The Role Of Non-Profit Organizations In Community——Case Study Of NPOs In Suzhou Community

This paper aims at discussing the role and function of Chinese non-profit organizations (NPOs ) in community. At first the author analyzes the experiences that NPOs at home and abroad engage in the community building, community development and community-orient social welfare. Based on the analysis above, this paper chooses three NPOs from Sanyuan and Fuqian community in Suzhou as the cases. During the research, depth-interview, document analysis and case study are applied. The author argues that several factors effects the NPOs emergence in China, such as system changing, public policy, community development and the commons space needs etc.The relations between the NPOs, the state and the citizens reflect that the NPOs play important roles in community. They are help of taking shape the community consciousness, integrating community resources and advancing community development. As the bridge of the state and the citizen, the NPOs are one of the approaches the state control the grass roots, meanwhile, the NPOs supply the social service and community participation to the citizen. Nowadays, what limits Chinese NPOs developments mainly is finance shortage, system problem, capacity restriction etc.TIAN Rong (Applied Sociology) Directed by ZHANG Ming...