining funding may take an ample amount of brainstorming. For PEACE Domestic Violence Agency, unfortunately, grants will not cover the cost to effectively run the organization. Alternative funding methods must be selected. Examples of alternative funding options to explore are fundraisers, opening a thrift store, soliciting local businesses, selling commemorative bricks and/or benches, and holding special events in the community. Fundraisers may include bake sales and carwashes organized and conducted by the staff only to protect the identity of the victims. PEACE will open its’ own thrift store selling donated items and handmade crafts the victims will create within a therapy group and all the proceeds will benefit the organization. Special events to take place in the community could be a talent search contest where the contestants pay an entry fee and the crowd will vote on the best performer. The event will also include information booths regarding domestic violence education and prevention and the specifics of what PEACE offers to victims and the community. Event goers will also have the option to purchase the commemorative...
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...Sona Patel Volkswagen of America Managing IT Priorities The new process at Volkswagen to select, manage, schedule and fund projects seems structured and effective. The Transformation: In the 1990s, Volkswagen had a very decentralized IT system. Initially they had outsourced all their IT work to Perot Systems and in doing so they drastically reduced the IT staff within the organization. When that didn’t work well, they created Volkswagen AG company gedasUSA Inc. which acted as the point of contact with Perot Systems. Soon, they also created eBusiness teams within each Business unit which in turn developed relationships with their own third party IT providers. This highly segmented design led to high costs and poor timeline adherences. To correct this, Volkswagen created a new business unit within the organization that would be the single point of governance for IT related issues. This unit worked in conjunction with the eBusiness teams and the gedasUSA team but was solely responsible in the management, scheduling, budgeting and execution of the IT projects. This was the first step in the right direction. The New Process: There are a lot of factors that govern which projects are the most ideal to be funded and the new system seemed to understand that. The three step process was very structured and first identified the dependencies between various projects. It also classified similar projects and grouped them together for execution. This immensely helped to narrow down...
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...responsible for the controversy surrounding Dr. Matulovic, due to the fact that many of the organisations departments received no funding for their projects. Dr. Matulovic is now at crossroads about what to do with the situation. Key Issues and Problems The first and most obvious problem was that most to all of the projects were somehow funded on the old process or at the very least received little funding, however with the new process in place, projects with a rank of a 2 or 3 are rarely selected to receive funding which many considered unfair. Additionally, many argued the fact that IT infrastructure projects are not forced to withstand the same process and were treated separately was not reasonable and again was unfair. Another implication was that a project which is critical to the company and its global supply chain management was left only partially funded. The company’s multiyear SAP implementation was only midway finished and additionally needed full funding to stay on track, which in turn caused major conflict with the supply flow people. A potential problem that Dr. Matulovic may be faced with is that the leader of each business unit was a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ETL) and so therefore was aware and tempted to align project goals to be considered important to the company in order to improve the chances of acquiring funding. This gives little emphasis on individual business...
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...decrease in HIV prevalence among key populations at higher risk, people who inject drugs (PWID) and female sex workers (FSW) in some provinces, while prevalence trends remain stable or have increased in other provinces. According to 2011 sentinel surveillance, HIV prevalence among PWID and FSW remains high, at 13.4% and 3% respectively; IBBS data indicate that prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) also remains high, at 16.7%. The distribution of HIV cases largely follows the distribution of these three populations, though they are not absent in non-urban communities). Overall adult HIV prevalence (ages 15-49) remained at 0.45% in 2011. Support from development partners Development partners providing technical assistance and funding for the national HIV response in Viet Nam include: * Bilateral: Australia (AusAID), Denmark (DANIDA), France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden (SIDA), the United Kingdom (DFID) and the United States of America (PEPFAR) * United Nations Organizations: ILO, IOM, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNODC, UNV and WHO * Multilateral Organizations: the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and The World Bank (WB) * International non-governmental organizations, projects and foundations: Abt Associates/Health Policy Initiative (HPI), AIDS Health Care Foundation (AHF), CARE, Chemonics, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI, Clinton Foundation), ...
