PADM 7040 Nonprofit Management Dr. Jerry Merwin Janice Reaves Valdosta State University September 19, 2005

PADM 7040Nonprofit Management

Dr. Jerry Merwin

Janice ReavesValdosta State University

September 19, 2005

HISTORY

The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. The Atlanta-based Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 65 countries. The center has a unique partnership with Emory University and is committed to advancing

human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering.

Mission of the Carter Center

“The Carter Center is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve Photo credit: The

Carter Center

conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and

improve health.”Carter Center Annual Report, p. 2

Center Guided by Five Principles

“The Center emphasizes action and results. Based on careful research and analysis, it is prepared to take action on important issues.The Center does not duplicate the effective efforts of othersThe Center addresses difficult problems and recognizes the possibility of failure as an acceptable risk

Center Guided by Five Principles

The Center is nonpartisan and acts as a neutral in dispute resolution activities.

The Center believes that people can improve their lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources.”

http://www.cartercenter.org (Annual Report, p. 2)

LEGAL STATUS

The Carters, their staff and an independent board of trustees, wage peace, fight disease, and build hope by both engaging with those at the highest levels of government and working side by side with poor and often forgotten people.

LEGAL STATUS

The Carter Center is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. “Section 501 (c) (3) is just one of the sections in the Internal Revenue code which grants tax exemption to non-profit organizations, but it is also the most common one. For this reason, non-profit organizations in general are often referred to as “501 (c) © organizations.”

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VOLUNTEERS

Most of the Carter Center programs are handled by staff. The Center has a professional staff of 150 based in Atlanta. These include top experts in democracy building, human rights, conflict resolution, global development, disease eradication and prevention, and mental health.

VOLUNTEERSDeanna Congileo, director of public information and press secretary to President and Mrs. Carter, says, “We have about 100 people who volunteer one day a week to work at headquarters in Atlanta, primarily doing office work or helping to stage events at the Center. Beyond that, volunteers primary have a role in Africa and Latin America, where villagers are trained as community health volunteers to educate their neighbors about how to prevent diseases such as Guinea worm disease, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and river blindness. There can be anywhere from dozens to hundreds of such volunteers in a country,” she adds.

CARTER CENTER PROGRAMS

Peace Program – “The Carter Center remains neutral when attempting to bring peace, because of this neutrality its peace making programs are well received all over the world. The Center has five Peace Programs:

The Americas Program monitors elections to ensure democracy and secondly to ensure new democracies are meaningful in everyday life. In 2001, the Carter Center monitored the elections in Managua,

Nicaragua. It had the help of Oscar Arias Sanchez the former president of Costa Rica and author of a peace plan for Central America that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987

Former Costa Rica President Oscar Arias inspects ballots at a polling station in Managua. Photo by Rossana Lacayo.


Conflict Resolution - monitors many of the world's armed conflicts in an attempt to better understand their histories, the primary actors involved, disputed issues, and efforts being made to resolve them. According to the Center, At any time, there are about 110 ongoing violent political conflicts in the world, and roughly 30 of these are major wars where more than 1,000 soldiers are killed.”

http://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program12.htm


Conflict Resolution Program – “In the Sudan, civil war has devastated the country for the past 18 years. Two million people have been killed and another four million have been displaced. Uganda, has faced insurgency from the Lord's Resistance Army. In this complex environment, relations between Sudan and Uganda foundered based on allegations of support by the governments for rebels fighting in each other's countries.


An example is the Conflict Resolution Program's work in Sudan and in Uganda: – The Center’s Conflict

Resolution Program was invited in 1999 by the Ugandan and Sudanese governments to address the conflict in the countries and improve their deteriorating relationship.


– The program has been instrumental in the return of 300 abducted women and children from the LRA to their homes in Uganda and in the exchange of all prisoners of war.

– In 2002, the program helped foster international support for a revitalized peace effort in Sudan and trained senior government and rebel leaders in negotiating skills and mediation techniques.”



“The Democracy Program works to give people control over how they are governed. When people take control, their lives are improved ten-fold.

The Center:- Observed the 2002 Mali presidential elections - Monitored the largest and most peaceful turnout in Zambia's presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2001.”



“The Global Development Initiative assist developing countries with developing their own plans for sustainable development and democracy. In Guyana, the Center help the country overcome deep ethnic divisions and rebuild its economy. In Albania, worked with the government and citizens' groups to advance the country's Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy.”



Human Rights Initiatives – “intervening on behalf of victims of human rights abuses and integrating human rights approaches and principles into the activities of all Carter Center programs.

Monitored human rights as part of election observation missions, in Sierra Leone, East Timor, and Guatemala.”



