Passage Structure: Intended impacts of Non-Profit organization (NPO) through
- inline activities towards decision maker of organisation and
- generating benefits from allocated resource in order to be successful.
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Para 1: NPO to be successful, attract shareholders, specify resource, identifies both the beneficiaries of a non-profit’s activities, and acquired benefits for organisation, which works for NPO when to trade-offs among while competing priorities.
Para 2: NPO intended impact tend to be iterative, inclusive, and incredibly hard.
Strategy and scope of NPO can reduce needs, helps to select tough choice.
Can tough choice make NPO align its resource with activities, activities having greatest impact on NPO.
1)The passage most strongly implies
which of the following about clarifying,
the intended impact of a non-profit organization's activities?as mentioned in the passageOne approach is for non-profit leaders to formulate and agree upon the organization's
intended impact.
Intended-impact statement identifies:
1. the beneficiaries of a non-profit's activities and
2. the benefits the organization will provideA) Decision makers must make difficult choices about
whether “
requests from would-be recipients” of the organization's services “
are legitimate”
Out of scope - IrrelevantB) The organization will most likely
“
need to narrow its intended activities” to a subset of those that
“
its decision makers would like to include”
Correct: as mentioned aboveC) The organization should not try to
“
define in detail the categories of beneficiaries” that it “
intends to serve”
Out of scope - IrrelevantD) To make “
effective choices” about how best to target
which needs, the organization may have to “
exclude some board members or staff from deliberations”
Out of scope - IrrelevantE) The organization's leaders often find it “
unnecessary to decide among beneficiaries' apparently competing needs”
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2)Which of the following most accurately states the main idea of the passage?A)
The process of developing an intended-impact statement
for a non-profit organization can be made
less difficult by involving all types of stakeholders, including beneficiaries, board members, and staff.
Wrong - Irrelevant B) Non-profit organizations
have
difficulty meeting all the legitimate needs of their beneficiaries because those needs are greater than the resources available
Wrong (as per sentence mentioned in the passage): One source of difficulty: legitimate needs invariably outstrip any single organization's ability to meet themC)
A crucial task that
non-profit organizations' leaders face is determining
who the beneficiaries of the organization's services will be and
how the benefits are to be delivered.
Wrong - Irrelevant D) A non-profit organization can significantly benefit
by
defining its mission in order to convince stakeholders, particularly donors,
of the importance of the organization's work.Wrong: Out of scopeE) A
good definition of a non-profit organization's intended impact is
difficult to develop but can play an integral role in effectively targeting the organization's uses of its resources.
Correct: as mention in the passageSentence 1: The most fundamental decision a non-profit organization can make is to define the results it must deliver in order to be successful
definition of NPOSentence 2: by clarifying its strategy and scope, the non-profit is also determining what it will not do. This involves tough choices, without "right" answers
difficult to developSentence 3: But only by making them can a non-profit align its limited resources with the activities that will have the greatest impact
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3) Which of the following is most clearly
an example of a strong intended-impact statement,
as described in the passage?as mentioned in the passage:That process entails translating the organization's mission into goals that are
simultaneously compelling enough
- to attract ongoing support from stakeholders and
- specific enough to inform resource allocationsA strong intended-impact statement identifies both
the beneficiaries of a non-profit's activities and
the benefits the organization will provideA) Our organization is an educational non-profit corporation
that seeks
to “
raise awareness” about environmentally friendly consumer products
Wrong: claims only beneficiaries of non-profit’s activities B) The “
beneficiaries” of our organization are
orphans and vulnerable children under the age of 18
in both developing and developed nations.
Wrong: Claims only benefits the organisation will provideC) Our organization offers facilities and services
that exceed both local and national requirements
for
delivering high-quality child care.
Wrong: Not a NPO activities “delivering high-quality child care”D) The key stakeholders in our organization are
its current and potential donors, its board members, its staff, and the clients receiving its services.
Wrong: Not a NPO organisationE) Our organization helps
homeless young people, ages 12 to 24, in our community
develop the self-sufficiency and skills necessary to live independently.
Correct: NPO activities, NPO organisation and proper goal to specify resources