Organizational Profile
Profile of a Community Organization: The Kiwanis Club of Ocean Beach San Diego

There are many different ways that a social organization can influence and impact a community, and a great many moral and ethical implications and effects on society of the existence of these organizations and the actions that these organizations take. From gathering and consolidating funding towards various charitable causes to actually engaging in direct service to the community, these organizations are often more important in providing for the basic needs of some of the most disadvantaged members of a community than the governmental organizations in that community. Exploring one such organization in the San Diego community, and more specifically in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego, will help to illuminate the importance of these community organizations generally.

The Kiwanis Club of Ocean Beach, San Diego meets twice a week in order to plan a variety of activities…...

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References

Kiwanis Club. (2012). Accessed 6 May 2012.  http://www.oceanbeachkiwanis.org/index.php 

Minkler, M. (2005). Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

hereas in 1990, ninety percent of the population was native born, it has been found that in just ten years and at the 2000 Census, that over fifty percent of the population in Glendale and Queens is foreign born (Glendale Area Population, 1 and Montefinise, 1). hereas much of the population was white or black before are now increasingly Hispanic and Asian. Angela Montefinise writes, "Hispanics are moving into areas like Glendale, Middle Village and Jackson Heights, which used to havens for Italians, Germans, Irish and other working class immigrant populations" (3). These ethnic whites have moved eat or out of the State of New York entirely. Montefinise elaborates that more and more people from Caribbean nations and South Asia are moving into Glendale along with people from India and Pakistan (3). These are the changes seen in recent demographic studies. hat is important for not only community managers…...

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Works Cited

Glendale Area Population Statistics in 1990. 30 May 2005 http://www.queenslibrary/demographics_1990.asp.

Kleniewski, Nancy. Cities, Change and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life. Geneseo, New York: State University of New York, 1996.

Montefinise, Angela. "Queens by the Numbers." Queens Tribune on the Web 25 Dec. 2003.

30 May 2005 http://www.queenstribune.com/weekly/122503..

Using the support and mailing list channels of a neighborhood association can be important for gaining the credibility necessary to succeed as a charity organization.
Local radio and television are two additional avenues which must be considered.

For purposes of charity and community orientation in particular, most local radio programmers and DJs are quite accessible. It may not be that difficult to retain the support and endorsement of those which direct access to the radio airwaves. This can help the program to reach a very wide and diffuse audience, serving most directly the goal of creating a more widespread knowledge of the food bank's existence. Extending beyond the orbit of its own local community, the radio can help bring the food bank in touch with other communities and agencies that may be of use, or to whom the food bank may in turn be of use.

For television as well, such avenues…...

(Managing Results: Initiatives in Select American Cities, 1995, p.1) When asked as to what types of performance measures actually exist, Mr. Waldrop summarized the performance measures according to the type of measure, a description of the measures and an example for each. These have been arranged into a chart and are listed in the following labeled Figure 1.
Figure 1

Types of Measure/Description/Examples

Type of Measure

Description

Examples

Input

Resources used to carry out a program over a given period of time

Number of full-time employees

Amount of materials used

Dollars spent

Output

Amount of work accomplished or service provided over a given period of time

Number of applicants processed

Number of claims paid

Efficiency

Cost per unit of output

Cost per client served

Cost per square mile of grass cut

Outcome

Impact or quality or work accomplished or services provided

Percent reduction in teen

pregnancy rate

Customer satisfaction with taxpayer services

Source: (Managing Results: Initiatives in Select American Cities, 1995)

Inputs

The difference between these 'inputs', 'outputs', and 'outcomes', are stated by Mr. Waldrop…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

4 City Priorities (2009) The City of Atlanta's Vision. City of Atlanta. 2009. Online available at: http://apps.atlantaga.gov/citydir/dpcd/cdp/chapter_4.html

Financials & Measurement (2009) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Online available at: http://www.mep.org/financials.html

Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen (2008) Principles of Total Quality Management. 10 June 2008. Online available at:  http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2008/06/principles-of-t.html 

Managing Results: Initiatives in Select American Cities (1995) Government Information Library. 1995 August, Online available at:  http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/fedstat/24e6.html

