Charity Case Studies Samples For Students

The world, today, is facing several issues and problems that pose a threat to the wellbeing of humanity. It is important for all humanity come together to find a solution to these global problems facing us. The gap between poverty and the wealth continue to rise between countries, and it is important to act early or risk an increase in poverty level throughout the world. The other issue facing us is protection of our environment as we seek better economic prosperity for developed and developing countries. Several other issues affecting us include global pandemics, drugs trafficking that pose major problems to ...

According to Mendel (653), the phenomenon of homelessness in a affluent society and actions of business leaders in Cleveland to address it provides the starting point of Daniel Kerr’s Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio. Kerr makes immense contribution to aid our understanding on what most of the public and private civic leaders consider as intractable urban residential poverty, discriminatory public housing policy, contribution to Communist Party, urban renewal public planning, and costs to affordable housing.
Molinari et al. (487) and Mendel (653) agree that the homelessness is prevalent in United States and triggers challenge for veterans ...

Introduction

Toms Shoes Inc is a company that was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie. It is based in Santa Monica, California and has a profit making subsidiary and another non-profit one called Friends of Tom (Binkley, 2010). The company majors in designing shoes and eyewear. The non-profit subsidiary is operated on the basis that for every shoe that the company sells another shoe is given to an impoverished child while a part of the proceeds from the sale of eyewear goes to eyesight treatments for people in third world countries (Lerman, 2011). This paper examines the presence of Toms on social media, ...

The purpose of this case study is to analyze the non-profit charitable organization “Planet Water”: its main purpose, goals, history, services that it provides, significance and contribution to the world society.
First of all, the project Planet Water is an American based, internationally aimed non-profit organization, which is focused at supplying the most disadvantaged communes with fresh, clean water, by means of installation special filtration systems in the remote districts. This program also provides educational programs with the purpose of teaching health and hygiene to the children. All their projects are focused on educational establishments such as ...

Arguably, disasters to some extent are unavoidable since some are unpredictable, but the best option is the response of emergence and disaster preparedness. Disasters take place regardless of economic, political, or social, background of a nation. In fact, disasters refer to the convergence of various hazards with several vulnerabilities. As such, increase in environmental, physical, economic or social vulnerability can imply an increase in disaster frequency in a region. Despite the discriminative aspect, on disaster occurrence, there is a correlation between risk and poverty, in that disaster leads to measurable decline in human development, income, as well as consumption. Perhaps these effects ...

Introduction

The charity organization has been selling donated products to the middle and low class people within its locality. Most of the operations in the shops are done manually. This leads to some items staying longer than they should in the shops thereby being scrapped. Determination of stocks has also been a problem as some shops are under stocked while others are overstocked. This results into goods being moved from one shop to another which is very costly. This has been attributed to the fact that there is any proper stock management system. The physical space for stocking the items or ...

Discussion Board

Chapter 4
The BCOS factors are comprehensive, but I think they encourage paternalistic thinking on the part of the marketers, which may alienate the audience. The audience’s perception of the costs, benefits, others and self-efficacy potential varies according to highly personal factors that often come into play at the market segmentation/product positioning/targeting stages (e.g. socialization, culture, and values). Effectively, I believe more concern for cognitive/affective dimensions of how the audience conceptualizes the BCOS factors for greater effectiveness in creating “mutually beneficial want-satisfying products”. I recently read about the Chinese dog meat festival, which has cultural and other ...

Q1: Using Peter Frumkin’s model of the Four Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, how would you describe MeadowMarsh Service Agency.
Ans: Peter Frumkin focuses on four primary functions of Non Profit and Voluntary organizations and believes that success can be achieved by them only if all of these functions are balanced. He describes these organizations as
- Vehicles of Service Delivery
- Promoters of Civic and Political engagements
- Vehicles for Social Entrepreneurship
- Enactors of Values and Faiths
With reference to the above MeadowMarsh Service Agency is basically a service delivery ...

Risks in E-commerce at a Children’s Charity

Introducing an electronic stock control system in a children’s charity store is a positive and cost effective measure in any organization. With the enterprise depending on volunteer services, there is a need of controlling the stock in the company to guard against overstocking that leads to a high scrapping rate and under stocking that leading to losses in revenue (Kovacs et al., 2011). The major risk faced by the charity is that of increased expenses in running the system at the expense of re-stocking. Apart from the high initial cost of setting up the computerised system, there is a high cost involved payment ...

Problem: Hope Blooms is an organization that sells dressings from products grown in their own garden. Once the company developed a registered charity, the main focus of the organization shifted towards earning enough to build their charity and invest in a low-income neighborhood. Hope Blooms has a new distribution deal with a local grocery chain, which increased profits, but since the stores keep selling out the growth of the company is being stifled.
Other problems facing Hope Blooms was finding a way to provide stable employment for their youth members, and the need to increase their profits to continue ...

