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Room to Read is a global non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. [1] The organization focuses on working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments to improve literacy and gender equality in education. [2] Room to Read has reached 23 million children and has worked in 20 countries ...
A mission statement aims to communicate the organisation's purpose and direction to its employees, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders. A mission statement also creates a sense of identity for employees. Organizations normally do not change their mission statements over time, since they define their continuous, ongoing purpose and focus. [5]
LifeWise Academy was founded in 2018 by Joel Penton, a former Ohio State defensive lineman, [3] [4] as a division of his nonprofit ministry Stand for Truth. [5] The organization was inspired by the weekday religious education program in his hometown of Van Wert, Ohio, in 2012. [3]
The Akwesasne Freedom School does not accept funds from the US and Canadian government. [12] The Akwesasne Freedom School is a non-profit organization and receives its funding from fundraisers, donations, and student’s tuition administered by The Friends of the Akwesasne Freedom School (FOAFS). [13] [14] [15]
In the summer of 2001 Charles, Prince of Wales as president of Business in the Community hosted a group of business leaders and headteachers. [5] At this event Ian Davis of McKinsey and Company agreed to produce a report on the question of why inner-London Schools were not doing as well as they could do, and what business could do to contribute to the improvement of London schools for the ...
Logo of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an organization of the United Nations. A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, [1] nonprofit institution, [2] or simply a nonprofit, [a] is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
The California mission project is an assignment done in California elementary schools, most often in the fourth grade, where students build dioramas of one of the 21 Spanish missions in California. While not being included in the California Common Core educational standards, the project was vastly popular and done throughout the state.
A mission-driven, or mission-based organization can be non-profit or for-profit, public or private, governmental or non-governmental, philanthropic or religious.Typically, mission-driven organizations, are formed and/or managed to accomplish goals that extend beyond profits for stakeholders, shareholders, and owners to include a societal benefit.