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Chapter 7: Social Venture Partners
- What are the advantages for a donor of participating in a venture philanthropy organization versus traditional philanthropy?
When the care for human value is being talked about, it is always good to work along with others. Relatively, the point of giving assistance to others is often noted as somewhat distinctively dedicated to making sure that human value is recognized accordingly not only for the sake of one but a group of individuals living in a community. In this case, it is assumed that the works to be completed are too numerous to count. With such ...

The American Red Cross is one of the United States premier humanitarian organizations, dedicated to ease human suffering especially during emergency situation. The organization was founded by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881 in Washington D.C and has since then provided relief to other people. One of the American Red Cross program is the blood collection, processing and distribution. This program was first introduced during the Second World War by Dr. Charles Drew, in order to saves the lives of the American soldiers who were wounded in the battle field. After the war, a nationwide blood donation plan was initiated, ...

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Smarty Pants at seven. And on the other hand I would rate Donor Choose at nine out of ten. Obtaining customers testimonials is a quite impressive technique that Smarty Pants. This is so because most companies do not care what their customers say. Their main and primary role is to maximize on profits. It is very human and humble to know that a company cares and listens to its customers. The challenge, however, is that no company will post a negative testimonial, and to be realistic, there may be more negative testimonials than ...

What was Joanna Reed’s diagnosis of the situation in the donor services department?

Employee commitment and relation is wanting in the donor services department. There is no coordination between them, as regards the conflicts they have among themselves. Dedication and loyalty to the department also lacks.

What should she recommend to Sam Wilson?

One recommendation is for Sam to hire another person to head the donor’s department as Jose seems to be so much concerned with the community issues. Secondly, there is need for policies that govern employee relationship and communication in the department, in bid to avoid personal problems influencing how employees relate.

Describe the managerial styles of Sam, Jose and Elena. What is the impact of their styles?

Sam and Jose have an almost similar managerial style. They are the type that ...

A case study of blood donation statistics and trends for the past one year reveal an increased donation to the blood bank. However, there was a significant challenge that showed an increase in demand for blood products growing at a rate of two percent per annum. This meant that in a short while the overall production would not meet the growing demands as the population continues to grow.
It was identified that blood demand grew to the frequency of increased surgery procedures, research, and implementation of new ways of performing surgery as seasonal variations in emergencies. From CBS perspective ...

The Canadian Red Cross first funded Canadian Blood services in the 1930s. Over the years, blood donation in Canada had always been an unpaid activity. The reasoning behind such a philosophy was to ensure that the donors are not motivated by the desire to get money. Such a situation would place the health of donors at risk. The work of the CBS is to ensure a safe, national supply blood as well as blood products.
For one to be an eligible donor an individual must be at least 17 years and weigh nothing less than 50 kilograms. Good health ...

Problems & Issues

CBS is facing two major issues i.e. to urgently increase the number of blood donors in order to cope up with the increasing blood demand among sufferers and to retain existing blood donors. Since there is a constant amplification in annual demand of blood among patients, CBS is required to meet the increasing demand of blood required to serve patients’ necessities. In order to fulfill the objective, CBS needs to look out for the factors that may influence and persuade people to reach out CBS clinics to donate their blood voluntarily.

Analysis

CBS has come a long way from its ...

Introduction

Faith City is a city focused on its commitment to preserve and further improve the historical landmarks in its area of coverage. It wants to be able to exhibit human diversity and the city’s history while also aiming to increase the city’s income through tourism. The Faith City Government’s main partner in realizing this objective is Our Landmark Town, a non-profit organization. Our Landmark Town is currently operating under federal funds and through individual and corporate donations. However, its Director, Mr. Johnson, is currently retiring and has only devoted a period of two weeks to turnover his post and ...

Merck and Its CSR

Facts
River Blindness is a disease affecting people in some of the poorest countries in the world, in Africa and Latin America. In 1978, an estimated 340,000 people have gone blind and about 18 million were infected with the disease. Dr. William Campbell discovered a possible use for ivermectin: It can be developed into a cure for River Blindness. He thus sent a memo to Dr. Vagelos requesting funds to develop the new product. The problem is that the product cannot be profitable. The target communities are not among the company’s target markets. Since these communities are ...

Abstract

The paper below is a project management plan for the construction of an oil rig design in the United States expected to produce oil from pre-drilled wells. The project will be carried out in three phases that is the Initial phase, Planning phase and the execution phase. Perceived as an opportunity to the government, the paper outlines the cost of the project, objectives and the benefits the oil rig design will bring to the stakeholders, direct and indirect users.
Key words: Acidizing, Gun-Perforating ,Oil Rig design, Rotary tools, Rigs

Oil Rig Project

Project Definition
Describe the Scope of the project?
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Introduction:

Global Gadgets Imports started the business of gifts and home décor items in the year 1992. Presently the company owns eleven independent stores along with distribution of gift and décor items to multiple retail store locations. Company was enjoying good sales through its wholesaling network and through retail outlets till last year. Over the last year company noticed a downfall in wholesale business whereas the business of retail stores was flat. After various evaluations and research, company decided that the main reason for downfall is improper brand building activities. The company decided to explore public relation marketing communication ...

(TITLE OF THE PAPER)
(City and State of school)
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1. Briefly outline the specific issues that exist in the community (e.g. based on demographic data or other external source, or your observations if this is a real\community you are actually working in).
Myanmar is suffering from an HIV epidemic which has increased since the last part of the 1980’s and needs financial support to treat those suffering from the disease. According to information found at the Humanitarian Practice Network Website, the numbers of people with HIV/AIDS seems to have leveled off. Although there are ...

