A number of nonprofit organizations and foundations are interested in investing in your community. They are interested because your community (or part of it) has been identified as distressed in some way. Perhaps the schools are poor, or there are few public parks and recreation areas, or perhaps there are few cultural events planned for the population, or perhaps there is a drug or alcohol problem that has become very obvious. Perhaps there are many homeless people in your community, or a high illiteracy rate. Perhaps there is a problem with the number of stray dogs and cats which live on the streets. Perhaps you have no public library facilities. Perhaps there is an environmental problem which needs to be cleaned up. You create the situation and the project; these can be fictional.

Before you begin this assignment, define a project which you can pretend that your City Council is considering. The Council has asked you, as a member of the Council and the community, to prepare a report regarding its likely success.

Assignment:

Prepare a formal report, entitled Report and Recommendation, with the following seven sections. A subtitle to this report would be useful to focus the topic. For example, if I am proposing a dog/cat rescue service, my subtitle might be: A Plan for Dog/Cat Rescue in Portales, New Mexico. The samples in Chapter 17 of your text will be useful, although we are not following every element of those models. These are the six parts of our report: