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“Methods section”
New Money: Young Agricultural
Entrepreneurs & Their Steps to Success
By Dennis
S Murray Sr.
We have seen some very impressive Goals and Metrics sections of our plans so far. Now we move to the Methods section. This will be 3-5 pages.
Please address which methods will be implemented to achieve the goals of the plan.
Areas to cover should include:
1. How do you plan to implement the plan?
·
We intent to obtain from the FY 17 $3.5 million
over 4 years and deducting $1.5 million for the first year FY year 17, and
breaking down $666,000 per for the last three years through Senator Rand Paul’s
legislation of “Economic Freedom Zone”
bill that will be voted on in FY16-17 for $139 million to help distress
underserved and disenfranchised minority and community groups that are in
at-risk in urban and rural destructive neighborhoods nationally. This will leave
$135.5 million for the rest of the programs if the funding process in not slash
by unstable politics, PORK, or mismanagement/improper usage of the initial
funding source directly. Despite this legislation only being considered for
Kentuckians across the Commonwealth for Economic Freedom Zones it could be a
national hybrid to continue the struggles in improvised communities in
underserved regions. I have outlined an attachment
excel spreadsheet that can reflect an estimate cost of the distribution of
funds.
Paul also spoke about his Economic Freedom
Zone plan which would give corporate and
local income tax cuts at 5% percent each. He believes this
would keep approximately $1 billion in communities as well as in my opinion
open the doors for capitol enterprise to help maximize other financial
investments. He has spoken with other local and state government members about
these same cuts on their levels and with collaboration of corporate business
enterprises using sources examples on page 143 table 6.1. This would help keep
money in successful local underserved businesses.” If Paul gets business
leaders in his home state of Kentucky and extend this 2017 legislation
nationwide we can change the landscape and its financial burdens, while changing
our youth criminal justice system, undertake underserved housing, underserved
teen employment, and other topics in this wheelhouse to address poverty in the
U.S., such as alternatives to public education in economic-freedom zones and
decreasing the raise in disenfranchised minority unemployment and the lack of
business opportunities for our youth without red-tape attached to it
We
expect to form a 4 to 5 years agreement Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with
the following: usda.gov; Hunger for America; usaid.gov; dol.gov; edu.gov;
Wal-Mart Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Echoing Green (Foundation); Lockheed
Martin Corporation; and Ford Foundation along with a letter of intent from: the
Congressional Appropriation members of both houses which included: Andy Harris;
MD; Steven Palazzo, MS; Stanford D Bishop; GA; Sam Farr, CA; and Tom Ronney, FL
in order to get bill/funding approval on matter. This will open the
opportunities for underserved youth in those counties that are in those
congressional members’ districts whom deem strike-force and improvised.
We expect the following (NGO’s) will play
a major role in the social enterprise and
the development of our underserved youth program, initiatives, and
events. Youth Development and Capacity Building, Inc (YDACBINC); League of
United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Black Famers America (BFA); Echoing
Green (Foundation); 4 H Youth Corporation; Wal-Mart; Ford Foundation; National
Women League; Phi Beta Sigma National Fraternity; National Delta Sorority;
Yes, 1). I will divide the project in scales
that reflect what allows the project to operate, by identifying subject matters
(youth and young entrepreneurs) from districts that represent need and
strike-force areas. 2) Request
letter of intent from Congressional members that understand the program and its
commitment to serving these youth (this effort take political commitment from
both house). 3) Secure funding from
supporter and partners as of 25% of budget needs. This dose not included what
could be obtained from Congressional support. 4) Determine who and what regional surrogates will be used from
those regions of Maryland, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Georgia,
Texas, and North Carolina to form the 5 youth
commission of seven youth per commission. (6)
Divide funding appropriately through a national secure accounting firm that
will monitor the output and outcome of how the funds are use according to the
estimate excel spreadsheet.
5. How do you plan to address these social issues?
Please submit to me via email by Thursday,
November 3 and post for your fellow classmates to comment. As always,
please remember to comment on at least two people's original posts.
Vision-To stop every 26
seconds any underserved youth dropping out of school and not having any social
economic impact and entrepreneurship productive future in America. These
projects will launch underserved youth as Social Entrepreneurs through
government and corporate investment capital with its community business
partners as a clears vision of robust engagement into in social enterprising for
4-6 year period. We will potentially start an incubator by utilizing USDA
governmental funded loans programs of Farm Service Agency, Rural Development
Agency, The Echoing Green (Foundation), and more for youth projects that will
sever rural and urban areas regions.
