With the nonprofit sector and NGO’s growing exponentially to reach about 3.7 million worldwide, there have been regulations put in place that have restricted different aspects of their mission. Mark Sidel, author of the article, “Regulation of Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations: An International Perspective”, discusses these regulations that are affecting all nonprofit organizations throughout the world by addressing the effects in one specific country, China. Sidel’s article is featured in The Nonprofit Quarterly, a magazine discussing contemporary issues and topics within the nonprofit field, allowing individuals with interest to be informed on accomplishments and issues within this sector. As the article progresses, Sidel’s credibility …show more content…
This phenomenon is best described as a change taking place in which civic space for charitable organizations is drastically decreasing, a vast contrast to two decades ago when civic space expanded around the world. Sidel cites Lester Salamon, author of a well-known piece called Foreign Affairs, and states that Salamon called this development two decades ago a “associational revolution”, to which Sidel says we are now in a counterrevolution. He starts his argument on closing space by first articulating that while the phenomenon is a never ending mantra in the nonprofit community, it has “been stated overbroadly and without sufficient nuance.” He responds with two reasons why this issue needs careful and critical thinking. First, by explaining that in a number of countries, regulation on civic space is often biased and focused on advocacy organizations, and second, the “closing space” phenomenon criticism shows little regard for national sovereignty. The former point Sidel discusses earlier in his article and results in a repetitive feel but the latter point approaches the topic of illegal activities abusing sovereign power. While putting aside emotion and showing that this is an unfortunate situation, Sidel finds irony in it because many of these NGO’s that are being repressed by sovereign states such as China, played a part in strengthening the state itself. By allowing slight emotion to reach into the paper but quickly responding to it with facts and educated knowledge, Sidel provides a dependable point and insight into not only China but the entire
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Nonprofit and voluntary type organizations play a major and integral role in American society. Each group exists today because they were established with the desire to help those in need by providing products, good and services. In the article “Toward Nonprofit Reform in Voluntary Spirit: Lessons From the Internet”, the authors stated the that nonprofit and the voluntary sector can include professional, the paid nonprofit, and grassroots organizations (Brainard & Siplon, 2004, p. 435). Even though these organizations may have the same or similar structures, I will compare and contrast the economic and political difference and similarity between the two.
The nonprofit sector in America is a reflection some of the foundational values that brought our nation into existence. Fundamentals, such as the idea that people can govern themselves and the belief that people should have the opportunity to make a difference by joining a like-minded group, have made America and its nonprofit sector what it is today. The American "civil society" is one that has been produced through generations of experiments with government policy, nonprofit organizations, private partnerships, and individuals who have asserted ideas and values. The future of the nonprofit sector will continue to be experimental in many ways. However, the increase of professional studies in nonprofit management and the greater expectation of its role in society is causing executives to look to more scientific methods of management.
Contextual analysis is made up of three basic components; intended audience, setting and most importantly purpose. Authors often times consider and work each contextual piece into the construction of their given argument. An argument is not powerful if audience preference is not a main concern, if the setting isn’t taken into consideration, or if the purpose is not relevant to the current situation. On January 28th, 1986 the shuttle challenger exploded 73 seconds into its take off. President Ronald Reagan wrote a critical speech to address the tragedy that had struck our nation that day. It is highly evident in his address that kept audience, setting, and purpose in mind. He comforts a worried public using calm tone and simple yet effective diction to convince the American nation that it’s necessary to go on and continue the space program and ultimately the scientific revolution.
What caused the positive economic changes for the United States during the 1980s? In the years prior to the Reagan administration, the United States’ economy experienced something called stagflation. In the 1980s the economy saw positive changes. The policies enacted by the Reagan administration, or ‘Reaganomics’, are responsible for the positive changes in the United States’ economy.
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Throughout Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk he argues that the discrimination against nonprofits is limiting their ability to change the world. He believes that nonprofits operate under one rule book, while for-profits operate under another. And the book for-profits are encouraged to operate under, allows them to attract the best talent, spend money to make money, take risks, pay dividends, and take their time returning profits to investors.
