Non-profit organization and processes (Challenges and solutions)
Engineers for a Sustainable World Conference, 30-Sep to 2-Oct 2004. Non-profits can come together through love and passion, often to address a specific social or community need. The mission can draw in a wide range of similar minded individuals and groups, but from very diverse backgrounds. This organic growth can lead to challenging operational and management issues for the non-profit. Without appropriate organization and business processes, the group’s effectiveness, growth and long-term viability can be greatly reduced. But management practices borrowed and adapted to the realities of the non-profit environment can make the organization’s chances of survival and positive impact much higher. In this talk, we will explore some of the challenges in organizing and running a non-profit and look at a number of organizational, management and business practices and how they can be successfully applied in a non-profit setting.
In this time of uncertainty and confusion, what is leadership? Current global events and our leaders' responses, have raised many questions. What can an individual do? This essay outlines many of the questions we all have and offers an immediate, powerful action each person can take to help make a real change.
A poem by MPE. On the site 'Poets Against The War'