Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Nadia Shapkina / In the current climate of proliferating nonprofit organizations and demanding social service needs, volunteers play a crucial role. This study looks at career volunteers, who, unlike other types of volunteers, identify with their work as if it were a paying occupation. It examines personal narratives and experiences through interviews in two Kansas communities and in-depth participant observation in one Kansas homeless shelter to find unique identity formation in the way that career volunteers make sense of who they are and what they do. These volunteers show a tendency to reject modern frames around the concepts of work, home, and volunteerism. Instead, they integrate life categories, lending an often counter-cultural conception of identity and meaning to their lives’ work.

The main aim of this thesis is to get acquainted with issues concerning the non-profit sector in Czech Republic. The first part is theoretical, and defines the concrete types of non-profit organizations and their legal regulations. Further attention is paid to accounting for non-profit organizations, and definitions of terms commonly used in connection with non-profit organizations such as fundraising or self-financing. The second part describes the economy of a specific non-profit organization, namely Domov Sue Ryder, a public benefit organization. This part analyzes the revenues, expenses, and profit of Domov Sue Ryder for the period 2006 - 2009 in distribution to main and additional activities.

The thesis deals with a motivation of workers in the non-profit sector who participate in a run of organizations as volunteers. In the theoretical part basic concepts are explained with an emphasis on personality and motivation. Specifics of the non-profit sector and a voluntary question are clarified and in conclusion selected nonprofit organization -- Association of Scouts and Guides of the Czech Republic is presented. The practical part is an empirical research. In its framework, results of a survey are evaluated, validity of the defined hypotheses is tested and a motivation program is proposed with the aim of workers'satisfaction and motivation increase.

This thesis is focused on analysis of the services of NGOs in selected districts, which are Tabor and Pisek. The theoretical and methodological part, we discuss the role of non-profit sector in the national economy structure and functions of the nonprofit sector. It describes a selection of legal forms of nonprofit organizations, methods and forms of financing and their scope. The subject is a survey of the practical range of services offered by non-profit sector in selected districts. The survey focuses on the following legal forms of organizations: foundations, endowment funds, associations of legal persons, representing the diakonia of charity and religious organizations, educational, legal entities, charitable organizations, political parties, political movements and associations (union, association, club, etc.) and contributory organizations.

The research applied multi-criteria decision-making analysis to donor decisions regarding the choice of a particular charity in order to identify which donor attitudes are significant in the giving decision. Factors affecting the appeal of major charities in Health and Disability were compared. The giving decision has not been widely researched overseas and particularly in New Zealand there is a need to do this in order to better manage Not-for-profit marketing resources. 24 factors associated with giving decisions were identified and quantified giving rise to a fully-specified giving model and potentially direct benefits to charitable organizations. The research has made a contribution to our understanding of donor choice determinants and giving models.

The research applied multi-criteria decision-making analysis to donor decisions regarding the choice of a particular charity in order to identify which donor attitudes are significant in the giving decision. Factors affecting the appeal of major charities in Health and Disability were compared. The giving decision has not been widely researched overseas and particularly in New Zealand there is a need to do this in order to better manage Not-for-profit marketing resources. 24 factors associated with giving decisions were identified and quantified giving rise to a fully-specified giving model and potentially direct benefits to charitable organizations. The research has made a contribution to our understanding of donor choice determinants and giving models.

The object of this thesis tituled {\clqq}Management of non profit association`` is to analyse and evaluate recent financial resources for non profit association. The first part attends to theoretical principles and an analysis of the allowance organisations financial potential, followed by emphasising their most significant specifics (contribution to operation and to the capital investments of the settlor). The second part is focused on various means of financing a concrete organisation as well as the evaluation of real situation and theoretical assumptions.

Orientador: Lúcia da Costa Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T13:18:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maccafani_AnaPaulaMoraesdaSilva_D.pdf: 919890 bytes, checksum: b5aff074a942ec61de5332793a691a0d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Foi Bruno Latour quem disse que se o cientista social quiser pesquisar as sociedades complexas ele deve se atentar para as suas principais organizações. Em suas palavras, é preciso se debruçar sobre aquelas organizações que caracterizam a sociedade, que são as "veias" que "bombeiam" o capital ao "coração" da sociedade: o lucro, o consumo e o sistema de produção em massa que essa sociedade sustenta (Latour, 1994). Nesse sentido, para entender a sociedade capitalista, um ator importante são as empresas privadas, organizações centrais e representantes do sistema que compõe o capitalismo. Com o objetivo de analisar as ações sociais desenvolvidas no âmbito da sociedade capitalista contemporânea, os projetos de responsabilidade social e sustentabilidade, desenvolvidos pelas empresas privadas parecem um bom objeto para pensar a sociedade contemporânea e as formas de interação social entre empresa e sociedade. Por isso o mercado financeiro pareceu tão adequado para esse trabalho, já que expressam a base sobre a qual o capitalismo se estruturou e intrigantemente também é uma das áreas da sociedade capitalista que mais investe em responsabilidade social corporativa. Desde o final da década de noventa tem-se visto o crescimento de ações sociais desenvolvidas por empresas privadas, que pretendem, não mais fazer caridade ou assistencialismo, mas que afirmam contribuir com transformações mais profundas na sociedade, como o fim da desigualdade social, o aumento do alcance a cidadania, e a promoção da sustentabilidade ambiental. Muitas dessas empresas montam setores dentro das suas corporações e dedicam uma parte considerável dos recursos para promover discussões e propor ações que visem discutir problemas sociais e ambientais, anteriormente objeto de estudo do Estado e das universidades. Como resultado desse esforço, pretendem que suas ações influenciem políticas públicas / Abstract: Bruno Latour who was told that if the social scientist wants to research the complex societies it must be attentive to their major organizations. In his words, it is necessary to dwell on those organizations that characterize the society, which are the "veins" that "pump" the capital to the "heart" of society: income, consumption and mass production system that sustains society (Latour, 1994). Accordingly, to understand capitalist society, an important actor are private companies, organizations and representatives of the central system that makes capitalism. Aiming to analyze the social actions within contemporary capitalist society, the projects of social responsibility and sustainability, developed by private companies seem to think a good object contemporary society and the forms of social interaction between business and society. Therefore the financial market seemed so appropriate for this work, because they express the basis upon which capitalism is structured and intriguingly is also one of the areas of capitalist society that invests more in corporate social responsibility. Since the late nineties has seen the growth of social actions developed by private companies, who want no more to do charity or welfare, but that claim contribute to deeper changes in society, such as the end of social inequality, the increase the reach citizenship, and promoting environmental sustainability. Many of these companies amounted sectors within their corporations and devote a considerable amount of resources to promote discussion and propose actions aimed at discussing social and environmental problems, previously studied by the state and the universities. As a result of this effort, claim that their actions influence public policy / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais / Doutor em Ciências Sociais

Theoretic part of this thesis describes terms like civil society, non-profit sector and non-profit organizations. Then is described activity of fundraising as a main theme of this thesis. Practical part of this thesis contains methodical instruction of asking for financial resources from structural funds of European Union through the program SROP.

The purpose of the pursuit was to chart problems with situation of non-governmental non-profit organization, focused on financial manegment and to analyse potential of selffunding ecological oraganization Společnost přátel přírody-Čmelák