Roy and other learners--
My point matches yours. There are "scores" in non-profits, they're
usually not money (unless we're talking about the Director of Gifts who is
chartered with drumming up cash donations from benevolent donors!). They
can be whatever the focus of the non-profit is or, as I said in my post,
measured in terms of what is value the society places on the non-profit.
Actually, as I think about it, when volunteers work together to build a
house for a needy person in Habitat for Humanity, there can be a dollar
value placed on the value of the house. . .
I do think it is much harder though to look for those monetary
measurements because I don't believe that those who work in
altruistically-based organizations like Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc, work
there for the money. It's like being in the Army--you don't sign up
because you think you will become rich. (Hardly!) There are other
intrinsic sources of satisfaction that get met. Society doesn't put the
monetary approval on it either but there is a value ascribed by society.
When I was a teenager, our newly-built parish church put up a bronze
plaque with the names of those who had donated over $5000 for the Building
Fund. I remember thinking that if a poor person in the parish had given
only $50, that might have had more significance and value to them than the
one for whom writing a $5000 check was "no big deal." . . yet even in that
environment, the dollars counted. Hmm. Talked myself around on that one.
By the way, in the example you provided, Roy, by sustaining the budget of
the village hall for an additional six months, I think you did demonstrate
a financial "score"--by extending the surplus, you could say that your
performance was worth at least six months' equivalent. . . you wouldn't
take it, of course, but they wouldn't have had it if you hadn't done what
you did. No doubt those on the village council or whatever would have
been duly impressed by your fiscal wizardry!
Sandy
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