...An Assignment On Nonprofit organization Submitted To Ali Mohammad Kawser Lecturer Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Submitted By Galaxy MBA 13th Batch Section: A Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Date of Submission: May 19, 2012 University of Dhaka GROUP PROFILE OF GALAXY Name | Roll | Md. Rayhan Uddin | 041 | Md. Maksed Ali | 079 | Chanchal Das | 147 | Md. Suman Miah | 153 | Md. Manik Uddin | 159 | Moklesor Rahman | 179 | Md.Humayun Rashid Bhuiyan | 135 | Ten non profit organizations in Bangladesh: 1) Government of Bangladesh 2) National University 3) Abahoni Limited 4) Anjuman Mofidul ISslam 5) DESA 6) DESCO 7) WASA 8) Quantum Method 9) ASA 10) Action aid Bangladesh Introduction: A nonprofit organization is formed for the purpose of serving a public or mutual benefit other than the pursuit or accumulation of profits for owners or investors. "The nonprofit sector is a collection of entities that are organizations; private as opposed to governmental; non-profit distributing; self-governing; voluntary; and of public benefit" (Solamon 10). The nonprofit sector is often referred to as the third sector, independent sector, voluntary sector, philanthropic sector, social sector, tax-exempt sector, or the charitable sector. Non-profit organizations play a major role in all nations. Non-profit organizations do contribute in several areas of society and economy without any profit motto...
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...Review Introduction The Celebration of Discipline[1] by Richard Foster is similar to Spiritual Life: The Foundation for Preaching and Teaching[2] and The Spirit of the Discipline[3] but provides considerably more biblical support for the practice of spiritual disciplines. All three books, however, cite their practice as the solution for carnality and spiritual ineffectiveness of the church. All claim that spiritual disciplines are the means to bring God’s grace to bear on hearts that have become blind and dull of hearing. An implicit message of these books is that the practice of spiritual disciplines has been a hidden truth since Reformation days and that by going back to medieval days and exploring mysticism to find answers has merit. As pointed out in a previous critique of Westerhoff’s book,[4] mysticism, subjectivity, intuition and imaginative reflection weave their way through the descriptions of spiritual disciplines and this is also true, to some extent, in The Celebration of Discipline and The Spirit of the Disciplines. The apparent differences in style and emphasis appear to stem from each author’s religious orientation (i.e., Westerhoff functions as a priest in the Episcopalian Church and is oriented to Roman Catholic mysticism, Foster is a Quaker grounded in the mysticism and intuitive approach of the Friends and Willard is an evangelical Baptist who embraces the spiritual formation movement). They all seem draw heavily from extra-biblical sources and not upon...
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...Critique of Westerhoff’s Spiritual Life: The Foundation for Preaching and Teaching[1] The Preface to Westerhoff’s book presents the problem which he seeks to address in the six chapters that follow. “Burn-out”, “drain-out” and “rust-out” are all terms used to describe a condition among preachers and teachers whereby they come to realize that their faithfulness to their vocation has become flawed and empty. The reader is informed that it is a spiritual disease that needs spiritual healing so that these individuals can acquire a message to preach/teach that is fresh and relevant (p ix-xi). Westerhoff proceeds to explain that this healing is to be found in “deepening love relationships with God, self, all people and the whole of creation” (p 1). A love must be experienced for what is good, true and beautiful (p 6) and relationships must be infused with the fruit of the Holy Spirit (p 8-9) for ministry to be revitalized. There must be a rejection of hypocrisy to where relationships become more authentic. A concurrent problem also exists which Westerhoff considers of equal importance – the post modern climate of our culture. He writes that the message presented by preachers and teachers must be tailored so as to accommodate the disdain for information, logical analysis and skill training development (p 17). He contends that for a message to be relevant a minister must increasingly become intuitive (p 21), experiential and imaginative (p 25) in his/her approach and recognize...
