ADMS 1000 Chapter Course Kit Reading #3: The Non-Profit Organization

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Eytan Lasry

Document Summary

Reading 10 - course kit reading #3 - the non-profit organization. Course kit reading #3 - the non-profit organization. Profit objective is not the only goal that exists within our working society. Organizations are the primary instruments through which economic, social and political goals are achieved. Private sector organizations produce, process, and market goods and services for consumers, while turning a profit for themselves. Public sector (government-based) organizations sustain the framework of our society: By providing protection against foreign attackers, criminals, unsafe products, unhealthy air and water. By providing health and social services to those in need. Public sector org. in canada include schools, hospitals, and universities as well as various governmental departments. Non-for-profit organization or non-profit sector: generation of profit is not primary purpose. Npo"s are not prohibited from producing revenue through their activities or from generating a surplus (profit in a sense)