Essay Transitional Residence, Inc (TRI) Case Study – Management Assignment Help

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Case Study

Transitional Residence, Inc (TRI) is a local nonprofit organization located in Madison, Wisconsin. TRI provides assistance to homeless and very low income individuals and families in finding emergency shelter, food, employment, transitional residence and affordable apartment housing. These services are provided through 4 basic TRI programs.

1. The Drop-in shelter: An emergency drop-in shelter for men located at Grace Church.
2. The Hospitality House: A day shelter for homeless and very low income men and women.
3. The Transitional Residence Programs: Provides transitional living arrangements for families and single men for 6 months or more depending on the needs of the individuals/family and the unit.
4. The Residence opportunity Program: Helps families in obtaining a lease.

As part of its planning, the board of directors of TRI was interested in to conduct a survey of organization’s paid staff, volunteers, and guests (the homeless staying at TRI they found particularly useful) services which should be revised, and what other programs or services might be of more assistance to the guests.

However the analysis of TRI’s internal statistics and other published data indicated the need for TRI to narrow its focus. Specifically, internal information indicated the number of agencies serving the male homeless population was decreasing. Moreover, TRI was currently the only Madison shelter that served the male homeless population, and this community appeared to be undeserved. In fact, the number of homeless men staying at TRI’s Drop-in shelter had increased 89 percent (from 60% 3 years ago to 1,146 the past year). This was partly due to the closing of other Madison male shelters in the last 3 years. Finally, the TRI shelter was filled beyond its capacity of 66 men per night. During the winter, there were frequently more than 90 men staying at the Drop-in shelter on any given night, with many of them sleeping on the hallway floor.

Given this information, the board of directors decided to use the organization’s limited resources to focus first on the Drop-in shelter. More specifically, the board asked for an evaluation of TRI’s current facilities and the services for the homeless as well as a determination of what future services and facilities it should try to provide.

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1. What is the research problem, what will be hypothesis for the study? 
2. What kind of study is this and what kind of reasoning it entails?                                         
3. What information would you collect for this research problem?