Oxfam: People Power Organization

Due to the high success rate of Oxfam, they now have over 90 stores all over the world and over 100,000 employees and volunteers. However that doesn’t include the people which participate in fundraisers: such as fun runs, festivals, cycling and running events to support the charity. The Oxfam Headquarters is located in Cowley, Oxford. As a multinational charitable organisation, Oxfam has many supporters, nevertheless, they still want to better themselves and help more people. As they’re a charity based organisation, their aim isn’t to make a profit but to make a lot of money which they will then spend on helping people.

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in 90 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. It helps to provide training, education and

On the other hand, Oxfam purpose is to contribute towards poverty reduction in many ways impacting the world along the way. Oxfam is an international business working in approximately 90 countries for example Hong Kong. Oxfam was first founded in Oxford,

The GM organization has been described as an organization with great culture crisis, the story in the study screams culture problems in the organization where employees are fired, many policy and procedures changes at without prior notice to them. Culture encompasses all the values and behaviors that constitute to a unique socialization which is a component of a healthy working environment for employees (Fullan, M. (2001). Culture greatly influences the organization 's output and performance; it as well provides better guidelines on customer care and service in addition to the concern for the environment.

Suppliers/donators influence Oxfam greatly. Without the public supplying Oxfam shops with goods to sell, the shops would fail and would not be able to raise money to support the charities work for third world countries.

Oxfam is an organisation that has a goal, they say creates lasting solutions to the injustice of poverty. They strive to bring positive energy to those in poverty and they try to put a smile on their face to make very day a brighter day. Oxfam works with original and trees strait islander people and strive to answer all the problems these people might have. On the Oxfam website they tell us that they have helped the self determination for individuals along with communities for over 30 years. the reason for doing this to help social and cultural well being.

There are numerous organizationsthat are present in our society, be it private, public or voluntary organizations but one thing that is common from these organizations is that they all have missions and goals set for them to achieve. This paper will be discussing an organization called United Way.

Oxfam identifies artists or celebrities who has interest in global poverty and who wants to work with them sharing same values and advocacy. They find out each individuals interest and how they want to support Oxfam. They also assess their purpose, background, manner of dealing with people and press.

Many critics, including Oxfam America told NPR that it was “a horribly ineffective way to pay for local development projects” and that “according to some calculations, at least a third of the money is wasted.”

An example of successful aid programs include Paul Farmer’s Partners in Health, which was an organization aimed at preventing/decreasing the amount of deaths due to curable diseases in countries like Haiti. The approach of Partner’s in Health was centered and focused, creating sustainability by educating and employing Haitians, while also understanding the language and culture, as well as being permanently stationed. This means that there is no worry regarding “what happens when these organizations leave?” As Keith Morton suggested, Partners in Health talked, listened, built relationships and understood their

They offer many services on top of serving food. They also offer clothing, toilettes, a listening ear and they also partner with many other organization to fight poverty.

Oxfam is a charity and has no ownership this means they create their own goals and amount of money to achieve to give straight to the cause.Whereas businesses have objectives and payments that needed to be added to how much money they need to make to pay their owners that help fund the business.Oxfam do need to achieve their aims as a charity so that they achieve their purpose.Oxfam need the following things to achieve their purpose as a business/charity.The first thing is a small workforce and many volunteers;Oxfam need this because it reduces their salary cost ,enabling them to give their earned money directly to the cause with no hold backs or bad impacts on the money.Secondly they have staff working out in the countries and communities

Development, Education & Awareness – majority of the people involved in Oxfam’s relief and aid programmed are volunteers. A key component of supplying aid and relief to communities is knowing the background of the people you assisting. Another key area of Oxfam’s operations is ‘Clean Water’, those involved in this programme, need to be well educated regarding water, sanitization and the environmental impacts.

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Many NGOs are associated with the use of international staff working in 'developing' countries, but there are many NGOs in both North and South who rely on local employees or volunteers.