Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary in the Nonprofit World

Multidisciplinary vs. Interdisciplinary which fits the nonprofit world more? Interdisciplinary of course is the ability to take the teachings from multiple subjects and combining them to create a greater understanding from a multi dimensional outlook. Multidisciplinary is the idea that you can have multiple fields of study, but one doesn’t connect with the other they are their own separate pieces that don’t change or grow from the knowledge of another field. In this day and age it would seem too presumptuous to say that there is a true multidisciplinary field. When studying at university maybe, but outside of school and even in school the bases of understanding is learning what different ways of looking at things can teach you. To be a nurse let’s say you have to be able to use math, science, even communicational skill to be a successful nurse. To be a grade school teacher you have to know math, science, art, writing, reading, and so on. Every field helps to move and expand others in one form or another. Life whether how simple, small, or even insignificant as some might think, works in an interdisciplinary fashion, don’t we tell children when they don’t understand something or someone to either walk a mile in that persons shoes or look at things from a different light. To be and live is to be interdisciplinary.

At Future for Kids it seems at first that have one goal one purpose and that is all they want to strive for. As you look deep into their inner workings and the details of the company you see that they are working from multiple angles to create the best outcome for their most sought after goal. Future for Kids is a nonprofit charity for Children, but they also are about sports and teaching the children about healthy life styles. They don’t just raise money they become a part of children’s lives, they hold charity events yes, but they also have camps for the kids once weekly after school programs, and so on. So far I have been working on the camps and the charity events. I have been in charge of setting up media coverage for the events. Getting the food and beverages together for the event and taking care of the registration for the events. When you work in a small, but passionate team you take on the roles of all different types of people. You are the media coordinator, you are the assistant, you are the head buyer, and so on. Each inter will have specific duties based on what their educational background is, such as I am communication and creative writing, so I have been in charge of the newsletters and getting the word out there about upcoming events and projects. As well as being in charge of the media coverage and the promotion of a charity haunted house that we are having in the fall. You being your own unique view point to the company and they want multiple viewpoints showing them what is working for the company and what needs a little spicing up. From day one they tell you that there is basic nonprofit company ideas that they want you to learn, but after that they want you to develop your talents in the best way to help the company, so they can be a well rounded and diverse system.