In this textbook chapter author Michael Worth describes America’s history of the nonprofit sector, delivers an exhaustive list of terms used to describe the sector and discusses how each term reveals a difference in how people view the nonprofit sector. The chapter provides a distinction between nonprofit tax structures and the organizations who classify them, as well as how organizations may be able to span sectors through the use of tax exemption and what implications that has for the future of nonprofit business models, and for the people who manage these organizations.
I remember feeling overwhelmed at reading this chapter. The number of terms used to describe the nonprofit sector, and what each meant in terms of how people viewed organizations classified in this way made me realize my own exposure to the nonprofit sector throughout my own lifetime and how I had truly misunderstood the size of the nonprofit world in the American public. I believe that was the point of this assigned reading, both to familiarize us with what nonprofit truly means, and to grasp the sheer force that nonprofit applies on life in America.
LO 2: Demonstrate the ability to assess complex organization environments and achieve communication goals.
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