Essay on Week 3

The organizations objective is to target multiple audiences and the programs structure is important to separate the different groups they support. The United Way is a non-profit organization that has a team that works hard to find donors for the list of agencies they support. Typically a non-profit organization choses agencies that get little to no help from the local government. United Way (2016) This is accomplished by achieving measurable results through strategies that focus on community systems and resources - and by focusing on funding programs that achieve outcomes in three select impact areas: Education, Basic Needs, and Income. In most cases United Way reaches out to local businesses and major

The mission of United Way of the Coastal Empire is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities. They improve lives by supporting nearly 100 community programs and services. They have programs and services in Bryan, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. According to their website, “ Providing fundamentals to those in crisis has been and always will be at the core of our work, and our funded programs will continue to integrate basic human needs into our services to achieve meaningful outcomes for our community” (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.uwce.org/about-us.

As a nonprofit fundraiser, it is difficult to truly see the mission that your team raises money for every single day. Fundraisers at the American Red Cross are trained as “sales people,” and before this volunteer experience I had never even been on a Red Cross disaster response call. Throughout the duration of the semester, I was able to gain true insight into the core of the organization and mission. This opportunity allowed me to not only enhance my career at the American Red Cross, but gave me a 360-degree view of the entire organization and the fundamentals of the Red Cross mission.

According to United Way website, a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi got together because they recognize the need to work together in new ways to make Denver a better place. Together with an idea that became the nation 's first united campaign, benefitting 10 area health and welfare agencies. They created an organization to collect the funds for local charities, to coordinate relief services, to counsel and refer clients to cooperating agencies, and to make emergency assistance grants for cases that could not be referred(“United way worldwide,” n.d.).As of today, United Way has 1400 local branches in the US, each local branch is run by local leadership but follows United Way of America rules and regulation. The mission of United Way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good. United Way organization works with networks of businesses, nonprofits, community and government leaders in collaboration to fundraise monies for the organization. Contributions raised locally stay locally and decisions about which programs to invest in and which partnerships to pursue are made locally(“United way worldwide,”

This tool is sponsored by the United Way of America. This tool is designed for United Way organizations but can be applied to nonprofits for internal evaluation purposes. This tool can be used to: (1) gauge your organization’s current status relative to the Standards of Excellence, (2) identify areas of strength where your expertise could be shared with others; and (3) determine where to focus your organizational development and improvement efforts (“United Way”, n.d.). This tool is marketed towards United Way organizations but can be applied to nonprofits for internal evaluation purposes.

In July 2014, Steven Nardizzi wrote an article, “Measuring Charity Effectiveness: Manage Your Mission, Not Your Rating” for Huffington Post, in which he stated “furthering our mission and broadening our impact was only possible by ignoring conventional wisdom about how nonprofits should be run” (Nardizzi, 2014). Nardizzi went on to state that nonprofits should disregard the pressure that ratings organizations generate for charities to decrease expenditures relating to fundraising and administrative costs. Instead, Nardizzi shared, WWP had chosen to appropriate funding to its efforts relating programs, staff, and infrastructure and fundraising. By doing so, WWP warranted that it could continue to develop in a manner that accomplished its mission while meeting the needs of its various constituents. Nardizzi did acknowledge that they could improve within certain areas such as “measuring and reporting our impact, holding ourselves and our industry to the highest of ethics and profession, informing government officials about the appropriate ways to measure charity effectiveness, and starting a public dialogue about these issues” (Nardizzi, 2014). Nardizzi’s position on the complaints did not acknowledge any misdoings on the part of WWP. Instead, he defended the organization’s choice to disregard charity rating systems—describing them as schemes that do not work. While it is true that nonprofits must endeavor to advance their missions and strengthen their impact, those who provide financial or other types of support should examine external, independent sources of information, and not as Nardizzi suggests, rely up information exclusively form the

This chart shows that funds from United Way and donated services are the smallest part of revenue received by this organization. Grant funds are more than 25% of the revenue and an important part of the mission. Writing grant proposals and submitting

Their face are a new non -profit face a number of significant challenges if there are to survive and more importantly have significant impact. Much had been written about organization functioning in star-up years and we can use insights gleamed from this literature to help us understand these

The promoted charitable attitude and encouragement are a highly admirable feature within the company and exhibits the genuine nature of caring for people. The support to disaster relief affected areas, youth involvement, and contributions to the less fortunate living in shelters or decreasing the feeding the hungry, or food drives bring a healthier tomorrow within our country. Community investment will yield high profit margins and/ or positive opportunity costs results are being demonstrated consistently by UnitedHealthcare by their actions, financial, and awards they have earned.

The year of 1887 marked the beginning of United Way, which originated as Denver’s Charity Organization Society and expanded over 1,000 Community Chests in the late 1940’s (Dess, Lumpkin, Eisner, & McNamara, 2012, p. C19). Then in 1974 their campaign, in America and Canada, exceedigngly raised over $1 billion dollars; thus, causing for the creation of the United Way International so that many countries around the world may have the ability to construct similar organizations that will benefit their nations (Dess, et al., 2012, C19). United Way’s business consist of attracting large companies and

government sector as a whole as well as specific collaborators within these kinds of organizations.

“Nonprofit organizations have a special obligation, both legally and morally, to uphold the highest standards of ethical practice, to be accountable to their boards

United Way is having a competition among college age marketing groups for support of a movement to spread awareness and raise money for the cause. United Way is an organization that works with over 80 charity and not-for-profit organizations. Some examples of the organizations that United Way works with are the boys and girls club, food bank, and many others. The mission of the organization is to fight for health, education, and financial stability. United Way gave all of the groups the same hashtag to create unity among the campaigns: #LiveunitedWCA

Crutchfield and Grant identify six practices of high impact nonprofits: advocate and serve, make markets work, inspire evangelists, nurture nonprofit networks, master the art of adaptation, and share leadership. All of these practices proved to be crucial in the success of the twelve-featured nonprofits, however, there are two practices that I find to be more intriguing than the rest. “Advocate and serve” and “inspire evangelists” are the two practices that stand out. The practice of “advocate and serve” was a new concept to me, which is, in part, why I found it particularly interesting. The practice of “inspiring evangelists,” is a concept I am familiar with, but I have never seen it articulated this well.

1. Please describe and evaluate the Country/Political Risk faced by this organization and describe its successes and failures.