Football players can be evaluated using a player evaluation form like the one appearing in American Football Monthly:http://www.americanfootballmonthly.com/Subaccess/Magazine/2013/May/images/04_Loney_Nichols_EvaluationForm.jpg
This form can be used in a formal evaluation process, either on intake or during considerations for lineup changes, as well as providing ongoing feedback and assessment for players on the roster. While this form is actually quite thorough, providing both psychological and physical feedback, it lacks a few skills that could be important for receivers. For example, the form could be improved on by simply adding an assessment box for how high the player can jump from a standing position. There would also be some need to specialized skills. Otherwise, the form provides for the breadth of skills a player will need to succeed, including attitude, work ethic, and leadership ability. Any additional comments can be placed in the "notes" section or in the side bars related to player's best quality and…...

Community Oriented Policing
new and comprehensive strategy against crime: Community Policing:

For the purpose of reducing neighborhood crimes, creating a sense of security and reduce fear of crimes among the citizens and improving the quality of life in the community, the community policing strategy will be proved to be the most effective one. The accomplishment of all these objectives to develop a healthy and clean society can be done by combining the efforts of the police department, the members of the community and the local government. "The concept of community policing is not very new however it has gained attention in last few years. It is an approach to make a collaborative effort between the police and the community in order to identify and solve the problems of crime, societal disorder and disturbances. It combines all the element of the community to find out the solutions to the social problems. Its foundations…...

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References

Gordon: Community Policing: Towards the Local Police State?: Law, Order and the Authoritarian State, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1987, p. 141.

O'Malley and D. Palmer: Post-Keynesian Policing, Economy and Society: 1996, p 115.

Bright: Crime Prevention: The British Experience: The Politics of Crime Control: Sage, London, 1991. p. 24-63.

MacDonald: Skills and Qualities of Police Leaders Required of Police Leaders Now and in the Future: Federation Press, Sydney, 1995. p. 72

The evaluation is done by judges based on the adherence by the teams to mine rescue procedures as also their speed in solving the problem that they have been given. There are also other events like a contest for giving first aid as also tests in apparatus and bench performance. (Teams from Wyoming, New Mexico Take Top Mine escue Honors) One can see clearly that the employees of this company are well trained and capable of doing their jobs as also related tasks. This is the main reason why the workers are happy and well trained.
In the other plant we have the case of Juanita Enger who had been employed in the factory as a shop technician. The factory is of FMC in Aberdeen and the plant is in the business of producing missile canisters for the federal government as a defense contractor. The person was employed mainly to…...

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References

Industry" Retrieved at   Accessed on 6 June, 2005http://www.grchamber.com/industry.htm .

Inorganic Hydrogen Cyanide. (August, 2000) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved from   Accessed on 6 June, 2005http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/id/inorchem/docs/hydrcyan.pdf .

South Dakota Supreme Court: Enger v. FMC, 1997 SD 70" Retrieved at Accessed on 6 June, 2005http://www.sdbar.org/opinions/1997/June/1997_070.htm.

Teams from Wyoming, New Mexico Take Top Mine Rescue Honors" (6 September 2002)

Community Contributes to Your Identified Problem and Resolving the Issue
Childhood obesity is a common problem. It has a relationship with short and long-term adverse outcomes. It affects ethnic/racial minority and children who are deprived economically and disproportionately. There is no doubt that it is a great threat to public health. Multi-sector and multilevel prevention and management strategies are the best touted for resolving the problem (Taveras, et al., 2015).

Obesity and overweight rates among black and Latino girls in high school and women in Boston are alarmingly high. Black men have been reported to indicate the highest rates of obesity. Although there is no data on the number of children affected in Boston, the national statistics show that Latino and black children show significantly high rates at a relatively early age. It is expected that the trend is the same in Boston city. The populations highlighted not only demonstrate higher incidence…...