Mission-Our mission is to create a USDA
Youth Commission from underserved and disenfranchised youth participating in
regions that will enable them to have a social impact prospective and a pathway
for a piece of invest capital, public trading ownership, credit worthiness, and
tools that will provided them with a difference approaches towards finance and sources
toward capital that might not be offer through to them.
Prospective-Each youth will obtain a
skill from various professional agencies at USDA or already have a business
model in mind that brief success. The skills will give these underserved youth
the basic understanding of how Agriculture industry does business worldwide while
creating an educational movement in multiple disciplines in a structure
environment. These opportunities will increase the youth social impact and
values on why Agriculture and its technology has been the fundamental growth of
the world.
Opening statement-We can best serve our
Youth Commission in the Agriculture industry by apply USDA techniques, placement
conditions, creativity improvements, financial relief (loan process), and
compliance to transform the staggering industry that will improve the health
and welfare of our underserved and disenfranchised youth communities. The
methodology in my initiatives brings factors that have been used in the past
but not fully implemented because of unwilling political and budgetary will.
The programs and revenue stream have been added to USDA outreach budget as well
as agencies operational budget in compliance with former USDA Farm Bills, but
often during a complex, discriminatory, and unbalance agency leaving many of
these initiatives left undone or incomplete.
The following criteria
can be achieved with a little restructuring of USDA Fiscal Year 2017
appropriation bills by measuring and implementing the opposition political will
for underserved youth and disenfranchised communities for economical/institutional
reform and rebuilding.
1.
We intent to obtain from the FY 17 $3.5 million over 4
years and deducting $1.5 million for the first year FY year 17, and breaking
down $666,000 per for the last three years through Senator Rand Paul’s
legislation of “Economic Freedom Zone”
bill that will be voted on in FY16-17 for $139 million to help distress
underserved and disenfranchised minority and community groups that are in
at-risk in urban and rural destructive neighborhoods nationally. This will
leave $135.5 million for the rest of the programs if the funding process in not
slash by unstable politics, PORK, or mismanagement/improper usage of the
initial funding source directly. Despite this legislation only being considered
for Kentuckians across the Commonwealth for Economic Freedom Zones it could be
a national hybrid to continue the struggles in improvised communities in
underserved regions. I have outlined an attachment
excel spreadsheet that can reflect an estimate cost of the distribution of
funds.
Paul also spoke about his
Economic Freedom Zone plan which would give corporate and
local income tax cuts at 5% percent each. He believes this
would keep approximately $1 billion in communities as well as in my opinion
open the doors for capitol enterprise to help maximize other financial
investments. He has spoken with other local and state government members about
these same cuts on their levels and with collaboration of corporate business
enterprises using sources examples on page 143 table 6.1. This would help keep
money in successful local underserved businesses.” If Paul gets business
leaders in his home state of Kentucky and extend this 2017 legislation
nationwide we can change the landscape and its financial burdens, while
changing our youth criminal justice system, undertake underserved housing,
underserved teen employment, and other topics in this wheelhouse to address
poverty in the U.S., such as alternatives to public education in
economic-freedom zones and decreasing the raise in disenfranchised minority unemployment
and the lack of business opportunities for our youth without red-tape attached
to it.
·
Rebuilding
youth Leadership (All Underserved youth lives Matter)
The funding above will support the mission while providing a two (2)
training session at USDA Washington, DC Headquarters 20510 to determine
research and data objectives that deals with these communities, youth
Agric-business, and surrounding schools in their regions. The social impact of these
training programs will improve the unsettling distribution of venture capital funding
in their communities. We will be utilizing USDA named as Senior Leadership
Coaches onsite and via Skype in order to assist these youth in their needs to
understand the criteria and function of USDA Agriculture industry worldwide.
These are the 6
disciplines we will address in our study.
- Youth Skills Assessments
- Community skills and leadership/relationships
- Racism and discrimination disparities
- Retention/Agric-Business Development and productivity
- Agriculture History and its development
- Staying the course financially with planning
2.
There are numerous Youth
Commissions nationwide, but none that are engrained or commissioned by
USDA’s national office directly. The 2017 request for discretionary budget
authority to fund programs and operating expenses is about $25 billion, about
$1 billion below 2016 funding cycle. Discretionary budget authority includes
funding for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC), Rural Development, food safety, Forest Service, research and
conversation activities. Therefore, for 2017 USDA can use 3.5 million to budget
the Youth Commission Council 4-6 year plan for underserved and at-risk urban
and rural youth communities because they already have USDA’s Minority Farming
community nominations process for
similar commission councils to serve on the committees under http://www.usda.gov/strickforce that
serve many states nationwide through Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Rural
Development Agency (RD) with components that exposes the needs for access to
grants: loans, housing Rehab, and Agric-educations for underserved youth and
adults communities.
