Northern Lights College: Non-Profit Management Assignment 2 Report

This report, submitted by a student, analyzes various aspects of non-profit management and leadership. It begins with a recap of a chosen non-profit organization, detailing its mission, purpose, and population served. The report then delves into the student's personal leadership model, exploring their values, leadership philosophy (democratic leadership), and leadership quadrant (social/systematic). It examines executive director effectiveness, addressing challenges and strategies for organizational positioning with government and the community. The report further explores fundraising activities, challenges, and measures of success, along with cultural competency and diversity considerations within the non-profit context. The student also provides references using the APA format.

Running head: ASSIGNMENT 2
Assignment 2: Non Profit Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Table of Content
Part 1 – Recap of your Non-Profit Organization:......................................................................4
World Vision Canada:............................................................................................................4
Mission and Purpose:.............................................................................................................4
Population Served:.................................................................................................................4
Part 2 –.......................................................................................................................................4
Leadership Model...................................................................................................................4
My personal values and leadership philosophy.................................................................4
My leadership quadrant......................................................................................................5
My competency domains...................................................................................................5
Executive Directors effectiveness......................................................................................5
Confronting the challenges of executive director..............................................................6
Positioning Your Organization with Government and the Community.................................6
Positioning the organisation...............................................................................................6
Relationship making with government, policy makers and funders..................................6
Partnership and collaboration.............................................................................................7
Using media.......................................................................................................................7
Part 3 – Fundraising and Philanthropic Activities.....................................................................7
Challenges in fundraising activities.......................................................................................7
Beneficial fundraising activities and donors..........................................................................7
Showing accountability of donated money............................................................................7
Success measures of Fundraising...........................................................................................8

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Part 4 – Cultural Competency and Diversity Considerations....................................................8

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Part 1 – Recap of your Non-Profit Organization:
Children Care Workers:
Children Care Workers is a non profit non government organisation aimed towards
development of children care and facilities. The operating filed of this NGO is mainly
distributed across the Canada and the head office is located in Mississauga.
Mission and Purpose:
The mission of Children Care Workers is to provide financial and non financial
support to the children and families as well as communicates to overcome the poverty and
injustice. The purpose of this organisation is providing holistic support to the communities or
any individual who are suffering from poverty or any devastating situation.
Population Served:
Currently the organisation is supporting about 400 people across the 4 nations
namely, Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, Canada. The peoples are either surviving in a natural
disaster or struggling in poverty. Some of them are going through post war fallouts.
Part 2 –
Leadership Model
My personal values and leadership philosophy
My personal value is to prioritise the opinions of my peers and co-workers, while
developing a mutual respect and understanding. Therefore, my leadership philosophy is
democratic leadership philosophy, where I am not the only one to take any decision. In my
leadership philosophy I am just a protector, teacher and guide, not a typical ‘Boss’.

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My leadership quadrant
According to my leadership attitude and personal values, my leadership strategy
belongs to the social or systematic leadership quadrant. This management quadrant is a
optimum balance of mutual understanding and systematic decision making (Murray, 2015).
Therefore, to fit my democratic leadership style in a systematic social service the social or
systematic leadership quadrant will be the ideal selection.
My competency domains
As per my leadership style and behaviour, the relationships domain is the strongest
domain, through which I am able to develop strong communication and interpersonal
relationship. However, the weakness domain in my leadership strategy is complexity, which
restrict my ability to adapt new changes while guiding and supervising my subordinates and
fellow workers (Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 2017).
Executive Directors effectiveness
Effectiveness of Executive Director is essential with the Board of Director, that
allows the director to make proper decision aligned with the organisational mission and
vision as well as ethical consideration.
Effectiveness of Executive Directors with staffs and volunteers allows cooperative
and healthy employee with employer relationship while increasing the efficiency of the
workforce as well (Carlos Pinho, Paula Rodrigues & Dibb, 2014).
The effectiveness with the community allows the executive director to making good
relationship with the community as well as taking care of the social and cultural ethical issues
and values. Community support is very essential to develop a social service organisation.

