scholarly journals Nonprofit organizations in Russia: management features and government support

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (40) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Elena Klochko ◽  
Elena Vorobey ◽  
Snezhana Lazovskaya ◽  
Elena Belova
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Private Donations ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Additional Support

The article examines the management of nonprofit organizations in the area of prevention and correction of socially dangerous forms of citizens' behavior. The study is of great interest since such organizations have a wide range of tools for addressing social problems of deviant behavior in society. The methodology of this study predetermined the use of system, monographic, structural and logical research methods, along with the interview techniques. Statistical data and interview surveys showed that the state provided little support to organizations under examination. Their main sources of income are customer funds and private donations, which creates barriers to their development. Based on the research results, the authors concluded that the state should support nonprofit organizations in the field of prevention and correction of socially dangerous forms of citizens' behavior, as they: 1) facilitate the implementation of interests of a large number of participants in public life; 2) address the needs of various segments of the population which require additional support and protection; 3) provide services that meet the specific needs of socially vulnerable groups requiring additional support and protection. Nonprofit executives should develop special tools to improve the quality of social services and increase organizational capital.

scholarly journals Analysis of the effectiveness of the implementation of regional housing programs in the context of globalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 06022
Author(s):  
Galina Yurievna Novikova ◽  
Mikhail Konstantinovich Beliaev ◽  
Svetlana Evgenievna Karpushova
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Optimal Ratio ◽  
Regional Investment ◽  
Housing Programs ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups

Global trends have a significant impact on the state housing policy of Russia, which is aimed at solving the housing problems of socially vulnerable groups of the population. Evaluation of the effectiveness of housing programs will determine the most complete and sustainable end result of their implementation. The aim of the article is to analyze the effectiveness of regional housing programs in the context of globalization. As part of this work, an assessment was made of the effectiveness of the implementation of housing programs in the Volgograd region. The application of the selected criteria was carried out on the basis of an analysis of the situation in the field of housing policy and the provision of housing for citizens of the Volgograd region. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the housing programs of the Volgograd region is carried out in order to achieve the optimal ratio of the costs associated with their implementation and the results achieved in the course of implementation. The specificity of of regional investment programs in the field of housing construction was determined, the emerging problems are revealed. Recommendations for improving the efficiency of the use of investment resources in the field of housing construction are given.

scholarly journals Volunteering as a mechanism of social solidarity of society

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyubov Nevelichko ◽  
Irina Vorotilkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Far East ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Wide Range

The current socio-demographic situation in Russia is characterized by an increase in the proportion of people who need social services, namely, older people and people with disabilities. As a rule, these groups of people are not only limited in material resources, but also often deprived of the possibility of implementing minimal social ties, communication, and cultural entertainment. The provision of social services is implemented at the local level, but the limited municipal budgets do not fully satisfy the needs of citizens, and payment for services for this category of needy is inaccessible. Social protection services within the framework of state policy provide various types of material services to low-income citizens, but they do not have such a socio-economic effect that would be fully able to solve the problems of this category of people, therefore the quality of life of the vulnerable groups of the population is characterized by extremely limited opportunities and a wide range of practically unsolvable needs. The purpose of the scientific article is to determine the urgent needs of those in need and identify the reserves of additional assistance for citizens in difficult life situations based on data from in-depth interviews. The questions of the insufficiency of the use of the state’s most powerful resource of volunteering when popularizing the activities of volunteers and creating appropriate conditions for it are raised. Discusses on the legitimacy of the identification of the concepts of “volunteering” and “volunteering”, which are traditionally considered identical in the works of domestic researchers, legal acts. It has been established that people with disabilities need communication, joint leisure activities, assistance in attending events and just mobility, computer literacy training. It is emphasized that the word “volunteer” is perceived by our compatriots as borrowed, not evoking emotionally colored associations, contrary to its national character, the word “volunteer”, on the contrary, is noted as one’s, native – a person of good will, kind, merciful. Summarized, the experience of the territories in which volunteering is developed shows that volunteers are united not only by the focus and nature of the activity, but also by the territory in which they interact, and this fact is a powerful factor in securing a person in the region, which is especially important for the regions of the Far East and especially the Jewish Autonomous Region.

