Characteristics Of Beneficial 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.

Public assistance are groups that many people think of when they hear of the term charity. These organizations offer help to the needy and assist in reducing the community tasks and tensions and improve the religion sector, education and the level of science and technology in the community. Therefore, they involve themselves in starting private schools, churches, shelters for the homeless.

The funds used by the groups are got from the public as contributions. Other funds are from the government, public and private foundations willing to donate, individual persons. In other cases, they engage in fund raising activities and providing direct services to the public. Besides, public donations do not undergo taxation and for this reason, encourages more givers.

The civic, charitable organization must satisfy the community donation status since it to be considered as a public charity. In this case, Internal Revenue service should see required language in their articles of integration confining their work to the activities and not deviating from their plans which act as a guide on duty.

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.

Sustainability of the community helps mostly on how stable it is regarding finances. The financial evaluates need to give a financial statement that will show that the organization is growing. Therefore, despite being involved in donations, they should get funds from sales of goods and services, refunded taxes and income from their investments. By this, it will enhance the improvement of their name towards which many will be encouraged donate to them.

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.

The non-profit groups in some instances face significant challenges especially with fund-raising and fund development in times of economic decline and increased rates of unemployment. During these times, they get small funds from their sources, and some are forced to discontinue their services till the situations settle down.




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