Overview
Throughout this semester we were working with the Haight Ashbury Food Program on the Center of the Plate project which was created to provide a pathway out of poverty for homeless, unemployed and impoverished San Francisco residents. Through job placement and retention the program helps their students locate jobs and establish themselves in the culinary field.
On our first meeting as a group we discussed what each member wanted to get out of this project, and started researching on different non-profit organizations and deciding which company we would like to work with. Our group had chosen this program because we wanted to serve and help our community to make it a better place to be. We really wanted this program to be successful and we had the required skills that would help this project to move along. We were attracted by the idea that this program is actually helping people by giving them an opportunity to get some education with which they will be able to get a job and make a first step to a life they wanted, rather then just giving them food and letting them go. In other words, if a lot of people will take this opportunity, this community would be a lot better and safer. By knowledge about the program and by support community has a chance to help their neighbors because no one knows who could be in that place tomorrow asking for help. Once this goal is achieved, community will help and support each other. We really felt that we could help this program by promoting it, finding donors and letting everybody know what we are trying to achieve with this project.
In order to help this project succeed, we had to apply pretty much everything we had learned in our business courses. Those things include, but not limited to, team work, ...