Topics ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Since the field is interdisciplinary in nature, we focus on a wide range of topics. Some k • Donorship and Donation are of pivotal importance to much of the work that goes on in the sector. Individual donorship, the activity of private, corporate and community foundatio played by major philanthropists and their legitimacy, and critical analyses—these are al interest in our department. • The Theatre of the Oppressed is based upon participant-created performances in which the of their own life experiences. It offers a framework for thinking about how repression m as well as how specific situations may be resolved. • Volunteerism is at the heart of civil society in many ways. Not without reason is the se referred to as the “volunteer sector”. Together, we inquire into the nature of volunteer the forms it takes in civil society both at home in the Czech Republic and abroad. • Commercialization, Professionalization, Hybridization. Any change to the national or int environment impacts upon Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and one of the most signifi of late has been the professionalization and commercialization of CSOs. It has brought b opportunities and certain dilemmas. For instance: do professionalization and commerciali constitute suitable strategies for long-term sustainability in the civil sector? How can professionalization and commercialization be carried out in a way that CSOs do not becom organizations that are exclusive in nature? Are volunteer CSOs endangered by the ethical challenges to volunteerism their professionalization and commercialization bring? • Civil Sector Law • The Social Economy and Social Enterprise. The work we do on this topic area has resulted supported by the Czech Science Foundation, the City of Prague, and in research carried o auspices of Charles University and FH ChU. For some years now, students have undertaken social enterprises for publication, and in 2013, the department was coinvestigator in th Comparative Social Enterprise Models Project (ICSEM), an international EMES project invo researchers from 50 countries around the globe.  • Social Movements and Political Activism give expression to attempts by citizens to imple political or value preferences in various areas of life: social, environmental, cultural Together with formal political acts such as taking part in elections, these represent on three key functions of civil society—defending the values and interests of citizens as t political and economic elites (the state and the market). • Social Exclusion Social exclusion is a key topic at the department. The reason is that m nongovernmental nonprofit organizations implement projects that concern this theme.  The situated itself within the topic area by creating specialist studies that allow a better exclusion themes and propose measures to be taken. Social exclusion is currently highly this presents an opportunity for interconnections between academics and the nonprofit se the added benefit of reinforcing social cohesion within society as a whole. Social exclu evidence as a crosscutting theme that appears throughout the studies undertaken by the d • Social Responsibility We work together with a number of organizations to implement theme social responsibility. They include Romea, o.s., ARA Art, People in Need, NROS, Sanek Po International, Vteřina Poté and Národní Dobrovolnické Centrum HESTIA. We monitor informa the Czech Fundraising Center and other organizations.