abstract: 'Our research was designed to find out to what extent non-profit

  organisations that identified their scope of activity as enhancing

  employment and training are able to fulfil their aims, can they increase

  employment, especially the employment of groups that are disadvantaged

  in the labour market, what did they achieve in the field of

  (re)integrating people to the labour market. We analysed existing

  statistics and also carried out a survey among non-profit organisations.

  the information that we were able to gather and organise in a systematic

  way can be used to assess the effectivity of civil initiatives.

  The number of non-profit organisations active in the field of enhancing

  employment was around 200 in the past few years, with a slightly

  declining tendency in the number. The majority had the form of

  foundations and associations. An increasing number of these

  organisations had employees, but they have fewer volunteers than other

  non-profit organisations. The weight of Government financial support is

  outstandingly high in these organisations, compared to the average of

  the non-profit sector. The total amount of government financial support

  to non-profit organisations active in the field of employment issues was

  18 billion HUF The majority of the organisations targeted the employment

  of unemployed persons, their activities included training, job hunting

  but also the employment of the target group by the organisation itself.

  The target group is mainly private individuals, but some of the

  organisations service other organisations or groups, among them minority

  groups (old, young, families, Roma etc.). the activity of the

  organisations is mostly limited to a settlement or a micro-region, few

  of them have a county, macro regional or national activity scope.

  The demand for the services of these NGOs exceeds their capacity but

  they are sooner or later able to help.

  The major source of resources are the municipalities and their own

  incomes but a large amount comes from the government or from ministries

  directly and from the offerings of private individuals who can offer 1\%

  of their income tax to an NGO of their choice. The working conditions

  and the infrastructure of these NGOs is at a medium level. they have to

  cope with a shortage in resources, which they try to overcome by

  continuous applications to various funds; they submit proposals 7 times

  a year on the average.

  They consider their own activities to be successful and improving, the

  majority said that they were able to reach their goals, though they

  would like to provide services to more people and they would like to

  improve the co-operation with local municipalities and government

  organisations.'
affiliation: 'Dobossy, I (Corresponding Author), Hungarian Cent Stat, Budapest, Hungary.

  Dobossy, Imre; Viragh, Eszter; Vukovich, Gabriella, Hungarian Cent Stat, Budapest,
  Hungary.

  Vukovich, Gabriella, DEMO STAT CONSULTANTS, Budapest, Hungary.'
author: Dobossy, Imre and Viragh, Eszter and Vukovich, Gabriella
author-email: 'imre.dobossy@ksh.hu

  eszter.viragh@ksh.hu

  vukovich.gabriella@axelero.hu'
author_list:
- family: Dobossy
  given: Imre
- family: Viragh
  given: Eszter
- family: Vukovich
  given: Gabriella
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 1786-3341
journal: CIVIL SZEMLE
keywords: 'civil (non-profit) sector; ngos active in improving employment;

  reintegration to the labour market; support to disadvanteged groups;

  training; register of ngos'
language: Hungarian
number: 3-4
number-of-cited-references: '0'
pages: 44+
papis_id: 77b207b178825d103829cd50944a3211
ref: Dobossy2007situationnonprofit
times-cited: '0'
title: The situation of non-profit organisations active in improving employment
type: Article
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volume: '4'
web-of-science-categories: Public Administration
year: '2007'