Impact of the EU Structural Funds on Financial Capacities of Non-profit Organizations

Potluka, Oto; Špaček, Martin; Schnurbein, Georg von

doi:10.1007/s11266-017-9845-1

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“…These findings confirm how significant EU funding is for the revenues of PBCs that can obtain it. On the other hand, it confirms path dependence [22,49]. It also confirms the resource dependency theory [39] accompanied by the tendency of PBCs to implement supranational projects instead realizing their missions.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…First, the educational PBCs from the control group report lower real revenues than the PBCs receiving EU financial assistance over the whole surveyed period, except for the year 2007 (see Figure 1 and Table 2). Superior managerial skills may explain this in the funded PBCs and their orientation towards grant projects that include EU funding, and their fundraising activities [49]. This explanation is supported by the research of the Government Council for the nonprofit organizations which states that there were only approximately 100 professionalized NPOs in the Czech Republic in the year 2007 [55].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Financial reserves may not be built or invested in assets. Moreover, such projects usually implement public policies [49] that NPOs are unable to influence [60] and make no use of indigenous knowledge [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The fact that educational PBCs obtained more than 31% of the total EU funding allocated to Czech PBCs documents their privileged position. Moreover, they hold 32.8% of the overall assets held by Czech PBCs and 29.0% of the respective revenues [49].…”

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The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

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Official development assistance provides an immense flow of financial funding to educational nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This source of funding faces criticism because of the unintended indirect effects it has in lowering the relative level of local NPOs’ capacities. Our contribution addresses NPOs’ financial capacities in an OECD country that receives a vast inflow of EU funding; namely the Czech Republic. To answer the research question on what impact the external financial assistance has on capacities in NPOs, we applied propensity score matching to a sample consisting of 633 educational NPOs covering the years 2006–2013. EU-funded NPOs report higher levels of real revenues, but not real assets, than non-funded NPOs. The EU funding helps in the short-term to improve NPOs’ budgets, but not to increase assets.

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“…Thus, they are often not perceived by the public sector to be an equal partner, and NGOs' invitation to the negotiating table may be perceived rather as a formality (USAID 2015;Vaceková et al 2016). Moreover, due to their economic instability and vulnerability, Czech non-profit organizations place insuf-ficient emphasis on strategic planning, and, therefore, there is no long-term strategy to exit this position (Potluka et al 2017). Nonetheless, NGOs are seen as important actors in cross-border cooperation who often bring innovative ideas and projects, but rather on smaller scales.…”

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Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

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2018

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Despite a large amount of literature on multilevel governance, relatively little empirical attention has been paid to decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by focussing on multilevel cross-border decision-making across the Czech-Saxon border region. Specific attention is paid to the involvement of non-state actors and to the main challenges of cross-border multilevel governance in the case study's region. Although there is a tendency on both sides of the border to invite partners from the private and nonprofit sectors into the decision-making process, the situation in the case-study region is far from the normative conceptualization of EU multilevel governance. For whole region the most important obstacles to balanced regional development were shown to be a multilevel mismatch, different languages, and the lack of a common strategy, while insufficient capacities at the local and regional levels were found on the Czech side.

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Nonprofit good governance mechanisms: A systematic literature review

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There is widespread acknowledgment of the importance of nonprofit good governance with a need for guidance on different effective mechanisms to increase ethical practices for the whole sector to assist professionals and researchers. This study explores two research questions: (1) What are the main reasons that inspire nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to implement good governance mechanisms? (2) What are the good governance mechanisms conducted by NPOs? The purpose is to serve as a reference and an instrument of reflection for interested NPOs exploring good governance mechanisms to make their accountability work more effective. We used a systematic literature review methodology for identification, selection, and analysis of published research on nonprofit good governance. A set of 89 articles published until 2021 was analyzed, and a new classification that identified 3 lines and 13 sublines of research was provided. Our results show that a variety of internal mechanisms and international third‐party initiatives are underpinned by the need to adhere to standards of ethics and honesty.

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Impact of the EU Structural Funds on Financial Capacities of Non-profit Organizations

Cited by 18 publications

References 38 publications

The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

Nonprofit good governance mechanisms: A systematic literature review

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