Alternative Development: Non-Goverment Organizations

Since a non-profit organization provides community services without monetary profit, the external environmental conditions that exist outside of the non-profit significantly influence its growth and survival. Specifically, economical elements such as disposal income levels, unemployment trends, taxation rules, inflation, and cost of living may impact the likelihood of obtaining new donors or continuing donations from existing donors. In an economic climate of decreasing disposable income may result in decreased donations. Furthermore, increasing unemployment rates may increase the need for public assistance wherein the non-profit organization may find it difficult to obtain increased funding to provide their philanthropic services.

NGOs want to be able to provide services to the people that cannot a lot of time provide for themselves on levels of education, health, environmental living conditions and so forth. NGOs will research and analyze information in a particular area(s) of interest and bring aide is ways that those may not be able to provide for themselves or provide services in order for them to improve.

She intertwines her experiences in the industry of aid and development to a shocking revelation that a general being of the society wouldn’t be aware of. The author persists that in order to progress with sustainable development goals we first need to be aware of our own involvement. We are all consumers of war, and therefore we are connected to war. She determines that aid should not be militarized rather should remain neutral for its sanctity to provide only civilian relief. When it is militarized, it is politicized and loses its legitimacy. The author perpetuates her three main sustainable development goals; first to eliminate gender divide by investing in women and girls. Second, she eradicates the need for decent work and economic growth for youths in order to prevent them from becoming militants and rather serving their nation as educated leaders. The final sustainable development goal that the author persists is peace, justice and strong institutions. Post war nations have now become lawless and crimes are being committed without perpetrators being held accountable. She suggests that there needs to be a greater investment of legal mechanisms within those nations. Nutt believes in long-term sustainable goals however these can be criticized to be only in the hands of great nation leaders. Though now we are greatly aware, we cannot resolve issues that are highly political. To

Grand Junction, Colorado is a town in Western Colorado that has taken steps to excel in the health care field by providing cost effective and efficient care to their community. In lecture this week, we have learned that the key system concepts are: shared vision, shared reality, people, parts, interrelationships, leverage, adaptability and iterative learning.1 The article: Grand Junction, Colorado: A Health Community That Works, is an example of a patient-centered medical home that currently exists in the United States, and should be looked at as a possible solution to our current health care overspending crisis. I believe that the health care provided in Grand Junction, Colorado has excelled in all these concepts and will discuss their

Inspired by my reading of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, my project studied the slums of India with a focus on culture, education, and economics. I interviewed women, children, professors, teachers, visitors to the country and international students. I collected data regarding their experiences with education, clashes with cultural traditions, and how education affects their socioeconomic status, and this project would prove to be instrumental in helping me figure out my passion. The poverty that I witnessed, such as children without clothes or shoes digging through the garbage for food, made me wish I had the power to help them. After I was done with my study I was left with the question of what to do next. I then realized that I needed to come back home and arm myself with the necessary tools to serve my community.

Bond is the network for over 290 UK-based non-governmental organizations working in the international development and development education. The organization stresses the barriers to organizational learning as due to bias for action, failure to hold discussions, and lack of commitment. On the other hand, organizations may fail to grow due to political issues and these are most common in the United States. The writer then gives the solutions to these barriers, which among them are; changing the ways of thinking, transfer of

Through a poststructural lens, the minimal services being implemented by the nonprofit sector is a way to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the sector because it fails to address the root of the problem, meaning attacking the systems of knowledge that justifies the motive of nonprofits. Historically, the colonial legacies and the emergence of western democracy constructed a legal and socioeconomic structure which highlights the role of the non profit sphere as a form of repressive benevolence. Capitalism thrives off the control of wealth and social change, because of its ability to internalize the market as a mechanism to a solution. The nonprofit sector is a bureaucratic barrel which allows capitalism to replace the functions of the

The non-profit sector in the United States is the fifth largest in the world. It is important to look at not just who gives this money, but also who, and what, purpose does it serve with such organization. YMCA, is dedicated to serve humanity at the best ways possible, it has established centers, and office, in the united states and throughout the world. In 1844, George Williams launched the YMCA movement in London as a volunteer, and his example persists in the expansion of the Y across the globe. In the United States, early YMCA programs were run almost entirely by volunteers. (YMCA 2017)

They argue that, many thinkers within the NGO world were mostly concerned with how these organizations would “adapt to the end of the funding boom and correct its adverse effects” yet the one major issue about the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the organizational structure and procedures had largely been ignored. Hence corporate governance for NGOs attempt to describe how this scope could help solve some problems faced by NGOs in poor countries. The article was written in the late 1998 so perhaps some of these problems have since been addressed.

Development is a simple word with a lot of meaning for everything in this world that can evolve over a period of time. Life consists of many things that begin to grow piece by piece into something bigger that becomes a beautiful sight. I started out just like that from the time I was conceived to my childhood, which then transitioned into something beautiful, adulthood.

Any facility or organization needs to have a structure in order to function effectively. I found two nonprofit hospitals just an hour apart from each other. The first hospital is Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) a 61-bed not-for-profit community hospital located in southeastern Vermont with a mission to provide community-based quality health services delivered with compassion and respect (BMH, n.d., para. 1-2). I have not found an organizational chart in their website, however, BMH is governed by bylaws and a volunteer board of directors in which according to Yoder-Wise (2015) coincides with the definition for private non-profit organizations. That said, the board of directors provides their expertise to make decisions on the overall governance

The workings of the government comprise of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches. Each division is broken down into smaller, sub-national regions. There are numerous executive departments, including Homeland Security, Human Services, Department of Defense, and independent executive agencies that co-exist outside of the federal executive departments. Currently, one of the most troublesome matter concerning this country today is the exact size of the government labor force. Organizations are set up in specific ways to accomplish different goals. The rational for the existence of a non-profit sector is to generate a profit that benefits the needs of the public interest. Non-profit businesses are organized under state laws. Some states

In an attempt to counterbalance this predicament, institutions known as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were formed to emphasize humanitarian issues, developmental aid and sustainable development (Willetts). An NGO is defined as a citizen-based association that operates independently of government, usually to deliver resources or serve some social or political purpose (Willetts 1). Currently, NGOs play a crucial role in providing mechanisms which enhance global human progress. To understand the work of NGOs one must know the history of humanitarian aid and developmental assistance.

Development is defined as “the process of change operating over time- the process by which countries and societies advance and become richer’’. The modern 20th century defines development as” the process of change which allows all the basic needs of a region to be met, thereby achieving greater social justice and quality of life and encouraging people to fulfill their potential’’. Todaro defines development as “the process of improving the quality of all human lives through raising people’s living standards, their incomes, consumption levels of food, medical services, education, raising people’s self-esteem through the establishment of social, political and economic systems and institutions that promote dignity and respect and increasing people’s

Development is a term that can be used in many different contexts whether it is social, economical, political etc. However generally development refers to an improvement in certain areas: