Better Business, 5/e

Objective 6-4 Not-for-Profit and Cooperatives

1. Explain the characteristics of not-for-profit organizations and cooperatives.

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While attending college, Darrell Hammond had volunteered to make playgrounds. Several years later, he read about two inner-city children who had suffocated while playing in an abandoned car and realized that if the children had had a safe place to play, the tragedy could have been avoided. Shortly afterward, Darrell and his friend Dawn Hutchinson built a community playground for a day ...