Non-profit organizations based in the United States

My family and I started helping Big Brothers and Big Sisters in 2010 and continue to do so to this day. In Gallup, there are two major fundraising events, The annual Bowl for Kid’s sake and the Annual Golf Tournament. My contribution to the to the events are; setting up before, taking down after, cooking, running errands, occasionally fundraising, organizing and helping during the events when they need help. Every month they host activities for the adults and kids that are in the program during Christmas they have cookie decoration, during Halloween, they have pumpkin decorating and during Easter, they decorate Easter eggs. When my town has, a community event the BBBS board will go and set up a booth to help recruit more members, I go and make balloon animals to hand out to the little kids and paint faces and help with the activities they have. The Big Brothers and Big Sisters program is made up of mostly Native American kids who come from the Navajo Reservation. The kids come from backgrounds of child, alcohol, and drug abuse they spend their time around people who have no education and work minimum wage or nonexistent jobs. The program gives them a mentor to help them get on the right path and not be influenced by what they go through in their everyday life. When I contribute to the program I am helping Native American kids to have a person in their life that they can talk to and look up to, someone to give them direction in life and help them be a better person in life.…

Communication Audit Big Brothers Big Sisters Big Brothers Big Sisters is an organization focused on encouraging and empowering the youth of the community. With locations to seek mentorship in Calgary, Airdrie, Okotoks, and Cochrane, the organization has a strong outreach to maximize their impact. The company’s vision statement being, “that every young person realizes their full potential” (bbbscalgary.ca, 2018), reflects the impact they are trying to achieve. This being emphasized further in…

Bad Leadership in Non-Profit Organizations While good leadership as numerous benefits to a non-profit organization, bad leadership can have the opposite effect on an organization’s performance, culture, and overall organizational health. Over the past one hundred years, there have been many examples of non-profit leaders that have hurt their organization by failing to leader it. Therefore, while it is important to study the good leaders to learn from, it is equally important to study bad…

an altruistic mission. In order to achieve missions successfully, nonprofits have to ensure survival. Nonprofits continuously have to think of new tactics and ideas to survive, especially in the for-profit world. On the other hand, businesses focus on maximizing profit. The bottom line is to make money. But what if the businesses began focusing on social good as well? Competition just got harder for nonprofits. Businesses are beginning to take on the role of promoting social good. This raises…

nonprofit, for profit, and government owned facilities. I think one must consider the nature of the healthcare industry before a fixed determination can be made and if that particular sector should be profitable or non profitable. Nonprofit organizations play a vital role in the delivery of healthcare in the United States. An extensive amount of hospitals, public health centers, and nursing home facilities represent the nonprofit sector, moreover health care plans that serve as an aide to…

create the gender-wage gap or other obstacles that keep women in low-paid positions; rather, these programs help women make informed choices regarding their personal lives, which can help women avoid some of the obstacles that penalize them based on their sex. If women do not suffer these penalties constructed by capitalism, they are better able to be successful in the workforce, make profits, and rise into a higher class. That is, they are able to more successfully participate in capitalism.…

power output and offset fatigue. Next are painkillers, painkillers allow you to perform beyond your normal pain tolerance. Some painkillers will raise your blood pressure and increase your oxygen supply to your muscle cells. These types of dopers range from over the counter to prescription narcotics. Human biomolecules affects the body's composition when supplemented. Those are just a few examples of performance drugs and the affects they have on the…

Systems in the United States and Germany Healthcare systems are complicated infrastructure that many people depend on to maintain a healthy life. Universal healthcare is defined as a system that will provide a basic level of healthcare to all people (Rashford, 2007). The delivery of what may be considered high quality healthcare, comes at an expensive price for some and also may leave millions without insurance and depending on emergency rooms to provide quick care. In this paper a comparison…

of an organization and is part of the day to day life of any society. Effective leadership requires one to be an effective manager. Although the term leadership and management are often interchanged in an organization setting, the two have different meanings and entail different actions. Management involves understanding the organization’s rules and regulations, and guiding people to strictly follow them. Leadership, on the contrary, involves the integration of creativity and innovation in…

Middlesex Hospital is an outstanding medical institute with a long history of high-quality, technologically–advanced services committed to ensuring that patients benefit from the best available care. Healthcare is consistently shifting, and the need for producing quality and affordable health services is a top preference for most healthcare organizations. The United States [U.S] population of retirees is presumed to double within the following decade, leaving the U.S healthcare system vulnerable…