The Non-Profit Industry

Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that promotes the good through one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It has created lasting relationships between students with disabilities and their peers, therefore, helping to improve the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. It has also provided employment opportunities for those with IDD, allowing them to be productive members of the labour force. Lastly, Best Buddies has given those with intellectual and developmental disabilities the chance to realize their potential by encouraging them to become leaders.

Founded in 1942, the Ad Council is non-profit organization that delivers and benefits the lives of society every day. This organization works with tons of companies to promote powerful messages that would have an extreme impact across the country. The Ad Council continues to be the dominant producer in the United States for public service announcements changing the lives of many.

The NCAA is a non-profit organization that organizes and executes college sports, which includes football, basketball, etc. Key word from the previous sentence would be “non-profit organization”. What kind of “non-profit organization” makes as much money as they do? The NCAA players bring in great revenue with their outstanding efforts in bringing their team up to the top, because that is what the fans like to watch. Now does it seem fair that the NCAA does not give the players back any money at all to the players that actually bring the money in? In simple terms the NCAA makes large amounts of profits and needs to start distributing some of the money to the players (History of College Basketball, 2013). According to another article, the

A not-for-profit organization responsible for the provision of leisure services would be Boys & Girls Club. This is an organization that truly holds up the values of being a not-for-profit organization. Their mission is "To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens" (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2013). With a mission such as this it is obvious that this is an organization that is about the youth and enabling them to grow as individuals.

For two years, I have volunteered at a unique non-profit organization aimed at providing at-risk inner city youth with literacy skills and mentorship. As a mentor at The Writers’ Exchange, I provide individualized learning and structure to several very challenged and impoverished kids. The focus is on homework, literacy projects and field trips designed to incite creativity, communication skills, self-esteem and accomplishment. The facility is located in the poverty-stricken Downtown Vancouver Eastside, cited as the poorest school catchment in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. It is funded by donations and volunteers. Nearly all of the Writers’ Exchange children are from destitute, broken and often abusive homes, where health and socio-economic

The last stage of my proposal includes no longer recognizing the NCAA as a purely commercial venture. The NCAA as an amateur, educational organization, does not fit well into the traditional antitrust analysis as applied by the court in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. By viewing the NCAA as a profit-oriented economic entity, the court struggled in an effort to make sense out of both the per se and rule of reason tests. Justice White's dissent explained that the majority erred by: first, failing to recognize the NCAA's role in promoting amateur athletic competition as an integral part of the process of higher education; second, treating the NCAA television plan as a ‘purely commercial venture’; and third, applying a traditional

There's three things that I know: 1. I want to travel and help others 2. I want a career that allows me to forget about my income and focus on my impact 3. I want to start or greatly contribute to a non-profit organization. Traveling will always be an extremely important aspect of my life. Ironically, I have never been outside the United States, but I know that experiencing other cultures can greatly affect someone's life. For that reason, I hope to be apart of an organization that provides opportunities for the less fortunate to travel. An organization that could bring kids who lack funds from 3rd World countries to 1st World countries, providing them with work or education. Vice versa, 1st World kids leaving their social media behind to traveling

Society labels organizations that perform services to aid mankind in a variety of ways, as being a nonprofit organization. These organizations are also labeled as being a tax-exempt organization. In the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) these two terms are completely separate. According to the IRS, a non-profit organization is separation from a tax-exempt organization; however one organization can in fact be can fall into one of these two categories or even both (Internal Revenue, 2014). As defined by the IRS, non-profit refers to the corporation status of an organization, which is issued by the individual state; whereas, the term tax-exempt is a status issued by the IRS under the government s tax code (2014).

In my area and throughout the city of Los Angles, the not-for-profit organization, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) has plenty of resources for survivors of sex trafficking and exploration. CAST is a multi-ethnic, “multi-lingual human rights organization that has been nationally and internationally recognized for its dedication to the identification of trafficking survivors.” (CAST, About Us, n.d.) CAST was the “first organization in the country dedicated exclusively to serving survivors of human trafficking and modern-day slavery.” CAST is the only “organization in the country that offers all three branches of services in-house (social services, shelter, and legal services), without all three, the victims could not become survivors” (CAST, Client Services Program, n.d.). Branch 1 CAST social services help clients to recover from years of abuse and trauma so they can become self-sufficient and thriving members of our community (CAST, Social Services, n.d.). Services include access

The Non profits sector is different from other sectors. Human capital is the main resource and requires determination to gather people to support a cause. From the beginning of the class up to the last days, I learned the essentials and different scenarios in which the non profits have trouble due to different situations with staff, board of directors, budget, fundraising, planning, and much more. I also learned the opportunities available and how to manage effectively by lectures, real life experience from the professor and through examples in class. The personnel sections is one of the most important section, in my opinion, demonstrating the steps towards hiring staff and volunteers to make an organization function properly and excel from

Open Genomes Foundation Inc. (The Foundation) is a non-Profit, scientific research and educational organization that blends data from genetic sequences, archaeology, anthropology, and history to further scientific, medical and cultural understanding.

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.

I plan on using my communications skills to work in the non-profit industry. As Canada has a diverse population it is likely that in my career I will have Indigenous coworkers. As communications roles at non-profits are outward facing, it is also important to remember that the audience is the general public, which includes people of different cultures. It is also possible that some (or all in the case of cultural organizations) of the people that a potential employer serves, may be Indigenous.

While 501(c)(3) organizations may be the most common and recognizable, there are several other types of nonprofit organization as outlined by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS website, irs.gov, provides detailed information on all types of nonprofit organizations, their purposes and the filing requirement of each. Some of the other types of nonprofit organizations are organized under section 501(c)(6) business or trade associations; section 501(c)(7) which include social clubs and the like and 501(c)(8) and 501(c)(10) which covers fraternal organizations and societies (IRS, 2015). It is imperative that when considering starting a nonprofit organization, it is established under the correct IRS code.

Charitable organizations are formed for many different purposes, but in order to be eligible for tax exempt status, a nonprofit organization must meet the description of one of the forms described in The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 §501(c). According to I.R.C. §501(c) there are 29 different sections through which a nonprofit organization can be eligible for income tax exemption. The most commonly used exemption is described in I.R.C. §501(c)(3) which accounts for 1.11 million of the total 1.72 million organizations that are exempt from tax (Fishman, 2015). Because these organizations are governed by §501(c)(3) of the tax code, they are referred to as 501(c)(3) organizations (Fishman, 2015).