The degree thesis treats the problem of Global grant in nonprofit sector accorded within Single programming document for Objective 3 of the NUTS 2 Prague region. The Global grant is simplified grant scheme awarded to nonprofit organizations active in social sphere, which focus on persons endangered by social exclusion. The degree thesis defines the theoretical framework of all correlations necessary for valid insight into the problem. Among the concepts defined are nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, their financing, regional policy of European Union acting through the European Social Fund awarding funds precisely for Global grant. The nature of Global grant is further examined by looking into project approval procedure falling within the grant, handling of monitoring indicators and positron and impact of the Global grant on nonprofit organizations.

This study focused on the association between clients satisfaction with services and the length of time utilizing them. The participants surveyed within this study were from surrounding communities of Central City Lutheran Mission (CCLM) in San Bernardino.

Presented work deals with the issue of fighting against corruption. In a theoretical level the work informs about the causes of corruption and the tools that are currently used for its persecuting. In the practical part I try to find out the way of improvement of corruption range seen throgh the eyes of actors that operate in Prague city. The aim of the work is to identify possibilities of efficiency improvement of nonprofit organizations and the public sector in the field of fighting against the corruption. The analytical part of the work, therefore, maps the situation in relations between selected non-profit organizations and relations between them and the public administration, which is in this work represented by the Prague City Hall - an institution which represents by the local government activities.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This philanthropic studies thesis aims to “increase the understanding of philanthropy, improve its practice, and enhance philanthropic participation” (Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University Overview) by studying the effects of social information, social norms and social identity on giving. It connects philanthropic studies research with theoretical developments in motivations for giving in economics, nonprofit management, nonprofit marketing, consumer behavior, and social psychology. It utilizes personal observations as well as quantitative methods including experiments and surveys on multiple samples including donors, undergraduate students and samples of the U.S. population. It generates actionable and efficacious knowledge to improve the practice of philanthropy. It contributes to the formation and growth of the young field called philanthropic studies - in theory, in methodology and in practice. This thesis includes five chapters. Chapter I will explain how the research question, philosophy and methodology are selected. This discussion will be for the entire thesis. Specific research questions, hypotheses, research designs, findings and implications will be explained in the subsequent chapters. Chapter II demonstrates the immediate and long-term effects of social information on donations and its boundary conditions in existing nonprofit donors in two field experiments. Chapter III shows that the psychological mechanism through which social information influences subsequent giving is perceived descriptive social norms in one field survey of donors and one laboratory experiment on undergraduate students. Chapter IV investigates how social identity congruency moderates the effect of social information on donations. It reports three field experiments on donors and samples of the general U.S. population and two laboratory experiments on undergraduate students. It shows that donors give more money to a public radio station if told that a previous donor with a similar identity also made a large contribution. This effect is more likely to occur when donors have high collective identity esteem and when attention is focused on others. Each chapter provides original fundraising techniques developed from these studies. Chapter V concludes with a discussion of the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of this thesis and suggests directions for future research in philanthropic studies, and philanthropic psychology in particular.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Performing arts centers have been touted as a strategy for revitalizing downtowns by increasing activities that bring in residents with higher incomes, tourists, arts employees, educated workers, and housing. Despite their popularity, civic leaders have encountered complexity in these projects, from financial challenges, to delayed openings and operating deficits. Previous downtown studies examine public facilities, such as stadiums and cultural institutions, through essays, surveys, case studies, or by quantifying transactions exchanged between the public and the facility. This dissertation focuses solely on performing arts centers, excluding all other forms of public facilities and cultural venues, by examining self-collected data on literature-based characteristics of 218 downtowns with and without performing arts centers, all over a seven-year period of time. It was hypothesized that the presence of a performing arts center would contribute to increases in the values of all downtown revitalization characteristics, and community characteristics, as well as organizational attributes of the performing arts center itself (age, size, and revenue types) would in turn, increase the values of the overall health of the performing arts center. Through the use of multiple linear regressions, this research shows that performing arts centers can play a role in revitalizing downtowns. This research also shows that a single characteristic is not solely responsible for revitalizing downtowns; rather, the increased vitality results from a confluence of the characteristics. Endogeneity tests show that a performing arts center is less likely to enter a deserted downtown bereft of vitality. Instead, performing arts centers serve as harbingers of revitalization, confirming the presence of downtown vitality, before they proceed to activate vitality further. Finally, through the use of binary logistic regressions, community characteristics are identified in order to determine the conditions of downtowns that would be most equipped to open a performing arts center, as compared with downtowns that could not.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study questions if the advocacy efforts of community based organizations, like community development corporations, voluntary member associations, and community action agencies, can achieve policy development. Policy development is defined as the proposal of a policy by a community based organization. That policy proposal receives the attention of local decision makers for consideration. This study uses the stages of the policy process to assess what coordinated activities are most effective to achieve policy development. It was concluded that community based organizations can achieve policy development, if they identify an issue or problem, conduct some level of strategic planning, create a policy agenda, and seek access to decision makers. In all three case analyses, the hybrid organization, community action agency, and the voluntary member association were able to achieve policy development. This research does not focus on policy impact or evaluation. The goal was to ascertain how effective an organization can be at proposing a solution and receiving the attention of local decision makers. This research explores how organizational development can become the foundation for advocating for issues and achieve policy development. Community based organizations are not only government funded service providers, but also community collaborators and educators who stimulate citizen participation and increase public awareness about social issues. Their role as autonomous service providers puts them in a conundrum because of their funding streams. Since the 1950s, researchers have explored the roles and responsibilities of government-funded service providers. This study provides an overview of the roles of community based organizations and activities that define their political participation. It explores how these organizations mitigate issues to ensure overall community success.

