Non-Profit Analysis

The governing body of a nonprofit organization is crucial to its success as it provides the necessary leadership, planning, accountability and oversight to propel the organization forward. The success of a nonprofit board often hinges on effective planning, policy, meetings and committee work. Board members of Northeast Texas CASA are described as invested in the program and the children they serve.

Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that promotes the good through one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It has created lasting relationships between students with disabilities and their peers, therefore, helping to improve the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. It has also provided employment opportunities for those with IDD, allowing them to be productive members of the labour force. Lastly, Best Buddies has given those with intellectual and developmental disabilities the chance to realize their potential by encouraging them to become leaders.

A semi-detailed business overview of the non-profit organization known as the YMCA or Young Men’s Christian Association is discussed. A brief history of the origins of the company is detailed along with the definition or explanation of the company’s mission statement. The organization’s basic legal, social, and economic environment is described. Likewise the YMCA’s management structure, operational issues, as well as financial issues are discussed. Lastly, the possible impact that potential change factors, which includes the role of technology, can present to the YMCA business organization are discussed.

The fourth nonprofit I analyzed is called GreaterGood which is an online website that sells a wide range of products that have been made across the world and uses the profit generated by sales to donate to a variety of different nonprofits that have a specific mission (Help, 2015, p.1). The specific nonprofits that GreaterGood donates to breast cancer, animal rescue, veterans, autism, diabetes, the rainforest, and the one that is specific to my area of analysis the hunger site. This style of nonprofit expressed by the GreaterGood charity is extremely unique because of the extreme differences in charities they are partners with. With the multiple charities they work with I would be confident in arguing that the GreaterGood-hunger site is a path-goal leadership style.

The Public Theater has been a staple of the New York City theater community for over 50 years now. Part of The Public’s core values include providing great content for the community and making sure that content is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. This mission is highly appealing to potential donors and foundation committee’s as it provides a very transparent place for donations to land and be used to directly improve the community. Through a clear mission, a great legacy and a proven track record of community centered engagement, The Public Theater’s clearly has a great capacity to fundraise.

As an assignment for a public radio station I volunteered at, my partner and I were assigned to get sound bites. The Ralph’s in Downtown L.A. was featuring Homegirl Industries mango salsa in their deli section (Hirsch, 2009). At the event, most of the news outlets there focused on getting quotes from mayor Villaraigosa. This made it easier for my partner and I to get quotes from young adults that were part of Homeboy Industries. Through this assignment, I learned about the non-profit group and its goal to transform the lives of former gang members. This paper focuses on the non-profit organization Homeboy Industries and its contributions to the cultural region. The beginning focuses on the brief history of gang activity in Los Angeles, and

Currently, I work for a non-profit organization based out of Virginia called, Youth Matter, Inc. I have been a part of this non-profit for the past nine years. My involvement started by competing in their oratorical competitions and then becoming a volunteer. In 2013, I was selected to serve a year as their Youth Matter Inc. National Spokesperson. This past July I was selected to be on the board of directors and I am currently still serving. This organization has a committed CEO/Founder who has served as a mentor in my life. Although, she has been battling illness she strives to develop programs for the youth, both girls and boys of all ages. Since working with Youth Matter, Inc., I have realized there have been several

My Not-for-Profit organization is called Leave the Green to Us. Leave the Green to Us is an organization that involves lawn care. It supports the elderly and the people that are disabled. What does it do you may asked, it helps the elderly and disabled to assist them in their home property. They do a lot of lawn cutting, planting flowers, fertilizing grass, trimming bushes and trees. Our mission statement is: We share the care and lend a helping hand. Any age can come in and help, our organization is made up of students and adults who are eager to help. My personal role in Leave the Green to Us is to organize the volunteers and to provide the services needed for each customer. I also organize the fund raisers and meet with all of the customers

I enjoyed reading Chapter 11 especially what the author writes on page 281 as it summarizes the importance of a message. It keys on the relevance of accessibility, accountability, education, interaction, and empowerment. I think that is the key element of fundraising. I also believe that from a theory to reality there are some gaps. Nonprofits are often under tremendous pressure to perform with very little resources. Some nonprofits can navigate the process successfully and grow, while others do not.

Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is a coalition of 75 local labor, community, student, and religious groups organized to win concrete victories on the road to achieving economic justice and lasting social change. We engage working people in addressing the root causes of poverty, organizing support for workers treated unjustly and/or illegally in the workplace and in organizing an economic base that respects the dignity of the entire community. St. Louis JwJ is part of the Jobs with Justice national network, which was founded in 1987. Local Jobs with Justice coalitions are one of few contemporary examples of permanent multi-issue coalitions empowering those in need to create a community

Georgia Ensemble Theatre and Conservatory was started in 1992 under the guidance of Robert J. Farley a nationally known director of national theatres such as the Alaska Repertory Theatre and Atlanta Alliance Theatre. Georgia Ensemble Theatre captures the attention of adults who enjoy the theatre and also nurtures the interest of our youth to keep the love of theatre alive for the future generations.

When I graduate from Texas Southern University with my Master’s degree, I plan on starting a non-profit organization. When it comes down to creating my organization, I will use statistic for a lot of information. I will use statistic when discovering the average income of the area I am choosing to locate for my organization. As well as the average crime rate, the dropout rate of urban youths, unemployment rates, average age of gang members in the area, and the success rate of other organization in the area I choose as well. Each set of number would be very important to the success of my organization and I will need to make sure the numbers are properly found. Also the numbers are true to the census.

The Non profits sector is different from other sectors. Human capital is the main resource and requires determination to gather people to support a cause. From the beginning of the class up to the last days, I learned the essentials and different scenarios in which the non profits have trouble due to different situations with staff, board of directors, budget, fundraising, planning, and much more. I also learned the opportunities available and how to manage effectively by lectures, real life experience from the professor and through examples in class. The personnel sections is one of the most important section, in my opinion, demonstrating the steps towards hiring staff and volunteers to make an organization function properly and excel from

There used to be a time when zoos used to be full of animals. A time when extinction was not a problem. That was the past. Today, zoos all around the world are missing many animals such as the African elephant or the dodo bird. All of these wonderful animals became extinct because we were careless enough to let them all die. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an organization that is trying to prevent extinction from happening. WWF is an environmental organization dedicated to “protecting the world’s wildlife and wetlands” ("World Wildlife Fund"). It is one of the largest private supported conservation organizations in the world, with support from one million members in just the United States. WWF was formed on September 11, 1961 in Morges,

World Vision, founded in the USA in 1950 by a young pastor Robert Pierce, is one of the largest relief and development organizations in the world whose total revenue coming grants, product and foreign donations is about $2.6 billion.