{"id":7447,"date":"2012-09-10T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2012-09-10T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:37:51","slug":"how-do-non-profits-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/10\/how-do-non-profits-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"How do non-profits survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p> I just wanted to see if anyone out there can clarify some doubts I have regarding non-profit online educational ventures. In particular, I am referring to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/\" title=\"Khan Academy\">Khan Academy<\/a> (mentioned in Section 2.1).<\/p>\n<p>1) Would this be considered an OER?<br \/>\n2) They have a lot of permanent staff and a career\u2019s section that promises good wages and perks; how can they afford this? Who decides who get paid what?<br \/>\n3) They ask for donations on their site, but I also read they have received very generous donations from Google ($2 million) and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation ($1.5 million). My doubts here are:<br \/>\n&#8211; What profile does a venture have to have to be considered non-profit?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do they pay taxes?<br \/>\n&#8211; How can people be sure they are truly non-profit?<br \/>\n4) Are we supposed to be doing a pitch on a non-profit venture we think would be good? And if so, why would someone want to invest $1 million dollars if it\u2019s non-profit?<\/p>\n<p>For the business minded I apologize if these questions are somewhat obvious; I just want to make sure I understand before I decide on my venture.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nAdriana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I just wanted to see if anyone out there can clarify some doubts I have regarding non-profit online educational ventures. In particular, I am referring to the Khan Academy (mentioned in Section 2.1). 1) Would this be considered an OER? 2) They have a lot of permanent staff and a career\u2019s section that promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[14967,4557,334],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-answers","tag-emerging-markets","tag-non-profit","tag-pitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}