Working for a non-profit organization focuses on serving a public benefit rather than profit, while a for-profit company's primary goal is making money. Non-profits offer benefits like being able to make a positive impact, greater work-life balance and flexibility, but typically have lower pay and bonuses. For-profits provide higher compensation but your work is oriented towards generating revenue rather than a social cause. The best choice depends on an individual's priorities around purpose, compensation and lifestyle.

1. ‘working for a non-profit
organisation versus working for a
profit-oriented company’.

2. Non profit organizations
Definition:
• A non profit 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.

3. Profit organization
Definition:
• A business or other organization
whose primary goal is making
money (a profit), as opposed to a non profit
organization which focuses a goal such as
helping the community and is concerned with
money only as much as necessary to keep the
organization operating.

4.  one can make positive changes in
the life of thousands of people
- to build affordable homes for poor
families
- provide education to mentally
challenged people.

5.  satisfaction
• It gives immense satisfaction when you come
to know that your every action do good to the
person who seeks your organization’s
assistance.

6.  Balance work and family
• Non profit firms are very informal in terms of
vacation and working hours. It also has a more
moderate approach towards lifestyle.

7.  Variation in work
• As there is insufficient staff to accomplish
tasks in non profit organizations, it provides
you the opportunity to do various kinds of
tasks other than your job profile.

8.  Higher purpose
• In non profit careers, staff members do not
execute their responsibilities for the sake of
making money.

9.  Lower bonuses
• In non profit organizations, you hardly get
bonuses.
• Also in the last few years, the benefit packages
are also reducing.

10.  Succes measurement
• For example, an organization is running a
program to promote parents to read more
than the children.
Here, it is highly impossible to calculate the success of a campaign. It is difficult to attract
funds and form sufficient focus groups.

11.  Burn outs and depressions
• In some types of non profit organizations, you
need to work with miserable, destitute people
or even worse.

12.  Lower earnings
• Most of the non profits firm requires highly
educated people (Masters degree or PhD) for
senior level positions. However in non profit
careers, one receives a less amount of salary
and has to do a lot of work.

13. Example of a non profit
• Oxfam-Wereldwinkels is a democratic volunteer
movement that strives for fair world trade and
fights for everyone’s right to a dignified existence.
• Oxfam-Wereldwinkels is the main fair trade
organization in Belgium.
Through campaigns and activities, Oxfam-
Wereldwinkels raises public awareness about
unfair trade.

14. • The organization urges governments and
enterprises to do something about this
injustice. By selling Oxfam Fairtrade products
the organization offers consumers a concrete
alternative.

15. n° 1 Google
• 18391 employees
www.google.com
Industry: Media - Online Internet Services
Ownership: Publicly quoted/held
State: California

16. Eric Schmidt, Executive
Chairman, Google
• The goal is to strip away everything that gets in
our employees’ way. We provide a standard
package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are
first-class dining facilities, gyms, laundry
rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry
cleaning, commuting buses – just about anything
a hardworking employee might want. Let’s face it:
programmers want to program, they don’t want
to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them
to do both.”

17. • Working for a non profit organization is more
fullfiling but working for a profit organization
makes you wealthier. You have to consider
what is more important for you personally.