Since the beginning of this semester, my interest in the nonprofit sector changed from a distant goal to a concrete and realistic career plan. Before taking this class, I only knew the basics of nonprofit organizations that they work to benefit the community and that they are tax exempt. I proposed in my initial interest statement that I wanted to start my own nonprofit sometime in my career, but now I have a better idea of what it means to start a nonprofit and what some of the steps are to get an organization started.
One exciting and unique aspect of the nonprofit sector that I learned from the course material is that participation is voluntary, both for the stakeholder and the receiving party. High moral confidence is held for nonprofit …show more content…
Practical information about best practices for a board of directors, basic overview of nonprofit law, the importance of finances, fundraising, and budgeting, maintaining relationships with donors and other persons of interest, and other topics were all new information that added to my mental schema of the nonprofit sector. Aside from classroom work, the engagement project increased my interest in the nonprofit sector. Especially since I chose to help start a new nonprofit for my NPO engagement project, I had the opportunity to apply the course material to a real-world organization. This helped me to even better envision how I would want to go about working in nonprofit in my own future and think through some of the struggles and challenges that I ran …show more content…
Listening to our guest lecturers and being part of the nonprofit culture made me realize how much I want to be in this community environment where people are working together to better the world around them. Another reason why I feel that nonprofit is a fit for me is that the values align with public health work. The culture of partnerships and collaboration is strong in nonprofit organizations which are crucial to public health. As I mentioned before, nonprofit organizations are not motivated by monetary gain and participation is voluntary, allowing them to have increased trust and moral accountability. When working with vulnerable populations that are disadvantaged because of society, and when the health and lives of people are involved, moral accountability becomes even more
One exciting and unique aspect of the nonprofit sector that I learned from the course material is that participation is voluntary, both for the stakeholder and the receiving party. High moral confidence is held for nonprofit …show more content…
Practical information about best practices for a board of directors, basic overview of nonprofit law, the importance of finances, fundraising, and budgeting, maintaining relationships with donors and other persons of interest, and other topics were all new information that added to my mental schema of the nonprofit sector. Aside from classroom work, the engagement project increased my interest in the nonprofit sector. Especially since I chose to help start a new nonprofit for my NPO engagement project, I had the opportunity to apply the course material to a real-world organization. This helped me to even better envision how I would want to go about working in nonprofit in my own future and think through some of the struggles and challenges that I ran …show more content…
Listening to our guest lecturers and being part of the nonprofit culture made me realize how much I want to be in this community environment where people are working together to better the world around them. Another reason why I feel that nonprofit is a fit for me is that the values align with public health work. The culture of partnerships and collaboration is strong in nonprofit organizations which are crucial to public health. As I mentioned before, nonprofit organizations are not motivated by monetary gain and participation is voluntary, allowing them to have increased trust and moral accountability. When working with vulnerable populations that are disadvantaged because of society, and when the health and lives of people are involved, moral accountability becomes even more