A business has discharged its functions when the customer buys the product, pays for it, and is satisfied with it. Government has discharged its function when its policies are effective. The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes, nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.
Children in a rural New Zealand school sing about their community
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The song Our Toanga by the Sea has been produced by the children and wider
community of Hampden [map link], and it's simply a nice look at a rural New
Zeal...
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