Throughout this course my paradigms of what a nonprofit organization have been challenged as we have considered the major aspects and leadership challenges of these organizations. Having worked with for profit and nonprofit organizations in the past I was quite confident that I had a clear understanding of the distinctions between the two. I had worked in organizations that regularly used volunteers to accomplish their mission and felt that the management of these processes were simplistic. Despite these misconceptions, I found that I was able to learn a tremendous amount through our reading, peer interactions, group projects and equally important, my volunteer service as part of this course.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. This advice has been used as a way to justify questionable actions in times of despair for many years. Following the advice, the Donner Party did whatever they could to survive. Stuck in a snowstorm, the group is believed to have reverted back to animalistic ways, and devoured each other to survive. While no one knows the truth of that fateful winter, many agree that cannibalism was their main form of survival. Though the Donner Party’s travels were not well documented and many details remain controversial, it is evident that they resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Nonprofit Organizations The purpose of this research is to define nonprofit organizations, describe opportunities that are present in nonprofits, outline advantages and disadvantages of working in the nonprofit sector, and explain how you can determine if this is an area for you to consider as a career. WHAT IS THE NONPROFIT SECTOR? "Nonprofit" is a term that the I.R.S. uses to define tax-exempt organizations whose money or "profit" must be used solely to further their charitable or educational mission, rather than distribute profits to owners or shareholders as in the for-profit sector. The term is also used to describe organizations which are not a branch of -- are independent of -- the government and the corporate sector. This term refers to one of the most important uniqueness of a nonprofit organization: it is independent of both the public or government sector and the private or corporate sector.
Nonprofit and for-profit businesses have multiple similarities and differences. For-profit organizations are very different from non-profit organizations because the driving goal of a for-profit organization is increasing its revenue whereas a non-profit organization will not go out of business if it suffers financial loss or does not have a bottom-line. The marketing process also differs, with the biggest differentiating factor of profit marketing is to encourage customers to buy and while the nonprofit marketing purpose is usually to encourage people to give. This means that the return on investment differs between the two. Although the principles of marketing remain the same, some of the methods must, of necessity, be different. Because of the intense involvement in the community as well as support from government, agencies non-profit firms should not compete in the same markets as for profit companies nor in anyway position their organization in any way to give the impression that their efforts could be commercial based (Nelson, 2002).
Police after investigation said two staff members of a foreign funded NGO named "China emergency rights aid group" were working on the mission given to them by western anti-China forces “for organizing smear campaigns, fanning anti-government and anti-Party sentiment, and deceiving people to disrupt state and social order, thus, changing the social system of
Over the last 20 years, there has been a significant increase in nonprofit and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in the United States. With the increase in organizations, also came an increase in scandals and in the 1990’s multiple nonprofit and nongovernment organizations lost the public’s trust due to misuse of funds, lavish spending, and improper advances to protected populations. These charity scandals not only hurt direct organization’s reputation, but also led to the mistrust of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations as a whole (Sidel, 2005). To combat these reputations, NGOs and nonprofit organizations began to self-regulate through employing morally obligated and altruistic employees, accountability practices, and lastly through
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The term NGO is considered difficult to define and agree on, as NGO has no universal definition. It is difficult to recognise what the term NGO exactly involves due to diversity in their scale (e.g. grass-root, local, national, regional and international, or Northern and Southern), in terms of size and money, fields of actions (e.g. human rights, development, environment, peace movement, poverty reduction), ways of activities (e.g. service projects or advocacy projects), structural forms (e.g. relief and welfare, small-scale self-reliant development or sustainable systems development) and their target beneficiaries. NGOs have different end desires depending on various needs of beneficiaries and situations. (Hyeyoung n.d.) The United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council defined NGO as an entity recognized, standing, representative, accountable, transparent, democratic and funded by voluntary non-government sources. T...