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Proposed Work Plan Program Design and Description: As described above, in the Services Provided section of our proposal, the food distribution services we currently engage in will continue to be implemented, albeit with a more robust operational quality. From startup to its current form, through much planning, trial and error, our model has settled on the streamlined operation we currently employ. To achieve this relied on the generous and continued dedication of a core set of volunteers who offered many hours of their time. We feel that The Seva Collective is at a junction, where many defined operational duties can be handed off to administrative and logistics staff, thereby freeing the directors to pursue a broader vision for the organization's capabilities in service of the Santa Ana community in the future. Currently at our bi-monthly distribution events we serve approximately 550 families, meaning over the course of a month we serve roughly 1100 families. We have an amazing volunteer base of over 600 people who have participated in distribution events and a cadre of about 40 volunteers who regularly attend. Our Core Volunteer Leadership team, including the directors, who are always in attendance, have streamlined a system by which to distribute 20 - 25 thousand pounds of food at each distribution. Food and supplies are identified, coordinated, gathered, loaded and trucked to the distribution location. Whereby the food is unloaded, sorted, and repackaged into individual family portions. The items are arrayed at several drive -through stations and a walk-up station to serve those residents who may not have access to transportation. To help organize the long line of cars that has been stacked in the parking lot of our distribution site at Villa Fundamental Intermediate School we have arranged for the generous help of the SAUSD DSO (District Security Officers) as well as the Santa Ana PD. The drives are conducted with safety, efficiency and respect at the forefront. Parking lot attendants monitor and regulate traffic, recipients are greeted warmly and notified of services and upcoming events, and food and other items are loaded into trunks and carts. Overthe course of about 2 - 2.5 hours we are able to serve roughly 550 families all the provisions we have allotted for that week. If granted the award amount we plan on implementing the following broad organizational changes: Hire Administrative and Logistics Staff Lease Warehouse/Office Space within Santa Ana Retrofit Warehouse Space with Cold -Storage. Purchase Logistics Equipment (Truck, Forklift, etc.) By implementing these changes we can strengthen and expand our services by expanding nutritional value and increasing our service offering. Expand Nutritional Value Securing a regular supply of dairy, eggs and protein has been a challenge through our system of partners. We also know recipients value these products to create rounded meals for their families. By leveraging wholesale purchasing power, we feel that we could offer these products to our families providing them tremendous value at acceptable cost to the organization. By providing a more nutritionally rich offering, we can help recipients plan their meals more easily and provide a higher level of nutrition, which will lead to better overall health of the Santa Ana community that we serve. 10