2.3. Summary of the unit and reflection on its content

This unit should have given you a bit of a flavour of what happens internally in third sector organisations, but also about what happens externally that can have a significant impact on the organisations and their service users.

Resources:

NCVO (2021) NCVO Almanac 2021.
OSCR (nd, a) Legal Forms Factsheet.
OSCR (nd, b) Step 2 What it means to be a charity.
Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector (2013) Independence under threat: the voluntary sector in 2013.
Worth, M. (2021) Nonprofit management: principles and practice. SAGE: Thousand Oaks.
Young, D. (2000) Alternative Models of Government-Nonprofit Sector Relations: Theoretical and International Perspectives. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 29(1), pp. 149-172.

TASK
Find a friend or family member who knows little about the third sector, or who might have somewhat negative opinions about the sector. Your task is one of persuasion. Effectively teach this person about the sector, or try to change this persons standpoint, by putting forward your arguments of why the third sector is needed, and why management of organisations within it is so difficult, of no fault of their own, but because the system they operate in works against them at every turn.

“Without adequate and well-managed resources, achievement of the mission is jeopardized, and the very survival of the organization may be threatened.”
Worth, 2015

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2.3. Summary of the unit and reflection on its content

“Without adequate and well-managed resources, achievement of the mission is jeopardized, and the very survival of the organization may be threatened.” Worth, 2015

“Without adequate and well-managed resources, achievement of the mission is jeopardized, and the very survival of the organization may be threatened.”
Worth, 2015