Peer Mentoring: The Benefits and Disadvantages of Peer Mentoring in Youth Currently in Canada, about 42000 youths have mentors through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and there are still thousands of youth on their waiting list. After learning about how many kids were not able to get mentors, I decided to volunteer with Big Brothers Big sisters as a teen mentor for elementary kids during my last year of highschool. Peer mentoring is not the usual kind of mentoring that people think of. In
such as a semester during the school year or throughout the entire year. Children are still developing their skills and personality, while they cannot get mentored for some things they can get mentored for their skills. There are multiple mentor organizations that work with the youth in the Vancouver area, the particular one I am talking about is Big Brothers Big Sisters. Big Brothers Big Sisters has been around for over a hundred years. There were and are a ton of volunteers from my high school that
Mentoring for Change Big Brothers and Big Sisters is an organization committed to the well-being of youth and children across the world. In 1904, Ernest Young, a journalist, founded New York Big Brothers, formerly called New York Children’s court, to provide support for young male offenders (Uhle, 2007). At the same time, Ladies of Charity changed its name to Catholic Big Sisters to help young female offenders. In 1977, the two organizations merged to form Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America,
Big Brothers Big Sisters The Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) has been around for over 90 years. This organization has supported one-to one relationships with adult volunteers and youths of single-parent homes. The volunteer and the youth makes substantial time and commitment, meeting two to four times per month for a least a year, meeting can last four hours. The Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring helps improve the lives of youth and strongly engages the community through involvement
one-on-one relationship. It provides a friendly face, helpful guide, and confidante, which allows each new member to adjust to and meet the entire chapter at her own pace. New members who feel connected are better able to understand the values of the organization and the seriousness of its mission. The close, personal relationship formed between a big sister and little sister creates the basis for lifelong friendships. It is the model on which the new member will form future relationships with other members
Comparing Leadership Styles in Not-for-profit and For-profit Organizations Abstract Academic researchers have not found it important to attempt to complete studies based on leadership in non-profit organizations. A main problem that arises is that people tend to confuse the terms leadership and management with each other. Also leadership researchers tend to associate leadership in non-profit organizations with general research about leadership. These two problems result in a minimum amount
Non-profits For The Intellectually Disabled And Autistic Two non-profit organizations that help those with intellectual disabilities and autism are A New Leaf and The Griffin Promise. By taking a look at how these organizations operate and their modalities of training and therapy it can highlight the services they provide to help those with disabilities, their families and the community. The non-profit organization A New Leaf helps provide developmentally
By now most all Americans have heard of the terms non-profit, for-profit and government hospitals when referring to a healthcare organization. However, not many of us understand the difference between the three nor do we know if the hospital we are using is a nonprofit, for-profit or government-owned entity. Lines are blurred when it comes to the services they provide, if they are different are alike, and if profitability affects the level of care or specialization. Moreover, complexities arise
For-Profit Hospitals For-profit hospitals or investor-owned hospitals are chains of hospitals which have been established for the need of providing extensive healthcare delivery services while initiated and/or operated for the primary purpose of being profitable. Unlike non-profit hospitals, for-profit hospitals attempt to secure a profit for their shareholders making them the highest charging hospitals in the U.S. (AHA, 2016). For-profit hospitals provide community benefits to their consumers
In accounting, private companies are treated differently than governmental and non-profit companies. However governmental and non-profit companies use different reporting requirements from the private sector. The requirements for governmental companies use the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), whereas profit and non-profit companies use the Financial Accounting Standards Board. This paper will explain the purpose, discus the similarities, and differences between the GASB and FASB. Governmental
Samaritan Food Donation Act states that protection from liability will be granted to persons who donate food to “a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to needy individuals” (Government Publishing Office, “Public Law 104-210”). In 2008, Congress passed Public Law 110-247, which is known as the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008. This act built off of the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act by encouraging executive federal agencies to donate food. Again, the language states that it will protect donations
$316.23 Billion This is the amount of money that was donated to charitable causes in the United States in 2012. 27% is by which the number of non-profit organizations grew from 1995-2005, and this number continues to rise today. 170,000 is the estimated number of non-profits and charities in Canada, the second largest in the world. With these enormous numbers, it is important to know how to market a non-profit effectively in order to stand out among the hundreds of thousands and bring money in to
Well, for starters, it means that whatever the organizations under the non-profit sector aim to accomplish, they will have to do so while adapting to the new social culture as a matter of maintaining their visibility and efforts to progress as an organization. Of course, there will be advantages and disadvantages with media’s influence and impact on the non-profit sector, but despite the challenges, in order to distinguish the authenticity of organizations, we as individual entities need to be educated
With the new tax reforms being passed in the United States, it is possible that what has been changed will harm charities and non-profits. These non-profit organizations may lose a majority of their funding because the new tax reforms made it a big possibility that it will cause the American people to donate less. In the article, “Recent tax reforms in America will hurt charities” published by the Economist on February 15, 2018, it shows how charities will be hurt in the near future by the new tax
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
Literature Review Paper Introduction There are over 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States. Of those, three-quarters (almost 1.2 million) have annual budgets under $1 million, and most are even smaller (Francis & Talansky, 2012). What are some strategies creating a financially stable non-profit? Some organizations tend to have positive attitudes toward government funding and others just don’t trust them. They felt they cannot rely on government nor on donations (Green and Dalton, 2016, pg
shows that three common victims are dog (pit bull and non- pit bull dog) with 10960 cases holding over 65 percent of animal abuse, cat with 3384 cases and horse with 1643 cases. Animal abuse includes beating, shooting, burning, or abandonment. However, only the most shocking cases were reported. The rest of those was unsaid. With the hope that animals will no longer be abandoned, The Animal Rescue Association (ARA) is established in 2015, based in Oklahoma. The Animal Rescue Association’ mission is
environment and topics which involve our environment. According to Envirolink, one of the most important stories right now is as follows: “The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said on Monday. Local warming of the climate is to blame, they said -- adding that they did not have the evidence needed to link the melting ice to the steady, planet-wide climate change known as global warming. Climate change has affected
All over the United States, the housing bubble has burst. Particularly in the Northeast Ohio, area where I reside the affect is quite apparent. Declining housing values, vacant homes, and vandalism harm cities and school districts that all depend on the property tax revenue stream. As a former community development director and real estate agent, I have firsthand experience in the housing arena. The real estate industry is a critical component in the United States’ economy. There are many jobs
1. Helping the Family of Prisoners According to available statistics, the number of people who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons in the United States of America increases each year. Estimation indicates a 2.5 percent increase in the number of prisoners in USA from last year; it suggests a number of 2245000 inmates in all prisons in USA (Reuter). Such a rapid growth in the number of prisoners has several consequences. More prisons are built and more resources are earmarked for this objective