Arguments Against Nonprofit Organztion

The governing body of a nonprofit organization is crucial to its success as it provides the necessary leadership, planning, accountability and oversight to propel the organization forward. The success of a nonprofit board often hinges on effective planning, policy, meetings and committee work. Board members of Northeast Texas CASA are described as invested in the program and the children they serve.

This essay deals with the unethical prevalence of excessive compensation packages granted to nonprofit hospital executives. Nonprofits are highly complex organizations and are vital to the community’s in which they serves. Therefore, it is essential for these organizations to appoint highly motivated individuals knowledgeable of the healthcare industry and capable of managing and leading a hospital during a national recession while health reform is changing the culture of the US healthcare system.

The nonprofit sector in America is a reflection some of the foundational values that brought our nation into existence. Fundamentals, such as the idea that people can govern themselves and the belief that people should have the opportunity to make a difference by joining a like-minded group, have made America and its nonprofit sector what it is today. The American "civil society" is one that has been produced through generations of experiments with government policy, nonprofit organizations, private partnerships, and individuals who have asserted ideas and values. The future of the nonprofit sector will continue to be experimental in many ways. However, the increase of professional studies in nonprofit management and the greater

The fourth nonprofit I analyzed is called GreaterGood which is an online website that sells a wide range of products that have been made across the world and uses the profit generated by sales to donate to a variety of different nonprofits that have a specific mission (Help, 2015, p.1). The specific nonprofits that GreaterGood donates to breast cancer, animal rescue, veterans, autism, diabetes, the rainforest, and the one that is specific to my area of analysis the hunger site. This style of nonprofit expressed by the GreaterGood charity is extremely unique because of the extreme differences in charities they are partners with. With the multiple charities they work with I would be confident in arguing that the GreaterGood-hunger site is a path-goal leadership style.

Nonprofits can also legally advocate for a social justice agenda through activities that are neither political campaigning nor excessive lobbying, therefore eliminating the consequence of losing their tax exemption status. Some lobbying activities that are considered acceptable are nonpartisan analysis, in-depth study or research on a policy issues; discussions of broad social problems; responding to a written request from a legislative body; providing education materials to legislators or the public that are unbiased; meeting with a legislator to discuss social problems without referring to a particular legislative proposal; advocating for better implementation of existing laws and meeting with your representatives to discuss your program.

The author explores the idea of nonprofit organizations expanding to more than one location. To nonprofit organization owners, expansion can pose a difficult challenge financially, but also a necessary step to improve their outreach. Defining financial variables necessary for nonprofit organizational growth, then using those variables to look directly at physical capital (facility) expansion, and finally examining case studies on nonprofit organization expansion, the information the author gathers will directly impact a critical analysis on the research reviewed and any questions left unanswered.

Nonprofits have been involved in U.S. housing since the early 20th century when the tenement house was the “labor housing” in urban areas like New York City. At the time, the tenements were controlled by private industry that were concerned about profit rather than the quality of life of their tenants (Bratt, 1998, pp. 139-156). The nonprofit response came in the form of so-called “Model” tenement buildings which like their free-market counterparts quickly devolved into slums (Friedman, 1968, pp. 81-87). After these early failures, it would be nearly fifty years before any significant push by nonprofits in housing.

The nonprofit sector faces many challenges that make it more difficult to measure its financial performance. Young (2007) states that the survival of nonprofit businesses depends upon receiving financial funding from outside donors such as donations from charities, government contracts, endowments et cetera, and the necessity for having several different revenue sources is a challenge for nonprofit management. In addition, he points out that securing capital for operating is also much different than in the traditional business world. Fortunately, scholars have provided tools and information that will help nonprofits manage and measure their unique financial performance so they may make informed decisions and guide their organizations to sustainability (Young, 2007).

The White Paper released by the Camden Group and presented for review by the contributing authors (Rebecca Bales, Kelly Tiberio, and Tara Tesch) offers a perspective from one of the nation’s leading Health Care advisory firms. The paper brings to the forefront the characteristics of Non-Profit and for-profit hospitals, and the outlook for conversion from one industry classification (Non-Profit into a For-profit) business entity. Contained within the paper are a wide-range of topics with regards to the similarities between the two health care models, laws and regulations from both the State & Federal levels that guide their respective classification, market outlook for the health care industry and case studies that highlight the impact of actual conversion from Non-profit to For-profit hospitals from an industry standpoint. The health care is a challenging and competitive environment, therefore the paper focuses on providing insight on a strategy based on adapting from one business model into another in order to remain competitive.

The first policy alternative to consider is one suggested by Laura Cox Kaplan, a professor at American University and Co-Chair board member of the organization Running Start. Running Start is a non-profit organization that has the prime goal of combating the gender gap among elected officials and in Congress by motivating young women and giving them the skills that they need to thrive in their work environment (Kaplan, 2017). Kaplan’s suggests that organizations like Running Start can be used to close the gender wage gap both in the government and private sector (2017). The policy alternative would be to create and increase organizations that work closely with young women and provide them with skills needed to succeed in their careers, increase

Stakeholders play a critical role in the management and decision-making process of an organization. An example of a stakeholder includes employees, managers, patients, vendors, suppliers, the community, creditors, customers and the government (Daft, 2013). Also, Daft (2013) says, “Stakeholders are groups “within or outside of the organization that has a stake in the organization’s performance” (p. 23). There are a few differences surrounding stakeholder expectations between non-profit and for-profit organizations. The differences in nonprofit organizations and for-profit business organizations are the direction of activities for the end goal (Daft, 2013). Although it is very difficult to measure the impact that a nonprofit has on society, community, or a particular group as opposed to evaluating an income statement from a for-pro-profit organization. The same level of attention should be paid to stakeholder for nonprofit organizations as stakeholders of for-profit organizations.

Nonprofit Organizations The purpose of this research is to define nonprofit organizations, describe opportunities that are present in nonprofits, outline advantages and disadvantages of working in the nonprofit sector, and explain how you can determine if this is an area for you to consider as a career. WHAT IS THE NONPROFIT SECTOR? "Nonprofit" is a term that the I.R.S. uses to define tax-exempt organizations whose money or "profit" must be used solely to further their charitable or educational mission, rather than distribute profits to owners or shareholders as in the for-profit sector.

Disadvantages for non-profit hospitals is they are not owned by anyone; meaning that some non-profit hospitals may not be able to afford all of the latest technology or sometimes offering the cost-effective services when operating in lower-income areas. Non-Profit hospitals have “higher operating costs because of a high amount of uncompensated care and the charitable component of their operations” (Kovner & Knickman, 2008).

Nonprofit organizations have several functions, and not each one is alike. Essential to all non-profit organizations are four functions: planning, budgeting, funding and management.

In today’s world there are hundreds of thousands of non-profit organizations (NPOs) established at the local, regional, national and international level, and their influence is increasing. Non-profit organizations even considered the third sector of the economy (the first two is the public and private, or commercial). It is believed that they have a special role in development of civil society. In those countries, which have largely shaped the system of legislative regulation of the sector (USA, UK, Australia, etc); the state spends huge sums on research programs in the field of standardization of the NPO.