In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance statement, President Carter said: "My concept of human rights has grown to

include not only the right to live in peace, but also to adequate health care, shelter,

food, and to economic opportunity. I hope this award reflects a universal

acceptance and even embrace of this broad-based concept of human rights."

www.cartercenter.org/doc1275.htmNobel Prize Speech

HEALTH PROGRAM“The Center’s health program focus is on infectious disease. Diseases such as Guineas worm diseases eradication in Africa & Asia, River Blindness in Africa and Latin American and lymphatic filariasis (a devastating disease that can cause elephantiasis) and schistosomiasis (microscopic parasites found in standing water) in Ethiopia.

HEALTH PROGRAM

Children are at greatest risk of becoming infected with this destructive disease because schistosomiasis is easily contracted while bathing or swimming in contaminated water. Damage to the urinary tract and intestine causes blood vessels to break creating internal bleeding. The blood resulting from internal bleeding carries the parasite eggs, which then enter the urine and stool.”

http://www.cartercenter.org/healthprograms/healthjpgm.htm

Health Program

“Frank Richards, Jr., M.D., technical director of the Carter Center's river blindness, lymphatic filariasis elimination, and schistosomiasis control programs, examines a Nigerian man with elephantiasis--the most extreme form of lymphatic filariasis.”

“Although the local swimming hole provides enjoyment to this Nigerian child, it is also the site of transmission of schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by water snails.”

CARTER CENTER PHOTO: EMILY HOWARD STAUBhttp://cartercenter.org/healthprograms/program5.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/healthprograms/program5.htm

DONORS

“In 2004, 160,000 donors contributed more than $150 million to the Carter Center. These donations included cash, in-kind gifts, and volunteers who worked at the Carter Center. One such donation was received from philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates who gave a $10 million challenge grant to the Center through their foundation. Other donations are received from corporations, international organizations, the U.S. and other governments.”

Carter Center Annual Report, p. 32

Total Expenses as a Percentage: Fiscal Year

2003-2004

Health 83.7%

Fund Raising6.1%

Peace 5.6%

Administration4.3%

Cross-program 0.3%

Source: Carter Center Annual Report, p. 32

Sources of Support as a Percentage: 2003-2004

Corporations 64.9%

Individuals 15.01%

Foundations 11.6%

Governmental 6.6%

Other Revenue 1.9%

Note: Governmental revenue includes the U.S. and foreign governments as well as multilateral organizations. Investment revenue is excluded from the above graph. Source: Carter Center Annual Report, p. 32

SUMMARY

The Carter Center is an internationally known nonprofit organization that is respected around the world. Its health programs have impacted the lives of many children and adults who weren’t receiving medical care for diseases that cures have long been discovered. Its peace programs have played a key role in bringing democracy to countries plagued by violence and corruption.

SUMMARY

President Carter says, “One aspect of our work should always be to

supplement what other organizations are doing inadequately, or not doing at all,” (http://www.cartercenter.org/doc1055.htm).

Since 1982, the Center has been doing just that. In preparation for the future, Carter and his wife announce in March of this year that they were stepping down as chair and vice chair of the Carter Center's board of trustees.

SUMMARY

"Rosalynn and I see this as part of the ongoing process of preparing the Carter Center for the time when we no longer are active. As its founders, we know the Carter Center will always be linked to our identity and personalities, but we proudly recognize the center has expanded its reach beyond what the two of us contribute.”

SUMMARY

Carter added, “With its superb reputation, permanent association with Emory University, a dedicated Board of Trustees, an adequate endowment and a wide circle of involved world leaders, it will be a natural evolutionary step for the outstanding work of The Carter Center to be maintained as Rosalynn and I continue to reduce our active roles in its many projects. We have complete confidence in the future of this valuable institution.” http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0305/22carter.html

SUMMARY

Congileo says, “Day-to day there are many challenges to our work, as we undertake issues that impact society broadly, requires political will to resolve, and require substantial human and financial resources to implement. But President Carter always says, “That the only failure is not to try.”

Bibliographies

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0305/22carter.htmlhttp://www.cartercenter.org/aboutus/aboutus.htmhttp://www.cartercenter.org/healthprograms/healthpgm.htmhttp://wikipedia.org/wiki/http://cartercenter.org/doc1275htmwww.cartercenter.org/doc1055.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/healthprograms/program5.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/healthprograms/program5.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program10.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program12.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program13.htmhttp://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program14.htmCarter Center Annual Report, p. 2Carter Center Annual Report, p. 32Congileo, Deanna, September 8, 2005 personal interview

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PADM 7040 Nonprofit Management Dr. Jerry Merwin Janice Reaves Valdosta State University September 19, 2005