- Is Steve's un-reimbursed commuting expenses an allowable deduction on his personal tax return if he is assigned to be a volunteer usher for the Church's Saturday or Sunday services?
If Steve is assigned to be a volunteer in the church on both Saturdays and Sundays, his tax position regarding the un-reimbursed commuter expenses can be explained as follows:
According to code 162(a), the un-reimbursed commuter expenses remain unallowable for tax purposes because of the following reasons: Such expenses are not incurred for a profit gain. Steve is not in any profitable business so as to be able to claim ...

CONTENTS

A. Introduction 3

B. Part I - Analysis of Strategic Capabilities of Wikipedia under RBV Model 4
Resource Based View Model in Wikipedia Perspective 6
Heterogeneity and immobility of Wikipedia resources 7
VRIO Nature of Wikipedia Resources 8
C. Part II - Wikipedia in Blue Ocean Dimension 9

Elimination Aspect 10

Performance Raise Aspect 11
Reduction Aspect 12
Creative Aspect 12
Complexity Theory: The Wikipedia Case 13
D. Conclusions 15

Bibliography 17

Introduction
Wikipedia is the largest international online encyclopedia with free access and free content (Ling, 2011) . It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization registered and operating in the United States (The ...

Alistair is a chief legal officer in a well-respected company involved in making lifesaving drugs. He has been asked by the board of the company to investigate rumors of price-fixing within the firm’s European offices. In the course of him doing his mandated duty, he encounters a breach in the operation of one of his firms, involving a Bosnia contract in which a very large commission was paid to Romanian distributor to deliver the kits into Bosnia.
Problem statement: Alistair as a chief legal officer has to make a decision whether this is a form of bribe and if so, whether to write a report to ...

Question 1

There are four strategies that UNICEF can implement to minimize and end child marriages in Niger. These are the empowerment of girls with skills and information, provision of economic support for families and communities, provision of basic services, and implementation of anti-child marriage policies and laws. All these strategies are sustainable interventions that can result in long-term outcomes.

Question 2

Main strengths are a long-term presence in Niger, adoption of an action-oriented approach and partnerships with NGOs. Shortage of experienced staff and complex bureaucracies are the major weaknesses facing UNICEF. The greatest opportunity is a willingness by UN member states to ...

Introduction and Problem Statement

In the year 2007, Hope Blooms was launched by Jessie Jollymore with the aim of providing people with healthy food and empowering the local youth. In May 2014, Hope Blooms became a registered charity that aims to grow their business and protect the youth through their charitable programs. The two fundamental problems that Hope Blooms faces are; firstly, making their retail operations stable employment for their youth members and, secondly, increasing the revenues of the charity and increase its revenues.

Analysis

Hope Blooms have achieved their founding objectives of helping people eat healthy food and helping the local youth through ...

PART I

British Petroleum Company Profile
BP plc, formerly known as British Petroleum, is a UK based multinational oil and Gas Company with its headquarters located in London, England, United Kingdom. As of 2012, BP is the world’s sixth largest energy company in terms of market capitalisation, fifth largest company by revenues, and sixth largest oil and gas company by production (BP. Financial and Operating Information, 2008-2012). BP is a vertically integrated organisation and it has a strong presence in all areas of the gas sector, including exploration and production, refining, promotion, distribution, power generation, and trading. The company also operates in the ...

Before the success of the book three cups of tea the company put in place many measures that will ensure that the organization fund are not misused in any way. Some of these measures are;
- The organization employed a competent chief financial officer who did her work with a lot of competence and integrity that it deserve, we are told in the case that the chief financial officer resigned her job after been frustrated by the management laxity to implement measures that will ensure stringent financial control, this demonstrate the competence and integrity of the financial officer.
- ...

Negative Impact on Brand when using Athletes as Brand Ambassadors

The utilization of athletes by a brand to connect with the target market is with regards to the combination of the athlete’s skills in the sports, personality and the power to connect from an emotional standpoint.
When done right it gives the brand great leverage to operate on a profitable level in terms of sales and brand equity, however, if a controversy erupts, it affects the brands reputation, given that most brand ambassador campaigns are based around the character of the athlete.
Lance Armstrong is a classic example of an athlete’s negative activities impacting the brands reputation, ...

Section I Analysis of Statement of Operations

What is happening with the revenue?
There is not enough historical data to assess whether the revenue’s performance is good or bad. But if looking at how it affects income, the YTD shows that revenue is enough to cover allowances for doubtful accounts and operating expenses while the current month reported a net loss. As pointed out in the difficulties experienced by the hospital, it may be the increasing competition and excessive staff overtime, reflected in dwindling revenue (as % shows approximately 7% decline) and almost 5% addition in contractual allowances and salaries and wages.

