I had never realized until working at one, that non-profits are not the well-oiled machines that corporations are. One could argue that the work that they do is much more valuable from a social standpoint, but moving information and coordinating with people outside of the organization is proving to be more and more difficult as I go through the summer. What I can\u2019t figure out is whether this trait is inherent to non-profits and once they compromise quality for efficiency, they become the corporation they were trying to fight in the first place.<\/p>\n
This might be true, but I think the most valid argument that can be made for non-profits not reaching their full potential relates to something we learnt in out Professional Writing seminar this week. Hayley spoke to us about how many non-profits don\u2019t invest enough money in visual information or marketing because they feel that they don\u2019t have the money. I think if any organization looked deep enough, they would find that the money they could put into marketing would bring them a higher return.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m lucky that at Food and Water Watch we\u2019re a large enough organization to be able to afford to advertise and understand the importance of investing in education. But many organizations are not this lucky, or this aware of its benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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