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 ...

- Facts of the case in the case study;

- The Chief Financial Officer at HOHO is aware of the violation of the 25% rule in expenditure-to-funding ration. The TV advertising costs will definitely push the costs above the limit established in the legislation.
- HOHO management has misallocated funds from administrative costs to program costs in a bid to ensure that the 25% legislation is not exceeded in the books.
- The penalties on the violation of the rights are strict and may pose very serious threats to the image of HOHO and by extension XYZ Ltd ...

For example Elizabeth L. Angeli, Department of Psychology, State University.

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant
Program.
Angeli, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 55555
Analysis of Case Study
John Canon is a graduate of the prestigious American west coast university. He has majored in International business. After his graduation, he became a very successful biotechnology marketing analyst very early in his career. He became an expatriate in Germany working for IML (International Medical Laboratories). He is appointed by IML to become marketing product line manager for cardiovascular instrumentation. ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

40 questions answered from two different books.

Health Care Ethics Principles and Problems (Medical Ethics)

Chapter 1
Briefly describe the differences among ethics, professional ethics and health care ethics.
Ethics is concerned with the way people ought to live their lives. It must not be confused with religion even though they may tend to advocate the same values. However, ethics are distinct interrelations among human which can be considered acceptable or unacceptable.
Professional ethics embody regulations pertaining to how persons function within a discipline. It specifies right and wrong actions based on morality. It does encompass principles of being, but the authors of this text ...

. Situation Analysis

Bearing in mind that the levels of unemployment stand at 12 per cent, according to the United States’ Bureau of Statistics’ April quarterly report, it is important to note the fact that demand for food will remain high in this county, this is based on the fact that the 12% population does not have a formal source of income. One important thing to consider in the promotional plan for example, is the fact that some of the governmental institutions such as the Agriculture Emergency Food Assistance department have reduced their levels of donation. This will be important especially ...

Introduction

The report is aimed to develop the plan for project management of developing upscaled and advanced annual report of Young at heart. It is a national non for profit medical research center that conducts researches on the diseases related to aging. The center, for now, develops simple and easy annual report in black and white color. As the center works as a nonprofit organization, therefore, it is very important for it to provide more accurate and clear reporting of where it utilizes the funds provided by thegovernment, corporation and foundations and other donors. Therefore, the director of the external ...

Business Ethics

In the United States, drug companies enjoy a high-profit margin. It means that when purchasing different commodities, Americans incur high costs, unlike Canadians or Europeans. The drug industry has been noted as the most profitable sector in the economy in the last two years. The United States drug prices do not indicate a fair and competitive market since they sell only a handful of essential drugs with the aim of establishing a top selling market (Williams, 1985). Pharmaceutical companies have ethical responsibilities that contrast with that of small biotechnology organizations regarding research and innovation. For instance, CV Therapeutic is ...

The first complication in many pregnancies is the fear of premature delivery. Such a realization increases the risk of health problems to the unborn babies. Studies have shown that more than half of all twin pregnancies do not stay up to the full term which increases the risk of miscarriage to the mother. The second complication that Teresa is likely to face is preeclampsia. This condition has been found to affect between 10 to 15 percent of all women carrying twins (Thomopoulos et al., 2013). Preeclampsia is characterized by traces of protein in the urine, high blood pressure to ...

1. Define and discuss the roles and responsibilities of an ethics committee in a hospital setting.
The ethics committee is a multidisciplinary group that is made up of both hospital staff members and members of the local community. This committee, then, serves several different roles, or has multiple responsibilities, related to their position. The first responsibility of an ethics committee is providing education for the public in the community. In doing so, the committee has to communicate both positive and negative elements of the current healthcare systems, so that the public understands the state of healthcare in their area. ...

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 ...

- There are two different parts of organizations are there, profit organizations and not for profit organizations (Collier, 2009). There are certain regulations that both of these organizations should comply and meet accordingly, in order to sustain in the industry for a long span of time. In this scenario, it is found that HOHO organization is about to breach the rule of expensing 25% of their donation rule. By recording the TV cost as their program cost which will also nullify the donation of the XYZ Ltd. As a financial controller of XYZ, a bold step should be taken, which is to arise ...

Introduction

Nigeria is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is growing at a rate more than 8% for the last decade. But Nigeria also has one of the highest percentages of poor people in the world and the percentage of poor population is continuously increasing. The growth curve of Nigeria is unable to improve the lives of the poor and destitute. As it happens in many developing countries, the mainstream financial institutes in Nigeria completely exclude the poor population from having any access to the financial system. This makes their daily living a perpetual struggle with poverty as ...

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.
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Introduction

Egypt is one of the major countries in the North Africa and the Middle East. The country has the biggest population in its region; it represents 25% of the total population in Arab population with more than 82 million inhabitants (Tignor, 2011). The majority of the population falls in the bracket of 15-25 years. Egypt enjoys a significant cultural, political and economical influence in the Arab region serving as a trendsetter to the many countries in Middle East. Egypt has affirmed that foreign private capital is welcomed and that foreign investors in the country are therefore welcomed to invest in the ...

Chapter 12: How must Christian distribute lands to the landless?

The case study on Chapter 12 focuses on a landed family whose father, Dom Pedro, has just died. Raoul, the first born, needs to settle some matters with regards to their tracks of land. He asked Bishop Silva for a good advice. The priest’s opinions happen to stir the good man in him and lives since the funeral of Dom Pedro might be an opportune time for the rebels to kill them. The Rural Democratic Union (UDR) is a local organization which opposes land reform in Brazil (Wolfe & Gudorf 260). His sister Martha does not want their family to share lands ...