MY NON PROFIT PROPOSAL IS INCLUDED IN DOCUMENTs BELOW!!!!
The purpose of this assignment is to develop athorough understanding of a specific nonprofit organization and demonstrate your comprehension of our course material.
In order to accomplish this your profile needs to do the following:
- Introduce your nonprofit organization and provide a basic descriptive overview (history, background, current operations, funding, who they serve, their mission and vision, etc.).
- Categorize the overall work of this organization based on the 4 functions of nonprofit and voluntary action from the book On Being Nonprofit.
- Explain how the 4 impulses shaping the future of nonprofit America (from The Resilient sector book) influence this organization. Discuss the implications of these impulses on some of the features of this organization (see table 3-1 on p. 21).
- Explain how this organization balances the competing imperatives of survival and distinctiveness (from The Resilient sector book).
- Discuss how this organization is responding to the challenges and opportunities from The Resilient Sector book (ch. 4-5) and/or the problems and issues from the On Being Nonprofit book (p. 165).
- Provide information from people who are involved with this organization (employees, volunteers, donors, clients, etc.)
- Pick 1-2 of the topical chapters from the Understanding Nonprofit Work book (ch. 2-6) that are relevant for this organization and explain how the organization’s work relates to the chapter(s)–and conversely, how the chapter(s) informs the organization’s work.
- Provide a modest level of assessment of this nonprofit organization in relation to what it is trying to accomplish (strengths, weaknesses, areas of improvement, key successes and/or shortcomings, etc.). Overall, do you think this organization is effective? Why or why not? This will likely vary across different areas of the organizations (i.e., some aspects may be effective, others may be ineffective). Consider the 9 theses of organizational effectiveness from READING 11 (INCLUDED IN PDFS BELLOW)
- Speculate about the future of this organization in nonprofit America in relation to chapter 8 of The Resilient Sector. Offer some predictions and recommendations based on how you see this organization fitting into the trends shaping the future of nonprofit America.
Do your best to incorporate a communication perspective throughout your profile. That is, find ways to address some of the above issues “communicationally” or in ways that are more “communicative.” This should involve the three implications from chapter 1 of Understanding Nonprofit Work (rethinking core concepts, organizations as communication, communication as an explanatory framework) and/or the three tenets from reading #6 (lived experiences, language & discourse, communicative constitution). *See the WEEK 7 POWER POINT SLIDES ( also included below)
You may pick any American* nonprofit organization for your profile…large or small, political/religious or not, national or local, old or new. You may pick an organization you have a personal connection with or something that is completely unfamiliar to you. Your profile should be based on Internet research, media reports, and personal interviews (email, Zoom, or in-person). Personal observations are encouraged–but not required–if you are comfortable and able.
*This could include an American organization with international operations
*If you reside outside the United States you may pick a non-American nonprofit organization for your profile
Your portfolio will be graded on a 100-point scale based on the following criteria:
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Create your portfolio using whatever word processing or design program you prefer, but submit your final portfolio as a single PDF file uploaded to Canvas using the blue “submit assignment” button above.
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