Exam 6: Organizational Structure

Fewer and fewer social entrepreneurs who are frustrated by the restrictions of the nonprofit structure and the management vicissitudes of the for-profit structure opt to create hybrid structural models.

Purely nonprofit structure offers considerable choice in sources of financing, but it is limiting in what way?

Which of the following was not a result of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 in the United States?

In the 1980s the rolling back of federal government responsibility and funding for charitable work responsibilities for many social services were transferred to the local level and this decreased the demand for social services.

New hybrid structures are being developed and tested on a regular basis and are said to be limited only by the imagination and the law (or, more accurately, its interpretation). The imagination of whom or what? And what could feed this imagination?

Corporate giving offices have long supported charitable activity in the community or communities where these businesses operate by providing large grants for the purposes of receiving tax write-offs and generating goodwill among customers and prospective customers.

Hybrid structures assumed by social ventures represent various combinations of structural elements from nonprofit, for-profit, and/or government organizations. List the more common structures and provide an example of each.

The pure for-profit structure for social ventures follows the same general conventions as those observed by for-profit commercial ventures with some differences. All of the following are examples of these differences between the two except which one?

Describe the legal structures available to entrepreneurs who structure their venture as a for-profit?

The people who use its products, supplies or services own and control the cooperative.

Which of the following is not typically considered to be a challenge to social entrepreneurs seeking traditional philanthropy grants?

What are the end points at the Spectrum of Structural Options in Social Entrepreneurship?

Nonprofit ventures carry the designation as tax-exempt nonprofits that must originally meet and continue to maintain their status by being in conformance with the requirements of Section 501(c) (3) and the Treasury Regulations. Explain what is meant by conforming to the "organizational test" and the "operational test."

Picture the seven principles that define the nature of a cooperative that identified by the International Cooperative Alliance in its Statement of Cooperative Identity. List them in order of priority for the continuity of a cooperative, and explain your answer briefly, per each of the seven principles.

How was the cooperative defined?

There are several legal structures available to entrepreneurs who choose to structure their venture as a for-profit including ______________________?

Many nonprofit-for-profit partnerships have a strong marketing component often referred to as cause-related marketing.

Describe the challenges to nonprofit social ventures presented by traditional philanthropy as it is usually practiced.

One of the chief advantages of adopting the nonprofit structure is the multiple options it affords for generating revenue such as the ability to produce unlimited earned income and it makes the social venture eligible to receive federal funding.

One of the chief advantages of adopting the nonprofit structure is the multiple options it affords for generating revenue because it provides the ability to produce earned income, within the limits, but it makes the social venture eligible to receive philanthropic dollars.