Question

Hall indicates “grants are policy instruments intended to leverage particular desired behaviors” at nonprofit and public service organizations; in other words, gifting dollars to these organizations have the ability to affect change. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Provide examples.

Answer 1

It is correctly argued, with the help of this research, that people that fund public service organizations and non profit ones are able to control some part of the management of these business or social causes.

Any organisation for its survival requires funds, which it can collect from various sources, or from the sales of services and goods which it may offer to the general public at large.

In any organisation capital is needed from time to time to be able to meet out the expenses of the enterprise and to pay off those that work for the organisation and daily routine expenses.

Most Public Service Organisations and Non Profit ones get funded by private individuals or at a larger scale by countries that tend to be founding members and help in providing capital to these organisations. The resultant of this is the fact that such countries can seek greater control on the organisation, thus enabling themselves to have special powers in controlling the affairs of these and altering and leveraging their behaviors to be desirable for the country at large.

In actual practice, this can be observed in the Veto powers which countries like America & Russia tend to have over organisations such as International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organisation, World Health Organisation etc.

Due to their superior networking and capital expenditure on these organisations they tend to have the power to leverage particular desired behaviors to their own advantage which tends to be manipulative at times and not the most ideal thing to do.

This restricts the rights of other countries but has become a necessary evil for these organisations as they need capital for their survival which is majorly contributed by these countries but the actions of which largely affect all sections of the society respectively.

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