Not just for fun.
"Community social organizations should be organizations that take root in the community and provide services to residents." After a few days of running around, Yan, executive deputy director of Shangcheng Social Organization Service Center in Hangzhou, felt a little tired.
Unlike many people who think that community social organizations are self-organization of the community, and even some people think that community social organizations are just self-entertainment organizations, Yan is more concerned about whether social organizations can really take root in the community and provide effective services to residents. This understanding comes from the reflection on the Wenchuan earthquake. In the Wenchuan earthquake, the number of social organizations appeared blowout, but many social organizations did not stay. This made him realize that the long-term vitality of social organizations lies in taking root in local communities and providing effective services to residents.
Therefore, in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Yan explored the mode of cultivating social organizations with social demand as the guide, promoting the development of social organizations with the integration of social forces, and promoting the innovation of grass-roots social management with the development of social organizations-Shangcheng District cultivated and developed community social organizations, which is referred to as the "three-social linkage" development mode of "incubating society, promoting society and helping society".
Walking into the communities in Shangcheng District, you will find that various social organizations are developing vigorously, forming a public service network of community social organizations with various themes such as life mutual assistance, red culture and home life. Community social organizations can provide convenient services in all aspects of people's needs, such as providing for the aged, studying, finding a job, seeing a doctor and so on. In addition, the cultural life of the community is rich, and the community security is getting better and better, which has formed a harmonious situation in the community and highlighted the role of community social organization governance.
"Community social organizations are not just entertaining themselves." Yunhong Zhou, executive director of the Center for Comparative Politics and Economic Research of the Central Compilation Bureau, found in the survey that residents will gradually start to pay attention to the community environment and the elderly who are lonely and have public and social problems. This coincides with Yan. She believes that under the framework of social governance, the development of community social organizations is based on meeting the needs of residents and improving service capabilities.
It is still far from meeting the needs of residents.
At the end of 20 1 1, Liu Xuan, a staff member of the Social Work Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, conducted a survey of community social organizations in Beijing. The results showed that by the end of 20 1 1, the community social organizations in Beijing were divided into activity types, with cultural and sports activities accounting for 47. 1% and life services.
"At present, the development structure of community social organizations is still unbalanced, mainly concentrated in the field of cultural and sports activities. However, the community social organizations that have entered the community public services and public welfare fields such as community security, environmental maintenance, helping the elderly and helping the disabled are very limited, and there is no pattern of complete types, wide reach and sound system. " Zhou Yuhong, a professor at university of international business and economics, said.
Kang, a lecturer in the Scientific Socialism Teaching and Research Department of the Central Party School, believes that the development of community social organizations is based on the development of the socialist market economy and the subsequent social transformation, and its growth momentum comes from the social demand structure of citizens.
Zheng Qi, Ph.D., School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University, found that residents under the age of 25 most want to establish community convenience services and common interest organizations, while residents under the age of 45 pay more attention to community convenience services and community construction than residents over the age of 45. It can be seen that community residents have expectations for community social organizations to provide convenience services.
In Ding Chuanzong's view, by combing the services provided by community social organizations and the service needs of residents, there is still a big gap in tapping the internal needs of residents and meeting the individualized and diversified needs of residents.
Yan stressed that if the internal needs of community residents are not well grasped, the work done by community social organizations will not be targeted, and it will be impossible to realize the problem of community social organizations landing at the grassroots level. In his view, the ability of community social organizations to tap the needs of residents is even more important than the ability to raise funds.
The government and society work together.
Yan believes that the success of the "three-social linkage" model is inseparable from the cooperation of multiple governance subjects such as the government and social forces.
The Shangcheng Social Organization Service Center allows multiple resources to gather the services of community public welfare projects through the "blind date meeting" of community public welfare venture capital. In 20 13, the whole street public welfare venture capital was organized, and there were more than 50 public welfare projects in Wangjiang Street alone, raising funds of 1.38 million yuan. Organized more than 100 short-listed projects of community-level public welfare venture capital in the whole region, raised more than 4.7 million yuan, and benefited 1 10000 people. This not only provides sustainable financial support for community social organizations, but also mobilizes the government, residents, community social organizations, enterprises and other forces to participate in community governance.
It is worth noting that Yan believes that although the community social organization service center is a non-citizen, with the help of government resources, the "three social organizations linkage" model has been fully rolled out.
Ding Chuanzong also found in the project of Nanmencang Community Affairs Self-management Committee that the Nanmencang Community Affairs Self-management Committee could not grow up without the social workers supporting the government to purchase services to promote the project 1+ 1 and without the training and guidance of professional social workers.
"In fact, through these models, it is found that the incubation and cultivation of many community social organizations are carried out by independent third-party institutions, but there are government policies and funds behind them." Yunhong Zhou said. At the same time, she believes that with the development of social organizations, it is not enough to rely solely on the support of civil affairs departments. The government needs to support them through policies and funds, but it is not necessarily done by the government. Because the government has no advantage over professional social organizations in practical experience and professionalism. In her view, it is a feasible choice for the government to support the third party to cultivate community social organizations and strengthen coordination and cooperation.
"Social organizations have great potential in the community." In the interview, I have always emphasized this view of Yan. He believes that the development of community social organizations does not need the theory of "standing tall", but should use social work methods according to the actual needs of residents in this community to let residents know that they are one of the main bodies of community construction, not just the government's business. Then, through an organized way to achieve good social governance, effectively solve the problem of mobilizing multiple subjects in community construction and the problem that community residents have no sense of belonging, so as to realize social governance transition.