Communication in Non-Profit Organizations
Joyce Burnette
Strayer University
Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of managing effective communication within a non-profit organization and the strategies, which are to be implemented to further improve the effectiveness of inter-organizational communication within the non-profit sector.
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This is the most common way to measure administrative efficiency in nonprofits. It is a measure that is sometimes employed by auditors and accreditors to compare the operations of organizations with similar missions, with the goal of determining which organizations have the leanest operations. In non-profit organizations’ model, this variable is employed to measure differences in operational efficiency among nonprofits working in common subsectors as defined by the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). Non-profit organizations’ model includes the following major category groups of the NTEE: arts, education, health, human service, public benefit, and other. By measuring efficiency within subsectors and determining if it is a good predictor of contributions, researchers take the first step toward testing non-profit organizations’ two hypotheses. In order to address potential issues of simultaneity, researchers use the lagged value of efficiency in non-profit organizations’