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EFFECTS OF NPO PROFESSIONALIZATION: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF FOUNDATION FUNDING

Civil society around the world has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. Mass voluntary organisations focused on mayor political or charity issues of the past are today becoming a prolonged hand of the state that helps solve specific societal issues. These changes have influenced non profit organizations in a number of ways. Due to the ever growing governmental and public scrutiny non profit organizations are required to be ever more transparent and are required to justify their purpose and especially their budgets coming from public sources. Various foundations played an important role as mayor founders of NPO’s but there are still ambiguous findings regarding the effects foundation funding has on NPO’s. In order to shed light on this understudied issue we analysed the Croatian Foundation for Civil Society Development that operates in an interesting empirical setting of a former socialist country that has in the meantime become the newest member of the European Union.

non profit organizations, foundation funding, professionalization, Croatia

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