Khiem Bui

Program Director at Albuquerque Heading Home

215 Third St, SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Lisa Maury
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness
407 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Suite 6
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 217-9570
Fax: (888) 527-6480
March 22nd, 2016
Project amount: $300,000 total/ $50,000 request from NMCEH
Previous funds: Not yet funded by NMCEH
Dear coordinator Lisa,
As a program director of The Albuquerque Heading Home, we would like to request a grant in
amount of $50,000 from NMCEH in order to run our plan of helping ending youth homelessness
called Bring Them Jobs. In the whole State of New Mexico, there is about 17000 homeless
people and about 5000 out of that 17000 people are teenagers. That number of homeless youth is
due to the family dysfunction, sexual abuse, aging out of the foster care system, exiting the
juvenile justice system, and economic hardship. The Bring Them Jobs plan will help young
homeless people able to afford a job and improve their lives by helping training young adult
homeless so they can get back to the normal life with a job for their own.
For many young homeless have no education and no one to guide them how write a resume, how
to search, or how to prepare for job. That makes it very difficult for those people to find a job. So

as a part of the plan, The Bring Them Jobs offers the job training workshops for young adult
homeless who still have ability to work by gaining the skills, experience, and confidence needed
to find a stable living wage job.
Objective 1: secure $300,000 total for facility, human resource, and others.
Objective 2: offer 16-weeks classes serving about 100-129 teenagers per year.
Objective 3: place students in internships with major corporations or non-profit organization to
experience work in a professional environment.
Please review the enclosed proposal that I have attached for more detail. Thank you for reading
this proposal and I look forward to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Khiem Bui
Program Director
Enclosure

Khiem Bui
Program Director at Albuquerque Heading Home
215 Third St, SW
Albuquerque, NM 87012
Lisa Maury
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness
407 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Suite 6
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 217-9570
Fax: (888) 527-6480
March 22nd, 2016
Project requesting funds: Bring them Jobs
Project amount: $300,000 total/ $50,000 request from NMCEH

INTRODUCTION
The Albuquerque Heading Home is a large non-profit organization that has been established
since 2002 in order to help homeless people in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque
Heading Home is a broad community initiative that involves nearly a dozen partner agencies that
include many public, private, government, and non-profit partners. This collaboration brings
about measurable and lasting change through our communitys effort to end homelessness. We
takes actions on feeding hungry homeless people, providing permanent, supportive housing to
people and their families who are medically vulnerable and have been experiencing chronic
homelessness.

At this point in time, the city of Albuquerque has total of

102 homeless people who are aged between 18 and 24
(2015 Albuquerque Point in Time Count Report). Because
of that, we create the project, which is called Bring
Them Jobs, leading by the CEO of Albuquerque
Heading Home, Dennis Plummer, and program director,
Khiem Bui. We plan to solve a part of homeless population, in which specifically is homeless
youth in Albuquerque. Basically, youth homeless have faced many different factors that
contribute them to homelessness, but the primary reasons are still family dysfunction, sexual
abuse, and economic hardship. In this project, we plan to help those youth homeless to have a
safe place to live and then support their self-sufficiency by training their work skills and helping
finding a job, just like any other young person looking for a first job. This will allow them to
afford a job and improve their lives, so they can get back to the normal life with a job for their
own.
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness (NMCEH) have helped funding for many homeless
programs and created the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund. In Albuquerque, NMCEH have
helped to fund the Workforce Housing Trust Fund. We believe that your organization always
have the willing of helping homeless people, so we are writing this proposal letter to request a
$50,000 grant from you to help many homeless youth who are still on street and depending on
the homeless support service system. The project has been already funded $220,000 through the
2015 Open Doors Awards, McCune Charitable Foundation, United Healthcare, and Sandia
National Laboratories, while the Lockheed Martin is funding $30,000. We believe that NMCEH
will be willing to fund the remaining amount of $50,000 because the project is to help ending
homeless youth and to support their self-efficiency.
CURRENT SITUATION
Since 2002, The Albuquerque Heading Home have served thousands of homeless people in
which we provided food, clothes, beds, shelters, and many others. However, we have not targeted
specifically on a particular group of homeless people, homeless youth in this case. Generally,
youth homelessness results in a wide range of physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral issues
while prior complications are at risk of becoming exaggerated.