Organizational Culture:
An Analysis Based on Morgan's Cultural Metaphor

When one thinks about the word "culture," one tends to think about some far-away, exotic place where people in elaborate costumes perform mysterious rituals. While it is certainly true that people on the other side of the world from wherever one lives certainly have their own culture, it is vital to remember that all people have their lives deeply influenced by culture. We each live in a number of different cultures: The culture of our family, of our neighborhood, of the place where we work, sometimes of a religious and ethnic community. Culture is simply an agreement among the members of a group about how they will behave, what their values are, and how they will communicate with each other. Culture determines how we each interact with each other on a daily basis.

The paper examines the organizational culture of a family-owned business,…...

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References

Grisham, T. (2006). Metaphor, poetry, storytelling and cross-cultural leadership. Management Decision, 44(4), 486-503.

Harris, J. & Barnes, K.B. (2006). Leadership storytelling. Industrial and commercial training, 38(7), 350-353.

Jensen, D.F.N. (2006). Metaphors as a bridge to understanding educational and social contexts. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(1), Article 4, 1-17.

Leder, G. (2007). The power of metaphors: Use of clever analogies to simplify complex subjects and you might just get clients to take your perspective. On Wall Street 17 (5), 88.

Public Health Partnerships in Diverse Settings
ho was the population of interest at that moment in time? In the article by Carthon, the African-American population in Philadelphia was in focus. At the turn of the last century, 1900, the statistics clearly showed that a much higher percentage of African-Americans ("blacks" is used in the references) were dying due to tuberculosis (TB) than Caucasians ("whites") (Carthon, 2011, 32). In fact the statistics showed that about 447 blacks per 100,000 were dying (from TB) at that time compared with just 197.3 whites per 100,000, Carthon explains.

hat was the environmental context within which the population lived at that time? hy were blacks more susceptible to TV than whites in the early 20th century? Carthon suggests that blacks tended to have jobs that had a "high exposure to dust, such as marble, stone, plaster, wood, and textile work." Clearly the black worker exposed to these…...

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Works Cited

Community Coalitions and Public Health

Carthon, J.M.B. (2011). Life and Death in Philadelphia's Black Belt: A Tale of an Urban

Tuberculosis Campaign, 1900-1930. Nursing History Review, Vol. 19, 29-52.

organizational studies. While there is focus upon the articles and their contents, the greater focus or endeavor of the paper is to analyze the writing techniques and approaches to research. At the center of the assignment is the relationship among the construction of the research question, the research question, and the research. By studying and referencing the methods of master researchers and writers, the paper forges a path into the unknown, yet mandatory territory of conducting research and sharing it with the academic community.
Organizational Studies: Article eviews

The state of public research on over-the-counter drug advertising by Denise DeLorme,

Jisu Huh, Leonard N. eid & Soontae An

The authors' suggestions for further research are rather climatic in this article. The authors pose nine questions to the readers and those questions serve as possible directions future research could go. Out of these nine questions, the two areas that speak the most to me…...

Background Josephine Lawrence (name changed to protect anonymity) has been a community health nurse employed by the city for almost five years. Working in the public sector is radically different from working in a private healthcare institution, notes Lawrence, who had practiced as an RN for ten years prior to her career change. When asked what precipitated the change. Lawrence said that a lot of it had to do with the way her mind works. She always preferred “big picture” issues, as she put it, recognizing the need for greater community activism, empowerment, and advocacy.
Changes to the Profession
According to Lawrence, the profession has not changed appreciably over the past four to five years. The most important changes to healthcare in general have been due to legislation and policy, with the Affordable Care Act having less of a bearing on community health operations than on the budgets and management of private institutions.…...

An Ecological Approach Community psychology uses an ecological or systems approach, recognizing that individuals are inseparable from their social networks and communities. According to Dalton, Elias & Wandersman (2012), community psychology also works with seven core values. Those values include individual and family wellness, a sense of community, respect for human diversity, social justice, empowerment and citizen participation, collaboration and community struggle, and empirical grounding. Thus, community psychology can be viewed as an interface between traditional individualistic psychology, sociology, and social work. Community psychology has been called a “common sense” approach given its broad focus on the ecological connections between individuals and their environments (Scileppi, Teed & Toerres, 1999, p. 1). Rather than focus only on individual variables, community psychologists take into account multiple dimensions and contextual constraints and influences on human behavior, identity, and relationships.
Using a systems or ecological approach also transforms the nature of the social scientist’s work in…...

