{"id":278,"date":"2007-12-02T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2007-12-02T22:05:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T03:05:27","slug":"non-profit-organizations-in-carlisle-brief-history-non-profit-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/non-profit-organizations-in-carlisle-brief-history-non-profit-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"NON-PROFITS IN CARLISLE: History of Non-profits in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/a> | History of Welfare Systems<\/a>
\nHistory of Non-Profit Organizations<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Poverty and Non-Profits<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Funding Challenges of Non-Profits<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The “Bigger Picture”<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Interview with Jeff Conway-Carlisle United Way<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Interview with Dale Cross-Employment Skills Center<\/a><\/p>\n

History of Non-profit Organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Voluntary organizations endorsed by private contributions have existed in the United States since the mid-eighteenth century, they have only recently become an omnipresent aspect of American society. “In 1940, there were only 12,500 secular charitable tax-exempt organizations; today there are over 700,000.”[1]<\/a> A non-profit organization, as the name implies, is a type of business that serves “a purpose of public or mutual benefit other than the pursuit or accumulation of profits.” Though most non-profits do not gain revenue, the organizations are not prohibited from doing so as long as the profit-making activities are related to “recognized nonprofit purpose.” Congress and state legislatures determine which types of non-profit organizations qualify to be exempt from taxes. “It is also decreed that society should support and foster many such organizations.”[2]<\/a> <\/strong>When people think of non-profits, they often think of religious and charitable, or “public-benefit” organizations. These organizations essentially provide social services and address the needs of a community. Therefore, in regard to the increasing rates of poverty, unemployment, and numbers of dependent people relying on aid and relief programs, presence of non-profit organizations throughout the United States has grown accordingly to meet the needs of the lower classes. <\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Dobkin Hall, Peter, Inventing the Nonprofit Sector, <\/em>(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) 13[2]<\/a> “What is a Nonprofit Corporation?” http:\/\/www.not-for-profit.org\/page2.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction | History of Welfare Systems History of Non-Profit Organizations \u00a0Poverty and Non-Profits\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Funding Challenges of Non-Profits\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The “Bigger Picture”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Interview with Jeff Conway-Carlisle United Way\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Interview with Dale Cross-Employment Skills Center History of Non-profit Organizations Though Voluntary organizations endorsed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}