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Involvement of NGOs into the Integrated Rescue System
KŘÍŽOVÁ, Lenka
An object of the bachelor thesis is to map a cooperation of the Integrated Rescue System in the South Bohemian region with NGOs as another component of the Integrated Rescue System providing a planned help on request at rescue and liquidation works. The introduction of the bachelor thesis contains a description of legislative embodiment of this problem and some related conceptions. There can also be find a general characteristic of NGOs in Czech Republic and NGOs operating in the population protection in states neighbouring upon the Czech Republic. Another part of the bachelor thesis contains a description of NGOs involved in the Integrated Rescue System in the South Bohemian region and a board of NGOs. There are also defined agreements on planned help on request. The aim of the bachelor thesis was to detect the involvement of NGOs in the Integrated Rescue System, to consider and to evaluate a degree of this involvement. From agreements made by the respective NGOs, from structured dialogues made with their representatives and at the same time from a questionnaire addressed to the members of Fire Brigade of the South Bohemian Region, which cooperate during their service with NGOs, there were drawn conclusions evaluating the exploitation of NGOs in the course of rescue and liquidation works. In the attachment of the bachelor thesis you can find a methodical aid, which will serve to NGOs as a material for a better orientation in the whole system.
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Funding of non-profit organization of consumer protection
KLICPEROVÁ, Markéta
The topic of this thesis is Financing of Non-profit Organisations in Consumer Protection. Its aim was to analyse forms and possibilities of financing non-profit organisations in this area and to compare consumer protection in the Czech Republic and in selected EU countries. The first part of the thesis contains a literary search that defines non-governmental non-profit organisations (NPOs) in general, their visions, functions, aims and position in market economy. Furthermore, it describes the system of consumer protection in the Czech Republic, introduces particular organisations working in this sector and outlines their financial management and fund-raising. Czech consumer sector is compared to consumer sectors of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Slovak Republic. They differ from the Czech Republic especially in tax assignments system and in higher degree of governmental support. The following practical part analyses the forms of financing non-governmental non-profit organisations in consumer protection sector in two ways. The first one examines data from annual reports of three selected consumer protection NPOs. The other one analyses primary data from questionnaires completed by the same selected organisations. The results of the two forms of examination, independent of each other, confirmed the fact that consumer protection NPOs are forced to function with insufficient funding, the amount of which fluctuates year by year, having a tendency to decrease. A tendency to grow can only be observed with a few types of income sources, such as membership fees and private donations. One of the selected organisations makes earnings from its own activities a substantial part of its revenues. On the contrary, grants from Ministry of Industry and Trade show a tendency to decrease in the long term. To support the research, a questionnaire for consumers was analysed in practical part of this thesis. It was aimed to examine consumers´ awareness of activities, importance and funding of consumer protection NPOs and their willingness to financially support these organisations. The questionnaire analysis yielded a clear result that the public is not sufficiently informed of the function and importance of consumer protection NPOs, and this fact brings low willingness to participate on running or financing these organisations in general. To conclude, there is a relation between poor awareness of the public, not able to appreciate the value of NPOs, and long-lasting underfunding of these organisations as the outsiders of public interest. The reasons for this situation can be seen in combination of several factors: development of civil society being interrupted by decades of totalitarian regime, generally low public interest in community activities, lack of information about this part of community life, poor access to information about these organisations, vague conception of NPOs´ Public Relations and their insufficient cooperation with the media, and last but not least, unsystematic governmental support.
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NGOism: An Analysis
KLEČATSKÁ, Linda
The Bachelor's thesis deals with the concept of NGOism and its analysis in the broader context while the main emphasis is put on the political and economical context of the Czech Republic. The first part deals with the problems of terminology used in the non-profit sector and the characteristics of a non-profit organization as such. It is followed by a discussion of possibilities for influencing the non-profit sector by the state in legislative and financial terms. The last chapter summarizes different approaches to civil society and the debate that arose after certain tendencies of some organizations in the third sector were named NGOism and post-democracy. The definition of those terms is linked to the debate on the opportunities of the third sector to promote its interests through lobbying.
