Establishing a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization: An Overview

Public policy issues in nonprofit conversions: an overview.

Conversions raise two critical policy questions: First, does ownership form (nonprofit or for-profit) make any difference to delivery of health care? Second, when conversions occur, how are charitable assets and purpose preserved? This paper addresses both questions, based on a review of evidence and experience. On the first question we conclude that, overall, nonprofit ownership enhances the p...

Leader Qualification in Managing Nonprofit Organization

Qualification that a leader should satisfy in managing nonprofit organization (NPO) is revealed by integrating the analysis of questionnaire survey and mailing list archives. Questionnaire survey is applied to 104 members in dot-jp, the specific nonprofit organization in Japan. Mailing list archives are analyzed by applying the IDM (Influence Diffusion Model) that measures the influential and i...

Identification Semantics for an Organization Establishing a Digital Library System

The Sapienza Digital Library collects digital resources from the different University’s Organizations, representing the multidisciplinary Sapienza University’s community. The underlay of the metadata infrastructure was built on digital library standard metadata semantics and was used for exchanging package, between the archival systems that manages different services for the established digital...

Why we want to remain a nonprofit health care organization.

Organization of Multi-Agent Systems: An Overview

In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors and interactions with other agents to adapt its ...