Title: CBLI Research Questinos - Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
Description: * TASK would like a student to identify areas of need for its services that the organization may have missed in the Trenton/greater Trenton community, highlighting the potential for collaboration with any community organization, including churches, in the greater Trenton area. * TASK is looking to attract more diversity to all aspects of its program. Staff members have noticed that there are, in particular, few Asian volunteers, donors, or even patrons. How can TASK reach out to these communities and broaden its approach so as to be appealing to a more diverse community? Students could look to fundraising research to begin answering this question. * TASK has a well-established and growing donor base and is interested in finding out more about what initially attracted them to TASK and what they like and don’t like about our services. Students could conduct surveys, interviews and/or focus groups in order to help TASK learn more about our donors. * In line with the previous question, in learning more about their donor population, TASK would like to know how characteristics of online donors versus donors by check differ. What are the specific characteristic trends in each group, and why are they attracted to donate through these different venues? * Until now, TASK has focused its services on the city of Trenton. However, TASK would like to know whether the organization should expand to serve the greater Trenton area. Hamilton, Heightstown, and other nearby areas potentially need help feeding the hungry. To help us make this decision, a student should analyze how to cover costs involved. Seeking government funding would lead to questions about patron eligibility, such that services could no longer be anonymous. Because TASK has pledged to preserve the anonymity of its patrons, the organization currently relies on individual donations and corporations for financial assistance. Will individual donations alone support an expansion into greater Trenton? * TASK is willing to accommodate students in forming a research question to suit personal interests, although TASK cannot intrude on the privacy of its patrons. TASK would help a student to answer broad research questions related to the work of the organization.
Position Type: course
Start Date: 0000-00-00
End Date: 0000-00-00
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Organization: Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI)
Web site: http://www.princeton.edu/~cbli
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