Using Large-Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration: Assessing Charitable Consequences of Government Funding of Nonprofits

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Jilke ◽  
Jiahuan Lu ◽  
Chengxin Xu ◽  
Shugo Shinohara
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Charitable Donations ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Private Donations

Abstract In this article, we introduce and showcase how social media can be used to implement experiments in public administration research. To do so, we pre-registered a placebo-controlled field experiment and implemented it on the social media platform Facebook. The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether government funding to nonprofit organizations has an effect on charitable donations. Theories on the interaction between government funding and charitable donations stipulate that government funding of nonprofit organizations either decreases (crowding-out), or increases (crowding-in) private donations. To test these competing theoretical predictions, we used Facebook’s advertisement facilities and implemented an online field experiment among 296,121 Facebook users nested in 600 clusters. Through the process of cluster-randomization, groups of Facebook users were randomly assigned to different nonprofit donation solicitation ads, experimentally manipulating information cues of nonprofit funding. Contrary to theoretical predictions, we find that government funding does not seem to matter; providing information about government support to nonprofit organizations neither increases nor decreases people’s propensity to donate. We discuss the implications of our empirical application, as well as the merits of using social media to conduct experiments in public administration more generally. Finally, we outline a research agenda of how social media can be used to implement public administration experiments.

scholarly journals Affordable social infrastructure vs public-private partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-348
Author(s):  
Vitaly Maximov
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
The State ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Economic Mechanism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Private Investors

The article is devoted to the problems of sustainable development of social infrastructure and social services, which are beyond the effective demand of large cities, cannot develop according to market laws, and provide the necessary level of infrastructure fullness. Despite 45.9% of private companies in the social sectors, the vast majority of real estate objects continue to be owned by the state, forming the need to find economic mechanisms for the development of state social infrastructure, outside of limited budget opportunities. The possibility of attracting private investment in new construction and reconstruction without alienating the ownership right to it makes public-private partnership (PPP) and the economic mechanism based on it have no alternative. However, its practical application suffers from asociality, leading to the appearance of state-owned facilities where private investors conduct exclusively commercial activities. The apparent budget savings lead the state, judicial and supervisory authorities in such territories to a strategic failure, reducing the number of state facilities operating at state prices, ignoring the requests of the population for affordable social infrastructure, increasing social tension in society. This work is aimed at studying the irrational behavior of private investors, the stability of which is provided by the PPP mechanism, where the state determines the necessary level of the sociality of infrastructure objects that best corresponds to the existing stratification of residents of a certain territory through competitive procedures and essential conditions of the future project. It is necessary to continue research on improving federal legislation, whose social neutrality leads to conflicting expectations of the parties from PPP, adding sensitivity to a wide range of risks, repelling private investment and investors, limiting infrastructure development only to budget opportunities. The development of an economic mechanism that ensures finding a balance of accessibility and market rationality of social facilities is not an easy task, which has many solutions taking into account the characteristics of a particular territory and its population

scholarly journals FUNCTIONS OF STATE REGISTRIES OF NPOS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD SECTOR: RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
Andrei Laronov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Support Providers ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Set Up

Development of the third sector in Russia is accompanied with its maintenance of open-access state registries of non-profit organizations. Compared to the NPO registries in other countries, those in Russia appeared 10-15 years later and became new tools for the development of the non-profit sector. The purpose of this article is to categorize the functions of NPO registries in other countries, as well as suggest those attributed to Russian NPO registries. The following hypothesis is put forward in the article: Russian NPO registries have similar functions as registries in other countries, but they are currently not being fully implemented. There are four registries in the focus of the research: the registry of NPOs by the Ministry of Justice of Russia and three types of registries of socially oriented NPOs – recipients of state support, providers of social services, and providers of social care services. The research was carried out by analyzing legal acts which set up the registries, as well as analyzing the registries located on the Internet. The following functions have been suggested: collecting, systematizing and disclosing the information on the third sector; aggregating the data on supply and demand for NPO services; promoting cooperation of NPOs with the state and intersectoral partnerships; promoting government support to NPOs; as well as ensuring accountability of NPOs to the state and society. The hypothesis was confirmed: the functions are not fully implemented due to the lack of clearly defined goals when setting up registries, weaknesses of their structure and formats. Several recommendations were formulated to enhance the system of existing registries and their structure.