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...CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 2013 Budget Proposal October 29th, 2012 10/29/2012 Mayor’s Office of Communications 2013 Budget Presentation • Background • Performance Management/Review of Improvements • 2013 Budget Proposal 2 2013 Budget Proposal Funding Cuts at the State and Federal level are posing significant budgeting challenges for municipalities across the U.S. ● Nearly 48% of cities plan to reduce workforce this year ● Los Angeles predicts over 200 City jobs will be eliminated due to budgetary challenges ● San Bernardino closing all but one library and reducing 100 jobs including Police and Fire positions ● The State of Louisiana is not meeting its obligation to fund District Attorney, Indigent Defender, or mental health We must continue to take action to be smart about how we get smaller 3 2013 Budget Proposal The Landrieu Administration addressed an inherited $97M spending gap Budget Comparison $550M 2009 Expenditure $528M 500 110 450 $431M $97M Gap 400 418 431 Gap Recurring Revenue 2010 350 300 2009 Note: One-time revenue sources not included in chart 4 2013 Budget Proposal First step to eliminating gap was to reverse the spending trend Annual Expenses $550M $528.0M $496.0M 500 $483.0M $479.9M $477.8M* $50.2M Difference 450 400 350 *= Proposed $477.8M expenditure does not include $13.4M appropriation to fund balance. Including fund balance contribution, the City is proposing a budget...
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...SARBJOT SINGH ND15471 UNIT- 6410 Task 1 Q1.1) (E1.4) Identify sources and costs of funding and optimal funding term According to the Nicole’s, the funding sources are $100,000 from decreased relative He got a loan of $180,000 from bank and $2million is from student fees. The several types of cost of funding are 8% interest on $180, 000 and 20% taken by the agents as commission on$ 2 million’s student’s fee. At this stage no further funding is needed however, personal loans, credit card etc. are alternatives to optimize funding. Q1.2) Identify; short, medium, and long term financial performance indicators and targets are established to enable on-going monitoring of financial...
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...BETTER FUNDING FOR STATE TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS An almost universal problem for state tourism organizations is the scarcity of funding. Budgets are tight with so many social and other problems plaguing the states. Also, there is some reluctance to fund the tourism promotion organization by those who feel mistakenly that it is mainly the tourist businesses that profit from the industry rather than the population in general. Competition for state funds by other agencies is intense and, as a rule, the tourism people do not as good as lobbying as other interest groups. In order to do something at this regard, the Governor appointed a 40-member tourism task force to investigate ways in which tourism promotion could be accomplished in a more adequate manner. The task force has come up with the following plan: they recommend that the state legislature establish a “tourism marketing order” to raise funds from assessments the industry makes upon itself about the way in which each business should contribute to funding. Businesses that would be assessed include transportation companies, travel agencies, cruise lines, rental car companies, accommodations, attractions, recreation facilities, restaurants, retail outlets, factory outlets, and bars/drinking places. All funds raised would be used for state-wide tourism promotion. In order to implement this plan, the state legislature must first authorize a statewide referendum that would be conducted by the industry among its members to...
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...Program Summary Andy Moreno HSM/270 March 8, 2012 Valmarie Turner Overview of the Program The mission of the Madison Children’s Hospital is to be the worldwide leader in improving children’s health by providing the highest quality health care. * Be the leading source of research and discovery * Educate the next generation of leaders in Children Health * Enhance the health and well-being of children and families in our local community Developing a program is a part of a process to achieve the organization’s goal and/or mission. Program planning is an organized and thought out process through which a set of coordinated activities or interventions designed to address and facilitate change in some or all identified problems of a community. Program evaluation provides useful information for improving the programs and the service delivery systems. The evaluation process allows the development of processes to improve or achieve the mission of the organization. The goal of program evaluation is to improve the program planning, effectiveness, design, and efficiency. There two are different processes (process and outcome), but ideally achieve the same purpose, they hold the same goals and/or mission of the organization. Program Evaluation Process and outcome evaluations in a human service setting help the organization not only to better understand the outcomes of their programs (Yuen & Terao, 2003), and the processes in which allows the organization to...
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...One very complex issue in today’s world is the funding of museums and art galleries. While there is an argument that they should be free to the general public and funded by governments, I also believe that there is also a case for saying that they should charge an entrance fee like other attractions. Those who argue that museums should be free typically make one of two arguments. The first argument is that institutions like museums are a public service and therefore there should be free access to the man in the street. If for example there was a charge only the wealthy could afford to enjoy works of art. The second, and related, argument is that if they did levy a charge fewer people would go to museums. This would be serious as they are educational institutions and standards would fall. In contrast, there is only one major argument on the other side of the debate. This is that both museums and art galleries need to charge an entrance fee if they are to survive in the modern world. Governments do not have sufficient funds to subsidize all such institutions and there are other priorities for public money. Therefore these galleries and museums need to charge their customers not only to survive but to update their exhibitions and make new purchases. By way of illustration, the Tate Modern in London could not have been founded without revenue from admissions. My personal position is that there is no clear answer to this question as there are such strong arguments on both sides...
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...Tourism BETTER FUNDING FOR STATE TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS An almost universal problem for state tourism organizations is the scarcity of funding. Budgets are tight with so many social and other problems plaguing the states. Also, there is some reluctance to fund the tourism promotion organization by those who feel mistakenly that it is mainly the tourist businesses that profit from the industry rather than the population in general. Competition for state funds by other agencies is intense and, as a rule, the tourism people do not as good as lobbying as other interest groups. In order to do something at this regard, the Governor appointed a 40-member tourism task force to investigate ways in which tourism promotion could be accomplished in a more adequate manner. The task force has come up with the following plan: they recommend that the state legislature establish a “tourism marketing order” to raise funds from assessments the industry makes upon itself about the way in which each business should contribute to funding. Businesses that would be assessed include transportation companies, travel agencies, cruise lines, rental car companies, accommodations, attractions, recreation facilities, restaurants, retail outlets, factory outlets, and bars/drinking places. All funds raised would be used for state-wide tourism promotion. In order to implement this plan, the state legislature must first authorize a statewide referendum that would be conducted by the industry among...
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...BETTER FUNDING FOR STATE TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS An almost universal problem for state tourism organizations is the scarcity of funding. Budgets are tight with so many social and other problems plaguing the states. Also, there is some reluctance to fund the tourism promotion organization by those who feel mistakenly that it is mainly the tourist businesses that profit from the industry rather than the population in general. Competition for state funds by other agencies is intense and, as a rule, the tourism people do not as good as lobbying as other interest groups. In order to do something at this regard, the Governor appointed a 40-member tourism task force to investigate ways in which tourism promotion could be accomplished in a more adequate manner. The task force has come up with the following plan: they recommend that the state legislature establish a “tourism marketing order” to raise funds from assessments the industry makes upon itself about the way in which each business should contribute to funding. Businesses that would be assessed include transportation companies, travel agencies, cruise lines, rental car companies, accommodations, attractions, recreation facilities, restaurants, retail outlets, factory outlets, and bars/drinking places. All funds raised would be used for state-wide tourism promotion. In order to implement this plan, the state legislature must first authorize a statewide referendum that would be conducted by the industry among its members to...
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...Memo and Business Letter Student’s Name: Institution: Memo TO: CSU Funding campaign team members FROM: Yuqing and William DATE: February 5, 2014 SUBJECT: Funding for CSU This memo is a reminder of the meeting we have today. The agenda of the meeting is to talk about what we discussed and to get opinions on the matter. As the campaign group for the CSU funding, it is proper that we use all means and to gather all that is in our disposal for the task. We discussed on how we can acquire funding, and we agreed that we should not limit our campaign to only seeking finances. The essence of this program is to help increase CSU’s finances so that it can services its activities. This can be achieved through the provision finances and by enforcing measures to cut down costs. CSU has tried such measures, in the past, to cut down on its spending. It has done so by increasing its technology use to replace costly manual systems and by sharing services between departments and campuses. In our discussion, we suggested on the same idea that campaigning for funding does not exclusively mean seeking funds. We, therefore, discussed that if we can get people to volunteer, tutor or pursue internship programs, it would be a good measure of cutting down costs. Salary expenses are a significant part of the overall expenses and reducing these costs saves a lot of money for CSU. We also proposed that the target audience, for this plan of the campaign, is the graduates. Students do not have...
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...Foundations Ida Reyes HSM / 260 8/19/2012 Erin Akins Foundations There are many funding organization in the community. When looking for one that stood out from the rest, the Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is very interesting. This organization is community based for the area of South Puget Sound. They offer grants and scholarships to preserve resources for tomorrow's community needs (The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound, 2012) . According to this organization they provide services to connect individuals or organizations with causes that they would like to assist with their charitable contributions. With the Community Foundations knowledge for the needs in the community and knowledge of the local nonprofits in their area they have the ability to provide these connections to the individuals and organizations wanting to donate to others in the community. The South Puget Sound Community Foundation organization is assisting others connect in the community by finding the right organization for them to contribute to. There are six (6) different types of funds that one could contribute too. These funds are as follows: Unrestricted Community Funds, Field of Interest Funds, Donor Advised Funds, Scholarship Funds, Designated Funds and the Agency Endowments. The Unrestricted Community Fund is the fund that is used to assist human services, health, arts, education, the environment, needs of the elderly and other needs as well. This fund group is made...
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