PADM 4226 of Memphis Into Nonprofit Organization Plan
Description
This semester, you will be required to design your own nonprofit organization. You’ll get to choose
what good or service your nonprofit will provide and you will develop and ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN for
how the nonprofit will come to be. The building blocks of your nonprofit will be greatly influenced by
the lessons learned in this class over the course of the semester.
The purpose of this is to
give you an opportunity to put your classroom learning into practice.
In building your nonprofit, you will be asked to outline some very basic elements of your organization’s
infrastructure, including:
The name of your proposed nonprofit
The mission of your proposed nonprofit
Justification for why your nonprofit needs to be created
The creation of a board of directors for your organization
A diverse funding stream that will sustain your organization financially
Rationale for hiring key staff for your organization
Goals that will support the mission of your organization
you will be required to submit a complete ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN for your proposed nonprofit on or before Tuesday, November 10, 2020. In your plan, you should include information that touches on allthe basic elements listed above, as well as your thoughts on how the work of your nonprofit will impactthe lives of those you are seeking to serve. Your plan should be no less than three, but no more than four pages in length, double-spaced and in 12-point type (standard fonts only). The plan must be submitted to the eCourseware site for this class.
Two pages is enough. no more than two pages.
PADM 4226 of Memphis Into Nonprofit Organization Plan
In-Text Citations: The Basics
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
Reference citations in text are covered on pages 261-268 of the Publication Manual. What follows are some general guidelines for referring to the works of others in your essay.
Note: On pages 117-118, the Publication Manual suggests that authors of research papers should use the past tense or present perfect tense for signal phrases that occur in the literature review and procedure descriptions (for example, Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found…). Contexts other than traditionally-structured research writing may permit the simple present tense (for example, Jones (1998) finds).
APA Citation Basics
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, like, for example, (Jones, 1998). One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
If you are referring to an idea from another work but NOT directly quoting the material, or making reference to an entire book, article or other work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication and not the page number in your in-text reference.
On the other hand, if you are directly quoting or borrowing from another work, you should include the page number at the end of the parenthetical citation. Use the abbreviation “p.” (for one page) or “pp.” (for multiple pages) before listing the page number(s). Use an en dash for page ranges. For example, you might write (Jones, 1998, p. 199) or (Jones, 1998, pp. 199–201). This information is reiterated below.
Regardless of how they are referenced, all sources that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
In-text citation capitalization, quotes, and italics/underlining
* Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
* If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
(Note: in your References list, only the first word of a title will be capitalized: Writing new media.)
* When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
* Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: “Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.”
* If the title of the work is italicized in your reference list, italicize it and use title case capitalization in the text: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
* If the title of the work is not italicized in your reference list, use double quotation marks and title case capitalization (even though the reference list uses sentence case): “Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds;” “The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry.”
SHORT QUOTATIONS
If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by “p.” for a single page and “pp.” for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).
You can introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author’s last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.
According to Jones (1998), “students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time” (p. 199).
Jones (1998) found “students often had difficulty using APA style” (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?
If you do not include the author’s name in the text of the sentence, place the author’s last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.
She stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style” (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
LONG QUOTATIONS
Place direct quotations that are 40 words or longer in a free-standing block of typewritten lines and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, indented 1/2 inch from the left margin, i.e., in the same place you would begin a new paragraph. Type the entire quotation on the new margin, and indent the first line of any subsequent paragraph within the quotation 1/2 inch from the new margin. Maintain double-spacing throughout, but do not add an extra blank line before or after it. The parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
Because block quotation formatting is difficult for us to replicate in the OWL’s content management system, we have simply provided a screenshot of a generic example below.
Formatting example for block quotations in APA 7 style.
QUOTATIONS FROM SOURCES WITHOUT PAGES
Direct quotations from sources that do not contain pages should not reference a page number. Instead, you may reference another logical identifying element: a paragraph, a chapter number, a section number, a table number, or something else. Older works (like religious texts) can also incorporate special location identifiers like verse numbers. In short: pick a substitute for page numbers that makes sense for your source.
Jones (1998) found a variety of causes for student dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices (paras. 4–5).
A meta-analysis of available literature (Jones, 1998) revealed inconsistency across large-scale studies of student learning (Table 3).
SUMMARY OR PARAPHRASE
If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers. APA guidelines, however, do encourage including a page range for a summary or paraphrase when it will help the reader find the information in a longer work.
According to Jones (1998), APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.
APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
Description
This semester, you will be required to design your own nonprofit organization. You’ll get to choose
what good or service your nonprofit will provide and you will develop and ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN for
how the nonprofit will come to be. The building blocks of your nonprofit will be greatly influenced by
the lessons learned in this class over the course of the semester.
The purpose of this is to
give you an opportunity to put your classroom learning into practice.
In building your nonprofit, you will be asked to outline some very basic elements of your organization’s
infrastructure, including:
The name of your proposed nonprofit
The mission of your proposed nonprofit
Justification for why your nonprofit needs to be created
The creation of a board of directors for your organization
A diverse funding stream that will sustain your organization financially
Rationale for hiring key staff for your organization
Goals that will support the mission of your organization
you will be required to submit a complete ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN for your proposed nonprofit on or before Tuesday, November 10, 2020. In your plan, you should include information that touches on allthe basic elements listed above, as well as your thoughts on how the work of your nonprofit will impactthe lives of those you are seeking to serve. Your plan should be no less than three, but no more than four pages in length, double-spaced and in 12-point type (standard fonts only). The plan must be submitted to the eCourseware site for this class.
Two pages is enough. no more than two pages.
