Features Of Good Public Charities

By Brian King


There are local and international organizations that are run to benefit our communities. They are well structured and well managed and mostly offer their services to less disadvantaged communities. In this case, public charities operate exclusively to benefit the public. The Attorney General office has the responsibility of caring the welfare of the community by making sure that the organizations are wholly non-profit organizations and charitable. Thus, they have some characteristics as stated below.

The main aim of a charity organizations is to offer help to communities especially those who are disadvantaged and experiencing some challenges. In this case, they get involved in solving some of these tragedies by establishing schooling facilities, improving the religious and health sectors of the regions and creating homes for the homeless. Therefore, the community benefits from the education and improvement of an area on health which leads to advancement of regions.

These non-profit societies have broad communal support and solely rely on the donations from the general public, government, private foundations and from well-wishers or individuals. Some get some funds from being involved in grant making activities and conducting direct services. The donations to the public aids undergo tax deduction as stipulated by the law. For this reason, they can attract more help from other communal charities and also private foundations.

It is a requirement by the central revenue service to ensure that the societies do fulfill the needs of a community as stipulated in their article and the strategies laid down by the organization. They should make sure that the law is considered for it not to be seen as a private foundation and lose the advantages got from funding and reduced taxes.

The association needs to select a board of management which the community wants and not personal interests of the group officials. There should not be any blood nor marriage relations in the board of directors not even personal business relations. It means that diversification of the persons to manage should be done and should ensure that the organization experiences significant development.

Financial figures of a society help including the tax refund, revenues from the fund raising and that got from selling goods, services and from investments act as good indicators to access the sustainability of a charity financially. Thus, will give forth information which will have a great impact on the welfare reputation concerning donations got from the masses. For this reason, it may gain more sponsors or loss depending on the report on their financial evaluation of the charity.

Maximizing fund raising efforts of charities is an essential thing to them. Their employees and trustees need to be involved entirely on the events, formalize and come up with a plan on how to conduct it. They should also diversify fund raising efforts so that they can be able to contact more potential donors through having special events. Also, they can communicate with the government sources, corporate s and foundations by direct emails and through websites.

Besides, the mass non-profit organization encounters certain shortcomings which in most cases make them stop providing their services due to lack of funds. It happens when there are economic crises and high unemployment levels. Therefore, most people need help though the organizations have less effort to assist.




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