Fun Facts
In 2019, there were approximately ___ formally registered nonprofit organizations in the US.
What is 1.5 million?
Nonprofits can be separated into market or non-market organizations based on how they generate revenue. CU Boulder, a public university, is considered a ____ organization.
What is Market?
One is usually not compelled to join or participate in a non-profit organization.
What is Voluntary?
Epipens are the leading brand epinephrine medication, which treats severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis; however, 2 EpiPens cost around $710 USD without insurance, making it heavily inaccessible. NPOs like the Food Allergy Research and Education work to pass laws and grants to increase public accessibility to this life-saving medication.
What is Market failure: Monopolies?
The leading theories for why nonprofits seem to exist.
What is the Four Failures?
The ____ is used by the IRS and other researchers to classify non-profit organizations
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities
A nonprofit can be categorized as member-serving or public-serving organization based on who they are providing benefit for. Your local homeowner’s association is considered a _____ organization.
What is Member-serving?
In terms of goals, nonprofits are expected to work towards a public good.
What is mission driven?
After Hurricane Katrina, slow government relief efforts left many victims unsupported. Due to these insufficiencies, NPOs like Direct Relief contributed over 47 million in grants and medical aid to “fill in these gaps”.
What is Government failure?
The reason why most higher-income countries have a more substantial safety net for citizens in need.
What is social origins theory?
Because buying a car is risky, especially if you don’t know its maintenance history, states might pass a ___, which protects your rights in the event of significant car issues shortly after purchase, often offering you a refund.
What is lemon law?
Peter Frumkin describes nonprofit organizations on a spectrum of instrumental to expressive, based on how a nonprofit achieves output. Buff Pantry, a CU Boulder Food Bank, leans more towards a ____ organization.
What is Instrumental?
Most, if not all nonprofits share this characteristic.
What is tax exempt?
Because nonprofit public colleges are often still too expensive for most populations, the nonprofit College Possible provides funding and resources to increase accessibility to higher education.
What is Voluntary Failure: Philanthropic Insufficiency?
The belief that nonprofit organizations and government are mutually dependent on each other for providing resources that the public needs and demands.
What is interdependence theory?
Out of the 9 unique resources cited in these articles, there’s only ___ source(s) authored by non-men.
What is 1?
The Salvation Army, a major international nonprofit that “seeks to tackle the causes of injustice and poverty and not just address the symptoms”. Although nonprofit classifications like Charitable organization, Voluntary Organization, Independent Sector, Social Sector, and INGOs are often interchangeable, the Salvation Army is not a ____.
What is Voluntary Organization?
Non-profits often are not allowed to distribute profits to the managers or “owners” of the organization.
What is non-distribution constraint?
In Australia, most home-based care for older people and people with disabilities care is provided by the government or NPOs through the Home and Community Care program. Most other FPOs tend to work through HACC providers or other government programs, but overall NPOs are considered more “trustworthy” with care, and receive more traffic.
What is Contract failure?
The theory that the government is only interested in producing goods desired by the majority of the public.
What is median voter theorem?