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This 8 page paper looks at a non profit making organization based in Los Angeles, looking at the mission of the organization and examining it using Druckers non profit making organizational assessment framework to discuss the way that it operates and the challenges it faces. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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role of helping those who are unable to help themselves, the issues facing those who may be suffering or need help are not the political arguments, but consideration of who
can actually help them. Non profit making organizations, most of which are charities, are able to fill the gap between the needs of communities and the provision provided by the
state. Often relatively small, non profit making organization will have specific goals, to serve a specific need or purpose. One of these in the Los Angeles area is the House
of Ruth, an organization that has the aim to "provide temporary and transitional shelter and supportive services for homeless battered women and their children", these are omen that will often
fall through the cracks, many homeless women with children have fallen through the cracks, it is a social problem that is often over looked and when examining the Los Angels
area House of Ruth is one of only a few such specialised organizations ( House of Ruth, 2010). The running of an organization such as this has many complexities, although
there is not the usual pressure for profits found in commercial organization, there are many issue such as meeting targets, allocation of resources and staffing, which are key to the
ability of the organization to reach its goals. Drucker (2006) looks at the way an organization may be defined and assessed with five basic questions, looking to identify the
mission of the organization, their customer, the computer values, the results and the plan. To understand the House of Ruth these questions may be applied, using different data sources, including
interviews1 as well as data taken from the web site and news articles, with the way that operations and practice takes place, considering difficulties and challenges as well as the
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