PECULIARITIES OF ORGANIZATION OF LEISURE ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
К. Vlasenko ◽  
◽  
І. Spivakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
Creative Initiative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Professional Intervention

The article considers the problems of deviant behavior in the modern Ukrainian youth environment. Features of the organization of leisure activities for children of deviant behavior are revealed. Improperly organized leisure has been shown to be associated with a significant increase in antisocial processes in society among young people, children, adolescents and other vulnerable groups. It was found that well-organized leisure activities will allow the social worker to change his view of the events that have taken place, to re-evaluate plans for the future and to identify priority areas for future professional intervention. In modern conditions it is necessary to pay attention to the need to find new organizational forms of involving children, especially with deviant behavior, in leisure activities in order to form a healthy lifestyle, distract them from bad habits, and prevent crime. It is proved that leisure significantly influences the formation of moral guidelines and values of children, their hobbies, interests and socialization in general. In the leisure sphere, their interests and needs, personal and social roles are realized, activity and creative initiative are developed, and new values are sought through the free choice of activities. The potential of leisure lies in a wide range of cognitive, educational, recreational, creative opportunities.

THE NONPROFIT SECTOR ROLE AND IMPORTANCE IN THE SOCIAL STATE DEVELOPMENT: TO THE QUESTION OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SPECIAL LEGAL STATUS

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Roman Valerevich Zelepukin
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

We consider the theme of the nonprofit organizations special legal status development in the context of the role and importance of the nonprofit sector in the state social policy. Along these lines, we note the characteristics essence of the Russian state as a social one. We disclose nonprofit organizations special administrative and legal statuses: socially oriented nonprofit organizations, performers of socially useful services, social service providers. The characteristic of dynamics of the legislation establishing the revealed statuses is given. We analyze the conditions and procedure for obtaining these statuses. Thus, we note a wide approach developed in law enforcement practice to the recognition of the activities of nonprofit organizations as socially oriented. We note the nonprofit organizations recognition conditions as executors of socially useful services, as well as the legal consequences implementation problems of obtaining this status. We substantiate public services performers differentiation necessity and social services providers. Some statistical data are given; also we summarize the state policy measures on interaction with the nonprofit sector as a whole, and on the involvement of nonprofit organizations in the sphere of social services. These measures are noted in the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation acts analysis. We highlight and describe the development and adoption process of the draft Federal law “On the state (municipal) social order for the provision of state (municipal) services in the social sphere”, its advantages and disadvantages. To conclude this study, we consider that the state is interested in cooperation with the nonprofit sector, which was embodied and detailed in the identified special status of nonprofit organizations; also we note the prospects for further development of the identified status.

scholarly journals Human rights begin with the rights of the child

2020 ◽  
pp. 356-360
Author(s):  
Natalia Linnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups

The state, with the help of legal norms and the use of power levers regulates social relations, establishes and maintains the necessary order in the country, but also obeys the society itself is called to serve it. The relationship between society and the state, its quality and level is determined in particular by the effectiveness of the policy in the field of children's rights protection. At the same time, the role of the institution of the ombudsman (or the commissioner) in the affairs of children is undoubtedly extremely important. Children as one of the most socially vulnerable groups of the population need full protection of their rights. The introduction of the Ombudsman's Office in Ukraine is a serious step in improving the protection of children's rights. At the same time the transformational processes that take place in the Ukrainian society today predetermine the need for further research on the content and mechanisms of implementation of state policy in the field of children's rights protection. To do this, it is necessary to conduct an analysis of the domestic and foreign experience of the functioning of the institution of the ombudsman for the rights of the child, which is the purpose of this article. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the national and foreign experience of functioning of the Ombudsman Institute for the Rights of the Child. The article discusses the prerequisites and features of the establishment of the Ombudsman for Child Rights in Ukraine and the problems of its modern functioning. The models of construction of the Ombudsman Institute in foreign countries are analyzed: Germany, Finland, Canada, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and Australia. The article also emphasizes the need to improve the system of jurisdictional protection of the rights of the child and the adoption of the Law on the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Social control and transparency of state power: to state the problem of deconstruction of the state in the social discourse of liberalism and neo-liberalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
V. A. Romanenko
Keyword(s):  
Market Competition ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Terra Incognita ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups

