Site name: Alliance for Nonprofit Management URL: www.allianceonline.org Background information: The Alliance for Nonprofit Management is the professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits. The alliance is dedicated to assisting nonprofits in fulfilling their missions.

Note: Nonprofit organizations are private organizations whose primary objective is to benefit their members or people within society by supporting an issue of private interest or other endeavor for the public good. Even though their mission is not to generate a profit, all the functions of management still apply because nonprofits must still generate income to meet their expenses. Among the many nonprofit organizations related to hospitality are the following: Chefs for Humanity (www

.chefsforhumanity.org), Share Our Strength (www.strength.org), Meals on Wheels

(www.mowaa.org), and City Harvest (www.cityharvest.org).

Site name: The Free Management Library: Planning in Organizations URL: www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/plan_dec.htm Background information: The Free Management Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups, and organizations. The content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are in large or small for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Over the past ten years, the library has grown to be one of the world’s largest and best-organized collections of these types of resources.

Site name: QuickMBA URL: www.quickmba.com/strategy/strategic-planning Background information: QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. The goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world’s top MBA programs.

Exercise: Choose one of the “chapters” on any of the three Web sites above that is of interest to you. Lead a class discussion on the management function of “planning”

in an organization, and describe why this information would be important to a hospitality manager.