Governmental and Non Profit Chapter 2 Questions 1. Certain core services are provided by most general purpose governments – those related to the protection of life and property‚ public works‚ parks and recreation facilities‚ and cultural and social services. Governments must also incur costs for general administrative support of its service departments. Core governmental services‚ together with general administrative support‚ comprise the major part of what GASB refers to as governmental activities
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The Alzheimer’s Association is a non-profit organization‚ while Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is a for-profit organization. Even though the two are different entities and‚ each has their own business ethics and morals‚ they are similar in some ways; both have a mission to help people and both have faced challenges since their beginning. In regards to The Alzheimer’s Association‚ the organization was formed on April 10‚ 1980‚ with Jerome H. Stone as founding president. As of today‚ the organization has 11
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Art Prize is a non-profit competition that does wonders for the Grand Rapids‚ MI area. I chose this article because I desired to write about something I cared about that not only was a relatively new business venture but also something that fosters creativity for future business and allows established businesses and communities to thrive. Entrepreneurship deals with failure‚ success‚ innovation‚ inventing‚ business‚ etc. and nobody accompanies all of these qualities better than artist. Art Prize
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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
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Non Profit Management April M. Maxwell- Henley NPM/502 Thomas Edison State College (online) Mentor: Dr. Lloyd Williams January 12‚ 2015 Discuss the nature of the nonprofit sector‚ why it came into existence‚ and how it has changed over time. The nature of a nonprofit organization is to assist the public. It is an organization that is referred by many different names such as third sector‚ a charitable sector‚ voluntary sector and tax-exempt sector. This private organization is self-governing
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For the third simulation the two profit organization had to create a calendar using two colors. One of the colors out of the two would give a team an upper hand in the simulation. My organization which is the non-profit Goodwill. In the simulation we sold goodwill but we also had the upper hand because we knew the color that would better the chance of an organization winning. Since we knew the color we could charge both profit organizations money so that one of them could have a better chance winning
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organization’s purpose‚ helps integrate perspectives from multiple stakeholders‚ and provides the steps to develop goals and objectives that will move the organization’s forward. (b) The specific issues would be various due to different standards and analysis techniques which applied to strategic planning. However‚ generally it is critical to cover these aspects as follows. Identifying the nonprofit organization ’s direction and mission. What’s the reason of the organizations exist? What do the organizations
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About nine months ago‚ I made one of the biggest changes in my professional life‚ that would have profound impact on my non-profit that I lead. After not being satisfied with the disorganization of the non-profit. I made a change similar to the re-orientation discussed in the one assigned readings (Nadler 1989). I knew if I didn’t make the changes‚ my non-profit would have to go into recreation mode within 5-7 years (Nadler 1989). I knew once the company was in recreation mode‚ it would not be long
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PROBLEM 9–20 Performance Report for a Non-Profit Organization [LO1‚ LO4‚ LO6] The St. Lucia Blood Bank‚ a private charity partly supported by government grants‚ is located on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The blood bank has just finished its operations for September‚ which was a particularly busy month due to a powerful hurricane that hit neighboring islands causing many injuries. The hurricane largely bypassed St. Lucia‚ but residents of St. Lucia willingly donated their blood to help people
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ILP 1 Company Description The organization selected for analysis and evaluation is American Lake Credit Union. This organization is composed of two main branches‚ both located in Tacoma‚ Washington. In contrast to banks‚ Credit Unions are smaller organizations and are directed by members who are selected via a vote to serve in an all-volunteer board of directors for the organization (Scott‚ and Johnston‚ p.2‚ 2011). Specifically‚ this credit union was founded in 1948 and has grown since then
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