Fill The Shelves : Algonquin Food Cupboard

Project Description:

The name of our project is ‘Fill the Shelves”, which is sponsored by David Solomon (PMP, Professor, School of Business) and Julia McCann (Manager, Algonquin Food Cupboard). It has been shown in a recent study by the CBC news that almost 40% of the students in Canada are facing the state of insufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food since the food banks at the campus are not fulfilling the demands. This becomes the basis of the project “Fill the Shelves”.

The objective of our project is to help the food cupboard program at the Algonquin by bringing the different items collected by either donation or purchasing while maintaining the quantity as well as quality at the same time.

We are team ‘Life Saviors’’ consists of a total of six members – Jay Bhavsar (Project Manager), Olive Smith (Procurement Manager), Zaid Syed (Stakeholder Manager), Karandeep Singh (Quality Manager), Vanshika (Risk Manager), Harkamalpreet (Communication Manager).

We got a fund of $40.00 as a starter for our project from the School of Business and our target was to collect goods worth a minimum of $1000 over the given period. The delivery date of the goods at the Algonquin Food Cupboard was July 27, 2022. We are extremely happy to announce that we collected over $2246 worth of items in the form of funds and goods that were listed in the list provided by our sponsors. This indicates that we completed our project in a well-managed manner within the given time and budget with our team’s remarkable effort.

Let’s talk about the various phases of our project. Our project commenced with the planning phase (Phase 1) – we submitted our project plan to Professor David Solomon on June 17, 2022. This project plan includes – Project summary and goals, Scope management, Schedule and time management, Human resource management, Communication Management, Risk Management Plan, Procurement Plan, and Stakeholder Management plan. This project plan document helped us a lot during the entire duration of the project as we remained focused on the tasks and schedule without any doubts in our minds.

Next was Donation Collection Phase (Phase 2) – It started on June 17, 2022, and we started visiting small-scale businesses (Event 1) to ask the owners and the customers there to contribute towards our project and we collected $1696.00 from our event 1. Afterward, we focused on our planned next event – Online Fundraising (Event 2), for which we created a website Go fund me, where we tried to encourage people to get donations. However, as expected we successfully raised $50.00 from this online portal. Then came our Event 3 – Asking Friends and Family. We have collected $500.00 from this event spreading awareness about the Algonquin food cupboard and the activities they do for students.

During our project, we provided our project’s status reports and one upgraded status report to the sponsors of our project through the live presentations on the zoom sessions. During our project, we tracked all the processes as a part of an applied project such as cost, quality, procurement, risk, and other subject areas.

Finally, we delivered our goods to the Food cupboard on the plan at the Algonquin in the presence of our project sponsors – David Solomon and Julia McCann in the given timeline.

We are extremely grateful to Professor David Solomon for his continuous motivation and direction without which we couldn’t complete the project ‘Fill the Shelves’.

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