What are allowances? Should these ever be a positive number? Why?

According to Fingers (2010), ...

- What is search engine optimization (SEO), and how did LinenTablecloth use SEO to its advantage as part of its marketing strategy?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing a website so that it easier for search engines like Yahoo, Google to find and rank them. The whole aim of SEO is to come on the first ten results for a search term. In other words, when people are looking for linen table clothes, then Linentablecloth.com should come in the first ten results in Google and/or Yahoo. SEO is fundamental to the success of any online business.

LinenTablecloth has used SEO to rank for keywords targeting wedding and special events markets. This means that if a customer searches for wedding linen table ...

How Zappos has implemented social responsibility programs into its business?

Zappos is famous not merely for selling footwear products, but also for launching various social responsibility initiatives. The company does realize that there are those who cannot afford to purchase a pair of shoes. Zappos cooperates with a range of charitable organizations in order to reinforce education and care as well as tackle poverty and environmental issues (Boone & Kurtz, 2012, p. 95). This shoe and clothing retailer uses a range of approaches aimed at the development of local communities along with conscious volunteering.

How have charitable giving and volunteer engagement programs helped Zappos foster social responsibility?

The social responsibility pyramid is comprised of four components, namely legal, economic, philanthropic and ethical (Boone & Kurtz, 2012, p. ...

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Poverty is a problem that has existed since the beginning of time. Although we primarily view poverty as the lack of finances in today’s currency driven economy, in reality, poverty can be measured absolutely or relatively, depending on a number of different factors that contribute to the target population being assessed. A closer look at the definition of poverty reveals that;
Poverty can be defined in a range of different ways: as lack of resources or income available to purchase necessities or to achieve an acceptable standard of living; through actual levels of expenditure; ...

Lenovo Group Limited is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops personal computers, servers and IT software. Amid the global dotcom bubble in the 2000s, Lenovo began to pump resources into sectors such as mobile phones, internet-related business and information technology services. The technology joy ride was short-lived as competition at home grew ferociously with the mainland's entry into the World Trade Organization, eating into Lenovo’s bottom line. After this ill-fated strategy of diversification and a focus on the domestic market between 2001 and 2003, Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with the South China Morning ...

Strategic Management

Ardiff Metropolian University
Overview of Wikipedia’s Strategy
Wikipedia is thought to be the unique example of a market player that implements the principles which have been previously declared. It means that the thesis consisting in creation of the free online encyclopedia was proven by the consequent and following actions, taken by the website. The company has managed to be powerful competitor, when there were other online free information players, such as Britannica and Encarta.com. The former was represented by Microsoft Inc (Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, 2011).
When the online information platform was only being formed, it was the ...

Q1 (a) Cash Flow Statement for the period 1 Jan 2015 to 31 December 2015

The missing/modified figures (as shown in yellow in the cash flow statement) are calculated as follows:
Employment income,
Keaton,
Given,
Gross Salary and Bonus= $120,000.00

Alyssa,

Given total salary and bonus=$64,800

Half paid in Aus and half in Singapore,

Thus her Salary and bonus paid in Singapore=$32,400

Employer’s CPF contribution,

Keaton- 37 % of 120,000=$44400
Alyssa- 20% of $32,400=$6480

Dividend and rental income

Dividend – Keaton-No dividend in 2015
Alyssa, $689 in 2015
Rental income
Keaton and Alyssa combined rental income for property in Singapore registered under joint tenancy agreement is $3,050 per month or $36600 for the year.

The portion of CPF and cash used for the housing installment is as mentioned below.

Total housing installment =$4099

Keaton:

Total monthly income=$10, ...

Being one of the most recognized luxury brands in the world requires a constant wobbly balance to be kept. The customer should be always understood and heard, while the external factors should be adapted to within the shortest time. From the day of its foundation in 1941 Coach’s product itself did not change much. It used to be all about being simple in style and resistant to wear and tear; the difference is concealed in additional value added to the customer.

Question 1

For Coach the competition in the luxury goods industry is estimated as fairly strong, due to the ...

The Problem

The case “Can Facebook save our furry friends?” by Kenyon (2013) clearly states that the non-profit animal shelter FCCRSNC is seriously limited by its scare resources of ‘money, time, and personnel’. Obviously the non-profit organization was not in a position to invest in new areas of business regardless of their likely potential. As the case indicates, FCCRSNC has failed to utilize the scope of social media marketing due to multiple reasons. Lack of expertise was the most important factor that caused the issue. Another reason was the shortage of fund for assigning these roles to professionals. Also, the firm ...

