Needs Assessment Grant Proposal

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Needs Assessment Grant Proposal
Identifying the problem
The need that I am looking to address is the need of establishing adequate afterschool programs in District 17 in Brooklyn New York for low-income families.
Hypotheses about the cause of the problem
The inadequacy of affordable youth-serving organizations such as scouts and boys and girls clubs.
23.6% of people living in Brooklyn New York live below the federal poverty line.
31% of parents fear for the safety of afterschool programs for their children.
The cost required to set up and operate an afterschool program is high for most people to afford.
Select at least two causes that you will explore and discuss the feasibility aspect of each.
The inadequacy of affordable youth-serving organizations such as scouts and boys and girls clubs.
Afterschool programs currently available in District 17 Brooklyn requires the parent to pay a high fee for the child to be enrolled. This leaves out children from the low-income families that cannot afford the fee.
23.6% of people living in Brooklyn New York that lives below the federal poverty line.
23.6% of people living under the federal poverty line in Brooklyn is a huge number. As a result, most parents in District 17 are not able to afford to take their children to afterschool school programs.
4. Magnitude and Scope of the Problem and needs proposal will address
23.6% of people living in poverty is a very high percentage. As many as 1,151,361 children have not yet been enrolled in an afterschool program mostly due to a high fee (Afterschool Alliance np).

This is because there are only five nonprofit afterschool programs in Brooklyn. My proposal seeks to address this problem by introducing affordable afterschool activities in District 17 in Brooklyn. This will solve the inadequacy problem of affordable afterschool programs.
5. Assess the needs of your proposal normatively
My proposal is effective, practical and economically viable. It seeks to come up with an afterschool program and incorporate a number of activities that children can undertake. Such activities include playing musical instruments, scouting, drawing, playing various sports and attending different boy and girl club.
6. Assess the needs of your proposal comparatively
In comparison with the already existing afterschool program, parents have to pay a higher fee for their children to enroll. Most parents from the low-income cannot afford it. The proposal seeks to eliminate this problem by establishing a nonprofit afterschool program that children from low-income families can benefit.
7. Data Sources
Poverty in New York- US Census Bureau
Afterschool Alliance website
8. Similar and complementary services that are already in place.
Already in place are 5 nonprofit afterschool programs in Brooklyn that are being operated by the Catholic Church (Afterschool Alliance np).
9. Initial findings that you found based on your survey of the data
Based on My survey, I found that a large number of children are not attending afterschool programs since they cannot afford it. The current programs in the area are either charging too high or do not have enough capacity to accommodate all of them.
10. Discuss how you will prioritize needs
I will first look for a suitable location in District 17 Brooklyn where I will introduce the program. I will also sensitize the importance of afterschool program among the low-income earners and encourage them to enroll. I will also introduce activities that children can engage in all at an affordable fee.

Work Cited
“Afterschool Alliance.” Afterschoolalliance.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 13 Mar. 2018.