1. community needs assessment new orleans la
New Orleans Community Needs AssessmentThere are many steps involved with conducting
a community-needs assessment. For this Assignment, you are going to examine the steps
that are necessary to conduct a community-needs assessment in your own community. You
are then going to consult existing data sources to discover what the needs are in your
community and develop a plan that you would utilize if you were really going to collect data
from community members, organizations in your community, and so on. Finally, in this
Assignment, you are going to write a Sample Needs/Problem Statement that would be
appropriate to appear in a grant proposal using the information you discovered from your
secondary data sources.The paper needs to include the components listed below.Discuss
what, if anything, you already know about the needs in your community.Design needs
assessment questions that you want answered in order to provide you with more
information about the needs in your community.Consult secondary data sources to find out
information about the needs in your community, the demographics or your community, and
to answer the questions that you designed. Discuss which data sources you utilized, and the
information that you discovered. Consult your readings for examples of secondary data
sources that you can refer to for this section of the Assignment.After learning about some of
the needs in your community, you should explore and then discuss whether or not there are
any nonprofit organizations currently addressing the needs that you discovered.Based on
information learned from your exploration of the secondary data sources, assess the role
that the information you gathered would play with regard to the community-needs
component of a grant proposal.Develop a plan for collecting data from community
members. This plan will not actually be carried out, but it should be a discussion of what
would occur if you were really doing community-needs assessment. In this section, be sure
to discuss what types of data collection techniques you would utilize (for example focus
groups, surveys, interviews), and justify why you are using these particular techniques. You
also need to discuss whom you plan on gathering information from (for example,
individuals in the community, other nonprofit organizations, police officers). The
information that you learn from reviewing secondary data sources related to the needs in
your community may help guide how you develop your plan for this section.Your
Assignment should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language.
The writing and writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of
conducting a community-needs assessment, and the role that this plays with regard to grant
proposals. You should include a minimum of four reputable references in your Assignment.
2. Your Assignment should be 3-4 pages in length, not including the title page and a references
page.
