The Voluntary Spirit Analysis

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Can moral agents do what stands in their own self-interest and still perform with a voluntary spirit? Lori A. Brainard and Patricia D. Siplon, in their work, Toward Nonprofit Organization Reform in The Voluntary Spirit quoted Richard Bush, as he cautioned, “that one of the biggest challenges facing organizations in the sector was how to retain their “nonprofit spirit in a for profit world.” Accordingly, in your discussion board submission, you separated “a different value and mode of using their resources than most for-profit companies.” However, egoism and altruism can melt together developing, a more nuanced social type of motivation that incorporates both self-interest and concern for others at the same time.

Today, many assume that

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