Non-profit

In the United States, about what percent of funding in the nonprofit sector comes from the government in the United States?

30

Which is considered unethical in Societal Ethics?

A nonprofit violating g lobbying laws

Goals for nonprofits are recommended to be:

All of the Above: Prioritized, Challenging, Accepted, Feasible

Government Relations has which similar steps with Public Relations?

All of the Above; Assess internal and external factors, develop messages, evaluate effectiveness and ethics

Which of the following could be a factor for nonprofit transformation?

All of the Above; Change in legitimacy, Change in technology, Change in societal values

In what way did the Nurse-Family Partnership follow the program evaluation process?

All of the Above; Collected data of 3 different trials, Evaluated after each of the 3 trials, Carried out follow up studies

After strategic plans have been made, which of the following should be completed?

All of the above; Adopted by the board of directors, program evaluations, endorsed by the staff and CEO

Communication objectives may be to

All of the above; Create awareness, engage the audience, maintain relationships

Nonprofits can borrow money through:

All of the above; Lines of Credit, Loans, Bonds

Which of the following should be considered in making a case for a new nonprofit?

All of the above; Market potential, sustainability potential, none of the above

To be effective, budgets must be

All of the above; Realistic, Flexible, Measurable

When is it useful to use the Collaborating Conflict-handling Mode?

All of the above; When you wish to learn, to work through feelings negatively affecting a relationship, to merge insights from people with different perspectives

Entrepreneurial success is influenced by a combination of _________ factors.

All of the above; individual, social, organizational, environmental

An earned income strategy is more likely to be viable if it is aligned with the nonprofit's

All of the above; mission, culture and values, core, competencies

What is a suggestion to help increase levels of successful training?

All of the above; provide manuals, deliver training in an understandable way, encourage individuals to identify their weakness

The idea for a new organization can be assessed based on what dimensions?

All of the above; social value potential, market potential, sustainability potential

Before a nonprofit undertakes any earned income strategy, it should review a set of feasibility criteria. Which one is correct?

All of them; culture and values, length of commitment, access to necessary business skills

For nonprofits that do seek government funding, here are a/some recommendation(s):

All of them; encourage gov. contract sources to coordinate requests for proposals, encourage less duplication of reporting requirements, consider sharing back-office functions with other non-profits

Which of the following describes Retention, one of the main options for responding to identified risks?

Assume the risk

Which is true about a nonprofit's board of directors?

Board members should have access to diverse information and contacts

Once a nonprofit has gained legal recognition it has the ability to

Both a & b; take out loans and make contracts, keep property and other assets in the company's name

foundations typically provide support based on assessment of grant proposals. Though foundations vary in what they request in submitted proposals, a good generic proposal outline is offered by the Foundation center. 'Lays out the finances out the finances of the project with explanatory notes' is the _______

Budget

Through the goals of training of personal ethics, which goal helps workers recognize situations involving ethical issues?

Build moral awareness

All of the following are possible challenges to collaborations EXCEPT which?

Collaborating organizations have congruent values

A marketing intelligence subsystem

Collects information from routinely available public sources

Which component of accountability involves adhering to rules through evaluation?

Compliance

Which configuration is formalized yet decentralized?

Constituency Governance

As one of the four strategy types, a defenders strength is in:

Continuity and Reliability

Which of the following is the correct order of an organizational life cycle?

Creativity, Direction, Coordination

Which was a successful step Rabinowitz took after taking over Santropol Roulant?

Develop a document outlining the organization's principles

Which strategy involves positioning the organization to offer unique products for select buyers?

Differentiation

Of the following, which is an advantage of having 501 (c) (3) status?

Eligibility for government and foundation contracts and grants

Which leadership responsibility is most likely to require leaders to collaborate, build teams and support coalitions?

Enable Others to Act

The statement of financial position

Enables stakeholders to assess the nonprofit's ability to meet financial obligations

Which of the following fall under the Separation Stage?

Exit Interview

A vision statement:

Expresses a nonprofit's ultimate goal

The social-exchange theory states that:

Gifts are two way exchanges that satisfy rational and self-interested motives on the part of the receiver and the giver

_______ is a source of revenue for nonprofits primarily through contracts, grants, and vouchers.

Government

Which of the following is not an approach to judging the effectiveness of a nonprofit?

Grant Evaluation Approach

Which best describes divisional structures?

Grouping by outputs or products

Founder's Syndrome is best defined as

Harm to an organization due to the founder's inability to give up control

Which of the following can be used to assess specifically what the audience members know and feel about the organization?

Image research

Which of the following is true about elements of programs?

Impacts are the broader changes that the program outcomes are designed to bring about

What does Resource Acquisition focus on?

Inputs needed by the organization

The following all define a business plan EXCEPT which one?

Is written for an internal audience (employees, volunteers, board members)

When starting up a nonprofit, which is NOT an option to set the nonprofit up as?

