continue with service POTS ( NPO model)

One more thing about POTS is the benefits of serving the guests like in a restaurant. This helps to prevent some language conflicts what we had at our second spot—it is all my fault to forget their name, and I don’t know if they have a short name. Also, the clean-up people working during the serving period to save time after the close-up.

Working like a restaurant also reminds me of NPO as a business. What does a NPO use to compete for resources and how would they accomplish economy of scale and scope? What’s the future of NPO be? Will there be an all-in-one organization serving with chain store in different locations?

Renee shared with me that some well-functioned organization competes for investments with their aiding goals. Even the success and failure of NPO is hard to mark out (SF), the method of accomplished missions may be an integral method of efficient attract, transformation and distribution of resources. Also some are big enough to attract enough funds and efficiently distribute the funds to different departments or different locations. She said the future of NPO can be profit—there’s no saying that we have to make no profit to be NPO!

I also talked with Kenia, and she always wants to open an enterprise to offer opportunities to women, which will bring lots of benefits to the society from the intent of her start-up.

Entrepreneurial businesses can provide opportunities while make profit, while serving the people in need is always the first priority of a NPO. The former may be easier to attract funds because they meet the market needs, and may be more flexible with their structure and restrictions compared with NPO. However, they may bring their staffs into their ups and downs.

The model for some organization can be replicated to expand the success as the speaker at NOSP said, but Lisa said things are more complexed than we can see. As the staff at HOUR said that even though other organizations may use their model, their leader is not replicable. As Micro finance may give available funds for people in need to start their own businesses, but they may not be equipped with skills and leadership as abovementioned entrepreneurs are.  Well, not much leadership is needed for a family-owned business to get rid of poverty with some help from counseling team. These people can be well trained at NPO and be connected with funds from banks or through other channels. Perhaps the “well-intent” entrepreneurs can get funds through NPO also so that the demand and supply of human and labor resources is self-sustained within the system. I can ask and discuss with others and do research to know and think more about this topic, but it is hard to do anything with an empty belly…

SF: Helmig, B., Ingerfurth, S., Pinz, A. Success and Failure of Nonprofit Organizations: Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Evidence, and Future Research. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary & Nonprofit Organizations. Dec2014, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p1509-1538. 30p. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=f94317ef-353c-4f1d-86e9-2997d258876b%40sessionmgr112&hid=108&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=99256178&db=a9h