The Problems of Non-profit Organizations of Access to the Service Market

In developed countries, the practice of attracting non-governmental non-profit organizations to provide services in the social sphere has been around for a long time. For Russia, this kind of cooperation between the state and the third sector is relatively new. For the first time, the importance of such interaction in Russia began to be discussed in the 1990s, but at the federal level, the first major measures to support the third sector were taken at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Attracting non-profit providers to provide services at a budget account is seen by the state as one of the ways to improve the efficiency of these services. However, despite such an active manifestation of interest from the state to non-profit organizations and an increase in the scale of cooperation between them, in practice there are many barriers for NGOs to enter the social services market, which is the problem of the present study. Identifying these barriers is the goal of this paper. This study provides an analysis of publications devoted to the activities of non-profit organizations and the results of their own empirical research, which is based on a survey of the leaders of NGOs in Moscow. Based on this study, 6 problems that non-profit organizations face in carrying out their activities were identified.