This week we discussed what makes a healthy nonprofit. Here's what some students had to say about management practices and how it applies to our class and funding decisions:
"The components of Redding’s ideal managerial climate are supportiveness, participative decision making, emphasis on high performance goals, openness and candor, trust, confidence, and credibility. Each of these components are essential to a healthy and happy work environment that helps a nonprofit efficiently and successfully solve problems and carry out their mission. While it is important for the director to remain an authoritative figure, maximizing on each of these criteria will help create and support a team that can work together to solve problems. These components can help our GLI class, most importantly the participative decision making aspects. When making grant decisions, our class will have to respectfully listen to the many ideas and work together to make a choice that will serve the greatest good. We will have to individually establish credibility through our community needs research and trust the other groups have put in the same amount of effort in getting the information on the issues correct to ensure we make the best decision we possibly can."
"Redding's Ideal Managerial Climate components working in conjunction with one another would create a work environment where I would feel supported in reaching my individual highest potential as well as being able to achieve success as a united organization. I would enjoy having supervisors that trusted me with decisions that effect my level of the organization. It would be nice to be supported and empowered so that I would feel like a valuable member of the team. I believe any organization that puts effort into developing these communication strategies will have the highest potential to succeed because the people within the organization will have a higher probability of doing their best at their jobs, resolving issues, looking for growth opportunities and keeping up morale thus improving attrition rates. I believe our classes philanthropic efforts would be best used on an organization with these traits as they suggest the organization will have the highest chance of succeeding in the long run and having the greatest long-term lasting impact because the foundation, the people who are the organization, will be more likely to look at it from that perspective. We will be able to do the most good by supporting an organization with staying power and the fertile ground for creative growth ensuring they will adapt to keep improving."
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