Critical Analysis and Strategy for Friendship Baptist Church
The Non-profit has been in existence for 43 years. It was organized in response to a rift between the original organization and some of its members. Over the years, the organization has not been able to adapt and develop sufficient training and development within the new organization to foster growth and maturity in members or develop capable leaders from within the organization. The morale and level of viable activity has experienced times of growth and decline due to the change in leadership and lack of clear vision and mission.
Key Players
There is one formal leader. This leader was elected by a popular vote of the members of the organization. The tenure of the leader is ongoing and has spanned for seven years. The demographic makeup of the organization is varied in age, gender, social class and economics. The racial makeup is predominantly African American. There is a loose structure of administrative support and interior management. Financial elements are handled by a designated person (female) and one assistant (female). There is an elected board of leaders/servants designated to oversee the needs of the members of the organization. This board is made up of 4 males and two trainees.
Intended Outcomes The base issue is a failure to communicate clear and directed mission and vision for the organization. There is also a failure to identify necessary changes to normal practice and procedures of the
Moreover, this case study analysis focuses on AMC and the challenges that the nonprofit faces during the restructuring of a club that operated primarily by volunteers to a professional managed organization. This case study analysis will provide the following: descriptions of the problems AMC is challenged with, an identification of AMC’s major players using a stakeholder analysis, and finally, provide recommendations and strategies to solve AMC’s challenges. After conducting this case analysis, one will understand how an organization can experience significant challenges as it transitions so that an organization can stay competitive in the nonprofit sector.
This portrays illustrates that the company ignored importance of the mission and goals that were currently in effect for of the departments currently in effect, the needs of employees which they are serving, evaluation of each department’s organizational structure, development of staff, and relationships among departments and the recommendations for change that they proposed.
I would like to focus on one non-profit organization that has been doing very well in the recent years. The name of the organization is St Jude Research Hospital, which deals with the cure and treatment of children suffering from catastrophic diseases. In the five decades, it has been operational, the mortality rate has gradually reduced therefore saving lots of lives. St Jude started its operations in 1962. Danny Thomas was the one who started the organization and was helped by two other close friends (Pui, Pei, Pappo, Howard, Cheng, Sandlund and Gajjar, 2012).
I would like to focus on one non-profit organization that has been doing very well in the recent years. The name of the organization is St Jude Research Hospital, which deals with the cure and treatment of children suffering from catastrophic diseases. In the five decades, it has been operational, the mortality rate has gradually reduced therefore saving lots of lives. St Jude started its operations in 1962. Danny Thomas was the one who started the organization and was helped by two other close friends (Pui, Pei, Pappo, Howard, Cheng, Sandlund and Gajjar, 2012).
Research has revealed that there are several major causes of turnover in non-profit organizations: job dissatisfaction, poor supervision (Wenger, 2011), lack of appropriate skills and qualifications, and non-competitive salaries (Opportunity, 2010). Each factor will be examined as it relates to turnover and staff retention.
As the pastoral resident for Macedonia Baptist Church, I understand that I am put in the position to learn how to pastor a church, in hopes that I will gain understanding and experience to effectively pastor a church one day. I expect to learn the practicality of the things that go into pastoring a church, for example as a pastor how do I prepare for the upcoming baptisms and communion? How would I prepare the church for transition or in what ways can I learn to help a church grow and be healthy?
Greater Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church started as a mission doing the work of the Lord in 1969. We toiled tirelessly, and in 1970, we felt the call to organize into a church. A meeting was called, and the motion to organize the church and to elect Reverend Andrew Kelly as Pastor was established. Pastor Lloyd Johnson of New Third Heaven M.B. Church and Pastor J.P. Gordon of New St. Matthew M.B. Church proceeded to assist in the organization of the church.
Nonprofits are facing difficult challenges fulfilling their mission due to increase in demands and lack of resources, while also facing the challenges of building a sustainable organization. In the 2015 study conducted by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, “76% of nonprofits reported an increase in demand for services and 52% reported that they could not successfully meet that demand” (Nonprofit Finance Fund, n.d.). The future of more than two million nonprofit organizations in the United States will be impacted by a number of factors including government regulations, an increase in demand for services, a lack of leaders and by the changing economy. Leaders of nonprofits must be aware of these factors and how they may
The organization has a tall structure with many hierarchical levels, resembling a system with a vertical functional design. There is a fairly narrow span of management with most important decisions being by either the board of trustees or the CEO. See Figure A in Appendix
It is important to realize that marketing strategies, and communicating with the public seem to take a lower rung on the priority ladder for non-profit organizations. Additionally, many believe that a tax exempt business always makes money when the reality is these organizations are still susceptible to unpaid claims and reimbursement regardless of their tax-exempt advantage. In comparison, for-profit organizations experience the same profit negating circumstances, however, they usually are able to compensate through other department profits, and can use unpaid claims, or reimbursement write-offs as a tax advantage. The biggest difference between non-profit and for-profit facilities is the tax status; which interestingly enough, has nothing to do with their survivability (Krenek,
In a perfect world, every division in a company would have no problem getting along with each other. However, this is not a perfect world and not everyone will get along just because they are employed under the same enterprise. When the chief executive officer (CEO) asks the head of human resources (HR) to partner with the finance department on a non-profit project, it is at this point for HR and finance formulate a strategic initiative to complete the assignment. The paper examines the initial planning process for non-profits, anticipation of non-profit planning, and success in non-profit planning.
This book, starting out with a realization that the nonprofit institution has been America’s resounding success in the last forty years, clarifies the revolutionary achievements in nonprofit sector. Peter F Drucker thinks the nonprofit sector is growing expeditiously; as a result, managing organizations with sound missions, leaderships, advertisings, is vital in terms of the surviving and thriving of the organizations growing at speed. In the book, he illustrates comprehensively
The first thing a non-profit organization should do is assess the situation and prioritize to obtaining volunteers. Organizations must decide how many volunteers would they need, what kind of skill set should they have, will they be a good fit for the organization and what kind of work would they want the volunteers to help with by proving them with clear goals and expectations. Once the job description is in place the organization
An organizational structure of the company defines allocation of the tasks and activities. The co-ordination and supervision of the company is defined under the organization structure. And the working of the organization depends on the. The efficiency and effectiveness of the company also depends on the organizational structure. . Since Osmani & Co. is not a big organizational so structure of the company is not so big the staff of Osmani & Co. generally consist of youth members( CA Trainee) and they are doing lots of handwork to make Osmani & Co. more efficient and reliable. The organization have one co funder Mr. Shifa Ul Islam manage all the activities of the organization and they are also the main part of the organization structure.
4. Lack of information with regards to human resource management. There were no written policies and guidelines, which should have been the bible of the management and the employees.