Please help me using program evaluation by Mcdavid Case Study The purpose of thi
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Please help me using program evaluation by Mcdavid
Case Study
The purpose of this case is to give you an opportunity to design a needs assessment, based on the situation described below. In this chapter, we outline steps in designing and implementing a needs assessment. You can use the steps as you develop your design, but do not commit to doing anything that is not realistic, that is, beyond the means of the stakeholders in this case.
Your task in this case is to design a needs assessment for a nonprofit organization. There is not much money, the organization involved is small, and the needs assessment is being demanded by a key funder of the agency's programs. When you have read the case, follow the instructions at the end. Once you have developed your needs assessment design (we would suggest you work with one or two classmates to develop the design), discuss it with other class members.
The Program
A Meals on Wheels program in a community is currently being funded by a national charitable funding organization and private donations. The funding organization is under considerable budget pressures because the total donations have not kept up with the demand for funds. The board has recently adopted a policy that requests that the program managers of all funded agencies demonstrate the continuing relevance of their program in the community to receive funding.
The program manager of Meals on Wheels is very concerned that the needs assessment that she must conduct will be used to make future funding decisions but does not feel she has a choice. She has limited resources to do any kind of needs assessment on her own. There is basically her time, the time of an office staff member, and the time of volunteers.
The Meals on Wheels program intended to bring one hot meal a day to her clients all of whom are elderly, single members of the community. Most have physical limitations that limit their ability to cook their own food, and some are experiencing memory loss and other problems that make it hard for them to remember when or even how to prepare regular meals. There are 150 clients at this time in the program, and that number has fairly steady for the past several years. Volunteers, most of whom are elderly, pick up the meals from a catering company in the city and are assigned a group of deliveries each day The volunteers have to be able to drive, and because they have other commitments, most volunteers do not deliver meals every day.
In addition to making sure that the program clients get at least one hot meal a day, the volunteers can check to make sure that they have not fallen or otherwise injured themselves. If volunteers find a client in trouble, they decide whether to call 911 directly or instead call the Meals on Wheels office.
Most of the volunteers have been delivering meals for at least three years. Their continued commitment and enthusiasm are key assets for the program. The program manager recognizes their importance to the program and does not want to do anything in the needs assessment that will jeopardize their support.
Your Role
The program manager approaches you and asks you to assist her with this project. She is clearly concerned that if the needs assessment is not done, her funding will be cut. She project. She is also concerned that if the study does not show that her clients need the services, she and her volunteers who offer the program will still be vulnerable to cuts.
You are a freelance consultant, that is, you work on your own out of a home office and not have access to the time and resources that a consultant in a larger firm do would have. She can pay you for your work in the design, but any suggestions that you make to the program manager will have to be realistic, that is, cannot assume that large amounts of money are available.
Your Task
Working in a team of two to three persons, draft a design for a needs assessment that is focused on whether there is a continuing need for the Meals on Wheels program in the community. In your design, pay attention to the steps in conducting a needs assessment that were discussed in this chapter. Make your design realistic, that is, do not assume resources are just going to be available. Outline your design in two to three pages. Discuss it with other teams in your clas
Explanation / Answer
A meal on wheel programme is well service programe that the project manager should put forward in future.few steps should be implemented to generate revenue resources for this programme
1. Good work on ground should be done to take confidence the national charatable trust and private organisation so that they will do funding to this programme in future also.
2. New real estate and rich people should be included in this programme so that they can fund this programme.
3 awareness programmes on meal on wheel programme should be endorsed to presude people for funding
4. All the lashes and mismangement should be stopped to save resouces of this organisation
5. Point out right persons who really need help from meal on wheel.
6. This organisation should put their demand on food and other companies for help
As far as the wokable machinery is considerd organisation should take care of these people by provinding them facilities and eases their work and transport facilities
The workable persons should be paid a genuine salary which could fullfill thier demands and status
The meal preperation should be done on time so that it could reach to mental and physically disabled persons
The transporation faclities for voluntares should be provided with safe guard equipments for travelling long distances to reach for away places
Enagment of new voluntared person should be done on regular intervals so that this programme could not became difficit of man power.
The food items prepared should be hygenical and safe on account the health standars of communty which this organisation is providng.
The organsition meals on wheels should monitered by respectable citizens and fund donators for its efficent work and delivary and to put it in non profitable mode active all the time.
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