Liberalism and neo-liberalism considered as two fundamental ideologies of the present, which review the state from the perspective of its unproductive influence on society. The state as the centralizing power in these ideologies often appears as a totalitarian monster that restricts market competition, adversely affects human rights, in every way attempts to usurp administrative resources and create different monopolies. All these phenomena estimated in liberal ideology as an inevitable social evil. That is why the topic of deconstruction of state power in the liberal ideological discourse often actualized.The nexus paradigm common to liberalism shared by neoliberalism, whose theorists are looking at the state as a tool for securing the privileges of those social groups that are already at the highest hierarchical levels in the stratification system.In Ukraine, we do not have to deal with a similar liberal and neo-liberal consistency, since the tendencies in the state genesis not so much related to a market economy and a democratic society, but to feudal renovations. The latter determine the reverse of the deconcentration and decentralization of the growth of the power resource, which the state tries to increase, if not reduce, when it is possible.However, in many aspects from a scientific point of view, there is reason to speak about the crisis of statehood due to the reduction of social efficiency of state power. This reduced efficiency for the society manifested in the substantial criminalization of the ruling elites, unproductive consumption, corruption practices, multiple theft and misuse of budget funds, low effectiveness of assistance to socially vulnerable groups of the population.For Ukrainian sociology, the very formation of the problem of state deconstruction seems, although premature, but quite possible in connection with the breakthrough crisis events that may arise due to regional separatism, the inability to pay debt, the growth of corruption to a level that would lead to the delegitimization of the state increasing centrifugal tendencies. The above gives grounds to assert that the problem of crisis and deconstruction of the state is now a terra incognita for Ukrainian sociology and may therefore be considered as an interesting subject of analytical research.

scholarly journals Aspectos Transnacionais da Luta Contra a Violência Doméstica e Familiar no Brasil / Transnational Aspects of the Fight Against Domestic and Intra-Family violence in Brazil

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Nina Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Violencia Domestica ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Intra Family

Resumo:O artigo articula duas histórias conhecidas: o Caso Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes na Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e o processo político culminando com a promulgação da Lei Maria da Penha. Pretende-se revelar dinâmicas transnacionais que podem aumentar as chances de o Estado absorver de forma ampla as reivindicações de grupos sociais vulneráveis. Essas duas histórias ilustram estratégias transnacionais do movimento feminista através das quais um tema, como violência doméstica, deixa de ser considerado privado, de interesse apenas de um pequeno grupo diretamente afetado, e passa a ser tema de interesse público, gerando uma agenda política que é incorporada pelo Estado. Tais estratégias pressupõem um processo de tomada de consciência dos atores relevantes, sejam eles estatais ou não estatais, e de aumento da pressão política sobre os atores estatais não democráticos que impedem as transformações de políticas públicas.Palavras-chave: Violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher; Caso Maria da Penha. Lei nº11.340/06; Redes feministas transnacionais. Abstract:The article brings together two stories - the Case Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the political process culminating with the enactment of the Maria da Penha Law - to reveal transnational dynamics that may increase the chances of having the State incorporate the claims of socially vulnerable groups. These two stories illustrate how transnational strategies used by feminist movements may enhance processes through which a topic, such as domestic violence, is no longer considered to be private, and becomes the subject of public interest, generating a political agenda that is incorporated by the State. Such strategies foster processes of awareness raising of the relevant state and non-state actors, and increased political pressure on undemocratic state actors that impede the transformation of public policies.Keywords: Domestic and intra-family violence against women; Case Maria da Penha, Law 11340/06; Transnational feminst networks.

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