Swot for Profit and Non Profit
The SWOT of Non Profit and For Profit
By Shelley Coulter
Submitted: May 20, 2013
Instructor: Olivia Kerr
PHI445: Personal & Organizational Ethics (BIJ1316A)
Thesis: Believing in who you are and what your purpose in life, sets the standards on which you live. Shelley Coulter
Introduction
The highest ranking professions involve helping people. Among the lowest ranking occupations are those associated with the not profit and for profit organizations.
The Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi, from almost 4,000 years ago, had this to say about the responsibility of building contractors: If a builder build a house for someone, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
If a shipbuilder build a boat for someone, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. (trans. 1915 by L. W. King, sections 233 and 235; see http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp#text) (Fieser, J., 2012)
American Heart Association
On September 23rd, 2012 my mother died unexpectedly of Cardio Vascular Disease. For the last 72 hours of her life I journal her “last touch.” At my mother’s memorial services I gave out a scroll of my journal. In December 2012, I received a call from the American Heart Association Communications Director, asking if I would like to be an Ambassador. To tell the story of my mother’s last days of this silent killer.
The American Heart Association mission is to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. That single purpose drives all we do. The need for our work is beyond question.
Ten years ago the realization of Women dying of heart disease became a topic among conversations around the world. Women were dying without notification from doctors because the symptoms were common. The
By Shelley Coulter
Submitted: May 20, 2013
Instructor: Olivia Kerr
PHI445: Personal & Organizational Ethics (BIJ1316A)
Thesis: Believing in who you are and what your purpose in life, sets the standards on which you live. Shelley Coulter
Introduction
The highest ranking professions involve helping people. Among the lowest ranking occupations are those associated with the not profit and for profit organizations.
The Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi, from almost 4,000 years ago, had this to say about the responsibility of building contractors: If a builder build a house for someone, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
If a shipbuilder build a boat for someone, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. (trans. 1915 by L. W. King, sections 233 and 235; see http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp#text) (Fieser, J., 2012)
American Heart Association
On September 23rd, 2012 my mother died unexpectedly of Cardio Vascular Disease. For the last 72 hours of her life I journal her “last touch.” At my mother’s memorial services I gave out a scroll of my journal. In December 2012, I received a call from the American Heart Association Communications Director, asking if I would like to be an Ambassador. To tell the story of my mother’s last days of this silent killer.
The American Heart Association mission is to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. That single purpose drives all we do. The need for our work is beyond question.
Ten years ago the realization of Women dying of heart disease became a topic among conversations around the world. Women were dying without notification from doctors because the symptoms were common. The