Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center is a non-profit organization, which aims to fight hunger and poverty. The organization itself have only three paid employees: the social worker, Vicki Anderson, the executive director, and her assistant, Rachel. Almost all of the volunteers in Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center were elderly. Organization offers a variety of services and sports to residents in need from Mystic, North Stonnington, Pawcatuck in Connecticut and from Westerly in Rhode Island. Some of the programs and activities Pawcatuck Neighborhood offers are: Active Aging at the PNC Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center offers a lot of free classes for seniors: Zumba, painting classes, strength and balance, tai chi and line dancing.…
Church & Dwight’s corporate strategy consisted mainly of growth and retrenchment strategies. Some instances of stability strategies can also be seen as part of their corporate strategy. Horizontal growth strategies (external) include acquisitions, international expansion and strategic alliances or partnerships with other firms. They reshaped company through acquisitions and had an annual organic growth rate of 3–4%. Church & Dwight pushed aggressively into consumer products outside of sodium bicarbonate-related products and into the international arena even in the early 2000s, and numerous changes were made in key personnel.…
Religion is one of a part of people’s life. However, some people do not believe in any religion, and they think that is not true in life. Having some negative opinions is that should not provide the grant to religion although religion opens a church school for anybody not only following the foundation of the education but also having some places to children for playing. So that they tried to apply to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in order to have the funds to replace their playground. The case was decided on June 26, 2017, is called Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Carol S. Comer.…
Trinsic Residential Group is unlike an FOE. While the company shares some common aspects of an FOE as described by Raj Sisodia et al. in Firms of Endearment, it lacks a holistic view of its business model and a broad consideration of stakeholders. There are several reasons for its departure from an FOE including; a market focus, availability of resources and the small, disjointed number of employees involved in the company. Over a period of time the company has begun to run more in line with an FOE, but is still a long way from becoming a full-fledged FOE as the authors of Firms of Endearment define them.…
Beautiful Feet Ministries, started in October 1981 with two Southwest Theological students; Mike Myers and Johnny Bucker. They were out at had an opportunity to share coffee, donuts and the Gospel with some homeless men who were sleeping in of the Fort Worth Water Gardens. This was only the beginning of the what was to come. Myers and Buckner continued feeding and sharing the gospel with hundreds of homeless until 1985. They soon realized the homeless they were serving needed a church of their own.…
Wayland Baptist University, home of the pioneers, is among the lowest cost of any senior university in the country and will help me with the opportunity to learn more in the field of child development. To get in to Wayland you need to get the highest available ACT composite or SAT combined score to be used for admission. The application fee for this college is $35. Also you will need a transcript from an accredited high school and acceptable documents. Wayland is known for the lowest cost of an education of any fully accredited, private, senior university.…
While reading the Greenhill Community Center case study a lot of unusual events and situation stood out to me. The first event that stood out to me in the Greenhill Community Center case study was the mission statement. According to Worth (Pg. 162), mission is defines as “the reason the organization exist; the starting point for strategic planning.” The main purpose of the Greenhill Community Center is “to provide human service programs for learning, growth, and enrichment throughout life within an intergenerational setting.”…
Civic leader Bill Greehey began the formation of the Haven for Hope back in 2006. There was a consider amount support from city leaders and people within the community to build and launch the nonprofit organization. Haven for Hope is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. Haven for Hope is also located on a 37 acre campus and the address for Have for Hope is One Haven for Hope Way. Haven for Hope is partnered with ninety other agencies.…
Facts of the case: President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which was designed to create a competition between religious charitable associations and non-religious association for federal funding. At these conferences govt. officials including the president Bush gave speeches in order to promote and raise awareness about these organizations. Unhappy with this development, members of Freedom From Religion filed a case arguing that this promotion by government officials violate the Establishment clause. Supreme Court’s Judgment: Supreme Court ruled that since these programs were funded with discretionary funds (money that Congress s gives the executive branch to use for general administrative purposes), hence…
The Cornerstone Family Ministries main objective is to positively influence the lives of disadvantaged children and their families in the community by nurturing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ. They envision a future where underprivileged children in the Tampa community will have access to healthy food choices, a quality early education, and connections to a local church (Cornerstone Family Ministries, n.d.). Services/Programs Offered The Rosa Valdez Early Childhood Learning Center is open Monday through Friday. The center provides child care, school readiness programs, and family support services to children, birth to five years of age. The center emphasizes strong Christian values and preparing students socially, emotionally, and academically for kindergarten.…
Bethany Christian Services became an organization to help children’s needs. Bethany’s accreditation is reviewed by the Council of Accreditation regularly to assure Bethany is well maintained with its goals and standards. Bethany is within member organizations of Christian Alliance for Orphans, Christian Charities USA, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, GuideStar, Independent Charities of America, InterAction, Michigan Federation for Children and Families, North American Association of Christians in Social Work, North American Council on Adoptable Children, Willow Creek Association, and Accord Network. The previous organizations have banded together to help serve the world's…
AGENCY DESCRIPTION The San Diego hope for humanity (SDHH) mission is to provide underprivileged children, youths, adults, homeless, runaway, and foster youths the support to San Diego County. The San Diego hope for humanity was founded in August, 2004. - 2004: Established case management, homeless feeding, supply services, - 2005: Added after-special event program.…
Between the 1630s and 1660s, waves of immigrant and religiously oppressed Puritans upon the Winthrop fleet traveled from England to New England, and settled in the region known as the Massachusetts Bay. In opposition to existent New England inhabitants, Puritans established a colony in resistance to the throne, altering the religious, political, and social advancement of forthcoming New England colonies. As a result of the Puritan 's mind set on work ethic and commonwealth ideals, the economic system would present itself. Additionally, the Puritans politically would set the layout for self government in future time periods by bringing the colonial community together as one, in unity. Social life between the Puritans would help shape future…
The project I choose was to attend a worship service of a different religion. I choose to attend a Catholic Church called Holy Name in San Antonio Texas. My parents have been attending that church since I was little. I never wanted to go to church with them because I thought it was boring and couldn’t keep still. My parents let me stay home since the church was only a block from my house.…
The first study that implemented this program took place at the Annsville Youth Center, in New York (Goldstein, 4). The study was conducted on 60 youths, in which a small group (24) received the intervention in ART, the second group (24) were given a “brief discussion” this allowed for Goldstein and his colleagues, to see if the children had the skills in them, but were just not using them, and the last group (12) received no intervention or instructions (Goldstein, 4). The goal of the study was to see how effective ART was in the center, “ it looked at skill acquisition, minimal skill transfer, extended skill transfer, anger control enhancement, and impulsive reduction” (Goldstein, 4). At the end of the 10-week study, the children that under…