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Arbete inom den idéburna sektorn bedrivs utifrån andra mål än ekonomiska, mål som ofta delas av de anställda. Syftet med följande studie är att undersöka vilken roll dessa mål spelar för de anställdas motivation, och i synnerhet vilken kompenserande roll de kan utgöra för eventuella svagheter i den organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljön. Då avsikten är att undersöka olika aspekter av de anställdas egna upplevelser, lämpade sig en kvalitativ ansats. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av semistrukturerade intervjuer med ett urval bestående av sex personer jämt fördelade mellan två idéburna organisationer. De två valda organisationerna skiljer sig i viss mån åt gällande såväl organisationsstruktur som målgrupp, de har dock även gemensamma drag vilket synliggörs i det empiriska materialet. Det teoretiska ramverk som används ämnar undersöka relationen mellan de anställda och strukturen de verkar i, faktorer som leder till arbetstillfredsställelse samt hur krav och resurser påverkar upplevd motivation kontra belastning. Analysen visade på vikten av såväl struktur i arbetet som frihet i utförande, det egna engagemangets roll som drivkraft och betydelsen av ett utvecklande och stöttande socialt sammanhang. Slutsatsen som dras är att den personliga ideologin och engagemanget för organisationens sakfråga många gånger är avgörande för de anställda, och att brister främst i den sociala arbetsmiljön är den vanligast förekommande anledningen till bristande lojalitet mot organisationen. Även närvaron av en chef som leder och fördelar arbetet framstår som viktigt i båda organisationerna. / Work within the nonprofit sector is driven by goals other than economic ones, often shared bythe employees. The purpose of this study is to examine the role these goals play in employee motivation, particularly the compensatory role they may have for potential weaknesses in the organizational and social work environment. As the intention is to explore various aspects of employees' own experiences, a qualitative approach was deemed suitable. The empirical material consists of semi-structured interviews with six individuals, evenly distributed between two nonprofit organizations. While the two selected organizations differ to some extent in both organizational structure and target group, they also share common features, as evidenced in the empirical material. The theoretical framework used had the purpose of examining the relationship between employees and the structure they operate in, factors leading to job satisfaction, and how demands and resources affect perceived motivation versus strain. The analysis highlighted the importance of both structure in work and freedom in execution, the role of personal commitment as a driving force, and the significance of a supportive and developmental social context. The conclusion drawn is that personal ideology and commitment to the organization's cause are often crucial for employees, and deficiencies primarily in thesocial work environment are the most common reason for lacking organizational commitment. The presence of a leader guiding and allocating work is also deemed significant in both organizations.