scholarly journals From Nonprofit Organization to Social Enterprise - Case Study of Taiwan Lifeline International

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Yu Wu Chang
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Profound Insight

The purpose of this study aims to explore the possibilities of Taiwan Lifeline International turning into a social enterprise to remediate the burden of scarce resources. The European and American countries provide their people with good welfare through the support of government resources and policy. However, after several financial recessions, the financial shortfall makes the governments rethink their welfare policy. "Nonprofit organizations" therefore start to play an important role in providing various services to people in need. Governments of different countries constantly provide resources and assistance to nonprofit organizations over the years. By the case study of Taiwan Lifeline International, conclusions with profound insight and some possible solutions can be helpful to nonprofit organizations encountering similar challenges. This study investigates the history of nonprofit organizations in social enterprise. The second part of this study continues with the case study of Taiwan Lifeline International, which provides insights on the challenges and possible solutions of the transformation process from nonprofit organizations to social enterprise.

Cat Videos for a Cause

2015 ◽  
pp. 123-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayla Schaefer ◽  
Leigh Nanney Hersey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Communications Strategies

This chapter explores the progression of a mid-sized nonprofit organization, the Central Brevard Humane Society (CBHS), as it embraces social media as part of its marketing and communications strategies. This case study explores how CBHS has used Facebook to advance its mission despite experiencing common challenges faced by nonprofit organizations when using social media. CBHS was able to overcome some of these issues through solutions and opportunities that can be used by other mid-sized nonprofit organizations to better integrate social media into their own marketing and communications strategies.

scholarly journals New Towns’ Planning and Construction in the Pre-Urbanization or Post-Urbanization Period: A Case Study of the New Towns’ Development Process of Beijing

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxiao Cai ◽  
Bruno De Meulder ◽  
Yanliu Lin ◽  
Hong Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
New Towns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Transformation Processes

Social background and planning objectives differentiate two kinds of development modes for new towns. One starts in the period of post-urbanization and post-industrialization and is committed to improving living conditions and dispersing urban central areas. The other begins in the stage of pre-urbanization and pre-industrialization with the purpose of promoting the development of urbanization and industrialization. However, academics have not given enough attention to researching the relationship between the different modes and their respective social backgrounds. This paper first proposes these two kinds of development modes and analyses how their different social contexts and institutional backgrounds lead to different planning and construction characteristics. Then, taking Beijing as an example, this paper presents a complete review of the development and transformation history of the planning and construction of China’s new towns with different urbanization levels and in an institutional context. The whole history and transformation process can be considered a demonstration and evolution of the two different development modes. Accordingly, by analyzing the respective characteristics and transformation processes in different periods, this study reveals the impact of social background on the new towns’ development and the problems caused by different development modes.

scholarly journals Nonprofit Organization Develop Social Enterprise Business Model in Taiwan: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Large-Scale NPO

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Meng-Chueh Hsu ◽  
Shang-Yung Yen
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Organization Transformation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
The Difference

Nonprofit organizations take important roles and functions in our modern society. However, because of the fierce competitions in market and the rapid social changes, nonprofit organizations are facing the same management issues with profit making organizations, such as financial difficulties or lack of resources. In this qualitative research, in order to discuss the issue about nonprofit organization transformation from the prospective of nonprofit management and organization transformation, we interviewed a large nonprofit organization in Taiwan, analyzed the results and provided case studies. We also considered about the social enterprise model to explain the concept between nonprofit organization and social enterprise. In our conclusion, we found that when nonprofit organization transformation took a place and changed the service model into the social enterprise model, the reasons are not limited to the management needs but included to provide the more appropriate services and working approaches. Therefore, the difference between the nonprofit organization and the social enterprise is clarified through this research.

The Social Meaning of Money in Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Formal and Informal Earmarking of Money

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ola Segnestam Larsson ◽  
Susanna Alexius
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Nonprofit Leadership ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning Of Money

By studying mechanisms, justifications, and valuations, this article analyzes the social meaning of earmarked money in a nonprofit organization. Focusing on the social meaning of money implies gaining insights into the moral underpinnings and justifications of the origin and generation of money as well as processes by which various streams of money are earmarked. Based on previous literature as well as our own research, we offer two models for understanding and studying processes that earmark and justify the earmarking of money. We illustrate the relevance of these models in a case study of the nonprofit organization IOGT-NTO in Sweden. We conclude the article by presenting key implications for nonprofit leadership and future research, including the recommendation that leaders need to analyze earmarking processes as well as how these processes affect organizations and to what ends money may be used.

Welfare rights, self-help and social enterprise: Unpicking neoliberalism’s mess

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Welfare Rights ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Welfare State

Neoliberalism is often represented as a fundamental intrusion of individualism into post-war welfare policy settlements. This article seeks to unpick this understanding through a case study of the intersections between the welfare rights and self-help approaches of the homeless and community sectors in the 1970s and 1980s, and the emergence of social enterprise and The Big Issue in the 1990s. First, I outline the development of a dedicated ‘homeless sector’ in the 1970s. Second, the ways in which this sector developed in relation to challenges to state authority in social welfare is examined. Finally, I explore the discursive intersections between the critiques of the welfare state, and the rise of neoliberalism and social enterprise. I suggest the emergence of social enterprise is emblematic of wider claims to individual agency, while also interwoven with the rise of neoliberalism and the capitalist recuperation of self-help and welfare rights challenges to state strategies.