According to National Network of Youth, homeless youth living on the streets have to suffer
from high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. They are at high risk of
developing serious, life-long heath, behavioral and emotional problems. They are more likely to
contract HIV or other sexually transmitted disease due to the sexual exploitation, rape, and
sexual assault compared to young people who are not on the street. Homeless youth have higher
rates of a variety of mental health symptoms including anxiety, developmental delays and are at
high risk for suicide. Many of homeless youth are involving in illegal activity such as stealing,
forced entry and gang activity in order to survive. Homeless young women are five times more
likely to become pregnant and far more likely to experience multiple pregnancies (National
Network of Youth).
According to a study conducted by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the
current situation is that 21-40% of homeless youth have been victim of sexually abused prior to
running away. Approximately 12-36% of youth ages 18 to 24 exiting the foster care because of
aging out, become homeless (US Department of Health and Human Services). Families facing
economic hardship due to poverty and joblessness are unable to support themselves and their
children, force many young people to find shelter outside or even live on the streets. Young
people who end up on the streets are often victimized or commit minor status offenses in order to
survive. In particular, New Mexico youth is ranked second at the rate of alcohol and drug abuse.
Youth suicide rate is more than the US average, which is 12.3% (age 15-24) (New Mexico
Voices for Children).
In around mid-2014, we had a chance to talk to Jessica, a young
homeless, when we were serving food to hunger people. Like many
other young homeless, Jessica faced many difficulties to get off the
street. The hardest thing is basically just getting around and trying
to find a job because its hard to get job without an address. If you
dont have somebodys address that you can use and say I live
here quote, then they look at your application and theyre like
no. she said (News/ Albuquerque Heading Home Site).
By doing this project, we are strongly confident that a number of homeless youth will first have a
safe place to stay over, and then will be trained the functional skills needed to be successful and

independent in their lives. In order to help homeless youth reach their goals of safety and
stability in area of their lives, we will be provide them the knowledge about health, safety,
nutrition, employment training, and create positive relationship.
PROJECT PLAN
Every day, we serve hundreds of homeless people by providing them food, clothes, personal
things, and many others as the short-term solution. For the long-term solution, with the helps
from many other foundations, we provided permanent and supportive housing. However, we did
not specifically target on helping homeless youth. While most of homeless youth are still
depending on the helps of many homeless organization and society, we decide to take action on
helping those young people move toward dependent living. Since we rented a building that is
owned by Bernalillo County with very low rental payment, the building is located on North-east
Albuquerque near Alameda Blvd, we plan using this building for our project. More specific, the
building is where we locate the classes as well as a place for homeless youth to stay over if they
have nowhere to go.
However, the desire is struggling with the hard reality such as: class supplies, training materials,
bills are expensive; training takes time and money. The project Bring Them Jobs respond to
these difficulties with strategic, organized, and integrated goals and objectives.

Goal: The project Bring Them Jobs goal is to help homeless youth who were the easiest
to place in jobs and require the fewest services by improving their situation in different ways:
provide health and nutrition counseling, employment training, and connect them with positive
relationship. Moreover, our goal is also to support homeless youth to have a job position in a
professional company or organization that they could have a source to feed themselves

Step 1: Spread the words to targeted people. We will advertise our Bring Them Jobs
project to homeless people during May and June by doing the following:
1. Design and print 30 posters and 200 flyers that describe the project Bring Them Jobs
and place them at foster care, homeless shelters, feeding hungers places, downtown, etc.

2. Have a sign-up sheet at the certain sign-in places that have been listed in the posters and
flyers for interested clients to write their names, primary personal information, and
interested field of employment (have total 6 different courses).
3. Deploy our employers at each sign-in place to help and to advise clients.
For advertising our program to youth homeless, First Impressive Inc. have agreed to sponsor the
project by giving ideas, designing, and printing the posters and flyers. After receiving posters and
flyer, Khiem Bui, our project coordinated director will display them throughout the community,
especially at foster care, homeless shelters, feeding hungers places, downtown, etc. On the
certain days, we will deploy our employers at the sign-in place on purpose of helping and giving
advises to interested clients.

