Voluntary association

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…

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.…

Financial Difference between For Profit and Not-For Profit Organization When an Entrepreneur want to start a business he or she has a wide range of decisions to make before beginning. One of the basic or first decision is if the business is for profit or not for profit organization. A for Profit organization basic or priority goal is to make profit while Non- Profit is a business whose priority is rendering services to the community such as food , water, health, shelter, education environmental…

According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, currently there are over 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United States. The most important work that a non-profit organization does is to raise money for operations and to achieve the work the non-profit needs to do. The person in charge of raising these funds is often known as the “director of development” or even just as a “fundraiser”. Regardless of their title, the person who raises funds for a non-profit organization is…

The nonprofit organization that I have chosen for my research project is Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI). There are many credible nonprofit organizations but Habitat for Humanity is the only one that I have ever worked for and truly enjoyed my time there. It does not hurt that I believe in their mission, vision and principles. HFHI’s mission is “Seeking to put God’s love into action Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope” (Habitat for…

Non-profit organizations are significant contributors to social and economic well-being throughout the world. The main objective of a non-profit organization is to serve a social purpose rather than an economic purpose, while maintaining community legitimacy and financial sustainability (Moss, Short, Payne, & Lumpkin, 2010). However, despite the noble purpose and good intentions of most non-profit organizations, the non-profit sector is not immune to toxic leadership nor the damage caused by…

In module two, we discussed two important things for nonprofit organizations: Managing the Resource Development Function, defining audiences and developing a case. Nonprofit organizations should keep track and improve every area of the organizations in order to obtain the best results. By keeping tracking and improving, nonprofit organizations will maximize their net income which will help them to grow. Just in the same way, in order to make improvements, an organization should be listening to…

The Healing with Horses Foundation is based in Buccoo, Tobago which was created in 2010 as a non-profit organization by its founder Veronika Danzer La Fortune and her husband Lennon La Fortune whose strategic focus was working with differently abled children through therapeutic e interactions with horses. The members of the foundation love the work they do by providing equine therapy programs and other activities that would aid in physical, social and communication skills for special needs…

In every country across the globe, prisoners are seen unsuccessfully attempting to reintegrate back into society upon being released from jail. This poses a serious social problem because individuals who are not successful after being released from jail typically end up back in jail after committing another crime of the same type, or often times an even more serious crime than their original offense. For many of the individuals that commit more crimes, they end their sentence and re enter…