سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 6019)

(1) Not-for-profit organizations contribute to a large part of economic activity in the United States. They are clearly very powerful in the business world, even though their focus on goals other than profit falls outside the traditional model of a for-profit business. But it is this move away from a focus on profit that allows them to follow their aims of social improvement and contribute to society as a whole. To be truly useful in a not-for profit organization, a person must share the organization’s vision. (2) The vision for Team Rubicon was created by its founders, Jake Wood and William McNulty, who saw the devastation, caused by the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and immediately took action. Both former soldiers, Wood and McNulty knew they could do something to help in this terrible situation. Within 24 hours, they had found the help of six other former soldiers, collected money, food and medicines from friends and family, and made their way to Haiti to help, and Team Rubicon was born. (3) The organization gets its name from the Rubicon, a river in northern Italy that Julius Caesar and his army crossed on their historical march to Rome, with the river showing the point of no return. The name mirrors the founders’ experiences during the Haitian disaster, where despite advice from the government and other aid organizations not to go ahead, their small team crossed into Haiti from the Dominican Republic carrying essential equipment and medicines to thousands of earthquake victims. (4) Seven years later, Team Rubicon has two main aims: to pair the skills and experiences of former soldiers with emergency workers to be ready for any type of disaster and to provide a sense of community and achievement to former soldiers who have served their country but may be experiencing problems as a result of their war experiences. (5) According to the organization’s mission statement, Team Rubicon aims to provide former soldiers with three things that they sometimes lose after leaving the army: a purpose, gained through disaster relief, a sense of community, built by working with others; and a feeling of self-worth from recognizing the positive effect one individual can make when helping others. (6) With its head office in the Los Angeles area. Team Rubicon has more than 60 employees who work in 10 regions around the country, along with more than 40.000 volunteers who are ready to move into action within 24 hours. Similar to company operations in for-profit organizations, staff positions at Team Rubicon include local administrators; field operations (including membership and training); marketing, communications, and social media; fundraising and partnership development, finance and accounting, and people operations. (7) Team Rubicon’s stall members bring professional and/or military experience to their daily jobs. but they all Share the organization’s vision. Many staff members started as volunteers for Team Rubicon while working in for-profit careers, while other took advantage of the organization’s strong training program to become familiar with its aims. (8) In 2016. Team Rubicon trained 8.000 former soldiers and emergency workers in disaster relief and responded to 46 disasters, which required more than 85.000 volunteer hours. In addition to donations from individuals. Companies and other organizations. Team Rubicon relies on its partnerships with companies, such as Southwest Airlines, which provides hundreds of free plane tickets each year to fly volunteers to disaster sites. (9) Team Rubicon engages its nationwide community at every level of the organization, from volunteer to board member, and every step of its operation: from training to planning to implementation to looking for and finding donations and volunteers to help with any type of disaster relief. Over the past several years. Team Rubicon has been recognized as one of the top non- profits to work for by The Non-Profit Times, based on employee surveys and business partners’ opinions about the organization’s work environment.