Cotton and Salt: Swedish Colonial Aspirations and the Transformation of Saint Barthélemy in the Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-287
Author(s):  
Holger Weiss ◽  
Laura Hollsten ◽  
Stefan Norrgård
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Histories ◽  
The Caribbean

The environmental history of the Caribbean has been strongly associated with the consequences of sugar cane agriculture and extreme weather phenomena. Consequently, other aspects of environmental change at play in the Caribbean region have remained less known. However, islands such as Anguilla, Barbuda, and Saint Barthélemy had no or very few sugar plantations. The fact that non-sugar producing islands had to find other ways of supporting themselves shaped their environmental history in ways that differed from that of the sugar islands. These alternative environmental histories deserve to be highlighted when presenting the historiography of the Caribbean. In this article, the island of Saint Barthélemy serves as a case study of an island where sugar cane agriculture was absent and tropical storms and hurricanes were of lesser consequence. In outlining the environmental history of Saint Barthélemy during the first decades of Swedish colonial rule, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the article shows that the Swedish takeover resulted in environmental changes. Sweden’s ambitions and expectations concerning the improvement of the island were initially high and much effort was put into the development of the economy. The rationale for the Swedish plans was to exploit the few and scarce resources of the island, but it was the harbour that became the most successful endeavour.

scholarly journals Mobilizing Missions in a Disruptive World: International Sports Federation Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Daryl D Green ◽  
Jack McCann ◽  
Stephanie Dirlbeck ◽  
Nancy Lopez ◽  
Sarah Lopez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Disruptive Change

Nonprofit organizations have been a part of the US business economy since the late 1800s. Religious nonprofits have seen consistent growth in availability and services for the past several years. With that growth, there is increased competition. The purpose of this case study is to analyze International Sports Federation, a nonprofit organization, and provide recommendations for sustainable growth. Today’s religion-focused organizations find themselves challenged in a disruptive climate. The result of this research is beneficial to scholars and practitioners, so that they can assist religious nonprofit organizations in gaining sustainable success under the lens of disruptive change in the marketplace.

scholarly journals Social Enterprises in the Canadian West

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Elson ◽  
Peter Hall ◽  
Sarah Leeson-Klym ◽  
Darcy Penner ◽  
Jill Andres
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Enterprise Activity

Western Canada has been the source of significant developments in the social enterprise sector over the past fifteen years. Among these developments one must include the formation of Enterprising Non-Profits in British Columbia, the Social Enterprise Fund in Alberta, and the Canadian CED Network in Manitoba. Underlying these more recent developments is a history of co-operative development and earned revenues by nonprofit organizations, reflecting a longstanding blend of entrepreneurship and community solidarity. This article highlights some of the more recent social enterprise developments in three Western provinces, profiling three independent cases that reflect the diversity of social enterprise activity in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba, and providing the results of social enterprise sector surveys that took place in these same provinces in 2014.Depuis quinze ans, l’Ouest canadien a été la source de développements importants dans le secteur de l’entreprise sociale. Parmi ces développements, il faut inclure la formation : d’Enterprising Non-Profits en Colombie-Britannique; du Social Enterprise Fund en Alberta; et du Réseau canadien de DÉC au Manitoba. Sous-tendant ces progrès récents est une longue histoire de développements coopératifs et de revenus gagnés par des organismes sans but lucratif reflétant une combinaison d’entreprenariat et de solidarité communautaire. Cet article souligne certains des développements plus récents en entreprise sociale dans trois provinces de l’Ouest, recensant trois cas distincts qui reflètent la diversité des activités en entreprise sociale en Colombie-Britannique, en Alberta et au Manitoba, et présentant les résultats de sondages sur le secteur de l’entreprise sociale effectués dans ces trois provinces en 2014.

scholarly journals Migration as a Source of Suffering in the Context of the Biographical Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland. Case Study of Weronika’s Life History

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-139
Author(s):  
Joanna Wygnańska
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Collective Influence ◽  
The Relationship

The article focuses on the case study of the life history of Weronika, a person biographically experiencing the consequences of the transformation process in Poland. On the one hand, the text concentrates on showing the change in the status of the narrator’s family from a privileged position in the socialist period to the experience of unemployment and poverty after 1989. On the other hand, the text analyzes the necessity of the narrator’s mother’s emigration to Italy in the mid-1990s. Thus, the article focuses on the narrator’s experience in the context of being a migrant woman’s child. This experience is related to the time of socialization and education, which was difficult for the narrator, and the consequence of which is shown in the text in connection to the narrator’s persistence in trajectory. The text also presents the perspective of transnational motherhood within the framework of Polish women’s migrations after 1989. Also, an important perspective adapted in the article is the experience of migration by the narrator, who at the time of the interview has also been living in Italy for 10 years. Permanent emigration of the narrator is associated in her life history with high biographical costs. The article is, therefore, an attempt to present migration as a source of suffering in relation to the context of being a migrant’s child and being a migrant oneself. The analysis of Weronika’s case is also an attempt to show the relationship between the individual experience of the narrator and the mechanisms of collective influence. Thus, the text treats the analyzed life history as one of the biographical accounts reflecting the biographical and social processes assigned to a specific time frame. In this perspective, the text aims to reconstruct the complexity of these processes and to interpret the experienced social reality in an individual biography.

scholarly journals Accountability in Nonprofit Governance: A Process-Based Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tacon ◽  
Geoff Walters ◽  
Chris Cornforth
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Accountability is a crucial element of governance. Nonprofit organizations are typically accountable to multiple stakeholders and often “do” accountability in multiple ways. But what happens when a nonprofit organization is highly dependent on a single source of funding? This article provides an empirical exploration of this issue. It draws on a longitudinal case study of one nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom that is highly dependent on a single funder to examine how accountability is constructed and enacted, with a focus on the board. It critically examines accountability processes through direct observation of board and committee meetings and in-depth interviews with board members. The analysis shows how board members work to construct broader forms of accountability beyond accountability to the funder, but then struggle to enact them. This article provides in-depth insight into the challenges that nonprofit board members face and offers a rare example of observational research on board behavior.

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