In: Operations Management
The organization is PETA. 6-10 needs to be answered for the Organization group PETA.
6. Total organizational budget, if available, and major categories of expenditures a. Also, if the organization is a nonprofit, ask about how they sustain their operations (where do they get their operating money)
7. Information about how the organization conducts strategic planning (how often, how far in advance)
8. Organizational goals
9. Information about how the organization measures performance
10. Information about how the organization ensure compliance with regulations, laws
[6] Where do they get their operating money..?
=> Individual Donors; there are different types of individual donors. they are as follows..
* Alumni's
* Volunteers
=> Offline or online Donations; It will taken place through the following ways..
* Fundraising through website.
* Crowdfunding - In simply we can define it as small donations and making by many individuals
* Peer to peer fundraising - It is just like a sub category of crowd funding. that is instaed of having a single crowd funding page in online each and every individual is creating single single crowd funding pages for the collection of funds.
* E- Mail marketing
=> Events: Fund raising events are to be conducted. for attracting the audience may be include some celebrities on the fund raising events.
=> Door to Door: Collecting the money by sending volunteers on door to door with their brochures.
=> Grants: Non profits can apply for grants from the givernment especially for the PETA, at local, state and federal levels.
=> Corporate Sponsorships: As a part of their company values and incase to improve their philathrophic image they always try to keep a realtion or partnership with the non profit organisations.
=> Membership Fees: Collecting money from the member of the organisation itself through certain amount as fees.
[7] Strategic planning of non profit organizations..?
SET MISSION |
This may include:
*Set the beneficiaries
*Set the objectives
SET GOALS AND OBJECTIVES |
DO PROPER HOME WORKS |
This may include:
* Skills of the staffs / volunteers
* Similar non profit organisation in the same locality.
* whether volunteers necessary or not etc..
STRATREGIC PLANNING |
This may inlude the SWOT analysis of the organisation. that is..
*Strength,
*Weakness,
*Opportunities and
*Threats
SET A WORK PLAN |
ASSEMBLE THE PLAN |
[8] Organisational Goals:
=> Donor Management
=> Goverment Relations
=> Government Legislations
=> Brand Management
=> Conflict Resolution
=> Problem Solving
=> Effective Recruitment
=> Effective Internal communication
=> Talent Management
=> Non Profit reputation Management
[9] How the organisation measures performance..?
A non profit organisation measures their performance through proper analysing of the following criterias. because as like the name indicates they are non profitable. Fundraising for their operation is their main agenda.
=> Donation growth
=> Social media engagement
=> Growth of the donors
=> Return on Investment Fundraising
=> Donor retension rate
=> Donations conversions by channel
=> Email open and click through of the email rates
=> Programme Attandance
=> Percentage of performance of goals met
[10] How the organisation ensure compliance with regulations, laws..??
Key areas of the compliance is given as follows;
As per the laws and regulations the non profit organisations are not allowed to:
=> Have the share holders
=> Not allowed to support any political causes
=> the income of the non profit organisations may not be spend to prommote any goal that isn't the comapanies tax exempt purpose.
As per the laws and regulations the non profit organisations are must follow:
=> Act according to the organisational bye laws
=> Keep and maintain good records of performance
=> Conduct appropriate meetings.
=> Establish a conflict of interest policy
=> Director of the organisation should not be paid. He should be a memeber of the organisation.
=> non related activities should pay tax to the government that exceed dollar of 1000