Below are examples of youth under 15 years
of age or younger from StrickForce
regions that obtain loans from FSA and RD loans and have made a profits
exceeding their potential earning. Additional activities can be obtained with a
USDA Youth Commission on Agriculture business development.
USDA Team
Collaborations: Held several meetings with RD, NRCS and Community Based
partners in the Strike-Force counties in Arkansas.
The overall process to obtain a youth loan from FSA can be found on the
following website: www.fsa.usda.gov along with those below that have profited from
this process.
1. A
Chicot County
Direct Youth
Operating Loan
Tyler Garza is 13 years of age. His
parents operate a cattle farm in south Chicot
County in Eudora, AR.
He participates & is sponsored by Hope Ranch (a non-profit organization for
at- risk youth in Southeast Arkansas which
works with kids & exposes them to various farm related opportunities
working with horses, cattle & other livestock). Tyler received a youth loan to purchase cows
and honey beehives.
2. B
Jackson County
Direct Youth
Operating Loans: Colby Thomas, Hailey
Wallace, and Lee Thomas, sisters and brother, have each obtained USDA Farm
Service Agency Rural Youth Loans to purchase cattle. Colby and Lee Thomas were
the first of the siblings to receive youth loans in 2010 and Hailey received
her $5,000 youth loan on April 12, 2011. The three youth borrowers are working
diligently to raise a quality beef animal and build their cattle herds. Their
cattle are located on their family farm in Jackson County, Arkansas.
3. C
Newton County
Direct Operating
Loan: Grayson Woods is a Beginning
Farmer located in Newton
County. Grayson began his
relationship with FSA in 2007 with a Youth Loan of $4000 to purchase steers. He
was a high student at the time and was a member of the local FFA chapter. He
paid that loan off ahead of schedule. In 2008 he received another youth loan of
$4000 and purchased 5 cow/calf pairs. In 2008 Grayson was chosen as one of Newton County’s
Young Farmers of the Year. He purchased another 5 cow/calf pairs with a $5000
Youth Loan in 2009.After graduating from High School in 2009, Grayson began his
college career. In 2011 Grayson received a $26,000 Operating Loan to purchase a
tractor. Grayson is now pursuing a degree in Agriculture and continuing his
cattle operation.
Reference: www.rd.usda.gov/files/reports/rdUSDA_Strike_Force_Rpt.pd
3.
The 2017 newly appointed of the Secretary of USDA in Southwest Washington, DC can initiate this process through its
newly elected 2016-17 President. The following professional at USDA Office of
Advocacy and Outreach (OAO) Kenya Nicholas” Acting Program Manager for USDA’s would
be committed to this program despite her duties and will evaluate and resolve all
outcomes and productivities of the Youth Commission progress or USDA could
appoint a professional from USDA, Small Farm Coordination office. I feel that
if we obligate USDA’s Economic and Research Service (ERS) Agency, studies have
shown that public investment in agricultural research has resulted in large
economic benefits and growth with annual rates of return between 20% and 60%
percentage. These estimates will impacts our public research and development
(R&D) funding choices which will increase the productivity of our youth growth
and community impact through product and services in Agriculture. ERS projected
future productivity growth with alternative public R&D investment scenarios
on its website. An analysis at (ERS) has found that the declines in public (R&D)
have a more pronounced effects in the long-run than in the short-term if the
program has productivity and investment growth straggered.
4.
