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Strategies that non-profit organizations can use for the establishment of a social enterprise
Bernášková, Kristýna ; Dohnalová, Marie (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
The Diploma thesis deals with the possible strategies that non-profit organizations can use for the establishment of a social enterprise. These strategies were designed on various relationship models non-profit and social enterprise can have. These models are different in the extent to which social enterprises and non-profit organizations share social and economic activities. These models and also possible motivations of non-profit organizations, which lead to the establishment of a social enterprise are described in the theoretical section. In the practical part, these models are applied to the decision-making process of non-profit organization Life 90, z. ú., which is planning to establish a social enterprise. is evaluated considering its pros and cons from the point of view of non-profit organisations.. These findings and each model and its applicability for Czech non-profit organizations were evaluated as a result of my thesis. KEY WORDS Social entrepreneurship, non-profit organizations, NGOs, commercialization, hybridization, case study, EMES International Research Network
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Media representation of civil society organizations
Hartová, Tereza ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis introduces media representations of civil society organizations (CSOs) through quantitative content analysis of four dailies (HN, LN, MFD and Právo). The aim is to analyze and describe CSOs media representations in relation to media elements that characterize these representations, as well as through space and priority, organizations and actors that are associated with. The selected method allows the comparison of media representations for particular newspapers. The study builds on a social-constructivist paradigm, focusing on the agenda-setting theory, gatekeeping and news values. Thesis also discusses specifics of the CSOs and non-profit logic in relation to media and journalistic logic and their influence on the final CSOs media representations, including potential nonprofit dilemmas. The media representations are strongly determined by regionality and relationship with other sectors. CSOs are presented through positive and uncontroversial theme of good deeds. Regionality is together with social themes the most frequent topics associated with CSOs.
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The successful team - how to well compiling and effectively lead the NGO team
Morčuš, Jan ; Nová, Monika (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
Annotation: The dissertation "The successful team - how to well compiling and effectively lead the NGO team" is related to the personal management of NGO. The main goal of dissertation is to provide "the manual" to the team leader, how to well compile and lead effectively his or her team in the NGO. In the theoretical part of dissertation I firstly deal with the importance of NGOs in the society and their specifics. I'm interested consecutively in the phenomenas related to the personal management of NGOs. The second part of the work is written as an interrogatory survey. Due to this survey I'm focusing on providing the rewarding informations as - what are the important factors for the members of team and how to lead the team more effectively?
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Leisure time activities of Roma children in Tabor
Velková, Věra ; Vodáčková, Daniela (advisor) ; Víšek, Petr (referee)
Bachelor thesis of "Leisure time activities Roma children in Tabor" is about the leisure activities of Roma children in Tabor. The work is focused on the history of the Roma, the relationship of the Roma child to the school, the relationship of the Roma minority to upbringing of Roma children. For the most part is dedicated to the non-State non-profit organizations, which are engaged in leisure activities not only for Roma children in Tabor. Further focuses on the Organization of the 1. Kiwajunior Club Camp, and especially on its Fílie project, which is aimed at children from socio-culturally disadvantaged environment, from the children's home Radenín, children from Asylum House for women and mothers with children in Tabor, and thus prevention of pathological phenomena. With the boy, who is involved in the Fília project, case study has been developed. The practical part is focused on the specific ways of spending leisure time activities of Roma children in Tabor, with whom and where leisure time activities they spend, whether leisure time activities the Roma children spend with family or friends, as they represent leisure time activities, whether there are whiles, when are bored.
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Struggle for democracy and human rights in Cuba - the role of dissidents and non-governmental organisations
Hrušková, Magdaléna ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Machart, Filip (referee)
The Bachelor Thesis "Struggle for democracy and human rights in Cuba - the role of dissidents and non-governmental organizations" concerns a role of dissident movement in a possible democratic transition. Firstly, the paper analyses the development of theories of democratization with detailed focus on the role of ordinary people and on the enforcement of civil movement by non-governmental organizations based on studies from Ackerman, Karatnycky, Welzel and Inglehart. Regarding Cuban dissident movement, on which the thesis focuses as an instrumental study, it examines every important part and challenge that the movement is obliged to face in order to become a mass movement. Moreover, the further parts concentrate on international democratic promotion, more specifically, on the American embargo, as an example of economic sanctions, and on the Cuban projects of two particular NGOs, as an example of diplomatic pressure towards wider respect of human rights and as an example of the strengthening process of civil movement. In the conclusion, the thesis discusses possible catalyzers of democratic change in Cuba, including the role of dissident movement, reinforced by projects of NGOs, as a crucial player in possible process of democratization.
