BUM-A-RIDE’s business structure can essentially be divided into three basic disciplines: Supply, demand and evaluation. The supply function of BUM-A-RIDE is the business associated with acquiring the transportation, including fundraising, accounting, purchasing tickets and bus vouchers, and networking with transportation companies to find new forms of assistance available to our clients. The demand function is simply focused on finding those in need, encouraging them to take advantage of our service, performing our needs assessment, and finally providing them with the best suited form of transportation to meet their requirements. And lastly, the most important aspect of what BUM-A-RIDE does is our evaluation function. Here is where we focus
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Studies have shown that similar size homeless populations can create up to 4 million greater dollars in hospital admissions than others in the community. This equates to approximately $2,284 per homeless person per year. There are other expenses that are caused by homelessness including cost of jail time and depreciation of value due to homeless vicinity. Healthcare expenses are not only by far the most significant and are incurred by private organizations, they are also the most easily track able. For these reasons healthcare cost will be used as our benchmark for not only a year evaluation but for comparing our Social Return on Investment.
A regular reoccurring client is one that needs multiple trips to multiple appointments or housing. These will be both the most common client and the most expensive. Majority of our transit needs can be meet by RT of Sacramento who operate both the light rail and buses. A single rider ticket is $3, and $6 dollar for an all-day pass. If a client expects to use his ticket for more than 16 days a month then it will be most cost effective to purchase a monthly pass at $100. A monthly pass will cost $1,200 per year per
Studies have shown that similar size homeless populations can create up to 4 million greater dollars in hospital admissions than others in the community. This equates to approximately $2,284 per homeless person per year. There are other expenses that are caused by homelessness including cost of jail time and depreciation of value due to homeless vicinity. Healthcare expenses are not only by far the most significant and are incurred by private organizations, they are also the most easily track able. For these reasons healthcare cost will be used as our benchmark for not only a year evaluation but for comparing our Social Return on Investment.
A regular reoccurring client is one that needs multiple trips to multiple appointments or housing. These will be both the most common client and the most expensive. Majority of our transit needs can be meet by RT of Sacramento who operate both the light rail and buses. A single rider ticket is $3, and $6 dollar for an all-day pass. If a client expects to use his ticket for more than 16 days a month then it will be most cost effective to purchase a monthly pass at $100. A monthly pass will cost $1,200 per year per