USDA’s 2501 program budget comes from an estimated FY
2017 Agriculture Appropriations Bill (Farm
Bill) $21.3 Billion; however the cost is determine and approved by congress
fact checked by the 2017 new elected USDA Secretary and it OBM financial
division on Agriculture. They will determine the breakdown calculation for each
at-risk grassroots 501 c 3 programs, risk insurance, who are higher education
institutions budget, eligible conservation districts, eligible economic
development corporations, non-profit organizations, and non-governmental
community-based associations or organizations that provide agricultural
education or agriculturally-related services to socially disadvantaged and
veteran farmers and ranchers in their region are eligible and may apply for a grant
under the 2501 Program, as determined in 7 U.S.C. 2279 for an estimate of 30 “1890”
and “1860” institutions (such Delaware State University; Tuskegee University;
AT &T University; Alcorn State University; Jackson State University; etc,
but from my experience if these funds could help additional 60% of our at-risk
youth for scholarships, paid, and non-paid internships with a budget increase of
$1.75 million in direct cost to fund USDA’s Youth Commission on
Agric-education, research science, e-commerce robotics, and Agric-business the
funds could exceed in profits and outreach for each institution that
participates in helping additional at-risk students. Some of the additional
funding process will come from Farm Service Agency (FSA), Agriculture Marketing
Service (AMS) operational budget, and USDA Administration budget of Office of
Advocacy and Outreach (OAO) in a tune of $75.000.000, therefore grating
$1million from the 2017 Farm Bill. This imitative will add new capital
investment in education for our youth and lower the cost of the financial
obligation to the 1890’s and 1860’s institutions where they will be attending University
and college now.
5.
These obligations could be enforced through mixing
Youth and Outreach programs from a variety of Agency programs who are already
obligated to perform outreach with a estimate budget of $2.5 millions over 3
years for community media, PSA’s, outreach campaigns, public
relations/marketing, and public hearings to alert the national underserved
community of the 2017-20 progress for all at-risk youth and adult programs that
focus on USDA being in compliance with serving the underserved community
through its Youth Commission Council regarding it non-discrimination practices that
is inline with the Department of Justice ruling on discrimination and its laws
and juvenile justice programs. These funds can also be produce from FY 2017 by
increasing employees to working from home policies in-turn decreasing additional
days during the week on the job. This could cut down on building maintenance,
utilities cost, and transportation cost for all employees, therefore using the
profits from agencies operational and margins to get to the $3.5 million. This
wouldn’t increase the 2017 Farm Bill Budget one penny because its allows the
types of diversity and social impact to be quantified by the social values in
the regions along with opening key leadership and key partnership in many of
the affiliates underserved regions named in the excel work spreadsheets within
the Youth Commission while impacting youth business in the regions.
Learning Objective and closing opinions
More and more, youth
nationally are creating shared value by developing profitable business strategies
that deliver tangible social benefits. We can create major new opportunities
for profit and competitive advantage at the same time unleashing the power of
business to help solve fundamental regions problems among our underserved youth.
Despite the wide spread embrace of the shared value concept, these tools allow concepts
into practice. In particular, a new framework for measurement that focuses on
the interaction between business and social results is among the most important
tools to drive shared value in practices of these programs.
Its will open the
discussion when we transform new ideas with those individuals business donors with
outcomes that reflect those youth mentioned in 1A-3C, which are similar to how
many adults farmers and agric-business owners do business in their regions. New
profits and wages provided youth within its community with a great deal of
benefits that impact research studies that automatically carry’s a social
return on investment (SROI) from FSA
loans by supporting employment for low-income and at times homeless individuals;
while increasing the grants to several others non-profits enterprise that might
have been neglected.
We cannot always know
the extent to which these programs create shared value if they do not measure
their progress on social objectives and, importantly, the degree to which
social performance improves economic value for youth businesses. When companies
do not understand or rigorously track the interdependency between social and
business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and
social impact at scale and often we overlook the value of diversifying the
impact of their business.
But we can track
and report financials, social, and environmental metrics, drawing in part on
efforts by USDA’s ERS social sector to develop more sophisticated methods for
evaluating social impact of these youth businesses through FSA loans process
and Agency professionals. There is also a nascent integrated reporting movement
that aims to add sustainability measures to their financial statements. Still
missing, however, is a framework to link social progress directly to business
success, and vice versa.
Measurement
approaches that link social and business results are vital to unlocking shared
value for companies and scalable solutions to social problems. Effectively
measuring shared value starts with a well-developed shared value strategy. To
develop such a strategy, companies must identify key social issues to focus on,
plan the relevant business activities involved, and model anticipated business
and social benefits relative to projected costs.
In closing
Over
the years I have thought about this issues and have experience some of these issues
budgets, compliance, and polices for underserved minorities youth and personal during
my work with USDA, Department of Treasury, Department of Labor, Congressional
members, and numerous (NGOs) and (IGO’s) . However, this is my opinion along
with some fact checking regarding information from Senator Rand Paul, House
Speaker Paul Ryan, Congressman Clyburn, USDA personal, USDA website, and more.
Reference:
www.usda.gov
Hunger for America
www.usaid.gov
http://www.paul.senate.gov/news/press
Internet
Understanding Social Entrepreneurship,
(The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World, pub: Jill Kickul and
Thomas S Lyons
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