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Civic engagement through the eyes of members of political parties youth wings
Vachule, Filip ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Navrátil, Jiří (referee)
The theme of my thesis is "Civic engagement though the eyes of political parties youth wings." I chose three specific associations, which cover the classical political spectrum. The goal of the thesis is to discover what kind of relationship these young people have to civic engagement. Civic engagement is represented by the new type of engaged NGOs. I also wanted to know what was their motivation to join the youth wing and if their opinions about civic engagement corespond with the Party point of view. In the theoretical part I introduce concepts of political participation and civic engagemant connected with the third sector and political parties. In the empirical part is presented the analysis with the findings. I used qualitative research strategy and data were obtained mostly trom interviews. In the end the findings are summarized and connscted with the theoretical framework.
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The analysis of society attitudes and the access of libraries to the disabled people
Molíková, Barbora ; Fonferová, Ľudmila (advisor) ; Buřilová, Marcela (referee)
This study focuses on disabled users of public libraries. First, general attitude towards physically handicapped people is analyzed on the basis of literature review. Furthermore, past surveys were utilized in order to describe attitudes demonstrated by library staff in particular as well as approach taken by the libraries in order to ease access for disabled users to library services. Analysis is complemented by overview of current projects aimed to improve accessibility of libraries including communication facilities and tools overcoming construction barriers. General principles of barrier-free access to libraries are derived from this overview. The field survey in the second part of this study evaluates accessibility of selected libraries from the point of view of disables users. The sample focused particularly on libraries which have not been reviewed yet. Particular conditions in each library classify the respective institution to the corresponding category of accessibility. Derived knowledge was published on website of Pražská organizace vozíčkářů, o.s. (Prague wheelchair association, NGO).
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Strategy variability in anti-corruption NGOs
Kandusová, Veronika ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
The bachelor's thesis Strategy Variability in Anti-Corruption NGOs deals with the question whether hard human and material resources are related to the choice of strategies used by selected anti-corruption NGOs active in the Czech Republic or not. The thesis aims to reveal this influence by comparing the ascertained information about their resources and strategies according to the resource mobilization theory and to a strategic approach to social movements. The information gained from the organizations' documents and from interviews and questionnaires conducted with their representatives shows that the amount of material and human resources is not related to the strategies. However, the financial resources and time for which the organization has been active are linked to the choice of strategies. Those that have been active for a long time have the widest range of strategies and use the strongly confrontational strategies less often. Another finding is that publicly financed organizations resources have access to the advisory and working bodies of the government and, unlike the rest of the organizations, they have the possibility to use this strategy.
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Benefit of supervision for mentoring relation between volunteers and socially disadvantaged children
Archalousová, Alena ; Gruber, Jan (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee)
The aim of my work is to focus on the use of supervision as a suitable method development and support of volunteers who give their leisure time to children from socially disadvantaged conditions. Their work is very challenging, because social work or education is not often main field of volounteers, so they are laymen in this area. My aim is to determine the benefits of this method to volunteer as a method of self- knowledge and as a support in their work with children on the other side. I'll be based my on the methodology of organization mentoringových programs Hestia, os, where I work as a volunteer for a long time and with this topic I have practical experience. In the empirical section, I will survey the benefits of supervision in terms of supervizor and supervizants based on their experience.
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Guardians of the Public Interest: Frame Delimiting of watchdog Activism in the Context of Social scientific Discourse and in the Perspective of its Representatives
Beránková, Petra Alexandra ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Kotlas, Petr (referee)
The work deals with the phenomenon of so called watchdog organizations. The increasing number and influence of these organizations indicates a creation of new social movement. The authoress defines them as a type of public benefit nongovernmental organizations focused on the controlling of the public sphere or advocating and asserting a "public interest" in relation to the democratization of society. The authoress target is to understand this type of action, so she asks herself the question: Which frameworks are used by watchdog activists for the interpretation of their acting? At first there is briefly presented the concept of watchdog in the context of wider reflections of contemporary society, mainly in the context of reflexive modernity, monitory and participatory democracy and information society. Secondly there is introduced Goffman's framework analysis and the related conceptualization of framework of social movements by Benford and Snow. The authoress highlights a definition of frames as the principles of selection, emphasis and presentation about what happens, and what matters. In the next part of this work, there are presented the methodology and results of the qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews with watchdog activists. The research is settled in the area of...
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