Step 2: Assess the needs, prepare for the materials and human resource. We will assess
the number of signed-up people and their interested field of employment, and based on these, we
will prepare for materials and classes for training start at the second week of May, 2016.
1. Gather the information of signed-up people and their interested field of employment.
2. We will design and create total five 16-week classes based on the data we get from signup sheet. We will also refurbish the building to make it appropriate with the project.
3. Meanwhile, contact and open several workshops in order to help people familiar with the
program.
To assess the needs, Dennis Plummer will work and discuss with different instructors, who will
teach and instruct the classes, to figure out how many sets of class supplies we will need for
classes and how much it will cost. Meanwhile, Khiem Bui and other employers will contact and
open several workshops to help signed-up people have a chance to know more and be familiar
with the program.

Step 3: Providing health and nutrition counseling to improve themselves first in order to
be able to get employment training.
We have worked to get the sponsors from Roadrunner Foodbank, Echo Foodbank, The Food
Depot, as well as the helps from Deirdre Earls, a nutritionist and dietitian in Albuquerque, in an
effort to provide our students better and heathier meals.

Step 4: Start the training program in different field. We provide the employment and
training program during the summer months, from June to September, for homeless youth age
18-24 to strengthen basic work skills and experiences. The project will power them to build a
better life for themselves.
1. The classes will be able to serve 100-120 youth semester. The classes will be 4 hours a
day start from 1pm and finish at 5pm on weekdays.
2. Our innovative curriculum will include over 320 hours of basic mechanic repair, office
assistance, computer instruction, culinary, woodworking.
3. Offer activities that give students a thorough and practical understanding of the job and
workplace.
4. Offer guidance to show students how to write resume, how to search, and how to prepare
for job interview.
In the training program, the instructors with comprehensive-background in the specific field they
teaching, will help and make students gain their work-skills as well as experiences.

Step 5: Connect and place the students in internship with major corporation, non-profit
organization to experience work in professional environment.
Helping our students find jobs or internships is the most importance step that ensuring their
financial independence and it is one of our primary goals. We will support students when they
look for employment and handle the responsibility to keep the job requirement. We have a list of
corporation and organization that agreed to help us in placing students in internship, Intel,
NAPA, Roadrunner Foodbank, Baileigh Woodworking are some of them.
QUALIFICATION
Since 2002, Albuquerque Heading have served thousands individuals in an effort to end
homelessness and help homeless people have a better life. We also work and corporate with
several agencies to develop and maintain programs which would help house homeless people.
Since 2011, we have housed about more than 400 individuals and their families in permanent
housing, about 80% of them are staying housing more than 12 months. We are proud to be a
member of 100,000 Homes Campaign that helps housing more than 50,000 individuals and

family in the nation, you can track us at www.100khomes.org and see how our programs are
mearing up to other programs in the nations.
With approximately more than 15 year experience working for Albuquerque Heading Home and
with many projects, Dennis Plummer and Khiem Bui will be directing this project. Before
Dennis Plummer became the Chief Executive Officer of Albuquerque Heading Home, he was an
Executive Director of Albuquerque Opportunity Center and Chief Executor Director of
Metropolitan Homelessness Project. He was also awarded 2014 top New Mexico CEO for
nonprofit management in health and social services. Khiem Bui, as a co-author of the project,
currently a student at UNM major in chemical engineering, has been working for Albuquerque
Heading Home as a program director for 6 years. He supervises the coordination and
administration of organizations ongoing projects that involve in homelessness including
planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. With these experiences in mind, we are confident
that this project will be successful.
COSTS and BENEFITS
Overall, the estimated cost for this Bring Them Jobs project is around $300,000 excluding the
supports and sponsors from many other organizations. The fund we get from your organization
and others will be mainly used for activate project, building refurbishment, class supplies and
equipment, human resource, utilities, and other expenses.
$1,000 for activating project such as spread the project to all homeless people
$55,000 for refurbishing building in order to make the building appropriate for the project
$140,000 for class supplies and equipment
$95,000 for human resource such as employment trainers, instructors
The remaining will be used for utilities and other expenses
(The detailed budget plan is attached in Appendix)
We are all aware of the facts that homelessness is directly affecting to the taxpayers who are us.
A percentage of taxes are used to pay for finding ways to take care of homeless people.
Moreover, homeless youth are more likely end up in many problems such as mental health
problems, substance abuse, victimization, and criminal activities, which give more burdens to

