Community Services: A Comparative Analysis of 10*10 Philanthropy, 300 Blankets, and 1 Million Women

This article provides a comparative analysis of 10*10 Philanthropy, 300 Blankets, and 1 Million Women. It covers their typology, funding approach, volunteering approach, mission statement, and critical analysis. The article recommends management theories for each organization to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Typology
Criteria for
comparison
10*10 philanthropy 1 million women 300 blankets
Funding
approach
 They follow fundraising
events and sponsorships
approach for funding
process.
 Individuals wanted to get
invited to their event
should have donate a
minimum $100 along with
inviting 10 others.
 Sponsorships mainly
coming from the large
business houses in
booking and managing the
events and other supports.
 This is helping them in
having multi-channel
support for funding.
 They follow only donation
policy as their funding
approach.
 Anyone can donate
through their websites
with minimum amount
being $15.
 Regular and once off
donations option are
given. Regular donations
will involves directly
debiting from the credit
card in every month.
 This is helping them in
getting connected with
donors and not getting
dependent on larger
corporate houses.
 They follow corporate
sponsorships and direct
donations as their
funding approach.
 Direct donations can be
done by any individuals
through their website.
There is no minimum
amount stated for
donations.
 Corporate houses are
also sponsoring their
events along with some
serving as partners in
getting the things done.
 This is helping 300
blankets in having the
provision for donations
and support from the
corporate houses as

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well.
Volunteering
approach
 Volunteers are selected for
a particular 10*10 event.
 These volunteers are
invited along with 10 of
their friends. This whole
makes an event.
 These new volunteers are
given the responsibility
for hosting the event.
 After the event, again a
new batch of volunteers is
selected for the next event.
 These volunteers are given
the pitch about what and
how to do.
 Tools and technology are
also being provided to the
volunteers.
 Volunteering is available
as both corporate
positions and event
ambassadors.
 Corporate openings are
advertised in their official
website and anyone can
apply for the positions in
volunteering.
 School girls can volunteer
their movement by
becoming responsible in
their respective schools.
 Volunteers are also
welcomed for any
particular event.
 All the volunteers are
given the training about
their objectives and how
they are responsible
towards forwarding the
movement.
 Volunteers are
welcomed and anyone
can subscribe through
their website for
volunteering.
 They are having
dedicated volunteer
manager who is
responsible for training
the new volunteers.
 These volunteers will be
responsible for
initiating the drive for
blanket distribution in a
particular location.
 They will be recognized
as the official volunteer
of 300 Blankets and
will be given accessory
kit.

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Mission
statement
 Their mission is to aware
the young generation
about the act of giving.
 To attract the young
population as much as
possible by hosting youth
oriented events.
 The mission statement of
1 million women is to
cover as many women in
attaining the
sustainability.
 They are working towards
train and aware the
women from different
fields in making
sustainable decisions.
 Their mission is to
warm up the homeless
people by providing
them blankets. and
make them feeling a
little comfortable for
surviving.
Websites www.10x10philanthropy.com/ www.1millionwomen.com.au www.300blankets.org.au
Critical analysis
300 Blankets
One of the major advantages of the management style of 300 Blankets is their
multichannel approach of funding. As discussed in the typology section, they are inviting
individual donations as well as corporate supports (300blankets.org.au 2018). This is helping
them in having the access to public funding as well as attaining the support from the side of the
corporate in managing the events. However, it is also identified that 300 blankets are also having
sort of limitations in their management. This is due to the reason that they are offering blankets
to the homeless and needy people and thus their offering is much narrow. This may restrict them
in spreading their movement beyond Victoria as not every place will have the requirements for

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blankets. Therefore, it is important for them to initiate the coordinating process with the
stakeholders in determining the opportunities in new areas.
In this case, it is recommended that Henry Fayol’s management theory should be
followed. According to this theory, it is important for the business to coordinate with the key
stakeholders in taking new decisions (Dent and Bozeman 2014). This will help in more effective
decision making process and identification of more probable opportunities. The more
coordination will be initiated by 300 blankets with their stakeholders, the more will be their
benefits in determining the newer needs in the society (Haque and Rehman 2014). In addition,
this theory also states that it is important for the business to encourage their key personnel by
commanding. This can also help 300 blankets in maximizing their efficiency through their
volunteers.
10*10 Philanthropy
They are more youth oriented community service organization and targeting only the
youth generation. The major advantage identified for them is spearheading the awareness
program among the younger generation and securing the future opportunities
(10x10philanthropy.com 2018). In this case, they are ahead of the other two organizations.
However, they are operating with only a single target segment with having specific lifestyle
preferences. This is also restricting their market and brand expansion. In addition, it should also
be noted that not every society will be comfortable with their operational approach due to the
reason that cocktail parties and events are not having similar acceptances everywhere (Zheng and
Mckeever 2016). However, on the other hand, it is also identified that their management
approach is well aligned with their operational approach.

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It is identified that 10*10 Philanthropy is having the approach of selecting a set of
volunteers for different events. This denotes that no volunteers will be repeated in consecutive
events. This is helping in involving and engaging the maximum number of volunteers in active
participation along with not providing all the authority to the single entity (Lele, Klousia-
Marquis and Goswami 2013). In accordance to that, the invite new volunteers after the
conclusion of every event. Moreover, these volunteers are responsible to bring in more partners.
Hence, it can be said that the governance style of them is effective. According to the
characteristics of good governance, responsiveness and consensus orientation are most important
(Turel, Liu and Bart 2017). In the case of the governance style of 10*10 Philanthropy, all the
volunteers are responsive and consensus is maintained in selecting the new committee.
1 million women
The major advantage of 1 million women in their operation is less dependence on the
corporate donations. This is due to the fact that in the typology section, it is identified that they
are only inviting individual donations in order to stay independent and without the influence of
any other (1millionwomen.com.au 2018). This proves their authenticity and reliability in
community service sector. However, 1 million women is only targeting and working with
women and not with men. This is limiting their market potentiality. There are number of ways by
which the men can also contribute in attaining sustainability. Furthermore, stakeholder value is
more influential in the case of 1 million women over the other two organizations. This is due to
the reason that 1 million women is not operating based on certain product offering or
fundraising. Rather they are spearheading a movement for attaining sustainability and involving
volunteers to be the part of this movement (Garcia-Nieto et al. 2015). Thus, their volunteers
ranging from school girls to the elder aged women. In this case, Mayo’s human relation theory of

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management will be effective due to the fact that it states that motivation is important especially
for the volunteers to get attached with the community service (Scott 2015). As the movement for
1 million women is in large basis, thus it is important for them to keep their volunteers motivated
in the long term.

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