Functioning of non-commercial organizations in the Russian Federation and their influence on social-economic processes

Non-commercial organizations being suppliers ofsocially significant services differ from other managing subjects in their ability to react operatively to the requirements of the population and tosocial problems; to reflect interests of various groups and layers, and also to work by request of the state. At the present stage, the activity ofnon-commercial organizations is a source of social innovations. Organizations of the non-commercial sector of economy provide employmentand self-employment of the population. Besides traditional branches of the social sphere such as science, culture, education and public healthservices, non-commercial organizations master new kinds of activity and show the activity in realization of programs of the state on provision ofpensions to citizens. In modern conditions the activity of the non-commercial sector in the Russian Federation was broadly adopted in the socialeconomiclife and recognised by the society. An impetus for development of the non-commercial sector in Russia was introduction of some lawson regulating activities of non-commercial organizations, which definitely systematized organizations operating in public interests, and legalizedthe basic characteristics of the civil-law status of different kinds of non-commercial organizations, and the order of property obtaining and usingfor them. It has allowed generating a legal basis for development of a new sector of economy - non-commercial. The recognition of the resultsof their social activity from the state, which was expressed in realization of the Concept of assistance to development of charities and free will inthe Russian Federation, was the continuing active development and growth of NCOs in Russia. The number of citizens and organizations participatingin charitable and voluntary activity is growing, and also the scales of the realized charitable programs and projects extend. However,the majority of non-commercial organizations at present face the problem of survival and sustainable development in the conditions of the crisiseconomy, the changing legal environments, and unsteady communications with state and commercial structures. In the given article the economicand legal features of functioning of non-commercial organizations, tendencies of development of the non-commercial sector and its influenceon the social-economic processes are considered. It is obvious that now the active growth and favourable development of the Russian noncommercialsector are in direct relation to the regulation by the state of the activity of non-commercial organizations by means of granting varioustax benefits and innovations and a thought-out purposeful tax policy.

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