Crime Prevention PlanIntroductionThe city of Cincinnati, OH, is seeing an increase of violent crime and gun shootings in the Over-the-hine (OT) community. Since 2000, OT has been a major source of frustration for the city: it is on the northern side of the citys business district where residences and small business owners dwell together in the citys oldest neighborhood. For decades OT housed the citys poorest residents, but since 2000 the city has poured billions into fixing up the community, painting buildings and offering incentives to business owners. The goal has been to create new parks, new businesses, revitalize residences and tap into the communitys historical strengths as a midway point in the city between the urban business district on the river and the uptown college area. However, last year saw the city set a record number of homicides at 94, which represented a 30% increase from 2019, many of…...

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Program Proposal to Address Cirrhosis due to AlcoholismIntroductionThis proposal focuses on the issue of cirrhosis due to alcoholism, specifically targeting adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) in the urban community of New Orleans, Louisiana. It describes the geographic region and population, the epidemiologic characteristics, and the health outcome it aims to improve. The program\\\'s design is culturally sensitive and incorporates ethical considerations for all eligible participants. The funding strategy combines various sources, including federal and state grants, private foundations, local businesses, and in-kind support, to secure the necessary resources for the program\\\'s sustainability.Geographic egion and Population CharacteristicsNew Orleans is a major city in the state of Louisiana, with a diverse population consisting of various ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. According to the United States Census Bureau (2022), the population of New Orleans is approximately 390,000, with 59% of residents identifying as African-American, 30% as White, 5.5% as Hispanic, and 3% as…...

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**Community Relations vs. Public Relations: An Exploration of the Synergies and Distinctions**

**Introduction:**

Community relations and public relations, often intertwined concepts, play crucial roles in shaping an organization's reputation and fostering its relationships with external stakeholders. However, these disciplines exhibit distinct approaches, motivations, and target audiences, warranting further exploration and comparison.

**Community Relations: Nurturing Local Connections**

Community relations focuses on building strong, mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and the communities in which it operates. It emphasizes local engagement, participation, and collaboration, aiming to address community concerns, support local initiatives, and foster a sense of belonging.

* **Key Goals:** Strengthen community engagement, foster local support,....

Beating Bullying: Proven Strategies for a Bully-Free Environment

 Introduction
Bullying, an unfortunately common occurrence in various social settings, has far-reaching negative consequences for both the victims and the overall community. As such, addressing this issue effectively remains paramount. This essay aims to present effective strategies for combating bullying in schools, workplaces, and online spaces. By exploring proven methods and drawing on the latest research, this comprehensive guide equips readers with actionable steps to create bully-free environments.

 Strategies for Beating Bullying

 1. Fostering a Positive School Culture:
A Collaborative Effort for Bullying Prevention.

- Establishing a clear and consistent anti-bullying policy that outlines expectations, consequences,....

1. The impact of poverty on education: exploring government assistance programs and private initiatives aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty through education.

2. The prevalence of mental health issues in society: analyzing the benefits of government-funded mental health programs and the role of private organizations in providing support and resources to individuals in need.

3. The challenges faced by homeless individuals: examining the assistance offered by government agencies and non-profit organizations in providing shelter, food, and healthcare to homeless populations.

4. The issue of food insecurity: investigating government assistance programs such as SNAP and WIC, as well as the role of food....

I. Introduction
A. Background information on health inequalities in the UK
B. Importance of addressing health inequalities
C. Thesis statement: The impact of health inequalities in the UK and strategies to address them

II. Impact of health inequalities in the UK
A. Disparities in life expectancy
B. Differences in access to healthcare services
C. Higher rates of preventable illnesses and diseases
D. Social determinants of health contributing to inequalities

III. Factors contributing to health inequalities in the UK
A. Socioeconomic status
B. Education level
C. Occupation
D. Ethnicity
E. Gender

IV. Strategies to address health inequalities in the UK
A. Improving access to....