The Research On Charitable Social Association’s Internal Governance

Charitable social association refers to legally established, with members, engaged in public welfare activities, not-for-profit social association. In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s charitable social associations, they have played an important role in helping the socially vulnerable groups, helping the poor, strengthening the volunteer teams and promoting social welfare development. However, there are some issues of China’s charitable social associations, such as administrative management, undemocratic decision-making, and the lack of effective internal oversight, seriously affect the development of charitable social associations and hinder the further development and expansion of social organizations. These problems are generated due to imperfect internal governance of charitable social associations. Moreover, many problems existing in the internal governance of charitable social associations also affect the organizations’ public credit and reputation. And the state’s policy documents also put forward requirements to improve the internal governance of social organization. From the perspective of long-term sustainable development, improving the internal governance is the necessary way for the development of charitable social association. Therefore, studying of internal governance of charitable social association and putting forward proposals to promote the sound development of charitable social association is the original intention of the paper. It also has theoretical significance of broadening the research field of social organization.This paper adopts the literature research method, interview method and case study method. The first chapter describes the research background, significance, literature review and the research methods. The second chapter defines some key concepts and briefly introduces related theories on internal governance of charitable social association which build up the theoretical basis for this paper. The third chapter states the basic content, the ways and the characteristics of the internal governance of charitable social association. The fourth chapter analyzes the status quo of China’s charitable social association, taking three charitable social associations in a city as typical examples, researches situation of their internal governance, and summarizes the achievements. The fifth chapter analyzes the problems of the internal governance of charitable social association. The last chapter puts forward my suggestions on how to improve the internal governance of charitable social association.