THE NONPROFIT SECTOR ROLE AND IMPORTANCE IN THE SOCIAL STATE DEVELOPMENT: TO THE QUESTION OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SPECIAL LEGAL STATUS

Abstract

We consider the theme of the nonprofit organizations special legal status development in the context of the role and importance of the nonprofit sector in the state social policy. Along these lines, we note the characteristics essence of the Russian state as a social one. We disclose nonprofit organizations special administrative and legal statuses: socially oriented nonprofit organizations, performers of socially useful services, social service providers. The characteristic of dynamics of the legislation establishing the revealed statuses is given. We analyze the conditions and procedure for obtaining these statuses. Thus, we note a wide approach developed in law enforcement practice to the recognition of the activities of nonprofit organizations as socially oriented. We note the nonprofit organizations recognition conditions as executors of socially useful services, as well as the legal consequences implementation problems of obtaining this status. We substantiate public services performers differentiation necessity and social services providers. Some statistical data are given; also we summarize the state policy measures on interaction with the nonprofit sector as a whole, and on the involvement of nonprofit organizations in the sphere of social services. These measures are noted in the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation acts analysis. We highlight and describe the development and adoption process of the draft Federal law “On the state (municipal) social order for the provision of state (municipal) services in the social sphere”, its advantages and disadvantages. To conclude this study, we consider that the state is interested in cooperation with the nonprofit sector, which was embodied and detailed in the identified special status of nonprofit organizations; also we note the prospects for further development of the identified status.