A nonprofit is…
Conduct an internet search of a non-profit in your community and review the website. Describe the organization and its purpose and include the link to the website. Discuss evidence you have found on the website that would demonstrate that this organization is a non-profit. Based on your readings this week, suggest one additional piece of evidence that could be added. Reflect on why you believe this evidence would be important. In your responses to your classmates, provide feedback on the evidence they have found, making further suggestions on evidence that could be added to the website:
THE ORGANIZATION TO USE IS: CHILDREN ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND COUNTY.
THE WEB SITE IS : https://www.cafb.org/about/
Notes from the professor:
It’s more than meeting tax-exempt guidelines . . . Any publication on non-profit organizations will explain that in order to be a non-profit, you must perform a service for either the public good, target a specific group in need, or the membership of the organization. But I am curious; can those in charge of a non-profit benefit financially by means of a wage and benefit package that at first glance may appear in excess of common packages afforded CEOs in for profit companies? In other words, are there restrictions on what the head of a non-profit company can earn?
We are a society, which means that we will have issues within our group(s). What we do about those issues may well be the purview of Non-Profit Organizations and government agencies. We know these things are there, but how, exactly do they work. What, exactly are they? Do non-profits really not make a profit? Is tax-exempt the same as a non-profit? Because your entity does not make a profit, is it a non-profit? Moreover, not all agencies are equal, and there may be actual competition and competitive aspects to NPOs. Government agencies/bureaucracies are also unique to themselves, and often function at the whim of the controlling politicians. They have their roles and rules, but the final aspect is that the agency operates only if it is funded. This means that, oddly enough, the first consideration of many bureaucracies might be to prove their worth and therefore survive.
Resource
See Attached File
Required Text
Tschirhart, M., & Bielefeld, W. (2012). Managing nonprofit organizations.San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 9780470402993 Located in ebrary
Chapter 1: Understanding Nonprofit organizations
Required References
McNamara, C. (n.d.). Basic overview of nonprofit organizations. Retrieved from http://managementhelp.org/organizations/nonprofits.htm
ProPublica. (n.d.) Many types of nonprofits. Retrieved from http://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ctypes