Voluntary sector

The nonprofit sector, and the nonprofit sector, called Intermediary sector or the third sector, including clubs, associations, foundations, communities and other types of non-profit organizations ( NPO ), and can be more general than profit, if economically organized relevant circumscribed be.

Research

The research on the nonprofit sector examines operations in a region whose organizations may be neither the government nor the profit-making sector assigned. Your control mode following non-governmental hierarchy or marktlichem competition.

These can be described in terms of five criteria:

• They are organized formally and permanently
• They are private, that is, independent of state administration and government organizations
• You decide independently of the State and are legally separate
• Obtained profits are not distributed to shareholders or members
• It is close to people together voluntarily and is involved in voluntary

The term can an opposing axis state ( commonwealth ) both dichotomously as an intermediate range (" Intermediary " ) - Market ( individual interests ) to be seen ( as were about education and social aspects of the rule under the definition of terms ), as well trichotomisch as opposed to two (which is the expression "sector" in the sense of autonomy stresses ).