ENT 201 REVISION EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Why do non-profits need to be managed in a unique manner? - ✔✔1) Increased
competition and service demand
2) Decreased donations
3) Changed focus by foundations
4) Government funding reduced or eliminated
5) Increased demands for accountability
✔✔Differences between management in the NPO sector and other sectors - ✔✔1)
Nonprofit management requires the ability to integrate mission, acquire resources and
strategy
2) The complex relationship among the NPO's stakeholders require management that is
skilled in negotiation and compromise
3) Managers of NPO's must measure their success by a double bottom line
4) The problems that nonprofits address are tough
✔✔What does a double-bottom line do? - ✔✔Measures an NPO both by the amount of
money that it makes and by their positive social impact
✔✔What are the 6 questions to ask when starting an NPO? - ✔✔1) What's the problem
you're trying to solve?
2) What is your business model?
3) How will you measure your impact (success)?
4) What is your plan for capital and growth?
5) How will you tell your story?
6) What corporate form should you take?
✔✔What is the difference between charity and philanthropy? - ✔✔Charity: giving to
meet individual human needs or alleviate human suffering (EX:feed homeless)
Philanthropy: giving for a long-term investment in the infrastructure (EX: Construction of
hospitals)
✔✔Segments of the nonprofit sector - ✔✔1) Social welfare/advocacy organizations -
501c 4
2) Private foundations - 501c (3) (must donate a %)
3) Public charities - 501c (3)
4) Variety of other tax-exempt organizations - 501c (5) (6) and (7)
✔✔What are the various types of NPOs? - ✔✔1) Arts, Culture and Humanities
2) Education
3) Environment and Animals
4) Health
5) Human Services
, 6) International & Foreign Affairs
7) Public and Society benefits
8) Religion related
9) Mutual/Membership benefit
10) Unknown/Unclassified
✔✔What is the size and magnitude of the NPO sector? - ✔✔1.6 million Tax-Exempt
Organizations
-1.1 million charitable 501 (c) (3)
-97,000 501 (c) (4)
13.7 million Employees
$587 billion in Wages and Benefits
$4.49 trillion in Total Combined Assets
✔✔What are the two purposes of a business plan? - ✔✔1) provides an operating plan
to assist in running the organization and improves probability of success
2) communicates ones idea to others, serves as a "selling tool," and provides the basis
for fundraising
✔✔What are the 6 sections of a business plan? - ✔✔1) Cover page
2) Table of Contents
3) Executive Summary
4) Section One: The Organization
5) Sections Two: Financial Data
6) Sections Three: Supporting Documents
✔✔What are the micro and macro theories on the nonprofit sector? - ✔✔Macro
theories: why the nonprofit sector exists in the US
-what role they play in American society
-what relationship it has to the other two sectors (private business & government)
Micro theories: why nonprofit organizations exist
-why do nonprofit organizations behave the way they do
-how do they make decision
-how are they different from public and for-profit organizations
✔✔What are the theories about the nonprofit sector? - ✔✔History-voluntary traditions of
early America
Sociology-helps socialize individuals
Political science-accommodate diversity
Economics-fills gaps by gov't failure
Interdisciplinary-common goods
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Why do non-profits need to be managed in a unique manner? - ✔✔1) Increased
competition and service demand
2) Decreased donations
3) Changed focus by foundations
4) Government funding reduced or eliminated
5) Increased demands for accountability
✔✔Differences between management in the NPO sector and other sectors - ✔✔1)
Nonprofit management requires the ability to integrate mission, acquire resources and
strategy
2) The complex relationship among the NPO's stakeholders require management that is
skilled in negotiation and compromise
3) Managers of NPO's must measure their success by a double bottom line
4) The problems that nonprofits address are tough
✔✔What does a double-bottom line do? - ✔✔Measures an NPO both by the amount of
money that it makes and by their positive social impact
✔✔What are the 6 questions to ask when starting an NPO? - ✔✔1) What's the problem
you're trying to solve?
2) What is your business model?
3) How will you measure your impact (success)?
4) What is your plan for capital and growth?
5) How will you tell your story?
6) What corporate form should you take?
✔✔What is the difference between charity and philanthropy? - ✔✔Charity: giving to
meet individual human needs or alleviate human suffering (EX:feed homeless)
Philanthropy: giving for a long-term investment in the infrastructure (EX: Construction of
hospitals)
✔✔Segments of the nonprofit sector - ✔✔1) Social welfare/advocacy organizations -
501c 4
2) Private foundations - 501c (3) (must donate a %)
3) Public charities - 501c (3)
4) Variety of other tax-exempt organizations - 501c (5) (6) and (7)
✔✔What are the various types of NPOs? - ✔✔1) Arts, Culture and Humanities
2) Education
3) Environment and Animals
4) Health
5) Human Services
, 6) International & Foreign Affairs
7) Public and Society benefits
8) Religion related
9) Mutual/Membership benefit
10) Unknown/Unclassified
✔✔What is the size and magnitude of the NPO sector? - ✔✔1.6 million Tax-Exempt
Organizations
-1.1 million charitable 501 (c) (3)
-97,000 501 (c) (4)
13.7 million Employees
$587 billion in Wages and Benefits
$4.49 trillion in Total Combined Assets
✔✔What are the two purposes of a business plan? - ✔✔1) provides an operating plan
to assist in running the organization and improves probability of success
2) communicates ones idea to others, serves as a "selling tool," and provides the basis
for fundraising
✔✔What are the 6 sections of a business plan? - ✔✔1) Cover page
2) Table of Contents
3) Executive Summary
4) Section One: The Organization
5) Sections Two: Financial Data
6) Sections Three: Supporting Documents
✔✔What are the micro and macro theories on the nonprofit sector? - ✔✔Macro
theories: why the nonprofit sector exists in the US
-what role they play in American society
-what relationship it has to the other two sectors (private business & government)
Micro theories: why nonprofit organizations exist
-why do nonprofit organizations behave the way they do
-how do they make decision
-how are they different from public and for-profit organizations
✔✔What are the theories about the nonprofit sector? - ✔✔History-voluntary traditions of
early America
Sociology-helps socialize individuals
Political science-accommodate diversity
Economics-fills gaps by gov't failure
Interdisciplinary-common goods
