Comprehensive Business Plan and Model for Christ Foster Care

This business plan outlines the operational and financial strategies for Christ Foster Care, a non-profit organization providing secure homes and skill-building opportunities for disabled individuals aged 17-47 in Australia. The plan details the business model, utilizing the Business Model Canvas to analyze key resources, value propositions, and revenue streams. It includes a market analysis highlighting the growing demand within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and addresses supply chain partnerships with farmers, Chefgood, and government doctors. The management structure is centralized, with a flat organizational structure for task allocation. Financial projections include a breakeven analysis, capital structure (equity and debt), and value propositions emphasizing a safe and family-like environment. The plan also addresses ongoing business operations, debt repayment, equity milestones, and HR considerations, particularly the need for volunteer patience. The plan references relevant academic sources to support its claims and strategies.

FORMAL BUSINESS
PLAN AND
BUSINESS MODEL
CANVAS

Executive Summary
The presentation brings out a discussion on business models, market
potential, supply chain partners, management structure and capital
structure of the “Christ foster care”. Further, it explains value
proposition for the customers and repayment of debt and equity.
The proposed business plan is long term plan where it can avail
several opportunities to the differently abled people so that they can
earn their own livelihood.
Christ foster care services cater incapable and differently abled
people with an aim to support them. The proposed plan is for the
non-profit organisation, which serve people to practise various skills
to retain and obtain employment.

Business model
• Business model is the way through which an organisation forms, offer,
and provide the value in the economic, social, culture or the other
context. The business model for the proposed venture is secure homes
for the disable parents and kids that means and a non-profitable
organisation who is performing the work based on operations.
• Business canvas is an internationally accepted business model; this
model uses the canvas to elaborate, make, and design where it can
execute tools, deriving key resources, cost structure, value proposition,
and the revenue streams (Dickmann, Brewster, & Sparrow, 2016).
• Our business plan to avail secure homes to disable youth and kids
between the age of 17-47 and provide them skills to get employment
and earn their livelihood in Australia (Carter, & Carter, 2019).

Business canvas model
Following is the business canvas model for out proposed
business plan-

Market potential
• The housing for the people with the disability market is at growth as
around a $5 billion over the next five years in National Disability
Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
• Furthermore, the proportion of the disable people has been rising
where almost 3.96 million people, 19% of all males and 20.1% of
females have disability (Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS 2018).
• The data supports the size of the market in which the community is
willing to perform the operations.
• However, this has been witnessed that the housing facilities are not
easily availed by the young people and kids who are disable due to
which there is need of the venture that offers secure home with food
to the people which comfort their lives.

Supply chain partners
• The supply chain is considered as one of the significant factor in the
business model of the business.
• In the proposed business, there will be some of the venture partners
which include farmers who offer the raw material and crops which are
essential to manufacture the products.
• The company will form the partnership with Chefgood who offers the
healthy meals, freshly made by the chefs and nutritionists on weekly
basis. In addition, there will be partnership with the Government
Doctors for weekly check-ups which is essential for the disable issues
faced by the candidates.
• These doctors will provide their services which are considered as the
supply of their services.

Management structure
• Christ Foster care services will need a
“centralised delegation where a single person will
control all the activities of the proposed plan.
• Furthermore, it is an social charitable company,
which will avail services for free or at reasonable
price.
• For the proposed venture, the organisation
structure is flat structure which reflects how the
activities like the allocation of task, coordination
and supervision has been done.
• The higher manager will distribute the work or
allocate the task to the people who are
volunteering for offering the services.
(Source: Sogal, 2018)

Breakeven analysis
• The investment capital for Christ foster care services will include equity and debt. The company will
achieve breakeven point after two years-
• From the figure seen in contribution per unit/services of the company has been improving and it will
attain breakeven point in 3years.
• According to the proposed plan, Christ Foster care services will start with short term of $30000.
• Equity- As per the proposed plan, company will start from $180000, which is arranged through share
offerings. The price of the share is @10 per share. The share capital includes both equity and preference
capital.
• Furthermore, the company runs through charity funds and there are people are the society who spend a
lot of time and money to serve people but they are not the share equity holders.
Services First year Second year
Sales (33*200) 6600 7600 (200*38)
Variable cost-
Electricity charges
Cleaning services
Food services 4500 4700
Fixed cost- Rent 2000 2000
Contribution 100 900

Value proposition
• The value that is offered by the venture will
be clear with the statement of value
propositions that is “We offer a safe and
secure a family like environment to comfort
the lives of disable people.”
• The community offer the shelter to the
disable people and allow them to connect
with the people who are similar to them.
• Along with this, volunteer people will also
connect with them to understand their
feelings and made them feel better.
• Furthermore, this will make the disable
people to feel like the family and they also
get the proper treatment which helps them
to live their live smoothly.
(Source: B2B international,
2018)

On-going business
• Christ Foster care services are a new business venture which will
be operated as an on-going business.
• The operations of the business will continue and it will continue
with the changes that are necessary to carry forward.
• This business helps in grabbing the opportunities to disable people
by offering the training, counselling, and other services that helps
them to be independent.

Debt repayment and equity
milestones
• The proposed plan as “Cooperative
society” has formed under the act
of 1983 where there are bye laws
to maximise the authorised capital-
• The repayment of interest will be
operated through income from
investment.
• Services incurred by the company
will be funded from reserve funds,
revenue funds, and profits of the
company (Ojasalo, and Ojasalo,
2018).
• As the services incurred by the
company is from the reserve funds,
revenue funds, and profits of the
company.

HR issues
• HR deals with the issues in managing the voluntary present in the
business venture. The major issue which will be witnessed is the
level of the patience which is required for taking care of the disable
people.
• The patience level is essential for voluntary as sometimes they get
angry and can indulge in wrong activities. For this venture, there
will be no need to staff this venture as it invites the people for the
voluntary contribution.
• The people voluntary contribute for helping the disable people and
to offer them comfort which is better for their lives.

References
• Dickmann, M., Brewster, C., & Sparrow, P. (Eds.).
(2016). International human resource management: contemporary
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• Ojasalo, J. and Ojasalo, K., (2018). Service logic business model
canvas. Journal of research in marketing and entrepreneurship.
• Carter, M., & Carter, C. (2019). The creative business model canvas
as a tool for entrepreneurship education. ICERI2019 Proceedings,
3540-3544.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS, (2018). Homelessness in
Australia up 14% in five years, ABS says. Retrieved from: https
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