abstract: In the U.S., one of the most affluent countries in the world, hunger and food waste are two social problems that coexist in an ironic way. Food banks have become one key alternative solution to those problems because of their capacity to collect and distribute surplus food to those in need as well as to mobilize collective efforts of various organizations and citizens. However, the understanding of U.S. food banking remains limited due to research gaps in the literature. Previous public values research fails to address the key role of nonprofit organizations in achieving public values, while prior nonprofit and food bank studies suffer from insufficiently reflecting the value-driven nature in evaluating overall social impacts. Inspired by these gaps, this study asks the following question: how does food banking in the U.S. respond to public value failure? To address this question, this study employs the interpretive approach as the logic of inquiry and the public value mapping framework as the analytic tool to contemplate the overall social impacts of U.S. food banking. Data sources include organizational documents of 203 U.S. food banks, as well as other public documents and literature pertaining to U.S. food banks. Using public value mapping analysis, this study constructs a public value logic, which manifests the dynamics of prime and instrumental values in the U.S. food banking context. Food security, sustainability, and progressive opportunity are identified as three core prime public values. Instrumental values in this context consist of two major value categories: (1) intra-organizational values and (2) inter-and ultra-organizational values. Furthermore, this study applies public value failure criteria to examine success or failure of public values in this context. U.S. Food banks do contribute to the success of public sphere, progressive opportunity, sustainability and food security. However, the practice of U.S. food banks also lead to the failure of food security in some conditions. This study develops a new public value failure criterion based on the inherent limitations of charitable service providers. Main findings, contributions, and future directions are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Public Administration 2017

The practical part describes these nonprofit organization, including an overview of funding sources for the years 2003-2009, obtained by the division of funds among different projects in the period 2006-2009 and a more specific description of the selected project, method of budgeting in the grant application and settlement allocation subsidy. Projects are processed very good way, and therefore have a great chance at winning the support. They have a good base in terms of fixed donors and sponsors. For clients it creates an environment with a pleasant atmosphere and staff want to help provide high quality and well-intentioned advice. In the event that their work is not stopped, this non-profit organizations a chance that more clients will use their services. Each of us can get into difficult life situations and services in this format will want to use.

This work in the first chapter describes reasons for the formation of nonprofit sector and the necessity of its existence. Further, individual sources of funding nonprofit organizations in the Czech Republic are described and also explained using examples from common life. I mainly focus on specificities of individual financial sources and also compare sources of funding among NPO. I also submit some conclusions of conducted research. It gives possibility to study diversity of financing different types of NPO. Last chapter is based on regression analysis. I examine certain conclusions from theoretical part of work.

This thesis focuses on analysis and implementation of CRM in non-profit organization. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the choice of suitable CRM system for Open Society Fund Prague, while the part of implementation is covered in the thesis of Václav Bešta. To fulfil the main aim, it is necessary to extend knowledge gained during the study using additional information from specialised publications and electronic resources which relate to CRM and Fundraising. These are subsequently used in the practical part, which is the result of individual work and cooperation with V. Bešta and members of Open Society Fund Prague. The contribution of this thesis is a resultant product in form of chosen and suggested CRM system, which Open Society Fund Prague will use for its activities. Possible contribution is that this system can be used by another non-profit organisation. Moreover, the practical part of this thesis may serve as a manual, how to deal with a selection of suitable CRM system. This Thesis is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part discusses and clarifies the meaning of CRM and Fundraising, describes possibilities of their interconnection and mentions research in works, dealing with similar topics. At first, the practical part describes Open Society Fund Prague. The thesis continues with the analysis of found requirements for the CRM system, which than helps to choose a suitable product for the foundation. At the end, the thesis mentions the implementation of a chosen system in Open Society Fund Prague, which is described in detail in the thesis of V. Bešta.

