NPO: Feed the Children

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that Feed The Children's services are first to feed hungry people, especially children, and then to help them help themselves. The author analyzes Feed The Children by investigating the following variables: continuing mission, budgeting and financial management, strategic planning, electronic and technology planning and implementation, human resources, marketing, and fund raising, with an emphasis on the organization's fiscal accountability. The paper reports that Feed The Children represents one of the most effective and efficient NPOs in the U.S. However, the organization also faces some problems including the fact that the highly charismatic leader is aging, there is almost a cult-like following in the organizational culture and the organization's strictly Christian focus may present problems in anti-American Muslim regions. The paper includes figures, tables, charts and a letter of introduction.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Continuing Mission
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Budgeting and Financial Management
Overview
Strengths
Distribution Percentages for Feed the Children
Weaknesses
Strategic Planning
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Electronic and Technology Planning and Implementation
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Human Resources
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Marketing
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Fund Raising
Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Conclusion and Recommendations

From the Paper:

"The employees assigned to open and process mailed donations appeared to be the least satisfied members of this organization; they worked under the close supervision of several managers that watched their every move, and there were security cameras in abundance as well. Furthermore, these employees were forced to work in banks of workstations in a stadium-like arrangement in front of glass windows that afforded them absolutely no privacy and many appeared to be unhappy while they were working. In sharp contrast, employees in the warehouses and administrative offices were smiling, laughing and it appeared morale was high."

Sample of Sources Used:

• About Feed the Children. (2007). Feed the Children. [Online]. Available: http:// www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_about_ftc.
• Accountability. (2007). Feed the Children. [Online]. Available: http://www.feedthechildren. org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_financial_accountability.
• Charity Navigator. (2007). Feed the Children - Charity Rating. [Online]. Available: http:// www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/3691.htm.
• Eckel, C. C., & Grossman, P. J. (2006). Subsidizing charitable giving with rebates or matching: Further laboratory evidence. Southern Economic Journal, 72(4), 794.
• Feed The Children's founders, Larry and Frances Jones. (2007). Feed the Children. [Online]. Available: http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_larry_ frances_jones.

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