LANGUAGE STUDY
Task 1. Read the text carefully looking up any new items in a dictionary and answer the following questions:
- What is characteristic of the nonprofit sector?
- Why isn’t the public sector attractive any more?
- What is common for business and the nonprofit and voluntary sector?
- What are the constraints in the nonprofit sector?
- How do nonprofit organizations raise and distribute their funds?
- Who owns nonprofit organizations and who are they accountable to?
- What are the roles (functions) of boards in nonprofit organizations?
Task 2. Explain the following in your own words:
- a complex and daunting task
- the sector’s noncoercive nature
- to draw on a large reservoir of good will
- a source of strife and contention
- the coin of the realm
- to use all residual funds for the advancement of the organization’s mission
- to be profit driven
- to cut corners
- to heed the will of the electorate
- to capitalize on
- good will
Task 3. What words from the active vocabulary and the text correspond to these definitions? 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Поиск по сайту:
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