society. The Bring Them Jobs project will not only help homeless youth find the way to feed
themselves and make them have a better life without getting helps from society, the project also
benefits our society by reducing an amount of homeless population, which leads to reducing the
burdens to the taxpayers and the community, and preventing a number of homeless youth who
potentially commit crimes for their survival. Furthermore, when the project is accomplished, it
will provide a number of employees to society.
We, Albuquerque Heading Home, look forward to have New Mexico Coalition to End
Homelessness as the most important partner of our project in the effort to help ending homeless
youth in Albuquerque. If you need any further information, please contact us at (505) 226-1700,
we are available from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Works Cited
Bardine, Darla. "Homeless Youth in America: Who Are They?" National Network for Youth, n.d.
Web.
Kids Count in New Mexico. Rep. N.p.: New Mexico Voices for Children, n.d. Print.
"Runaway & Homeless Youth." Runaway & Homeless Youth. US Department of Health and
Human Services, n.d. Sun. 3 Apr. 2016.
Welcome to Albuquerque Heading Home. Albuquerque Heading Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 14
Apr. 2016.
What Work! Job Strategies For Homeless People. US Department of Housing and Urban
Development, n.d. Sun. 3 Apr. 2016.

APPENDIX

Description
Personnel
Denis Plummer

NMCE

Other

funding

Full time Chief

In-kind

Total

42,000

42,000

25,500

33,500

Executive Officer/ job

yearly salary. Dennis
will be full time
volunteer for the project,
his salary is already paid
Khiem Bui

by ABQ Heading Home.

Full time program

8,000

director/ job yearly

salary. Khiem will be
full time volunteer for
the project, and McCune
Charitable Foundation
has already funded him
Courses

the allowance.
We already contracted

instructors

with 5 course instructors

with the stipend of
$15,400 per person per
course.

50,000

27,000

77,000

Employers

There are 13 employers

19,500

19,500

55,000

55,000

137,060

137,060

who work at different

positions in our
organization. They will
be part time volunteer
for the project, we are
requesting the allowance
of 1,500/employer for
Fliers and

them.
30 posters and 200 fliers

printers.

will be used to advertise

the Bring Them Jobs
project. This will be
sponsored by First

Building

Impressive Inc.
We are renting a

refurbishing

building at a very low

rental payment from
Bernalillo County. Were
requesting a fund to
refurbish the building to
make appropriate with
the project. We have
consulted with Booher
Remodeling Company
and the price will be

Class supplies

around $55,000.
Were requesting a fund

and training

to buy 110 sets of class

equipment

supplies and training

equipment with the price
of $1,246/set.

