Exam 6: Organizational Structure

Which of the following statements most accurately describes traditional philanthropy from individual donations, foundation grants, government grants, and corporate giving?

Which of the following answers is why the form of nonprofits with nonprofit subsidiaries might be adopted?

What are the advantages typically associated with "e-philanthropy" or philanthropy via the Internet?

If a nonprofit is found to be engaged in revenue-generating activity that does not meet the operational test, the earnings from that activity are subject to the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT).

Which forms of nontraditional philanthropy have emerged in recent years, according to Wei-Skillern et al., (2007)?

All of the following are examples of hybrid structural options in social entrepreneurship except ___________________?

A nonprofit with a strong brand (a name and a mission that are highly recognizable and respected) is not an attractive partner to commercial businesses because they can detract from the mission and marketing of the commercial business.

Which principle does NOT define the nature of a cooperative?

There is an emerging type of corporation that is not yet widely recognized in a legal sense or known by the general public, the "Benefit corporation" ("B corporation"). All of the following statements accurately describe this new type of corporation except one. Which of the following is not characteristic of the new B corporations?

The best way to combat resistance to merger or consolidation of nonprofit-nonprofit partnerships is to educate the prospective parties to its benefits: integration of services, expansion of client markets, expansion of resource pools, fuller attainment of mission, and survival.

A cooperative has been defined as a private business organization that is owned and controlled by whom?

One way to frame the range of structural options available in social entrepreneurship is as a spectrum, with which forms at the ends?

Nonprofit consortia tend to take one of two legal forms: cooperative ventures or strategic mergers (or consolidations).

Most nonprofit parent ventures that establish a for-profit subsidiary own 100 percent of the stock of that subsidiary and thus control the latter's board of directors so both entities can share the same board.

Which of the following would not be considered an advantage of the relatively new type of philanthropy via the Internet, i.e., e-philanthropy?

Successful nonprofit-for-profit partnerships tend to have several common characteristics and these include which of the following, according to Lasprogata and Cotton?

Are nonprofit organizations precluded from generating a profit?

Before entrepreneurship became a major factor in the accomplishment of social goals, the delivery of social services was largely accomplished by tax-exempt organizations labeled "charities" or "charitable organizations."

A number of government agencies have made grants to nonprofit ventures to develop business incubators to encourage entrepreneurship among economically disadvantaged groups; however, the grants are typically only for the bricks and mortar aspects of the incubator and not for covering the incubator's expenses for developing entrepreneurs and companies.

Cooperatives are a new phenomenon.