The Nonprofit Sector
It is an organization created to serve a specific mission that helps people, communities or society as a whole.
What is a nonprofit?
These nonprofits are community focused entities whose mission is to support their affiliated city neighborhoods with a range of programs and services.
What are Community Development Corporations (CDCs)?
What is Confidentiality?
This is the practice of giving resources, such as money, time, or expertise, to support causes that improve the welfare of individuals and communities.
What is Philanthropy?
These nonprofit organizations provide spaces for creative expression, preserve artistic traditions, and make performances, exhibitions, and cultural programs accessible to the public.
What are Arts & Culture Nonprofits?
This organization is recognized as the world's first community foundation, introducing the concept of pooling donations from multiple donors to support a wide range of community needs.
What is The Cleveland Foundation?
This term refers to when residents move away and the population of a neighborhood or city decreases.
What is depopulation?
Bias in algorithms, over-reliance on technology, and data privacy risks are all examples of ethical concern in healthcare concerning this advancement in technology.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics?
This is when foundations use their financial resources to invest for both financial returns and measurable social benefits.
What is Social Impact Investing?
This ethical dilemma refers to how leaders of religious and faith-based organizations must decide how to distribute limited resources when the demand far exceeds supply.
What is Fair Distribution?
A key part of nonprofit governance, this group is comprised of volunteers who set the mission and direction, oversee finances, and carry fiduciary duties to the organization.
What is the Board of Directors?
This ethical dilemma deals with pushing out longtime residents who can no longer afford to live in an area due to neighborhood revitalization efforts.
What is Gentrification?
Although classified as nonprofits, these entities often function similarly to for-profit systems, generating billions in revenue and expanding globally while maintaining nonprofit status.
What are (Nonprofit) Hospitals?
Many nonprofits need these to help with events, manage donor communications, or provide administrative support, which can be invaluable during busy fundraising season.
Who are Volunteers?
This organization distributes public funding to arts and culture organizations through grants and is funded by a cigarette tax. It is also the reason that Cleveland regularly ranks #1 in public funding for the arts.
What is Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC)?
This challenge facing nonprofits deals with complying with IRS and state rules and often is harder for smaller organizations.
What is Regulation & Oversight?
This organization supports Cleveland's network of CDCs as an umbrella organization, helping them collaborate, share resources, and amplify their impact.
What is Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP)?
Food banks, food pantries, and home-delivered meal programs are examples of nonprofits in this health & human service role.
What is Food Assistance & Nutritional Support?
A person in this role might start their day by reviewing grant appliciations, assessing which proposals align with the foundation's mission and goals.
What is a Program Officer?
What is Curation of Cultural Artifacts?
Organizations in this nonprofit service delivery area work to protect natural resources and promote sustainability, of which Holden Arboretum is an example in Northeast Ohio.
What is Environmental Conservation?
Someone is considered cost burdened if they spend greater than this amount on housing.
What is 30 percent?
This has changed how patient data is stored, shared, and used, allowing healthcare providers to access patient histories, coordinate care, and improve treatment accuracy.
What are Electronic Health Records (EHRs)?
Changes in this may affect the benefits donors may receive for their contributions, possibly leading to donors being less inclined to give.
What is Tax Policy?
A decline in this may cause religious and faith-based organizations to struggle to secure the financial support needed to sustain their services.
What is Religious Participation?