Gas, electricity,

The duration of training

bills, others.
Total per funding

program is 5 months

source

3,000
50,000

249,560

6,000
67,500

367,060

KHIEM DINH BUI

3560 Stetson st SW, Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031
(918) 257-2352. khiembui@unm.edu
Objective: Obtain Bachelor Degree and Master Degree on Petroleum Engineering at
New Mexico Tech.
Education:
o Tran Quoc Tuan High School
9/2010 to 5/2012, Vietnam
Attended from sophomore to junior with respectively overall GPA of 8.6 and 9.3
out of 10.
o Victory Christian School
8/2012 to 5/2014, New Mexico
Attended from junior to senior and graduated on May 2014 with the overall GPA
3.90 out of 4.
o University of New Mexico
8/2014 to 5/2016, New Mexico
Currently major in Chemical Engineering with overall GPA of 3.96. Expectedly
transferring to New Mexico Tech and majoring in Petroleum Engineering.
Experience:
o Dam Bui Company
2010-2012, Vietnam
Worked as an administrative supporter.
Communicated with customers as front desk supporter.
Coordinated information between customers and workers.
Collaborated with other workers to speed up projects.
o Rio Rancho Rehabilitation
3/2013, New Mexico
Communicated with senior citizens to promote positive health.
o Happy Days Christian Daycare
3/2014, New Mexico
Helped teaching and taking care of children and played with them.
Helped cleaning up the inside and outside of the center.
o Vietnamese Baptist Church
2012-present, New Mexico
Attend in youth group and play a role in worship group.
Help organize and decorate for events.
Clean up the church environment once a month.
Award:
o Presidential excellent outstanding academic achievement award.
Skills:
o Able to work with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Power Point, and other
computer skills.
o Experience with Matlab.
o Bilingual speaking: Vietnamese, English.

RESUME REVIEW SHEET

Students name: Khiem Bui

Your name: Tan Nguyen
Your profession: Petroleum Engineering Professor at New Mexico Tech
Date: 3/29/2016
Please list three things that this resume does well:
1. Present himself very detailed and cleared.
2. The list of his experiences and skills.
3. Things are very organized and cleared.
Please list three things that this resume can improve/add (especially according to conventions of
resumes in your discipline):
1. The resume should focus more on the skills and experiences that is relevant to the job.
2. Should add the interests to the resume.
3. Need to be more specific of what your computer skills are.
Thank you.

Khiem D. Bui
English 219
Professor Breanne
4/14/2016
Reflection
Dear Professor Breanne,
As the previous genre paper, an analytical report paper, I once again choose homelessness as a
topic for my proposal paper. Not like the analytical report in which I did many researches on how
homelessness affects the society, in the proposal paper, I quite focus more on the solutions for
homelessness, which requires me to go deeply into the topic. However, it gives me so many
experiences and knowledge about the topic as well as improves my writing skills.
The analytical report is way different than the proposal paper, in which I have to brainstorm and
cluster the ideas and strategies that I am going to present in order to request the fund from an
organization. During working on the paper, I get so many obstacles. Because homelessness is a
huge topic and very broad, it gives me a few struggles on finding the solutions that is
appropriate, make sense, and easy to accomplish, instead of making the problem more complex.
Another obstacle that I face to is when I research for statistics and information that I can use for
the current situation section. It is not just put whatever I find on the internet or other source, I
have to look for the information that is valid and credible. However, these obstacles help me
strengthen my writing skill as well as help me achieve the student learning outcome.
I believe that there are two SLOs I have achieved in my paper that are find and evaluate
information and compose document. Find and evaluate information is about finding and

researching information that is from credible and valid sources such as professional, academic,
and government sources. I have done a lot of research on homelessness for the current situation;
most of my sources are taken from City of Albuquerque sources, and the government reports.
Though, I do not just pick any information I find from the sources, but I select the information
that is solid and necessary for my proposal. For example, there are so many sources that showing
the current number of homeless people in Albuquerque such as Move for Hunger, New Mexico
News Post, and many others, but I choose The Albuquerque Point in Time Report as the credible
source because it has been done by the government.
Furthermore, compose document is about organizing and generating the content into a logical
structure that is appropriate to my targeted audience. For I am requesting a grant from New
Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness who intend to find and help homeless people as well as
to end homelessness, so my paper has to be organized in a professional, neat structure, and
navigates the readers through each section easily. In order to attain that, I strictly follow the
proposal prompt that is available on Learn; it helps me a lot in organizing the sections and giving
a clear content of what the section is about. For example, I was extremely confused about the
order of Costs and Benefits section and the budget, so my professor Breanne gives me some
excellent ideas that I can apply to my paper to make it looks more professional and less
awkward.
Overall, this second assignment gives me so many experiences and knowledges of writing a
proposal genre as well as gives me a broader view about professional writing. I really enjoy the
class and I feel like writing is not my nightmare anymore.