Nonprofit Organizational Assessment

allow the practitioner to plan for other things that may not have been considered as part
of the intervention but which will greatly improve the quality of the intervention and make
life better for the community members. To use the seasonal calendar as a data
collection tool, the practitioner gets community members to write a list of the things that
they have to do throughout the year. These things are related to work, cultural activities,
certain times of the year in which participants are unavailable at all and so on, and to
plot how they share them with other members of the community.
Focus Group Sessions
Focus groups are sessions in which community members can answer questions about
different aspects of the intervention in the form of planned discussions. This is a good
opportunity to actually find out about the needs and concerns of the community. It is
also a good opportunity for addressing service gaps and what needs to be done about
them.
Bayview Hunters Point
Examples
This is a good example as needs are identified in several different ways, such as
research, survey analysis, and current gaps in service provision. All of this information
can be used as analysis towards future policy implementation or as a focal point for
discussion.
The author examined significant statistics that showed a need within the community of
Bayview Hunters Point in order to "identify gaps in service delivery system to create a
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