Donorschooseorg Charles Best demonstrates the social entrepr

Donorschoose.org Charles Best demonstrates the social entrepreneurship process through his nonprofit

Solution

Q1) DonorsChoose.org measures success through the below variables -

1. Number of students who received funding

2. Amount of funding received

3. Number of donors and number of donations

4. Number of teachers who submitted proposals

5. Number of proposals submitted and number of submitted proposals that were funded.

The firm can also measure the success by comparing its current variable values with overall number of schools, students in need of funding etc. to ensure the percentage of entities covered.

It can take ratios of funding/student, funding/project, funding/school etc.

Q2) Below are possible additional end goals for Mr.Best -

1. Extend the philanthropic activities by using DonorsChoose.org to encourage donations for any skill development trainings.

2. Donations for sport events for school students

Q3) The limitations of having an Internet-based nonprofit organization include -

1. Difficulty in authenticating, validating and verifying the causes that are placed in the website for funding

2. Difficulty in seeking attention from donors as the fund raising request might be lost in a host of other requests

3. Legal aspects of online fundraising

Below are few ways to overcome these obstacles -

1. Associating an authentication badge to the claims based on verification by the NPO

2. Communicating the cause and the case in a crisp yet effective way

3. Highlighting only relevant information and monitoring any fradulenet or illegal claims