Management & Organization
This section of our business plan discusses the planning, leadership, organization and control of Uncommon Ground. The management team was presented in the previous section; Uncommon Ground’s corporate structure, governance, functional structure, and management support will be detailed in this section.
Corporate Structure Uncommon Ground will be established as a B Corporation in California. This corporate structure is similar to a C corporation and has been selected in order to keep reinvested profits separate from the owners’ taxable income and to make our corporate structure more advantageous and attractive to outside investors should Uncommon Ground seek venture capital funding (Akalp, 2012). Additionally,
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She is a seasoned financial management executive, with a strong background in: 1)Strategic financial modeling (development of complex models, advanced excel skills, identifying key assumptions, and testing; 2) Analytics (working with key managers to develop meaningful internal reports to track goals and identify developing issues); and 3) Accounting/ process re-engineering (analyze and repair breakdowns in accounting and other processes, implement operational improvements, develop staff). Ms. Meronk’s specialties include: Financial management, complex analytics, advanced excel modeling, executive presentation skills and strong proficiency for adapting to new software.
• Jacqueline Lauder will serve as corporate secretary. She recently served as Outreach Strategist for a major health plan, and has been the Director of Education for a community-based nonprofit organization. Ms. Lauder also managed a volunteer-based, social service program for several years, and is an adjunct professor at California State University, Long Beach. She has extensive experience working with youth as a special education instructor in the public school system, and she has personal experience with the foster care
...ices, the medical field, teachers, and administrators could all benefit from reading about Kathy and her family. People who are considering taking part in fostering certification should definitely read Another Place at the Table. The events she walks the reader through are not common events taking place in the traditional family. It would help any professional who may be exposed to the Social Service System to understand the systematic process that a child in foster care experience, the good, and bad. So many professionals are mandatory reports and they know nothing about the system as it relates to the child’s experience. Hearing how these children and the foster homes they occupy could benefit from quality assistance and support would provide improvement to the system.
A company called Creative Learning Center, a fictitious company is selected for the purpose of this integrative learning project. Creative Learning Center is a child care services who also offer extended care that incorporates Christian-based curriculum for children from toddlers age to five years old. The mission of the Creative Learning Center is to provide first-rate child care services in a warm, safe and nurturing environment while reinforcing a child’s intellectual, mental and physical development. The Creative Learning Center takes a Christian-based team approach utilizing experienced and skilled staff whose profession is nurturing and educating the youth. The target market place for Creative Learning Center is the middle to upper class households with two incomes. This target group has two parents working and need day care and after school care services that can accommodate their schedule. This targeted group will have the income for child care services and is willing to spend more to get quality care and academic enrichment for their children. Since Creative Learning Center’s values is based on Christian beliefs, the company will also offer grant program for those home in the lower income bracket. Creative Learning Center believe that low-income children show have the same opportunity as the children from middle to upper class income households in developmental enrichment activities.
Trevor Pearlman is a member and past chapter chair of the Young Presidents’ Organization and a guest speaker for the American Leadership Academy. Family: In 1991, Trevor married Elaine Chaplik, an attorney from Indiana with a practice that specialized in Business Law, Banking Law and Savings and Loans failures, and Officer and Director Liability. Elaine’s father, Arnold Chaplik had been an Executive Vice-President of the Bunzel Paper Company who was also active with his Congregation and a member of Kiwanis International. Although Elaine is no longer a practicing attorney, she has been active in the Dallas non-profit and Jewish communities, and has served on the boards of Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation, Jewish Federations of North America, Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas Summer Musicals and the Legacy at Willow Bend Retirement Community. She was also Co-Chair and Underwriter of Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Greater Dallas’ 2014 Woman-to-Woman fundraising event.
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Exploring the Types of Business Organisations There are two Business Sectors: Public Sector These are businesses owned and run by the government. Some examples of Services provided in the public sector are the postal service, schools, colleges, housing environment, some bus and train services, fire, police, ambulance and local justice and social services. Their method of raising capital is different as Private Sector businesses have to raise their own capital e.g. their own money, a bank loan etc. The Public Sector business can get the money required from the Treasury or from local rates.
...east favorite part about her position is the amount of paperwork involved. This is not surprising news after all the lengthy forms we have reviewed in our child welfare class. Ms. Phillips’ favorite aspect of her position is the children she works with. She loves the comfort she receives from helping these children attain safe and productive homes.
A society of organizations is one in which organizations enter our lives as influential forces in a great many ways — in how we work, what we eat, how we get educated and cured of our illnesses, how we get entertained, and how our ideas are shaped’ (Henry Mintzberg 1989)
What direction this new step in life will take is unclear at the moment. Kathy would like to join the executive coaching team of Edward Jones to finish out her working years and gain experience in coaching her peers. She laughs as she says, “This scares me to death. I will have to get a Series 7 and a Series 66 Brokers License to serve as a coach to peers. I started out just wanting to complete my degree now I can’t seem to stop!”
Zavadszky, Andrea. "New Accounting Needs Data and Analysis Skills." Classified Post. N.p., 30 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. .
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...ification as we move towards our destination IT architecture, and further strengthen our global market presence” said Neil Cameron, chief information officer at Unilever.
In society today, we are working with families and children are more diverse than ever. We are servicing families and children from so many different traditions, beliefs and values. Every family has their own stories. We will find that families and children
Apple Inc. was established by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976 as a computer designer, developer and seller company. However, the company shifted its focus from only personal computer to include other consumer electronics such as portable media player and mobile phone in 2007. Apple Inc becomes one of the most popular makers in its field since it seems that its popularity has increased according to a report on www.statista.com that Apple Inc’s products sales was generally increasing throughout the first quarter of 2006 to the first quarter of 2014. On the one hand, it has increased its revenue from about 14 billion US dollars to more than 170 billion US dollars in 2013. All in all, the company is highly successful corresponding to its products’ development and their sales growth in world’s market.