Non-profit organizations in the conditions of Slovakia

Abstract

Non-profit organisations play an important role in the life of a society by providing generally beneficial services. The purpose of these organizations is to provide services in domains where they are not provided by the government, nor by the market. Their goal is to make the society a better place for everyone. In other words, non-profit organizations play a relevant role in society by attempting to satisfy human needs in different way or as a complement to lucrative firms and governmental activity. A non-profit organization may be defined as an entity that is concerned with its activities about the realization of social value adding mission. Globalisation is also playing a part in the growing importance of non-profits around the world as the non-profit sector spreads to the less developed economies and also grows in the international dimension via international non-profits and non-profit alliances. This article aims to establish a basic overview of Slovak non-profit organisations after dealing with the theoretical background for non-profit organizations in general. It deals with the definitions for non-profit organisations in Slovakia, the possibilities of financing of non-profits in Slovakia and basic rules and conditions for the accounting of non-profit organisations based in the Slovak republic.

Specifics in strategic management of non-profit organizations in the globalization process

“…Enterprises are established for making a profit, while for non-profit organizations this reason does not exist (is not paramount). This fundamental difference also implies all other differences [7].…”

“…like a poor people who have some problems, who are not very smart, intelligent or educated. It is important to use the word customer in order to change fundamentally the way they look at them [7,8,15]. Each non-profit organizations has more than one customer in case that the organization defines customers as people, who can chose between accepting or reject the services.…”

“…This fact is influenced not only by differences between the business sector and non-profit sector, but also by large differences between the non-profit organizations themselves. Wortman, who devotes to the research of non-profit organizations, argues that non-profit organizations were still in the early stages of applying the principles of strategic planning [7].…”

“…In the case of the problem of measuring performance of management processes in nonprofit organizations, we can say that the availability of literary sources focused on this issue is significantly absent. The only exceptions are foreign publications, which combine a "classic" understanding of the performance of business processes with processes in nonprofit organizations [3,7,12,13,14].…”

Electronic Communication of Non-Profit Organizations in a Global Society

“…The national economy also includes non-profit entities, which are a very important element of national economies [1]. These entities have a specific focus and their goal is not to report profits but to provide public services [2]. Communication between non-profit entities and the government is currently possible in the Slovak Republic through electronic communication.…”