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... Thus Westerners are not the only ones who have a hard time defining Taoism; the Chinese have had difficulty time agreeing on just what Taoism is for millenia. Taoism is sometimes defined as a ritualistic religion, as a philosophy, as Chinese folk religion, as alchemy, as a system of magical lore, or as a series of health practices similar to yoga. The adherants of each school often look with disdain on the others as being heterodoxy, heresy, or simply incomplete portions of the great Tao. The Chinese word Tao (pronounced "dow") means "the way, the path." In the common sense it refers to the way of doing anything, or the pathway to some destination. In its higher meaning, Tao refers to the way of the universe, the way things are. As a spiritual system, Tao means the way to achieving a true understanding of the nature of mind and reality, to the way of living in harmony with the changes of Nature. Thus the Tao is the goal, the path and the journey all in one. A Taoist then, is "a follower of the Way," the same title by which the early Buddhists and Christians dubbed themselves. The earliest Taoists appeared at least four thousand years ago in a time when people lived close to Nature and were awed by its power and its mystery, whose agricultural lives and deaths were intimately intertwined with the fluctuations of floods and droughts, heat and cold, day and night, and the changing of the seasons. Just as the Judeo-Christians believe that God created humanity in the image of God...
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...THOUGHT PL 216D (Diversity course): SPRING, 2015 Instructor: Drew Leder Office: Humanities Center O 50o; phone: x2325; (410) 323-2531; e-mail: dleder@loyola.edu Office Hours: Tu, Th: 12:15-2:15 (extra hrs. added as needed, and by appt.) TEXTS: Ecknath Easwaran (trans.) Bhagavad Gita (BG) Thich Nhat Hanh Peace is Every Step (PS) Huston Smith The World’s Religions (WR) Assorted authors Pdf files and website links (Optional: Stephen Bodian Meditation for Dummies 3rd ed., but other editions will work January 13 Introduction to Course 15 The Four Goals; The Vedas and Upanishads: WR 12-26; Zaehner, Upanishads pdfs 20 Brahman, Atman, Maya, & Mystical Experiences/ NDEs: BG 22-30; Merell-Wolff, Berman (to p.42), Schmicker (to p.199) pdfs (H1) 22 Advaita Vedanta and Non-Locality: Shankara, Schmicker (on ESP, from p. 74), Targ pdfs 27 The Gita: Caste, Dharma: BG 13-22; BG 71-92B; WR 50-59 29 Dharma and Karma: BG 31-36; 92-93; Chopra, Leder/aging, Leder/prayer, (M1) (s-l orientation posting) February 3 Karma and Reincarnation: BG 235-241;WR 63-75; Fox, Bache pdf (H2) (G1) 5 Karma Yoga: WR 26-29, 37-41; BG 93-109 (S1) 10 Karma Yoga and Gandhi; BG 48-63t (H3) (G2) 12 Jnana Yoga; BG 111-131; WR 29m-32m; Ramana Maharshi link (M2) 17 TEST #1 (S2) 19 Raja and Bhakti Yoga WR 41b-50m; BG 133-45; Muktananda pdf 24 BhaktiYoga/Gods and Goddesses; WR 32t-36; BG 169-77; Sanatan, Ramakrishna link (G3) 26 The Cosmic Vision:...
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...Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being By: Justin Tang, ID #0827635 Psychology 1000*01 Benjamin Giguere Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Introduction Despite the fact that the mind, body and spirit are interconnected, there is a tendency to forget about—or even neglect—our psychological well-being. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, for example, one in five of us will experience a mental illness in our lifetime (CMHA, 2014). Though this statistic is in part due to the stigma associated with mental health, there are various methods in which we can protect and promote our psychological wellbeing. More importantly, given that suffering is inevitable and arrives in innumerable guises (e.g. stress, depression, confusion), how can one become less disturbed by the unpleasant experiences in life? By introducing the concept, this paper will argue that mindfulness can be used to as a tool to achieve greater psychological well-being. Known as a deceptively simple but useful attention-regulating practice, mindfulness allows one to be less reactive to what is happening in the moment and accepting of all experiences—be it positive, negative, or neutral (Germer, 2004). Defining Mindfulness What, exactly, is mindfulness? Although there has been a call in the literature to reconstruct aspects of current mindfulness models, including the establishment of a mutually agreed upon definition and application of the term (Germer 2004), mindfulness is best...
