Below is an artifact and reflection from my Public and Non-Profit Administration class. In this class, I collaborated with a team to come up with an idea to create a non-profit organization.
The attached file above is an infographic created in my Public and Non-Profit Admin class. It was a class long group assignment that we worked on in order to learn what it would take to launch, manage, and sustain a non profit organization. We were able to develop any nonprofit of our choosing. In my group, I worked with Jocelyn Evegan, Brian Baird, Ryan LaFary, and Sofija Tocinova. Below is a reflection of the project!
Reflection:
Throughout this course, I learned many things regarding nonprofit organizations. Before entering this class I didn’t have much of a background in nonprofit management. I’ve worked for a for-profit organization for my entire professional career so I was quite excited to take this course to learn how the other side works. This class project tied together a lot of the critical elements we learned in order to create our own nonprofit organization. Our organization was designed to help combat childhood cancer and its effects. The idea came from my place of business. I work for a Hyundai/Genesis/Acura dealers and Hyundai has an organization that donates money to childhood cancer research. However, I wanted to take this a step further and do more than just donate. We are donating to help pay for treatment, supplying support to the kids, families, and donating money to research.
The project taught me a lot about how to set up and sustain a nonprofit. We learned what a mission and vision statement are and how they pertain to the function of a nonprofit. We also learned how to properly file to set up a nonprofit and how to file with the government to apply for all the tax breaks and grants that help benefit a nonprofit. We learned different definitions and terminology related to nonprofits (ex. stakeholders, business plan, cause marketing, etc.). We learned how supervisors and managers run nonprofits to make them successful. We learned how nonprofit managers make key decisions and use key communications strategies in order to have a successful nonprofit. Lastly, the project and class also taught us how to use commercial and social marketing strategies to facilitate community engagement.
Developing this nonprofit with a team supported the idea of how people need to work together in order to successfully complete a goal. Nonprofits have lots of moving parts and the only way to successfully put all these parts together is to have a good team working together. Our teamwork on the project showed how it’s important to have lots of individuals working toward a similar goal to create something spectacular.
This projected demonstrated the following course outcomes:
- Describe and use current definitions and terminology related to public and non-profit administration.
- Discuss the characteristics of the supervisor’s key to influencing others to achieve desired results. Discuss how supervisors, with others, establish desired results and conceptualize means for accomplishing goals.
- Identify decision-making and communication strategies for effective supervision of staff and community workers.
- Discuss the budgetary and funding strategies unique to public and non-profit organizations, including government and grant sources and strategies.
- Discuss the use of commercial and social marketing strategies to facilitate community engagement for public and non-profit programs and organizations.
AIS Jack McFarland 