Assignment:
1. Should nonprofit organizations be viewed principally as businesses with a social purpose, or are they inherently different from for-profit companies? Explain your answer.
2. Should gifts be made by individuals to a nonprofit organization that receives the largest portion of its revenues from fees for services be fully tax deductible, partially tax deductible, or not deductible at all? Explain your answer.
2. If you needed to stay in the hospital, would you prefer to go to a nonprofit hospital or one managed by a for-profit company? Or would it not make a difference to you? Why?
4. Should boards of nonprofits be concerned only with the intention of doors and the interests of those who benefit from the nonprofits assets, or should they also consider the impact of their decisions on local communities? Explain your answer.
5. Are leaders born or made? Can anyone learn to be a leader, or does it require some innate qualities or characteristics of the individual? Explain your answer.
6. Discuss the concepts of effectiveness, efficiency and organizational performance as they relate to any nonprofit organization? Explain your answer.
7. Suppose a nonprofit organization strategy requires that it phase out a program on which few people rely, but those people are vulnerable and no good substitute exists? How might the organization proceed with its plan in an ethical and humane manner? Explain your answer.
8. Is competition among nonprofit organizations an acceptable concept, or is it contrary to the values of the sector? Explain your answer.