Limited Liability Corporation

What is the correct order of steps for Assessing Current HR Capacity?

List the main tasks, conduct an abilities inventory, and create an HR matrix

Strategy is defined as a plan designed to achieve a particular _____-term goal or aim.

Long

The word "philanthropy" means

Love of mankind

Whose framework is for nonprofits?

Mac Millan

Which stage does providing compensation fall under?

Maintenance

Which best describes the Duty of care for nonprofit board members?

Making well-informed decisions on behalf of the nonprofit

All of the following are true EXCEPT which one?

Mechanistic Structure has more horizontal than vertical communication

One of the key parts of strategic planning process in the preparing a plan is to review the nonprofit's ______ and _______.

Mission and Values

What is not one of the 6 elements of organization?

Money

Which of the following levels of ethics cannot be influenced by nonprofit leaders?

None of the above: Personal, Societal, Professional, Organizational

Which of the following is true?

Nonprofits are sometimes viewed as instruments of government

All of the following are true about the Program Evaluation EXCEPT

Nonprofits should always use outside evaluation, not staff members for evalutions

Professional, Personal, organizational, societal values and ________ should all be considered in establishing codes of conduct and compliance systems within a nonprofit

Norms

Which of the following makes the point that collaboration can be undertaken to produce economies of scale?

Operational Efficiency

Fill in 3 blanks based on Social entrepreneurship framework from social and commercial entrepreneurship: same, different, both?

Opportunity, Capital, and People

Which of the following is considered a process-driven change?

Organizational goal setting

All of the following are one of the P's of the marketing mix, EXCEPT which one

People

All of the following lessons of motivations are true EXCEPT

People's behavior is influenced by positive reinforcements, not negative ones

The program efficiency ratio is

Program expenses divided by total expenses

In the United States, the majority of registered nonprofits are

Public Charities

Nonprofits should keep all the following in balance, except for:

Public Perceptions

Which best describes image?

Relates to external stakeholders' current knowledge, feelings, and beliefs about an organization

Which is the correct order of steps for the marketing research process?

Research objectives, data collection, interpretation of findings

Which approach to judging effectiveness concentrates on the extent to which the organization has acquired the inputs needed to accomplish its mission?

Resource Acquisition

What is the correct order for the strategic planning process?

Reviewing the nonprofit's mission, situation analysis, external environmental analysis

Which U.S. President created The March of Dimes?

Roosevelt

All of the following are activities of the initial involvement stage EXCEPT which one?

Screening Current Workers

Which of the following is in the correct order of steps for the program evaluation process?

Securing commitment by stakeholders, choosing an appropriate evaluation design, and reporting the results

The symbolic frame for nonprofit leaders pays most attention to

Shared beliefs and values

Which analysis identifies potentially relevant internal and external factors?

Situation

What is the main difference between entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurship focuses on new solutions to major social problems

Which of the following is the correct description of a simple collaboration for each relationship dimension in the collaboration continuum?

Strategic Value:Minor

After evaluating internal and external factors, what is necessary to review?

Strategic issues

Which of the following statements is correct?

Strategy and structure change involve the elements that provide administration, supervision, and managment

What is SWOT analysis?

Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats

Clean Air Partners looked at membership as an opportunity to do all of the following EXCEPT which one?

Subsidize other operations

__________ is a crude measure of effectiveness, as is growth in size of staff, budget, and services

Survival

If an individual's performance is inadequate, which of the following should NOT be considered as a possible cause

The individual does not have altruistic impluses

Complexity is:

The number of different subsystems within an organization

Which is most likely to occur if a nonprofit struggles with a structural deficiency?

The organization can lack clear communication of goals

Which characteristic of a Nonprofit Executive Director is true?

They may play more than one role in the organization

Which of these does NOT pertain to the SWOT analysis?

Time

T/F. One of the most influential formulations about organizational structure was Max Weber's description of bureaucracy.

True

T/F. Organizational structure is the sum of the total ways in which it divides its labor into distinct tasks and then achieves coordination among them.

True

All of the following are symptoms of Groupthink EXCEPT which one?

Vulnerability

An organization's assets can be known as

What they own

Social Entrepreneurs are agents of

change

In the U.S. the nonprofit sector is growing faster than the ______ or ______ sector

government or business

Which of the following is not one of the Thomas Jeavons attributes of nonprofit managers?

honesty

many nonprofits such as unions, trade group, professional associations, fraternities, and recreational and social clubs are dependent on _______ for a significant part of their earned income

membership fees

An organizations _________ value proposition addresses the reasons why individuals will choose to be involved or not.

social

Which of the following is not a reason why there should be financial management?

to gain more donors and sponsors

Each nonprofit's founding story is

unique

What are the two linkages used to coordinate nonprofits?

vertical and horizontal