Non-profit management strategies and organizational practices

Non Profit Concept

Concepts in Non-Profit Leadership

This account centers on the activities of a non-profit group called Teacher's Resource Fund. The purpose of the non-profit is to assist teachers who must spend their own money for classroom resources such as books, games and visual aids for lesson plans. The non-profit would award grants to selected teachers for the purposes of buying more and better in class materials while spending less of their own money.

The conceptual basis for its success must begin with effective strategic planning. According to our primary text, "the strategic planning process begins with a thorough examination of your organization's mission as it relates to its internal and external environment." (4) This means that for our organization, which centers its operation on the needs which are precipitated by the current circumstances in professional education, it is necessary to consider both the internal realities of executing our primary interests and of understanding the needs in the current field. Specifically, there is a need to establish an internal plan as to how we might best execute such areas of importance as grant analysis, financial allotment and the hiring or personnel. Simultaneously, strategic planning would demand an analysis of such external factors as the economic realities facing schools, the unique circumstances for individual teachers and factors relating to available resources from government and private industry.

This feeds into a second concept of importance which concerns the targeting of goals. (17) Here, our capacity to meet the interests cited by the Mission is tested as we define some clear expected outcomes as a product of our efforts. Namely, we might identify such goals as selected 100 teachers annually who might qualify for the assistance which we have offered. This would involve the preemptive determination of criteria for qualification as well as a determination of available financial resources for the execution of this ambition.