Historically, non-profit organizations have emerged as an alternative to politicized public organizations. Initially, these were voluntary associations of active, ideologically literate people, and these associations were based on the principles of humanism and justice. These socially oriented non-profit organizations provided legal protection and education to the broad masses of the population.
Currently, the programs of such organizations carry out the tasks of free legal advice and legal support.
Non - profit organizations: the concept and types of subjects, the essence of NGOs.
Non-profit entities are mainly financed from local and state budgets, sometimes at the expense of the contributions of the founders, and sometimes at the expense of their own commercial profit. Non-profit associations can carry out entrepreneurial activity only in order to achieve their statutory goals for which they were created. In short, non-profit associations often include two components: non-profit and commercial.
In order to better illuminate the point of non-profit organizations: types and forms, it is necessary to dwell on the types of non-profit entities. They may be:
- state non-profit (local authorities, organizations of health care, culture and science, state power structures, etc.);
- non-governmental non-profit (trade unions, political parties, non-profit charitable foundations, religious denominations, etc.);
- individuals who engage in non-profit activities (independent scientists, politicians, missionaries, artists, etc.).
Immediately make a reservation that the distribution of budget funds depends on many factors. Along with the objective ones, corruption and abuse are everywhere, which is a universal phenomenon for Russian society, for which there are no effective methods of struggle.
Non-profit organizations: types, properties, characteristics.
There are some properties and characteristics that characterize non - profit organizations, while the types of organizations do not matter:
- making a profit is not the main goal of the organization ;
- a non-profit organization must have a legal entity;
- Possible profit is not distributed among its participants.
Constituent documents of the organization: charter, memorandum of association . An organization may have its own logo, seals, stamps, its own balance sheet or estimate.
Nonprofit organizations types may have the following:
- Public organizations / associations. In turn, they are divided into public organization, social movement, public foundation, public institution.
- Religious organizations.
- Various funds.
- Associations of legal entities (associations and unions).
- Autonomous non-profit organizations.
- Funded by the owner of the institution.
- Chambers of Commerce.
- Bar associations.
- Nonprofit Partnerships.
To increase the effectiveness of the nonprofit organization, several important problems should be resolved. Among them, the problem of the incompleteness of the legal information base and the problem of insufficient financial resources are in first place in importance. It is these problems that impede the implementation of many initiatives, such as high-quality monitoring of the legal situation, protection of certain segments of the population, and the formation of a systematic database. Only by allowing them, you can proceed to the following. Nevertheless, the plans of some non-profit organizations in Russia are encouraging, and there are ways for their growth and development.