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Confronting the challenges of executive director
To overcome the isolation, improving the interpersonal communication and group discussion
will be very beneficial.
To gain power to effect the change identification of resistances is crucial, which will further
allow minimising or ‘unfreeze’ organisation conventions as well.
Repeated declaration of roles and responsibilities and the collaboration of all the stakeholders
could improve the situation where the clear role definition is lacking.
Positioning Your Organization with Government and the Community
Positioning the organisation
Along the international economic changes the globalisation also changes the
sociological perspective of any community. Therefore, as a non profit organisation valuing
the culture and benefit of all the stakeholders is crucial. It will also enable to positioning the
organisation with the changing government regulations as well.
Relationship making with government, policy makers and funders
To ensure positive relation with the government the organisation has to impose all the
code of conduct mentioned by the government, where occupational health and safety will
take the major part. Increase the transparency is another essential strategy of making good
relationship with the policy makers (Anheier, 2014). Similarly for funding showing the
attainability of organisational performance will be very helpful.

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Partnership and collaboration
As a non profit organisation partnership with community unions is essential along
with the making relationship with local labour market. To improve the collaboration integrity
and collaboration through traditional and digitalised communication system will be helpful.
Using media
Utilising the social media as plat for of developing recognition has been proven as
most beneficial strategy in various industries (Schmid, 2008). As a non profit social service
organisation social media pagers, virtual community development, donation collection will be
very helpful.
Part 3 – Fundraising and Philanthropic Activities
Challenges in fundraising activities
The company can face major challenges because of the poor utilisation of digital
media based promotion. Apart from that the workforce of the organisation is not sufficient to
develop an integrated network among various stakeholders and potential donors (Covin &
Slevin, 2017). At the same time, the increasing operational cost is also increasing the required
fund to execute the plan activities.
Beneficial fundraising activities and donors
Major gifts will be the most beneficial fundraising activity for this non profitable
organisation. These fundraising activities will include the capital campaign, endowment
giving, sponsorship and gift programs.
Showing accountability of donated money
To show the accountability of the donated money, the organisation should ensure the
transparency of the activities and the expenditure. Both annually and half yearly the

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organisation should forecast their budget and previous expenses with legitimate document to
the donors. Showing a satisfactory cost benefit ratio can ensure the accountability of donated
money.
Success measures of Fundraising
The internal cash inflow and outflow will be measured in every month taking the
existing and next activity plans in account. Proper accounting and developing the required
fudging and provisional funding can help to measure the success rate of current fundraising
activities (Sargeant & MACQUILLIN, 2016).
Part 4 – Cultural Competency and Diversity Considerations
To develop awareness and cultural competency in the organisational environment,
developing mutual respect within the workforce is essential. To ensure this factor, various
event based training can be provided to both ground level employees and the leaders (Bolman
& Deal, 2017). Taking care of workplace diversity and promoting the cultural collaboration
will be very helpful to develop to sustainable cultural competency in the organisational
workflow. The code of conducts and zero tolerance policies will be also very helpful.

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Reference: APA
Anheier, H. K. (2014). Nonprofit organizations: Theory, management, policy. 33(4), 75-84
Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2017). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and
leadership. John Wiley & Sons.
Carlos Pinho, J., Paula Rodrigues, A., & Dibb, S. (2014). The role of corporate culture,
market orientation and organisational commitment in organisational performance: the
case of non-profit organisations. Journal of Management Development, 33(4), 374-
398.
Covin, J. G., & Slevin, D. P. (2017). The entrepreneurial imperatives of strategic
leadership. Strategic entrepreneurship: Creating a new mindset, 307-327.
Murray Vic. (2015). The Management of Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations in Canada
30,61-67
Sargeant, A., & MACQUILLIN, I. (2016). Marketing for nonprofit organisations. In The
Marketing Book (pp. 555-576). Routledge.
Schmid, H. (2008). Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community
service organizations. In Handbook of community movements and local
organizations (pp. 395-409). Springer, Boston, MA.
Tannenbaum, R., & Schmidt, W. H. (2017). How to choose a leadership pattern.
In Leadership Perspectives ,. 75-84