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The Third Sector and Organised Civic Participation in the Czech Republic
Rakušanová, Petra
This paper tries to answer the question, whether NGOs are an effective form of interest representation of citizens and social groups. In the first part it concentrates on definition of nongovernmental sector as an institutionalised part of civil society. Further the contribution delineates following roles of NGOs: participative, service, and interest role. It is particularly the interest function within which NGOs create space for representation of interests and needs. In the second part it analyses barriers on civic sector in the Czech Republic, we point out the following ones: communication between civil society and the state, unsatisfactory legal environment, financing in general as well as its structural changes following the Czech accession into the EU, inadequately developed corporate giving. Last but not least we stress individual barrier – post-communist citizen is rather organizationally passive and indifferent in his relationship to civic sector.
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Rural landscape, local community and NGOs
Maxa, Josef
This study shows the landscape as multifunctional space for important activities of civic society. There are described realtionships among three main actors in this rural landscape: Government, local community and NGOs. It is interesting that NGOs play very often the role of liason between government and local community. There is opening a new space for NGO activities.
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Use of Citizen Journalism in non-government non-profit organizations
Kolková, Zuzana ; Šubrta, Václav (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
This thesis deals with a possibility of connecting citizen journalism with non-governmental non-profit organizations due to lack of public knowledge of these organizations. Firth part of the thesis explains basic terms that are fundamental for this thesis. Here is explained what is citizen journalism, its origin and connection to online journalism. The term non-governmental non-profit organization (NGO) is also clarified. Then author defines basic issues of getting NGOs into classic media and points out causes of failure, resulting in low public interest in this matter. Second part of this thesis shows how this issue is dealt with in the world and developing countries by using CJ and in the Czech republic. The thesis also mentions technologies used in advanced countries to help NGOs better exploit citizen journalism. In the last part of this thesis are outlined general recommendations concerning the possibility of using citizen journalism and suggests specific solution for a non-governmental non-profit organization.
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Zakladatelský finanční projekt neziskové organizace
Ursu, Elena ; Vávrová, Hana (advisor) ; Boukal, Petr (referee)
Bakalářská práce shromažďuje potřebné informace pro zakládání neziskové organizace v České republice, podle kterých byl sestaven vzor zakladatelského finančního projektu neziskové organizace, který by byl snadno použitelný v praxi. Pro dosažení cíle, v teoretické části této práce, byly rozpracované informace o právních formách neziskových organizací v České republice a o jejich strategiích. Významnou součásti práce je zakladatelský rozpočet. V praktické části je rozepsán zakladatelský finanční projekt nově vznikající neziskové organizace, která se zabývá zlepšením pohledu na Moldavskou republiku v České republice. Nezisková organizace "Moldávie" má rozpracovaný finanční rozpočet pro 2 roky, v němž jsou zachyceny naplánované projekty, náklady na ně, očekávané výnosy a jejich zdroje, a také výpočet cash flow a bodu zvratu. Dále jsou srovnané investiční alternativy a vyhodnocená výkonnost organizace.
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Social entrepreneurship: Understanding the reality of the developing world and designing sustainable solutions
Fous, Zdeněk ; Lukeš, Martin (advisor) ; Stephan, Ute (referee)
Social entrepreneurship, loosely defined as delivering social value in a sustainable way using market-based principles, is especially powerful tool in the Third world. Grass-root entrepreneurial approach of developing and empowering those countries from the bottom up is proving to be the most sustainable and efficient solution. First part of this work outlines historical context of the developing world and provides thorough analysis about challenges and threats it is facing. Furthermore, model defining what countries are the "most suitable" for a social venture is described, together with tools that are used nowadays to support the developing world. Second part puts main emphasis on defining and discussing the concept of social entrepreneurship, especially with respect to social venture design. Conclusions and practical recommendations are heavily based on interviews with successful and inspirational social entrepreneurs active in the Third world, as well as with leading NGOs with offices in the Czech Republic. All in all, the ultimate goal of this work is to create a big-picture overview about the reality the developing world is facing and describe how the most sustainable solutions can be designed.
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