Role of Voluntary Organisation in Promoting Participation in Development

The nonprofit organizations play a significant role in the society. The social life of human beings is quite dynamic and experiences endless challenges. For instance, health is among the major social challenges that the society faces. Therefore, if I were to start a non-profit organization, it would be a social health organization to help the vulnerable groups of people. The society is composed of people with varied financial capabilities, and therefore it is imperative to extend a helping hand to those in need (Hopkins, 2017). The assignment seeks to evaluate the primary purpose of establishing the hypothetical nonprofit organization, key stakeholders and their needs and expectations.

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit group which can be organized on a local, national, or international level. The NGO I selected is Free the Children. The short form used to identify it is FTC. The purpose of the NGO is to free children from poverty, exploitation, and the notion that they are powerless to effect change. The co-founders are Craig Kielburg and Marc Kielburg. It was founded in Thornhill, Ontario in 1995. The head office is located at 233 Carlton Street Toronto, Ontario M5A2J2, Canada.

Collaboration among organization members and community stakeholders is very important, we must begin to study and understand nonprofits not merely as organizations housed within four walls but as catalysts that work within, and change, entire systems. The most effective of these groups employ a strategy of leverage, using government, business, the public, and other nonprofits as forces for good, helping them deliver even greater social change than they could possibly achieve alone (Crutchfield, 2012). There is also an understanding that community partnerships and assistance from caring individuals will be of a great benefit to the organization and the young men they serve. The different chapters in the organization are funded through member dues, grants and contributions from corporations, foundations, individuals and combined federal

The VISTA program is assessed based on several factors including the amount of money raised, the number of communities served, the number of youth engaged in volunteerism programs, the number of volunteer hours worked. These measurements of success are not tied directly to the goals of poverty alleviation, however they are indicative of whether those issues are being addressed because VISTAs are not able to do direct service, meaning that if money is not raised and volunteers do not show up the projects will not move (Conservation Legacy, 2014). In 2007, the Office of Management and Budget ran an assessment on the VISTA program based on the original purpose of the program and its design, strategic planning, program management, and program results. The scale for the assessment was based on 0-3 stars. The VISTA program received 1 star designating it as adequate. While the program was successful in design and management, it underperformed in planning and results (U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Federal agencies, 2006). Since a more recent study

Business can divide to profit organization and nonprofit organization. In fact, the operation of non-profit organizations and businesses are required to produce the same benefits, but the difference is that non-profit organization is advocated for the organization of services and service content of the object of interest, which think alike often regarded as the main features of such organizations. Volunteer is one major program in nonprofit organization. In my business class, I joined in a volunteer program. Every Friday, I had to go to primary school teach students. Volunteers are employees in most nonprofit organization. Volunteers are very helpful. Volunteers work is a social welfare organization and responsibility. It based on the participation of behavior. I gain lots experiences in volunteer program because volunteers help people in welfare activities because I did not receive any remuneration, and to sacrifice their own free will engage in welfare, mental health and community development. In addition, it is an organization of altruistic behavior; I can help others or to the environment based on useful activities and can directly help others in various fields. Lastly, on the participation of the public, I have a good behavior and attitude of social responsibility in response to an act which is not asking for anything in. Volunteer to participate in voluntary activities, motivation. After this program, I become self-orientation, the participants focused

When one talks about ‘Nonprofits’ many things come to mind; People often use phrases such as 501c3’s, charitable, ambassadors of the poor, and tax free organizations to umbrella the whole nonprofit sector. However, what large portions of our country fail to note is that there are differences within the nonprofit branch. There are two man categories of Nonprofits: Public, and Private; within those categories there are differing distinctions that allow for the separate identities of these organizations to in function and scope.

The term ’Volunteers’ is a defining aspect of the Nonprofit and voluntary sector. Volunteers are a necessity for the sectors in some way or the other. Volunteers are a necessity for these sectors in some way or the other. According to the 2003 National survey of Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations, almost all of Canada’s estimated 161,000 nonprofit and voluntary organizations involve volunteers in some way. It has been reported that that collectively there are around 19 million volunteers and out of these one million of them serve on boards of directors. They are engaged in program delivery and fundraising. Many voluntary organizations face an ongoing need to recruit new volunteers. Many have also had to become more sophisticated in their recruitment strategies in order to attract volunteers who are reflective of the population. However, recruitment is only half the battle. The knowledge of experienced volunteers is an important asset for an organization. Retaining experienced volunteers is, therefore, a critical issue for voluntary organizations.

Not for profit organisations consist of organisations that are not run for the profit or personal gain of individual/s. They are often referred to as charities and provide benefit services to society, often encouraging people to band together by sharing resources to achieve a common goal. Profits can be obtained by these organisations but must applied for the organisations purposes. These organisations include Surf life-saving, Churches, and Salvation Army etc. (Sessoms, 2014).

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

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.

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.

One of the factors that make World Vision successful is it partners with communities, local governments and other offices around the world in order to carry out its mission. It accomplishes this in several ways, depending on the needs of the community, and creates programs where it works with the community to facilitate a range of interventions, including programs in health, water and sanitation, education, and so on. Throughout the programs, people in communities have

The question why nonprofit organizations exist can be answered in various forms, depending on which disciplines and orientations one has adopted. In political theory, for instance, nonprofit exists because of its partnership with the government sector in financing a variety of public services. The political scientists view both existences in relations to providing opportunities for civic participation in the pluralistic and political system of a heterogeneous society (Wikipedia, 2017). In order to respond to the above question, we first and foremost defined democratic political participation. The democratic political participation is a means by which a person contributes to a political process by making his or her opinion and beliefs known (Wikipedia, 2017). In addition, it originates from the freedom to speak out, to assemble, and to associate (Boris, 2017).

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.

For more than five years I had been participating in many social works, focusing on helping people start their own business and become entrepreneurs by giving them tools in how to start and manage their business. Through that time, I didn’t see this type of approach was effective, as many NGO’s and Government were doing similar activities in helping them. Many NGO’s mostly depend on donors and foundation for charity-like of approach which is hard to be sustained.