Post 9 – Questionnaire

Today I developed a more formal way to survey the residents in 2100.  I wrote out a skills survey to better judge the number of skilled laborers who are homeless and currently spend their nights in the shelter.  Whether it be skills acquired through general life or trade skills acquired through years working on a job, the questionnaire asks the residents about their talents with woodworking, electric maintenance, plumbing, car maintenance, metal work, lawn maintenance/landscaping, farming, and various other things, including a space for any skill that they have that is not listed.  In addition, this questionnaire will help me in the search for ideas for new social enterprises because those who fill out the form can provide their insight into ways that would utilize the skills in the shelter while making money for the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (the organization that runs the shelter and with which I formally work) and for the residents.  In this way the residents can get out of the shelter and into transitional housing faster while gaining valuable job readiness skills needed for sustainable jobs and critical for the re-entry population at the shelter.  So while the questionnaire isn’t revolutionary, it certainly facilitates the process for surveying the skills in the shelter and what social enterprise ideas would be most relevant to that population.