Mission (Im)possible
The name of the U.S. government department that regulates nonprofit organizations.
What is the IRS?
An assertion of the fundamental reason for the organization’s existence
What is a mission statement?
What are goals?
The term for when the creator of a nonprofit organization is so deeply tied to it that their resistance to change and control becomes a liability, stifling growth and innovation.
What is founders syndrome?
Effective rules that help regulatory compliance processes go smoothly
What is green tape?
Nonprofits must file this form every year to maintain their status.
What is a Form 990?
Goodwill Enterprises profit-generating thrift store funding its employment programs is an example of this.
What is a social enterprise?
Board member responsibilities include fiduciary, legal, and these kinds of duties.
What are ethical duties?
It includes job design, recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, evaluating, retaining, promoting, compensating, motivating…
What is strategic human resource management (SHRM)?
What are administrative burdens?
The US President who worked to strengthen America’s nonprofit sector through the White House, Faith-Based and Community Initiative
Who is President George Bush?
A mission-first, profit-second business. They pay taxes on profits and can't receive traditional grants or tax-deductible charitable contributions, like 501(c)(3) public charities can.
What is an L3C?
A rule of thumb that symbolizes a strong nonprofit governing board is a mix of influence-expertise- and this
What is affluence?
This legal construct limits excessive compensation of nonprofit staff, but still allow most forms of earned compensation in reasonable amounts, including bonuses.
What is private inurement?
Grant program cutbacks at USAID impacted these kinds of organizations
The legal requirement that all profits are reinvested in the mission, not paid to shareholders.
What is the nondistribution constraint?
The name of the IRS tax-exempt application form for founding a new nonprofit organization.
What is a Form 1024?
When nonprofits collaborate with government to deliver human services
What are public-private partnerships?
His theory of motivation categorizes people into Theory X and Theory Y
Who is McGregor?
The name of Oliver Williamson's theory that describes the costs of negotiating, monitoring, and governing exchanges between people.
What is transaction cost economics?
What is OpenAI?
The theory that describes the degree to which a person's (board member's) personality, values, and goals match those of the organization?
What is person-organization fit?
The theory that says organizations want to maximize their autonomy and minimize their reliance on outsiders
What is resource dependence theory?
The term Robichau et al., 2024 coined for rewarding volunteers by tapping into sources of intrinsic motivation
The metaphor (Wiley & Berry, 2018) use to describe how nonprofit leaders balance simultaneous pressures from the regulatory and client interfaces when trying to deliver human services
What is a Gordian knot?