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...The orientation was just teaching me about zazen which is just the breathing exercises in Zen. I also learned different breathing techniques and postures for sitting and breathing. After that we attended the Zen meditation which is really just a guided meditation. There was not a whole lot on Buddhism as there was meditation but there were some quotes and things to think about being related to the Buddha and enlightenment. When I talked to my friend more about Zen it seemed to be more about being spiritual rather than religious. My brief experience with Zen seemed to be that nothing really matter. There were no politics, social classes, no differences between race and gender, it seemed to be just about the human experience and how to enjoy the moments of life. My brief experience with Christianity felt more like a social group experience, it felt like that’s what mattered. The church I attended with my co-worker seemed to be like there would have been a difference with social classes and...
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...“What Is Hypnosis?” Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and the role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy. Hypnosis * History Hypnosis seems to alter the brain state in a way which allows external input to dominate over internal goals (Posner, 2011) * What it is While many people think that they cannot be hypnotized, research has shown that a large number of people are more hypnotizable than they believe. * Fifteen percent of people are very responsive to hypnosis.6 * Children tend to be more susceptible to hypnosis.7 * Approximately ten percent of adults are considered difficult or impossible to hypnotize.8 * People who can become easily absorbed in fantasies are much more responsive to hypnosis.2 One of the best-known theories is Hilgard’s neodissociation theory of hypnosis. According to Hilgard, people in a hypnotic state experience a split consciousness in which there are two different streams of mental activity. While one stream of consciousness responds to the hypnotist’s suggestions, another dissociated stream processes information outside of the hypnotized individuals conscious awareness.3 Experiments by researcher Ernest Hilgard demonstrated how hypnosis can be used to dramatically alter perceptions. After instructing a hypnotized individual to not feel pain in his or her arm, the participant's arm was then placed in ice water. While non-hypnotized individuals had to remove their arm from the water after a few seconds...
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...Origins and Growth of Workplace Spirituality.………………………….... 2. Components of Workplace Spirituality ……..……………………... The “Vertical” Component …..…………………………………….………….. The “Horizontal” Component …..…………………………………………….. 3. Misconceptions ……………………………………….……….………….………... 4. Spirituality and Modern Organizations ……….………….………... Reasons for emphasis on Spirituality …..…………………….…………..... Characteristics of Spiritual Organizations .…………………………....….. Correlation with Managerial Effectiveness and its Implications ……… 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 7 5. Inducing Workplace Spirituality in an Organization ……..... 7 6. Criticisms of Workplace Spirituality ……….…….………….………... 9 7. Current status in Corporate World ……………….………….………... 10 8. Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………….. 11 1. Introduction Workplace spirituality by definition is the “recognition that employees have an inner life which nourishes and is nourished by meaningful work taking place in the context of a community”.1 It refers to a spiritual culture in which an employee with both mind and spirit tends to connect with other employees and becomes a part of the community. It fosters creativity, communication, respect,...
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...religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviors, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural), and/or scriptures. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a god or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. The development of religion has taken different forms in different cultures. Some religions place an emphasis on belief, while others emphasize practice. Some religions focus on the subjective experience of the religious individual, while others consider the activities of the religious community to be most important. Some religions claim to be universal, believing their laws and cosmology to be binding for everyone, while others are intended to be practiced only by a closely defined or localized group. In many places religion has been associated with public institutions such as education, hospitals, the family, government, and political hierarchies. Some academics...
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...Heritage Assessment Cultural heritage plays an important role in the economic, social and health promotion of an individual. The use of heritage assessment tools helps people to evaluate someone’s heritage, as well as traditional health methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health; Heritage assessment tool is very useful for the health care professionals when they are dealing with a person’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs. Every person has a cultural heritage and their views are different too. Different cultures have different values and beliefs of health, disease and treatment. By knowing these cultural competencies we can provide a holistic approach care to their health. This tool helps both the patient and the health care provider by opening a pathway for an effective communication of one’s own values and beliefs, in regards to health and illness. Culture is an inherited quality and it includes beliefs, knowledge and custom. The basic role of cultural heritage is bringing people together and respects the cultural diversities. The tool helps to understand heritage assessment of a person according to how deeply he answered the question. Interview of Three Different Families Knowledge about traditional culture makes people aware about their health maintenance, protection and restoration of the health. The main purpose of this study is to compare the differences of Indian, Hispanic and Kenyan heritage and health tradition. While comparing the...
