Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Services or Potential?

I just added the All-Stars group and tagged them as both 'Services' and 'Potential'. Based on what we talked about last week, I guess that seems kind of conflicting, but I wasn't quite sure which tag was a better fit for the group. Essentially, they are a group (under the Leonard Carmichael Society) of about 20 volunteers who go once a week to play with the kids at after-school programs at Somerville elementary schools. These after-school programs are cheaper than private after-school care, as they are sponsored by the government, and therefore All Stars' participation in them does provide a service to the Somerville community in this tough economic time. However, I don't think that All Stars is in any way necessary for these programs to continue. If they stopped participating, the service would still be there for the Somerville families. So that's why I also tagged All Stars as potential. They are a great group and obviously have an interest in continuing to help the community, so I feel that they could be tapped into for another project or something. I'm still not sure...thoughts?

1 comment:

  1. As you suggested that if All Stars was to stop participating, the service would still continue for the families. So what if All Stars was to start on a new, different project to help other people that aren't already in the Sommerville program that will presumably continue without their participation?

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