Charitable, Non-Profit, and Profit Making Organizations: Student and Community Benefits in a Resource Constrained Environment

Charitable and non-profit organizations represent an opportunity to advance our students’ educations while simultaneously contributing needed expertise to our communities. This paper examines the benefits of such contributions in a monetarily resource constrained environment and suggests the resulting benefits to the students’ expertise and to the university through community goodwill. In addition, discussion of the inclusion of profit making institutions with monetary benefits accruing to the university’s fundraising foundation and the resultant student scholarships will be addressed.