Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Ceptureanu, Sebastian Ion; Ceptureanu, Eduard Gabriel; Bogdan, Vlad Liviu; Rădulescu, Violeta

doi:10.3390/su10020294

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“…Community based programs are increasingly scrutinized in the literature literature [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] in the broader context of non-profit sector sustainability [16,17]. There are several reasons why program sustainability is important: (1) terminating an effective program leads to negative effects for both the community involved and for host organization; (2) program initiation costs are high; and (3) community experiencing unexpected program termination lose trust when future programs are to be introduced [18].…”

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Community Based Programs Sustainability. A Multidimensional Analysis of Sustainability Factors

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Luchian

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Abstract:Ensuring community based program sustainability is critical for the targeted communities. When such a program is no longer sustainable, its impact decreases, leading to unmet expectations, affecting the community as a whole. As such, scrutinizing sustainability factors for community based programs proves essential. This paper analyses those factors by reviewing the literature, questioning 188 individuals from community based organizations and other non-profits and providing a ranking for the most important of them. The factors were divided into 3 categories: related to program itself, related to host (implementing) organisation and related to the community where the program is operationalized. For data analysis several statistical tests were used, leading to a ranking of the most important 22 factors for community based programs sustainability.

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Community Based Programs Sustainability. A Multidimensional Analysis of Sustainability Factors

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“…Due to those pressures, universities are now challenging for sustainability and trying to find out new ways to face those expectations for supporting themselves and sustainable development of societies, populations, and stakeholders in which they are embedded [47,48]. According to UNESCO, for a sustainable development, the institution has to be transformed as a whole [47], thus transformation of higher education institutions to entrepreneurial universities may be a good response for their sustainable development [49].…”

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Transforming Turkish Universities to Entrepreneurial Universities for Sustainability: From Strategy to Practice

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Today, universities are seen as the main actors of technological change, innovation, and social development; this situation causes new roles for universities, as well as forces them to change. At present, universities face very important expectations such as research and entrepreneurial activities by providing the industry-university cooperation along with education and training. In order to manage that transformation, it is seen that the universities across the world evolve to context of entrepreneurial university. Within this general framework, the main objective of this research is to determine where Turkish universities stand on the transformation of entrepreneurial university. In order to achieve this goal, 68 public universities' strategic plans, which are thought to reflect the intentions for the future, were subjected to content analysis. The findings showed that the majority of universities in our country did not have entrepreneurial university features but they have strong intention and desire for a transformation in this direction.

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“…Although the term sustainability is broad and have different meanings depending on the approach [12], it seems to exist agreement among scholars devoted to NGDO´s in the extent that the term refers to the capacity required to survive and perpetuate its social commitments to its donors and the community in which it operates [9,[13][14][15][16][17]. This social component is the basis of all the derived angles which sustainability has been examined.…”

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Key Determinants on Non-Governmental Organization’s Financial Sustainability: A Case Study that Examines 2018 FIFA Foundation Social Festival Selected Participants

2019

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The main purpose of this article is to map determinant attributes that define and enable financial sustainability in sport non-governmental organizations associated with international development (SNGDOs). An exploratory case study examined through a two staged mixed approach the 48 organizations, chosen by FIFA Foundation to participate at the 2018 World Cup Russia 2018 Social Festival, mirroring football from a different dimension, distant to the competitive perceptions normally assigned to this sport. The main outcome was to note that Global South countries SNGDOs´ financial sustainability is dependent on international aid agencies funds whilst in the Global North there is higher leverage on corporate partnerships. Financial sustainability should not be seen as an isolated topic in the management agenda of SNGDOs in the quest of new sources of income. This is rather a process of construction and assessment that implies on the one hand a wider approach on stakeholder expectations and on the other an overall strategical re-definition towards collaborative value creation. In view of the broad extension of nonprofit organizations, this study contributes to the still unexplored field of sport for development. Moreover, this academic exercise proposes a critical view of contrasting results through dependency theory. Some biases may exist within the consideration of a particular context, and the specificities of the examined organizations in the case study.

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Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Cited by 28 publications

References 89 publications

Community Based Programs Sustainability. A Multidimensional Analysis of Sustainability Factors

Community Based Programs Sustainability. A Multidimensional Analysis of Sustainability Factors

Transforming Turkish Universities to Entrepreneurial Universities for Sustainability: From Strategy to Practice

Key Determinants on Non-Governmental Organization’s Financial Sustainability: A Case Study that Examines 2018 FIFA Foundation Social Festival Selected Participants

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