Oxfam : An Organisation That Is Part Of The Voluntary Industry

Due to the high success rate of Oxfam, they now have over 90 stores all over the world and over 100,000 employees and volunteers. However that doesn’t include the people which participate in fundraisers: such as fun runs, festivals, cycling and running events to support the charity. The Oxfam Headquarters is located in Cowley, Oxford. As a multinational charitable organisation, Oxfam has many supporters, nevertheless, they still want to better themselves and help more people. As they’re a charity based organisation, their aim isn’t to make a profit but to make a lot of money which they will then spend on helping people.

The organisation is split into 7 regions throughout the UK and employees over 1000 people in order to support the charitable output. The region underwent regionalisation 18 months ago, in which 7 different counties went from doing everything in 7 individual ways, into one region with 7 different functions operating in accordance with guidelines from National Headquarters. This has proved to be a challenging time for

The form of Oxfam international was in 1995 by a group of self-reliant non-governmental constitutions in more than 90 countries, the “Oxfam” word comes from the Oxford committee for starvation relief

Oxfam is an international confederation made up of 17 organizations working in over 90 countries with partners and local communities. Oxfam is determined to change the fact that 1 in 3 people are in poverty through the power of people against poverty. Oxfam helps people all around the world themselves out of poverty with pratical and innovative ways so that they can thrive. They save lives and help rebuild livelihood when crisis strikes. Oxfam fights for women's rights, businesses and poverty and for sustainablity of food.

The readings from this week focused on the global impact of the participation of non-profit industrial organizations in charitable doing and their “philanthropic versions of venture capitalism”.

Not-for-profit associations are associations that are formed to pursue some purpose other than to seek financial gain for the organisation’s individual members. Such associations may elect to incorporate as a company limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). As not-for-profit entities are predominantly funded by public donation it is fundamental for their activities to exemplify transparency. Furthermore, their administrative burden needs to be limited so the association can focus its resources on pursuing the organisation’s activities.

Corporate Charities The Right and Wrong Ways for Big Business to Give Back to the Community

All secondary data sets in both local and global languages are derived from a range of sources, from government statistics to trade magazines. In addition, strong relationships with different companies.

Secondary data: The secondary data have been obtained from journals, books, periodicals and online websites.

The for-profit and non-profit organizations share common characteristics. For instance, they both make financial decisions that will help them to raise enough capital so as to meet their objectives. They also implement strategic planning as part and parcel of their business model. Accounting and financial reporting methods are used in both organizations to assess their performance. The organizational structures in both organizations are also similar. Despite the similarities, the two organizations also have differences. For example, they have diverse stakeholders who largely determine their business plans. Unlike the for-profit organizations, the non-profit organizations are often prone to

A Non-profit Organisation (NPO) is an establishment that uses its funding for the pursuit of a specific purpose such as for a charitable cause (Lorette, 2015). It is different from a for-profit organisation as its objective is to provide greater good to the society rather than to maximise the wealth of its stakeholders. The surplus revenues of an NPO are used for either its expansion, self-preservation or plans and no part of the profit is distributed to its members. NPOs are increasingly starting to operate like traditional business organisations as strategic planning and marketing is imperative for their survival.

In contrary, secondary data has been gathered from different books, journals and online database according to the selected research topic. The other sources used for attaining qualitative data involve magazines, archival records as well as website of Marks and Spencer has been used as well (Bredillet, Dwivedula, & Müller, 2011).

The Chinese non-profit sector has grown rapidly over the past decade.Some scholars have pointed out that private non - enterprise units have more characteristics of social enterprises in the three types of social organizations that are currently recognized by the law

An entire research paper is based upon the secondary data. An essential information required for the study is collected from various secondary sources such as books, journals, government reports, articles, news

The secondary data was extracted from document sources various publication of the central , state or