1_2_Journal.docx 1-2 Journal: Choosing a Not-for-Profit Organization OL- 665-X5136 Lea

1_2_Journal.docx    1-2 Journal: Choosing a Not-for-Profit Organization  OL- 665-X5136 Lead / Manage Not-For-Profit  Southern New Hampshire University  The not-for-profit organization I have chosen is the Children Miracle Network. The reason I have chosen this organization is that in my job now working at a pharmacy, we have promoted several months within the year on just promoting and raising money by asking customers for donations to Children Miracle Network. We have also set up programs within the register that ask customers if they would like to donate every time they purchase something, as in an agreement. A certain percentage will distribute out to help fund Children Miracle Network. We take a lot of pride in this program, we even set up balloons and have paper balloons where we write customers names down that have donated and decorated them throughout the store. Children Miracle Network's mission is to have funding to help out children in Connecticut and other Children Miracle Network Hospitals (CMI, 2019). They have raised about 7 billion dollars with a donation of an amount of 1 dollar at a time as a minimum to help save children's lives (CMI, 2019). They are for the children; they help children with trauma, diabetes, cancer, children that need surgeries, and babies in NICU (CMI, 2019).   They have 170 hospitals, 97 corporate partners, and 100 celebrity partners and over a million volunteers for this non-profit organization (CMI, 2019).  With my experience with them, they genuinely c