Organizational Analysis
ICM Food and Clothing Bank
NLM 410
Social entrepreneurial exists to address social injustices and the impact always starts in a
small scale. ICM Food and Clothing Bank , is a nonprofit organization with the mission of
assisting economically disadvantage population in Maricopa County. The organization started by
John van Hengel and his companion in 1960 by using their own pocket money to help the needy
individuals . By 1983 their initiatives grow to become a food Bank and was officially registered
under a 501 (c) 3 IRS tax code with its headquarters in Phoenix.
The group elected board of directors to govern the organization and the board introduced
and incorporated the clothing section as an emergency assistance to the needy. Later on other
faith based organizations joined together to advance the mission of helping the disadvantage
population and the operation expanded and relocated to a large warehouse which was purchased
by the church to accommodate the donations of food and clothes. After remodeling the
warehouse, it is now serving as the headquarter of the ICM which was known as Interfaith
Cooperative Ministries ICM.
Most people who are using the services of the ICM are, homeless, families with children,
the elderly and individuals who were dropped out of the State food stamped program. According
to Cronkite News website, 21,000 individuals lost access to the government’s nutrition services
this year and those who are still receiving the benefits, gets $120 USD on a monthly basis to buy
food, the question remains , is this amount enough for their nutrition needs?. IMC exist to fill the
gap and provide basic human needs to those who depends on their services, the organization
opens six days a week and most of their services is consisting of food boxes, cereals for children
and clothes provided by volunteers to the underserved population, they emphasis on hope and
dignity for individuals they serve. They focus on feeding and clothing the very poor and
encourage their self-sufficient with specific assistance in education.
Martin and Osborn emphasized on the importance of distinguishing between social
service organizations and social entrepreneur or enterprise. The Social services organizations
depends on donors, government grant and philanthropies for their revenue, while social
enterprises aims to become financially independent and sustainable by generating their own
income and if needed they might get access to loans for capital investment. The ICM food and
clothing Bank depends on government grants, in-kind and donors donations to serve the
economically challenged population and it does not have an enterprise initiative to generate its
own income because it cannot get access to capital or loans given its current status as a nonprofit
organization, which basically not making a profit that can assure the lenders of their abilities to
repay the loan with interest. However, their values are driven by their purpose of existence,
which is giving hope and dignity to poor and needy individuals, they encourage their
beneficiaries to be self-sufficient through educational programs they provide. According to Martin and Osberg, entrepreneurial is the process of creating a new type of
products or organization that never existed before, harnessing the opportunities to develop and
advance the services or the product in an innovate manner. When linking Social to the
entrepreneurship initiatives, it provides a new combination of innovation that exist to address
social injustices, as in the case of Muhammed Yunus the father of microcredit and the founder of
Grameen bank in India. The ability to recognize a social problem and then employ the principles
of entrepreneurship to solve the problem. The principles of entrepreneur are the process of
creating a new type of services, products or an organization that has never existed before,
developing and improving an existing services or products to harness the opportunities to
develop and advance the services or products in an innovative manner while taking the risk to
realize return on investment, which may take years before it can be named an entrepreneur.
In distinguishing social from commercial entrepreneurship, while commercial entrepreneurs
measure performance according to profit and loss, the social entrepreneur is driven by altruism
( Martin & Osborn, 34) in an attempt to tackle social and environmental issues, the difference is
the revenue mode. Social entrepreneurship typically starts by founders reaching to their own
resources to start up the social services, while social enterprise starts with a loan, like in the case
of Grameen Bank, Yunus provided $27 from his own pocked to 21 women which expanded the
project of the microfinance in India. T
he ICM food and clothing bank started by few individuals using their own money to help the
needy families and individuals, the main goal of the ICM is to improve the lives of the
underserved populations. The Grameen bank also aims to improve the lives of the poor by
lending them the capital to start a business and pay back with small interest. These two
organization share the same goal of improving people’s lives, but their path to sustainability is
different. ICM food and clothing bank depends for its revenue on philanthropies, donors,
government grants and contribution and it offers all its services free of charge. The Grameen
bank depends on loans and the interest they receive from these loans to sustain its operations.
The ICM recently added a free access to healthcare to the marginalized community in their
services , they serve approximately 80 individuals per month. All the medical staff are volunteers
including, doctors and nurses. In a social enterprise mode, they would have created a structure
where people would pay based on their incomes and the money can be used to pay for those who
can’t afford to pay in this way they would become self-sustained and no need for external
funding.
- Process associated with nonprofit new venture
- Business ventures is the only way that that nonprofit leaders can be entrepreneurial in
serving their social mission. ( Dees nonprofit bus ventures) References
Martin,R. and Osberg,S.( Spring 2007). Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Abotte, Gabrielle. (2016, April 18). Thousands of Arizona Loos Food Stamp. Retrieved from
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org
J. Georgy Dees. Putting Nonprofit Business Venture in Perspective
About Us. ICM Food & Clothing Bank retrieved from www.icm.org

 

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