Forgotten Harvest Case Study

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Organizations and programs have a lot to think about and go through before they become an organization. They have to think about how they are going to fund their organization or program, their implementation and intermediate goals, what are the risks involved, and most importantly the outcome goals; how are they going to help other. There are many organizations/programs that we could discuss, but one close to us is Forgotten Harvest.
Forgotten Harvest is an organization that collects food that would usually go to waste and delivers it to other organizations that are helping feed the hungry in Metro Detroit. A theory driven model would describe Forgotten Harvest; I believe this approach applies because they are serving the needs of the community by supplying food and they can celebrate the success by decreasing hunger in Metro …show more content…

Forgotten Harvest also gets food from local farmers to harvest unwanted crops in their field. They have volunteers sort and repackage food at their distribution center and trucks deliver the food. Forgotten Harvest’s intermediate goal is to make sure that Metro Detroit residents are not going hungry daily, and to reduce the amount of food waste in the area. And their final outcome goal is to reduce hungry in the area. An implausible assumption could come to mind when they said they want to prevent food waste. I believe is it possible to reduce hunger in Metro Detroit and possible to reduce food waste, but I don’t think they can prevent food waste completely. I say this because there are grocery stores and restaurants that are not a part of their program and donating the food waste to them to be given away. If all grocery stores and restaurants were a part of this program, it might be possible to prevent

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