Nonprofit Organization Management - Loretto, Minnesota, United States
The VolStruc Foundation is a nonprofit organization in the fields of poverty alleviation and economic development.\lStruc plans to implement models of sustainability and turning the focus away from direct aid and free goods.Free goods and labor within developing communities can have disastrous effects on local economies because of the saturation of local markets and the disincentives that follow. For more information consider these books and/or documentaries.Poverty Inc.Dead AidWhen Helping HurtsToxic CharityVolStruc Foundation's mission is "Through building sport structures, we sustainably improve impoverished communities."What this means is that we are helping communities invest in sports stadiums that will generate revenue through field rentals, professional and semiprofessional teams, and rentals to local businesses to sell their products at events. Our goal is to abolish impoverished community's dependence on aid and turn it into a hunger for investment.Our flagship project was located at Our Lady of Guadalupe secondary school in Busolo, Uganda.