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I volunteered for an organization called Service Works. It’s a nationwide organization that helps young adults in developing communities to build acquired skills to prepare for college and their career paths. After reading about them and volunteering, I wrote about them because of its commitment towards helping young adult in the community. Service Works provide success coaches for young individuals as role models, and people that they can interact with if they have any problems, questions, or…

In Homeless, Quindlen relies on relatability rather than humor to try and reach out to her audience. She describes the home as a place where you keep your valuables, where you keep things that belong to you, and a place that you can call your own. She believes that the home is based on tangible items (Quindlen). So, in her essay when she states that a person is homeless, she basically means they don't have any materialistic value (Quindlen). “Why I want a wife” uses humor and believe the home…

Non-commercial events include charitable events, community events and not for profit community events. Although there is a financial gain in charitable events, the surplus is intended for charitable purposes. Community events are not for private or corporate gain, but for the benefits and interest of the local community or for raising funds for local community facilities. Not for profit community events are events where a minimal participation fee is charged to cover the costs of the event and…

basis of investigation. One particular investigation is a very important research. It provides the status of the financing difficulties of the authoritative statistics for a lot of scholars to study the NGO financing dilemma -- Johns University of Non-profit Sector Comparison Project. This study divides NGOs financing mode into three types: government or public sector support, income charges and charitable donations. And statistics were collected according to these three types of financing…

A. Ability to raise short-term capital. At the current moment Timberlake has no ability to liquidate assets or increase cash on hand in any meaningful way. Their budget offers little room for flexibility and their existing contingency regarding short-term capital falls on the current member’s generosity. This is an obvious limitation in their current business structure and needs to be addressed promptly in order to adequately deal with potential disaster. If an event occurs where Timberlake…

Food aid began in the United States by one man George McGovern. It was stated in the 1940’s when the General Assembly made a firm decision to distribute the excess food to disadvantage areas in the United States. Many people in these disadvantage areas were suffering from food deficiency. After President Kennedy took office with several other official leaders which included the US Department of Agriculture, a study was completed to identify how the government can better provide assistance to…

This past summer, I was named one of the two chairpersons of the Anna’s Celebration of Life Foundation (ACOLF) youth board, an organization dedicated to raising money in order to buy life enhaning gifts for children with special needs living in Indiana. After working with this organization for the last sixteen months, I have fallen in love with the cause, and it is because of this organization that I am considering a career in nonprofit organization management. In working with ACOLF youth, I…

Share Our Strength Brings World Hunger to a Halt Communities just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas are deprived of food and jobs. A woman named Heather is the mother of 3 beautiful children; although, they all have struggled through the curves of life. Heather explained to the Share Our Strength volunteers that it was one summer day that changed her thoughts about life in an unbelievable way. Share our Strength volunteers state her exact words, “Heather told me about a day last summer when she…

Introduction A great deal of political ideologists believe that “public services or goods that gain support from a majority of constituents will be provided by public agencies; those more controversial or preferred by only a minority will be provided by nonprofits” (Ott & Dicke, 2016). If this ideology is true, then nonprofits are in the business of serving the few, who in a majority of cases end up being societies that have a large population of with middle and lower-class constituents.…

Free the Children – Charity When looking at organizations in relation to social economy “Free the Children” can be recognizes as an international charity. Free the children’s main projects involve adopting a village (in Africa, Asia, and Latin America) where their main focus is on children and education. This organization was founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger after reading though Toronto Star newspaper and coming across an article about the murder of…