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1. The main goal of all businesses is to make profit. How do the not-for-profit organizations set their goal?

2. If you were going to start your own business in a service industry such as a Landscaping business, what type of return on investment would you expect after the first year? What about for the second year? Please justify your answers with appropriate calculations to support your response. I want to use a landscaping business as my example.

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Your response is 213 words and gives you examples of non-profit goals as well as a minimum expected return for a landscaping business and why the second year would likely be a great return than the first. Of course, the projections are just an example of what could happen and you can adjust them to your expectations (lower or higher).

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1. The main goal of all businesses is to make profit. How do the not-for-profit organizations set their goal?

Non-profits have goals that match their mission. Non-profits have all kinds of missions, generally to serve as many as they can, find cures for diseases, take the word of God to foreign lands, offer medical procedures to sick kids in poor countries and so forth. In other words, their goals are generally to use their resources to expand their ...

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