| Recent national and international disasters have | | | | has created jobs for dedicated and philanthropic |
| shown that governments or individuals cannot work | | | | people who devote their time to working in them. It |
| alone, but need support in implementing humanitarian | | | | is not that non-profit organizations are economically |
| non-profit programs. As a result, non-profit or not for | | | | way behind when compared to profit-making |
| profit organizations are today playing a major role in | | | | concerns. They do make a profit, but use it for pay |
| providing service through private and public concerns. | | | | checks, income generation and streamlining |
| Started by individuals or groups, these organizations | | | | organizational work. |
| are funded by personal wealth and donations from | | | | Similarly, non-profit software companies are |
| private and public sectors. There is an understood line | | | | promoting simple and free software to companies |
| of control, as revenue generated is non-taxable. | | | | and individuals to understand and deal with glitches. |
| A non-profit organization could be the Bill and Melinda | | | | Non-profit debt consolidation is another area floated |
| Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | | | | by non-profit companies to help people, mostly |
| hospitals, universities, non-governmental organizations | | | | students and the disadvantaged, to consolidate their |
| or NGOs, plus charities with global outreach to people | | | | debts through donations. |
| and organizations in need. These programs range | | | | Non-profit is big business, and there are more than a |
| from teaching computers, saving forests, offering | | | | million non-profit organizations in the United States. |
| shelter to animals, and running literacy programs and | | | | Ostensibly, they provide public service without profit, |
| health camps, to other relief issues. | | | | but there are always a few corrupt ones and it is for |
| The demand and success of non-profit organizations | | | | people dealing with them to find out. |