Think about the role of non-profit stakeholders in general – How do they exert influence? Stakeholders help the nonprofit fulfill their mission, they have a vested interest in the nonprofit fulfilling its objective. Stakeholders can be donors, patrons, volunteers, other … Continue reading →

Jane Mayer’s article on the Koch brothers reminded me of this fivethirtyeight.com article from January, 2016 on the power of misinformation. While those who are uniformed might keep a somewhat open mind when discovering new information about a subject, those … Continue reading →

My personal post is a Forbes articles about nonprofit hospitals and how much profits they are making. The rules states nonprofits have to reinvest all their profits back into the organization. Are nonprofit hospital exploiting this and making huge profits … Continue reading →

I got curious and research nonprofits that in my opinion have some nonconventional mission statements. Here are a few of what I found: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: dedicated to protecting your firearms rights. Our … Continue reading →

I was very surprised to learn how broad the encompass of nonprofit really is. I had always thought that nonprofits were simply defined by a service providing organization that was tax exempt and whose mission was to provide back to social … Continue reading →

Salary History: Wall Street Can’t Ask, and You Needn’t Tell: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/dealbook/job-salary-pay-women-men-wall-street.html?_r=0 In class, we’ve spoke about how some non profits are categorized as counterbalance such as advocacy non-profits. I thought this article was interesting because it speaks of a non profit … Continue reading →

As outlined in the reading , the nonprofit sector is the collective name used to describe institutions and organizations in American society that are neither government nor business. Primarily, non profit do not exist to make profit, nonetheless, it doesn’t … Continue reading →

Working in the finance department of a non-profit hospital, my understanding of what it meant to be a non-profit organization was mostly reliant on financial statements and the ways in which the hospital reinvested its profit. We have quarterly finance … Continue reading →

In class, we briefly discussed the relationship between governments and non-profits. Often times, government cuts to Medicaid and other financial assistance programs often lead to gaps in social services; these gaps are then filled in by the non-profit sector.  In … Continue reading →