The goal of this work is to design principles of implementation and operation of the social network for a particular non-profit organization. The structure of this work is divided into several steps. The first part is applied to the theory of social network I focus on social network which are used in the Czech Republic and users of social networks. In the next part I describe the nongovernmental organizations, their environment and the ways of getting resources. The most important part is the analysis of the technological environment, where are mentioned the reasons for the implementation of the social networks for the nongovernmental organizations. Other important parts are the principles of fundraising, a principle that nongovernmental organizations should follow when contacting potentional donors. Another part is applied to the analysis of the activities of five selected nongovernmental organizations or their program on social networks. It also includes evaluation of communication nongovernmental organization on social networks with a potentional donor or volunteer. In the following section I analyze in detail the work program of the Hestia and their activities on the social network. In the chapter is also analysis of the main account on the social network Facebook. The last part is the design of social network for program of the non-profit organization. This part is very inspired by the work of the previous chapters.

This dissertation explores the underresearched topic of the motivation of non-profit organizational (NPO) workers for accepting international assignments (IAs). In the literature review, the motivation and reasons for working and living outside the home country by multinational corporate expatriates, international migrants, and long-term international volunteers are summarized. With the reasons for expatriation distilled from the literature, a self-determination theory (SDT) approach, and open-ended questions, the motivations for NPO workers to accept IAs are factor analyzed and triangulated using data from a sample of more than 140 Christian mission and humanitarian workers originating from 25 countries and representing 48 sending organizations. Four NPO worker motivation profiles are tentatively identified and described using cluster analysis of the SDT motivations and Kruskal-Wallis analysis of the reasons of accepting an IA, individual cultural values, organizational commitment, and demographic variables. The NPO worker cluster groups include the Caring Internationalist, the Self-Directed Careerist, the Obedient Soldier, and the Movement-Immersed Worker. The findings hold implications for international human resource managers toward the effective recruitment, selection, training and development, career management, and support and encouragement of NPO expatriates with the goal of an increase in the incidence of expatriation assignment success.

The aim of the study was to examine how professional social workers who work with addiction in both nonprofit and municipal organizations, describe and work with women with gambling addiction from their perspective as professionals. This was done to try to contribute with further knowledge regarding women with gambling addiction in social work. We wanted to examine the professionals who work with gambling women out of perspectives from theories about gender and stigmatization to explore differences in treatments, speech and the addiction itself between men and women. This study has shown the conclusions that women may need other kind of support to become free from gambling, according to structural inequality and differences in gender expectations that make women more familyoriented, vulnerable and shameful, also in a gambling addiction. By not emphasizing the structural circumstances leading up to and forming the gambling addiction, the women risk not receiving right, or any, treatment if professionals do not learn how to recognize gambling addiction in women and how the addiction can portrait different from men. This study has also shown that support from partner have displayed to be crucial for the gambling man in overcoming his addiction, where women do not seem to have the same amount of support from home and therefore do not have the same basis of getting through their addiction either.

This thesis deals with the current state of donorship in the Czech Republic. It is primarily focused on comparing different forms of collections and opportunities which are enabled by online fundraising. Quantitative research deals with attitudes that donors have towards collections and fundraising. The work shows which forms of collection are the most acceptable for donors. The research is aimed at their trust in the effective use of the financial contribution by nonprofit organization.

The following study is about how non-profit organizations in Sweden with focus on social services utilize strategic planning in their organizations. Furthermore, the thesis addresses the existential challenges associated with the strategic planning process. In addition, the study also takes the possible benefits of strategic planning process into consideration. With help of interviews and previous research the thesis has managed to gain plentiful information regarding the strategic planning process, its possible challenges as well as the benefits associated with the process. After analyzing both the empirical and theoretical materials, the study has come to the conclusion that strategic planning is an integral factor for the non-profit organizations' success. This is because the strategic plan aids the non-profit organizations when it comes to defining its goals as well as achieving them. In addition, the strategic planning process creates a sense of community in the organizations. Conversations and discussions that arise during the process are valuable and create cohesion. However, there are some potential challenges as well pertaining to the strategic planning process, which are addressed in the study later. Despite all the possible challenges all non-profit organizations that have been interviewed state that the benefits of the strategic plan outweigh the costs generated by creating and implementing the strategic plan.

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