Jad Assi
| The journal that I chose to read, “Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector” by Burton A. Weisbrod. The book was published by the Cambridge University Press, May 1, 2000. The book investigates Nonprofit organizations that resemble private firms due to their rapid increase in the past 12 years. These industries have transformed the concept of nonprofit capitalism and its potential to stabilize nonprofit financial independence through commercial sales activity. The author’s focus was analyzing issues that apply to nonprofits typically such as the role of competition and the effects of changes in donations on commercial activity. The research question was what obstacles typically effect nonprofit organizations that do not effect privately structured nonprofits? The author accessed public and private records on emerging organization and conducted in-depth interviews to gather his data. The author used an interval/ratio analysis method to develop his conclusions. I found the article to be very informative as someone who is very interested in the emergence of capitalist charity organizations into the nonprofit sector. The book pointed out several examples of privately structured organizations running at higher rates of efficiency than bureaucratically structured nonprofit. The book found there to be a tremendous waste of potential and resources in bureaucratic nonprofits. I found this book to have been incredibly thorough in its evaluation of what is traits are considered successful. I believe it would interest the class to know that privately structured organizations have also allowed for the emergence of micro-charity organized by individuals or small groups with poor capital. |