Non-profit organizations

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…

Overview The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a 501©(3) non profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is “To honor and empower Wounded Warriors” (Wounded Warrior Project, 2014). This mission statement addresses two of the major elements of a mission statement: What: Honor and empower Who: Wounded warriors It does not address “where” it will provide services and “how” these services will be provided. This leaves the WWP open to provide a wide range of services that may change over…

As previously mentioned, Lone Star Play Ball Southwest is a part of Lone Star Play Ball, a non-profit organization founded in San Antonio, Texas in 2008. While Lone Star Play Ball is one of the few organizations in San Antonio to cater to adults with special needs, it does have a variety of direct and indirect competitors; the most notable being McAllister Park Little League Challenger League, the Miracle League of San Antonio, Kinetic Kids, NEYSO Special Teams, Eva’s Heroes, and Best Buddies.…

1. The non-profit organization that I teamed up with over the course of the semester is The Child Advocacy Center (CAC), located here in the city of Lincoln Nebraska. Their goal as a facility is to foster hope and healing, seek justice, and reduce trauma for children who may have experienced different types or other traumatic situations such as physical or sexual abuse. They work to provide a variety of services to families including medical evaluations, professional interviews, but most…

sensitive information. My data analysis showed organizations have indicated a low and high numbers of total data breached from year-to-year such as Businesses-Other (BSO) organization. From 2012 – 2016, finding shows that BSO organization has the largest rate and most damaging data breached among all organizations and does not include other breaches that did not report the total records of breaches. The result of this data shows in my line chart that BSO organization chart pattern indicated a…

world and attract customer. However, there are certain commercials whose purpose is to inform the audience, express concern or to start a movement. Most of the nonprofit or fundraising organizations would be perfect example. Encourage people to donate money to good causes is the sole purpose of these organizations’ commercials. These good causes can be for animal, children in third world, or environmental issues, etc. Specifically, World Wildlife Fund’s commercial, “together possible”,…

manager in a not-for-profit environment and must balance a tension within our staff of being underpaid while working a position that makes significantly more money in the for-profit sector. You mentioned that an important part of curbing turnover on your team is to have an efficient onboarding process. Chen, Ren, & Knoke (2014) highlights that nonprofits employee's lower pay is balanced by the intrinsic motivation they receive for their work. As a religious non-profit, our organization is…

While limited research has been conducted on the existing relationship between ecovillages capitalism, and neoliberalism, there have been studies that allude to the interactions between non-profit organizing, neoliberalism and capitalism. Ted Baker, in this article titled Ecovillages and Capitalism, notes this fact by stating, his own “need to address the limited amount of literature that had already been generated by this connection” (Baker, 2013). More generally, the interactions between…

Marketing is defined as the activities and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings for clients, customers, partners, and society as a whole (Rooney, 2009). Health care organizations are also using marketing strategies and techniques to promote services. However, marketing in health care brings forth several challenges. The article by Rooney (2009) states that many people refuse to envision themselves as users of hospital services, and avoid advertising that…

about the in fact that hunger is threatening the life of one in every seven Americans daily, from infants to seniors. Luckily, the solution to starvation is not as hard as curing cancer or finding a diamond. With generosity and philanthropy, an organization started from one person named John van Hengel has changed the nation since the 1960s. Hunger can be a mortal problem if fails to notify. It causes people to have severe headaches and sometimes to faint. The lack of nutrients makes people…