Non-Profit 404

My reflection is based on Karisa Tashjian, from the Providence Public Library. Karisa's presentation spoke out the most from my point of view. The way in which she presented her materials and educated the class not just what we know about libraries, but what goes on in the organizational structure that most of the class did not know about. I like how she made a connection to the fish after talking about partnering with other organizations. She mentioned that, partnering with others help bring in bigger ideas especially when everyone is leading in the same direction. The activity with the fish when everyone has to write down the names of fish they know helped me in understanding what she meant by working alone only lead to walking in circle whereas working with others. When there is a team opportunity and everyone is on the same page and has the same goal, there will be one focus and a better result. In connection to one of our course text, this reminds me about the import...

The central argument is about infrastructure and nonprofits struggling to function as organizations and being able to serve their beneficiaries. The article talked about misleading reports, founders' unrealistic expectations, and underfed overhead. Misleading reports in nonprofit organization is said to be one of the key problems. Gregory and Howard write that "scrutiny found that 75 percent to 85 percent of these organizations were incorrectly reporting the costs associated with grants." Nonprofit organizations are giving the wrong data. They reported that their "overhead rates ranging from 13 percent to 22 percent," while their "actual overhead rates ranged from 17 percent to 35 percent." There is a problem within the nonprofit sectors because of the funders' unrealistic expectation to the grantee. Many funders are aware that "nonprofit organizations report artificially low overhead figures, ..." Funders and those at the top of the...