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Children's Defense Fund: A Nonprofit Organization
Nonprofit Organization Revenue Origin Matrix
Before filling in the matrix, complete the following:
Select a nonprofit organization.
What sector does the organization belong to?
Summarize the organizations purpose.
Use the matrix below to help you evaluate the pros and cons associated with the different sources of revenue available to the nonprofit organization you selected.
Money Type
Why should the nonprofit organization want this money?
Why should not the nonprofit organization want this money?
Government Grants
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) takes no money from government or state entities.
The mission statement of CDF states they have never taken government grants. This is due to the possibility of creating a conflict of interest.
Foundation Grants
CDF collected $14,926, 934 from foundations and corporations to be used to further their mission. Philanthropic and sponsorship opportunities, volunteers can help engage their workplaces.
Can be hard to approach if you don't have personal contacts, funding opportunities may be limited to areas where foundation or corporation has a presence, organization must be well established, highly regulated and very lengthy process, competition from similar organizations.
Private Giving
CDF collected $3,676,230 from individuals who support their mission. Fastest growing source of funding, ongoing source that can grow over time, online giving makes it easier to reach people.
Not easy to start a program, requires diligence and perseverance, individual donor program can be unsuccessful if not using donor management software, it takes time to build a good list, economy can affect giving.
Social Enterprise-Earned Revenue
CDF collected $6,499,996 from various social enterprises. You can influence how much you make,...
We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble, or suffer family breakdown.
CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. We have never taken government funds.
Introduction
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) arose out of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The organization was founded by Marian Wright Edelman, the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. Mrs. Edelman directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi, worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Junior as counsel for his Poor People's Campaign. Her early career was dedicated to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination. In 1969, Mrs. Edelman began the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm that monitored federal programs for low-income families. Out of that initiative she founded the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 (Our History, 2010).
Discussion
The Children's Defense Fund mission statement indicates that the organization is a national (United States)…
References
About Us. (2010). The children's defense fund website. Retrieved April 7, 2011 from http://www.childrensdefense.org/aboutus/
Better Business Bureau (2009). Children's Defense Fund Better Business Bureau. Retrieved April 7, 2011 from http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/children-and-youth/childrens-defense-fund-in-washington-dc-1898
Our History. (2010). The children's defense fund website. Retrieved April 7, 2011 from http://www.childrensdefense.org/about-us / our-history/
Pros and Cons of Typical Funding Sources for Non-Profit Organizations. (2011). Slideshare. Retrieved April 7, 2011 from http://www.slideshare.net/anisha1/funding-sources-for-non-profit-organizations-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-each
The Cook County CDRED was formed in 1985 and is a private, non-profit organization supported by foundation and grants, as well as several individual donations annually. Our Mission To end disability-related discrimination and injustice through education and increased legal services for individuals and families with disabilities. This is accomplished through legal support and the support of local community families. To fight for and increase the rights of children with disabilities by changing
The results of all evaluations will be used in a variety of ways to improve the programs currently operated by the Children's Defense Fund and to suggest new areas in which the development of programs would be of assistance to the Fund's overall mission of providing a "strong, effective, independent voice for all the children of America" (CDF 2010). Programs found to be less cost-effective than would be desired will
This large amount of program funding must necessarily be further broken down, of course, into the various programs and program needs that the Children's Defense Fund engages in. Food costs are highly volatile, meaning that accurate projections for the nutritional programs that the Children's Defense Funds are quite difficult to achieve; due to this volatility, approximately three million dollars of the above-mentioned seven-and-a-half should be devoted to purchasing food to
Our fund also seeks to raise awareness of the degree to which corporate food culture has infiltrated the school system, and strives to ban vending machines dispensing unhealthy foods, as well as prohibit promotional agreements between schools and companies that sell sugary beverages and snacks. Given the evidence that proximity to fast food restaurants and schools can increase students' body mass index (BMI) our fund also supports zoning legislation
NPSAS was the only study in 1996 that encompassed the people who enrolled in the for-profit institutions which is why not even the very basic criteria of the for-profit sector and its educational setup has been well-recognized (Breneman, Pusser and Turner 2000; Chung, 2006). The confirmation that the students who had some sort of shortcoming whether in the financial sector, minority aspect or admittance-timeline factor were the ones who mainly
Then, a second major difference resides in the sources used to retrieve the necessary funds. The nonprofit organizations do indeed get the support of the federal budget in the meaning that they are often exempt from tax payment; but they have to raise the funds by themselves without any additional help or interference. They do this through the organization of various events, such as concerts, dinner parties or theatre plays,