From independence to strength: institutional resilience and coping mechanisms in ngos providing social services financed through public financing mechanisms

摘要

The Public-Private Partnership (PPP), under its various forms (from privatization of public services to subsidies for private bodies) has been discussed in many occasions and found to be one of the most desirable methods for developing social services tailored on the needs of the communities.What happens with the NGO once entered in such partnership and how its structure and form changes because of it, is an entirely different matter, which has not been discussed as much.The current paper is focused on analysing the changes brought to the NGO (in terms of structure and function) by the experience of accessing and managing public financing and the struggle of these entities to remain independent, while passing through this experience. Local research at the level of Western region, Romania, showed the coping mechanisms used by the NGOs in their fighting for survival during the period of post-communist private donors' withdrawal. The implications of adopting the public funding solution are also analysed and discussed.