Action Science Approach to Experimenting Nonprofit

Persons with mental impairments tend to be viewed as unemployable and systematically excluded from labor markets. This research try to find how to unleash the power of Web2.0 to assist people with mental disabilities and their caregivers. Because Web 2.0 removes maintenance and financial burdens from NPOs and adds usability in the meanwhile. Web 2.0 based architecture for nonprofit organizations (Fig.1).

Figure 1.

This system use a discussion board is to fast disseminate time-sensitive job information to colleague job coaches. The effectiveness of knowledge sharing discussion create some result : the average number of messages per subject was 2.32 with standard deviation (SD) equal to 2.34. It was found that the average number of members involved in an initiated subject was 1.8 with SD= 1.5, which meant initiated subjects got replies in return with 80% of probability. We were also noted by the fact that the average time span of a subject was 42.6 hours (SD=50.0), compared to 2 weeks in maximum and 1 week in average thatused to be required for receiving updated job bulletins. Therefore, the reduction in the time to disseminate job information was accomplished by 75%. It's mean that the system has been built and tested by the job coaches with significant success.