Leaders of nonprofits businesses adopt revenue diversification strategies to create innovative program services, creative ways to source materials, utilize volunteers and community partnerships, and identify business solutions related to solving societal problems. To continue providing services, it is crucial for nonprofit leaders to maintain adequate financial resources. The purpose of this single-case study was to explore revenue diversification strategies used by 3 leaders of a nonprofit organization in western California of the United States using Markowitz's modern portfolio theory as the conceptual lens. Data were collected through in-depth semistructured interviews and examination of organizational documents, internal archival data, and online databases. Through thematic analysis, 8 revenue diversification themes emerged: adding income streams; establishing practical financial performance measures; establishing operating reserve; achieving financial health, sustainability, and resilience; building organizational capacity; adopting transparency; achieving efficiency and effectiveness; and conducting active surveys. Additionally, 10 recommendations were identified: developing written procedurals, developing a process improvement strategy, engaging in contingency planning, increasing transparency and governance, using metrics for donor attrition and retention, developing and upgrading technology, increasing staff capacity, creating an employee handbook, conducting active surveys to reinforce additional services, establishing performance measures. These findings may have implications for positive social change, including the potential to contribute to nonprofit leaders' models of effective strategies with processes to grow income sources to support organizational sustainability and support a leader's ability to improve and maintain service offerings, while avoiding dependence on single source of revenue.

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Studies shows that youths today read books less frequently than before. This is, in my opinion problematic. This study aims towards an understanding in how the Harry Potter novels can enrich the teaching in upper secondary school in Sweden in the education of religions and ethics, for students to reflect, and discuss different topics of value. The novels are incorporated with lots of good options for values, including the equal value of people, feminism and masculism and cultural racism. The study is made with help of narrative analysis. The results show that this book offers a lot of value in teaching situations and therefore the conclusion is that fantasy novels can be used to discuss problematic issues in society by using the different examples in the books as allegories.

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Wise the Wizard is a feature-length documentary by Daisy Sara Blakelock, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on the late Harry Wise, a magician from Sanford, Florida, as remembered by the people who knew him best. Interview subjects include the following: author and TV Producer Charlie Carlson, who wrote a biography about Harry Wise entitled A Wizard's Tux and Tales (Luthers Press, New Smyrna Beach: 2004); Brendan and Anna McWilliams, who accompanied Harry on countless adventures throughout Sanford and the surrounding areas; Art Litka, who dedicated a portion of his Halloween Village to Harry Wise; filmmaker and magician Gary Lester, who studied magic under Harry Wise and acquired and restored many of Harry's former props; and Lynn Ashe, Harry Wise's best friend.

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Vi vuxna känner igen en hel del schablonbilder i Harry Potter-böckerna; vi har stött på namnen och företeelserna förut i myter, religion och i symbolvärlden. Men de yngre läsarna med föga eller ingen tidigare läsvana, som troligtvis aldrig har stött på ”de gamla litterära motiven” tidigare, attraheras ändå av böckerna. Frågan jag därför ställer är om de unga läsarna enbart fascineras av äventyren, spänningen och humorn i böckerna. Eller om det finns något i människans inre som tilltalas av den dolda innebörden i texterna, som förmedlas av symbolerna och myterna i berättelserna. Finns det sålunda något i vårt gemensamma undermedvetna, i enlighet med Jungs teorier och tankemodeller om bl.a. det kollektivt undermedvetna, som tillfredsställs och som därmed kan förklara varför Harry Potter-böckerna gjort sådan succé? Mitt syfte är alltså att försöka upptäcka om det finns något i Jungs sätt att beskriva det mänskliga psyket som kan appliceras på Harry Potter-böckerna och som kan klargöra varför dessa tilltalar så många. Jag kommer fram till att det tydligt framgår hur C. G. Jungs förklaringsmodeller kan tillämpas i analys av Rowlings verk. Jag finner att de arketypiska strukturerna föreligger som grundmönster i romanernas komposition och struktur. De arketypiska tolkningarna bidrar till en ökad förståelse och en fördjupad upplevelse av berättelserna om Harry Potter. Det som från början verkade vara ren underhållning för barn visade sig ha ett psykologiskt djup som har rötter till mytologi, sagor och religion. Jag ställer mig därför tveksam till om Harry Potter-böckerna i själva verket är tänkta som barn och ungdomsböcker, strukturen verkar alltför komplicerad för att så vara fallet. Jag har upptäckt att det finns likheter och samband mellan Rowlings romaner och ett flertal mytologiska och religiösa motiv. Till stor del har alltså Jungs teorier visat sig vara tillämpliga på litteratur som utkommit mycket länge efter hans död, vilket kan bekräfta hans teorier.

<p>This thesis explores the intersection of storytelling and spirituality in contemporary Native literature in Canada. The invocation of the oral tradition and its history will be examined in the works of Eden Robinson, Joseph Boyden, and Harry Robinson, as each author attempts to orient his or her narratives within a First Nations framework. By gesturing towards orality in their written literature, these authors acknowledge the dialogic nature of a narrative that has been shaped by ancestral experiences and memory and thus write against the colonial master narrative of the contemporary Canadian nation-state. In Joseph Boyden's <em>Through Black Spruce</em>, Eden Robinson's <em>Monkey Beach</em>, and the transcribed collections of Harry Robinson's stories, the invocation of orality becomes the vehicle through which to explore Indigenous ways of knowing and traditional spiritual beliefs. This thesis first considers the ways in which the mode of storytelling allows each author to create a new narrative that introduces readers to an Indigenous perspective on the processes of history. It then examines the evolution of specific spiritual beings from traditional narratives into contemporary settings as a way to explore neocolonial attitudes and the compromised contexts of modern Indigenous life in communities across Canada that continue to be haunted by a legacy of colonialism. I end with an exploration of the potential for healing that each author envisions as communities move into a decolonization process through the regeneration of tribal languages, a reconnection to sacred space, and a reimagining of the Canadian master narrative and its colonial interpretation of history.</p> / Master of English