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City Year exists as an education-focused nonprofit established in 1988 in Boston Massachusetts by Michael Brown and Alan Khazei. What City Year does is become partners with various public schools in order to help keep the students enrolled in attendance and on track to graduate. A team of young AmeriCorps members are brought together to commit an entire year of full-time service to these schools. AmeriCorps members focus on a few important key things while servicing the schools: they support the…

Strategic Sealift Officer Career Management Strategic Sealift Officers (SSO) are commissioned officers in the U.S Navy Reserve serving to maintain the U.S. Navy Reserve organization of Merchant Marine officers, composed of actively sailing members who operate merchant ships, and a shore side members assigned to maintain Naval strategic sealift readiness. Fulfilling requirements and program expectations is one’s own responsibility, not the Program Office. The program office is fundamentally the…

enlistment, it has become apparent that my dream is to become an Army Officer. The responsibilities entrusted with Officership is constructed with Competence, Conduct, Commitment, and Expertise. Competence is derived within the second verse of the Non-Commissioned Officers creed. I believe the ability to successfully accomplish a task should be a core that every officer should abide by, especially in regards to the quality of work. Officers should never accept below standard work, even with…

While there are a number of factors that inspire people to contribute their resources to nonprofit organizations, experiencing difficult situations, especially tragedies, is probably the most effective. Whether the crisis is financial, emotional, or physical, people can empathize with pain when they have gone through hurt themselves. For this reason, charities that benefit from people who want to offer their services should be mission driven, understand the duty of care, and create an…

munity. The Daughters of Charity community was founded by St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul in 1633 Paris, France. Daughters have focused their services more toward the poor and abandoned. Their ministry began with health care in New Orleans in 1834 at Charity Hospital. The Daughters of Charity established Hotel Dieu Hospital in 1859 which is a three-story building that is located only three blocks away from their sister hospital. Hotel Dieu was only a private hospital that was…

require reading for his Marines under his command. This plays an important role to wanting his Marines to learn and his willingness to help them achieve. He would make sure his Marines had and understanding of the culture and history of the reigns in the world where they are deployed. Also, he had them attend cultural sensitivity training which at the time was something that other leaders were not doing. Having this training and understanding made relations easer in the areas. This again…

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION An organization whose mission is to provide services needed by a society is a non-profit organization (NPO). Non-profit organizations are companies that do not declare a profit and utilizes all of its revenues, once operating expenses have been satisfied, toward servicing the public interest. There are two types of non-profit organizations: unincorporated and incorporated. An unincorporated cannot be given federal tax exemptions or the designation of 501 (c) (3) as…

Finance is the lifeblood of every foundation. Therefore, no organization can achieve its aims without sufficient cash outlay. In the same capacity, the EdFirst Foundation is a victim of circumstances. The organization is concerned with the provision of mentoring and afterschool programs, as well as other resources for the k-12 children from the low-income families in the inner cities. Historically, the foundation is open to all the children from the ten cities where the EdFirst operates.…

MEMORANDUM As per reference (a) I am hereby designated as a leader in the Coast Guard. I will familiarize myself with my responsibilities as outlined by the Coast Guard Office of Leadership (CG-12C). If it was only that easy, attend a leadership course, finish some practical factors and receive a memo designating you as a leader in the United States Coast Guard. Being in the Army had a great influence on my leadership style. I saw the very best and the worst leaders all before 09:00 AM. But…

The Corps of Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) has an essential and almost unique task of any profession. We must function as combat leaders, mentors to junior Soldiers, and subject matter experts in our particular field. This requires a constant participation in the daily activities of our unit and the Soldiers within it. Being combat leaders that are capable of leading Soldiers in a combat environment to achieve the wartime function. There are several factors which threaten the ability of the…