Not For Profit

Not For Profit Organisations: Theory and Context

Not For Profit Organisations: Theory and Context

Introduction

Not for Profit Organisations are believed to be highly dependent on philanthropic activities, this is held by people as general perception. This perception is formed behind the back of the idea that it is people and not the government officials who usually start movements to bring in change or influence change through challenging wide spread unfavourable acts. Non-profit organisations are concerned with the development and welfare of people around the world or in a certain territory; the people of which territory the not for profit organisation has decided to serve, who are in need. Raising such kind of organisations are far difficult than that of for-profit organisations as they; for the most part, depend upon the funds that are generated through fundraising campaigns. Challenges associated with Fundraising campaigns take their toll in times when the world is in the grip of severe economic downturn (Adelaide Central Mission, 2002). It is these challenges that have prompted non-profit organisations more than anything to carefully design and critically evaluate their strategies before implementation so as to ensure the important aspects of the strategies are planned in a way to drive optimal operations and results (Nutt & Backoff, 1992). It is one of the major aspects but there are certain other aspects within the environment of the organisation that should be processed with due diligence so as to ensure well rounded operations and performance.

Discussion

It is imperative to consider all the aspects and research upon it so as to make sure that all the critical aspects are factored in the process of decision making. This research is undertaken to clearly identify relationship of organisation with all the aspects in the environment of the organisation; stakeholders, so as to pinpoint the ones that are most critical and harbour significant impact for the greater performance of the not for profit organisation (Gillard, 2008). This greater performance comes if the change that the relationships with the stakeholders are undergoing is known by the organisations and the drivers for that change are intercepted.

The method that would be used to gain the data so as to extract relevant information would be interview that pre-dominantly would revolve around four domains. These domains will cover almost all the elements that enjoy significant impact.

To ensure the credibility and to notice the difference in the performance of organisations with the change in administration of certain aspects of the relationship across the not for profit organisations, we would be interviewing two organisations. This could help in gauging the impact if a slight change from one organisation to the other is introduced, in a certain aspect. Thus, transparency would be ensured along with the improved findings, when compared with the research conducted on single not for profit entity.

Four domains that are formed to break the complex elements into more simple ones are thus inevitably woven around the element of relationship that organisation sustains with its key ...