Terminology of the nonprofit sector - the interpretation of the key terms and abbreviations used in the nonprofit sector, NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) characters according to L. Salamon.
Legislation of the nonprofit sector - the legal traditions for the formation of the Czech legislation of the nonprofit sector, basic legislation, NGO as a taxpayer and employer, upcoming amendments and real intents (the civil code, the law on public benefit measures)
Citizens association - the essence of the legal form, characteristics, process of establishment, regulations, authorities of associations, registration.
Generally beneficial association - the essence of the legal form, characteristics, process of establishment, memorandum of association, authorities of associations, registration
Foundation and endowment - the essence of the legal form, characteristics, foundation's asset, process of establishment, memorandum of association, authorities of foundation/endowments, registration.
Special purpose facilities of churches - the essence of the legal form, characteristics, foundation's asset, process of establishment, organizing charities and diakonien, registration.
Role and function of the nonprofit sector in civil society - the role in political, economic, and community subsystems of society; advocacy, expressive, charitable, philanthropic, innovative, and community function of NGO in society.
Economic approaches towards nonprofit sector - the model of Viktor A. Pestoff, concept of H. Hansmann, model of a niche market, transactional model, types of collaboration between the nonprofit sector and the market.
Nonprofit sector and the State - the model of civil society, theory of social capital, theory of social origins, neo-institutional model, communitarianism, nonprofit sector's share in the security of public services, state's subsidy policy
Donating and volunteering - the history of volunteering in the CR, volunteering activity, volunteering services, contractual relations between the sending and the receiving organizations, legal anchoring of the gift, motivation to donating and philanthropy
Building the structures of the nonprofit sector - the sphere of NGO's activity, national, regional, and professional roof organizations, database and registry of NGO, situation of nonprofit sector in the CR (statistics and research), cooperation of NGO and local governments.
Strengthening of nonprofit sector's capacity - the sources of information about NGO, specialized publications and periodicals, prominent personalities (L. Rakušanová, M. Dohnalová, S. Škarabelová, J. Štogr, P. Frič, L. Deverová, H. Frištenská, and others); the service, research, and educational institutions; the strategy of nonprofit sector's development in the CR.
Students will deepen their knowledge about the development and situation of the nonprofit sector in the Czech Republic. They will obtain an orientation in the applied terminology, acquire the analytical work with sources and information about nonprofit sector, and practise the procedure of establishing a non-governmental nonprofit organization (NGO) as a part of the managerial competencies of a social worker.
Form of the graded assessment: written paper
Graded assessment requirements: scientific essay (= a shorter prose of an argumentative kind, with the experience of the original subjectively tuned reflection of a serious topic) of max. 3 standard pages. Students pick a topic from a given list.
- Učitel: Jan Hloušek