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Analysis of the specifics of the nonprofit sector by grounded theory
Křivánková, Tereza ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis focuses on the specifics of the non-profit sector from the perspective of World of Difference's participants. The program World of Difference allows experts from business and government to spend one year in selected non-profit organization. The aim is to answer the question: "What specific features of the non-profit sector perceive World of Difference's participants differently compared with the profit sector?" The answer to the question was based on the method grounded theory, the data were collected through interviews with World of Difference's participants. The result of the research is nine specifics - ethos, motivation, resources, hierarchy, rules, efficiency, flexibility, language and professionalism. The central category consists of ethos, which is further composed of the principle of democracy, humanism and chaos. These specifics form the cornerstone of the grounded theory. Key words: civil society, civic (nonprofit) sector, (nonprofit) civic organizations, specifics/features, definition
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The Role of the Foundation Board When Doing Public Good
Zadražilová, Gabriela ; Turnerová, Jolana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on studying how the foundation boards perceive responsibility. The research based on both the method of directed interviews with the representatives of some of the foundations and a content analysis of their annual reports shows that the members of the boards are willing to promote civil society, they however lack the strategic approach by which they would analyse both the needs of the key stakeholders and the actual impact of supported projects.
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The Church Organisations as a Part of the Czech Civil Society
Hulová, Kristýna ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The aim of this work called "The Church Organisations as a Part of the Czech Civil Society" is to clarify the position of the church organisations in the contemporary Czech civil society. It points its look to the church legal entities, which are registered in the specific register run by the Czech Ministry of Culture. The theoretical part explains several terms as the civil society or the civil sector and points to the historical context of the concept of diaconia and charity. This part also describes the embedding of the church organisations in the contemporary Czech legislation. The quanitative part contains a typology of the church legal entities, which is based on the CZ-COPNI classification of the activities. The qualitative part is composed of several interviews with the directors and managers of the biggest church charitable organisations. All the obtained information is finally summarized to the conclusion.
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Faith and the Search for Identity in the Works of J. D. Salinger
Pospíšilová, Tereza ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to study four characters in the works of the American Jewish author J.D. Salinger, namely in The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters," "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "Teddy." The characters chosen for this thesis are Holden Caulfield, Franny Glass, Seymour Glass and Teddy McArdle. All these characters have found themselves at a critical point in their lives faced with questions about the meaning of life. They search for genuineness and struggle against "phoniness," to use Holden's favourite word, and do not feel content with the values set by the postwar American society. This thesis studies the reasons for their crises, their search for identity, together with its outcomes. It determines what role religion, faith and philosophy play in the process. The socio-cultural context of Salinger's work encourages questions about identity not only as a consequence of the confusion in identity and values brought about by the Second World War but also the tensions caused by the Cold War. Salinger's characters studied in this thesis are intellectuals who search for answers to existential questions in this period of change and as a result of not wanting to belong they alienate themselves from the society. This thesis examines the choice of...
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Run on the organic food: Research in sample of prague inhibitants
Nevečeřalová, Iva ; Ščasný, Milan (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
This diploma thesis is concerned with different aspects of organic food demand in the Czech Republic. Five main goals were set in this work: 1) briefly describe the history and the current estate of the organic farming and the organic market in the Czech republic and in the European union 2) with the help of quantitative research analyze people's awareness of organic food 3) analyze key motives for buying organic products and barriers to a greater demand for organic food 4) analyze the willingness to pay for organic products 5) uncover some relations between socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents and their buying of organic food. The thesis is organized as follows. In the first chapter we describe the main principles of organic farming. Also, we briefly described the rise, the progress and the current estate of organic farming in the Czech Republic and in the European Union. Discussed in this chapter is also the link between the organic farming and the concept sustainable development. In the second chapter, we discuss the current estate of the organic market in the Czech republic and in the European union using available macro-data. The third, final, chapter presents some results of a survey of organic-food demand conducted in Spring 2006 using a small, yet representative, sample (N =200) of...
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Media Picture of Volunteering: Mladá fronta DNES and Svět neziskovek in 2011
Tichotová - Fryčová, Linda ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Navrátil, Jiří (referee)
The objective of this work is to survey the media picture of volunteering as provided to the public by the two Czech media - the most read quality paper in the Czech Republic Mladá fronta DNES and the professional electronic monthly Svět neziskovek. The survey consists of analysis of articles published in the respective media in 2011 for which the framing method (also called frame analysis) was used. With regard to the complexity of the phenomenon of volunteering, this work uses the theoretical concept of three paradigms (perspectives) as established by C. Rochester. These three paradigms (civil society paradigm, non-profit paradigm, volunteering as serious leisure) are identified in the articles, surveyed and mutually compared and subsequently the overall picture of volunteering as provided by the media is compiled. Quantitative evaluation of certain parameters related to volunteering within the articles (the field of voluntary activities, organizational context, age of volunteers and so forth) is also a part of this work.
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Volunteering of young people motivation and barriers
Bělohlávková, Jana ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Šloufová, Romana (referee)
Volunteering is an important subject in today's society. The society as well as the volunteers themselves profit from volunteering. This thesis handles the topic of young people and volunteering. It deals with the opinion of young people about volunteering as well as with the motivations and barriers young people have in connection to volunteering. There has been a qualitative research conducted within this thesis. The method of focus group was used for it. Young people between 16 and 19 years were the target group of the research. Besides motivation and barriers it focused as well on the channels through which people get information about volunteering. There are recommendations concerning the promotion of volunteering between young people in the final part of the thesis. Those conclusions are aimed mainly for the European Year of Volunteering 2011.
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Evaluation in Czech: Situation of Evaluation of NGO's Projects in Czech Republic
Chalupková, Katarína ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (referee)
This thesis deals with the evaluation in the civil sector in Czech Republic. Its main goal is to describe actual state of evaluation in the connection with civil sector. It submits its definitions, typologies, methods and principles from the both - Anglo - Saxon and Czech environment. This work also contains the analysis of interviews with professional evaluators who have experience with the evaluation of civil sector organizations and with representatives of civil sector organizations that have evaluation practice. The author describes evaluation in the context of the transformation of Czech civil sector, its professionalization and the crisis of resources for its organizations.
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