Application: Virtual City: Revitalizing Masachapa Project

During Week 3, you were asked to develop an initial agreement for the Revitalizing Masachapa Project (RMP). This week, you are tasked with identifying and analyzing the critical design components of one of the organizations involved in the RMP. For this organization, you will identify the organizational mandate/mission for the organization and explain how the organizational mandate/mission supports this organization within the project, as well as the project as a whole.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review Week 4 information in the Virtual City: Revitalizing Masachapa Project multimedia.
• Review Chapter 4 in Bryson (2018).
• Consider the importance of the organizational mandate and mission in creating public value for public and nonprofit organizations.

The Assignment (3–4 pages):

Choose one of the organizations involved in the Revitalizing Masachapa Project (RMP). For this organization:

• Explain how the organizational mandate and mission support this organization in creating public value for the RMP.
• Analyze the relationships between this organization and other key stakeholders involved in the process in terms of creating public value.
• Analyze externally imposed mandates (whether formal or informal) affecting your chosen organization.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. Use APA style for this and all assignments.

Readings

• Bryson, J. M. (2018). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Chapter 4, “Clarifying Organizational Mandates and Mission” (pp. 115-142)
• Chen, K. K., Lune, H., & Queen, E. L., II. (2013). How values shape and are shaped by nonprofit and voluntary organizations: The current state of the field. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42(5), 856–885.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Moore, M. H. (2000).Managing for value: Organizational strategy in for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(Suppl. 1), 183–208.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Media

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014). Virtual city: Revitalizing Masachapa Project [Multimedia file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

  Please click on the following link for the transcript: Program Transcript (PDF)

  As you review the Week 4 information in the Virtual City, identify a public and nonprofit organization involved in the Revitalizing Masachapa Project (RMP), and focus on how its mission/mandate defines the parameters of its involvement in the RMP.