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...Skip over navigation to the main content ProQuest Recent Searches Selected Items My Research Help, Support and What's Changed All databases Dissertations & ThesesChange databases Dissertations & Theses Basic SearchAdvanced Search Browse Enter your search termsSearch ProQuest daily allowance Search buttonNote: You may want to limit your search before running it. Limit options are available immediately after the Search button, which follows this note. Those options are also available on the results page. Full text Auto-complete suggestions will show below the text field as you type. To select them and get screen reader software to read them out press down arrow key. Modify search Modify searchRecent searches Save search/alert Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers by selecting the Enter button Skip related searchesSkip related searches Related searchesclick one of the following links to run a new search on that subject Children & youth Children & youth AND Parents & parenting Children & youth AND Families & family life 96,830 Results Search within Cite Email Print More Skip filter panel to resultsSkip filter panel to results Main content area Select 1-200 Selected itemsBrief viewDetailed view Select result item1dissertations & theses Preview The price of carbon: Allowance price development in the EU ETS Hintermann, Beat. University of Maryland, College Park, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008. 3359279. ...have lead to the initial allowance...
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...focus was placed on having a healing environment as well as having a healing facility, and healing culture. They were awarded the Healing Hospital designation secondary to three key components. They were awarded this by the Baptist Healing Trust, in Nashville, Tennessee (Eberst, 2008). The components are listed as 1) A healing physical environment, 2) The integration of work design and technology, and 3) A culture of “Radical Loving Care” (Eberst). A healing environment includes more than just the patient, but also encompasses the knowledge to help the family members and others that may be involved with the support of the patient. As the patient is cared for, there is support for not only their medical well being but also for their spiritual and emotional well being. There are other issues to be addressed for environmental distractions as well. These are simple issues such as noise levels. The disturbing levels can be caused by items such as intercoms, electrical and mechanical equipment, as well as loud voices, or housekeeping cleaning. Design and technology encompasses many...
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...INTRODUCTION A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger religious group. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and principles. For practical reasons, a cult or sect is sometimes defined as `any religious group with a distinctive worldview of its own derived from, but not identical with, the teachings of a major world religion. As we are speaking here of special groups which usually pose a threat to people's freedom and to society in general, cults and sects have also been characterized as possessing a number of distinctive features. These often are that they [groups] are often authoritarian in structure, that they exercise forms of brainwashing and mind control, that they cultivate group pressure and instill feelings of guilt and fear, etc. Sects are found in all religions. Islam has Sunnis and Shias, Judaism has Orthodox and Karaites, Hinduism has Shiyaism and Shaktism, and Christianity has Baptists and Lutherans. These are all examples of religious sects, and they can be thought of as “branches” of different religions. There are also non-religious sects, such as capitalists and socialists among economists, or Freudians and Jungians among...
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...The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Introduction, Commentaries, and Translation What are the Yoga Sutras and who is Patanjali? Over fifty different English translations of the Yoga Sutras are extant, standing as a human testament to how Universal Truth is celebrated in terms of a rich diversity. Rather than the common and external type of knowledge (emanating from book knowledge), the following translation and commentary are a result of an intimate familiarity and direct experience both with an authentic yogic tradition and with western culture, psychology, and language that has been refined, tested in fire, and integrated for over thirty five years of intense practice (sadhana). This work is dedicated toward revealing the universal message of authentic yoga that the sage, Patanjali, first wrote down approximately 2000 years ago. Patanjali is not the inventor of yoga, but rather yoga's most popularly known scribe. What has become known simply as the "Yoga Sutras" (sutra means thread) or almost equally as common, as the "Yoga Darshana" (the vision of Yoga), is actually a compendium of an ancient pre-existing oral yoga tradition consisting of both practical advice and theoretical context. The most accepted format of the Yoga Sutras consists of four chapters (called padas) written in the Sanskrit language approximately 2000 years ago in Northern India while utilizing the terminology of the time, i.e., Samkhya philosophical trappings. The dates ascribed to the Yoga Sutras...
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