The Difficulties With Government Funding And Non Profits

The Difficulties with Government Funding and Non-Profits Although there are numerous difficult obstacles that face non-for profits today, nothing is more problematic to obtain than government funding. Although it is obvious that non-profit arts organizations absolutely thrive on all sorts of donations and funding; it is not always an easy task to receive the necessary funding from the government. Not only is the difficulty of receiving funding a factor, but many people don’t want their hard earned tax dollars being spent on something they might consider an unneeded ‘luxury’. In order to obtain government funding, an arts organization needs to convince them of why it would be beneficial for not only the organization itself, but the surrounding community at large. Non-Profit organizations often find themselves between a rock and a hard place, because unlike a for-profit arts organization, it is illegal to have owners and allow them to invest money into the arts organization and make profit at the end of the year with the earned revenue. Although non-profits often times do make a bit of money as profit, by law they are held responsible and accountable to eventually re-invest that earned revenue back into that organization at some point. Government spending also needs to have some backing from the local community. The government doesn’t want to spend a bunch of money on an organization that is going to be a huge failure. Citizens of the local community don’t want their money that they pay in taxes being spent on the arts, while they often feel that it is more suiting to spend money on something such as heath care or the military. People fear that funding American art organizations is not a subsequent thing to spend our nation’s money on because of the inevitable fact that it raises the national debt. And with out a doubt, the citizens of the county don’t want the government to spend their tax dollars, and then as a result, raise the taxes in the area to