In a quick span of time, American Apparel has emerged as one of the leading Apparel companies in the US with a unique business strategy of appealing to consumers who look for natural beauty. Over the years since it was founded, American Apparel has earned reputation for its policies like sweatshop-free environment, and environmentally friendly business practices. These policies have made it one of the most respected apparel manufacturer in USA. It continually implemented social welfare programs for its employees like English language training, medical care, and job security. But the company has been facing an allegation regarding some its business practices ...

Re: How to increase membership, community participation, and revenue

Recommendations:
Short term (immediately to one month)
- Investigate hiring a marketing consultant to develop a Marketing Plan.
- Clear any unused equipment such as the Bingo Machine from the public spaces.
- Contact the Charity Casino of Thunder Bay, Royal Canadian Legion, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Elks regarding joint events at the large LOWB Family Centre.
- Contact the former Knights of Columbus to see if they would like to use the hall for meeting and partner with the LOWB on events such as the Fish Fry.

Medium term (one month to three months)

- Create an Internet presence including a ...

Lady Gaga, a famous American singer and songwriter, was born Stefani Germonatta on March 28, 1986 in New York. Her strong musical inclination was observed even when she was very young. She started playing the piano at the age of four, and has strong fascination over the hits by Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper. She started out her career in music as a songwriter for other artists, while performing for rock and roll bands. It was when she was eighteen that she decided to quit school and pursue a fulltime career in music. With the stiff competition in the music industry, the young Stefani ...

Oprah Winfrey is a philanthropist, producer, an actress and a winner of many awards. She is also well known for her famous talk show that is followed by lots of people all over the world. Oprah has co-written and published several books that end up being best sellers. Winfrey and her company created a website (www.oprah.com) that provides interactive sessions and resources relating to her shows, book club, charity and magazines. It is a website with many users per month and word has it that it receives approximately 20,000 views in a week.
Oprah being a marketer has expanded her personal brand through a ...

The decision for Royal Caribbean International to determine whether to continue to make stops in the devastated Island Nation of Haiti and its Labadee beach is certainly one that has deep implications associated with it.
In the wake of the utterly devastating Haiti Earthquake, even though research states that there will be no effect on the number of reservations made for the cruise liner, the company still has a moral and social obligation which is far greater than the profit motive. Although the Labadee beach has remained untouched by the earthquake, having guests stay in the same area where ...

Introduction

An estimated 100,000 people reside in Deesville City with a mayor-council government. Providing assistance to the City Manager is the main highlight for this case study, as an intern to the local government office. This internship is part of the requirements for completing the Public Administration Program at Gill University. In this scenario, Deesville’s local administration faces an assortment of issues, majority of which relate to human resources and its administration and includes problems on budget management. In detail, the human resources and its administration concerns are currently taking place in three agencies or offices—the Police Department, ...

Introduction

A woman in Palestine has a major role in her society, which is being part of the formation of the family. The formation of the family has different units, nuclear, transitional, or hamula or the extended family. Hamula or the extended family is the most common family formation in the Palestinian community. The tradition and teachings of the Quran have significant influences for the rights of women in Palestine. Hanan Riyan Bakri, a counselor of Women’s Social and Legal Center based in East Jerusalem traveled throughout the Occupied Territories to lecture Palestinian women about their rights . Generally, parents who are ...

Affiliated School

Warren Buffett has asked Billionaires to Give Money Away Their Fortunes: " Mostly charitable organizations will be the one to gain most from the idea. This is because most of the money is aimed towards the discovery of a cure to molecular diseases and charitable acts like helping children. The wealthy felt philanthropic enough to give out part of their money back to the public in an effort to pay back for all the major sales and earnings from them.
The poor will gain from the idea because it is directed towards improvement of education and medical facilities by opening ...

Introduction

Corporate responsibility assumes many other names based on context. Whatever the name one gives the concept, corporate responsibility aims to encourage businesses and corporations to assume the responsibility for its actions an enhancing positive impact by way of its activities towards its consumers, communities, employees, stakeholders and the environment. The concept has been the subject of scholarly debate for a while now. From the debate, scholars have postulated three perspectives of the concept of corporate responsibility. These are the social economic, the classic economic perspective and broader social perspective. This paper will review the implications of the three perspectives on ...

Overview

The current case once again brings to light the countless flaws in the prevailing Indian healthcare system that is plagued by shoddy practices, including unavailability of proper infrastructure, along with the callousness and disenchantment of the medical practitioners and the staff in general both towards the medical profession and the patients, that manifests itself into decreased morale and increased turnover and absenteeism rates amongst them. With the needle this time pointing towards SR Hospital, a middle-class government hospital in Kerala (India), the case tries to briefly talk about the current financially debilitating state of the medical establishment, which again is ...