Real Activity of Civic Associations in the Czech Republic and their Financing

In the Czech Republic new non-profit nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were established and replaced the previous centrally-controlled state organizations since 1989. The paper deals with one type of them, civic associations (further abbreviated: c. a.). In year 2013 there were over 100 thousands in the Czech Republic. The South Moravia district was chosen for this research. According to the data from the Czech company register and Czech statistical office there were 8763 civic associations in the year 2012. The aims of this paper were firstly research of current activity of the c. a., because it is suspected that many of them are existing without any activity, because there is a lack of legislation which would force them to officially cancel an organisation and secondly investigate from their annual reports portfolio of their financial sources in sample of 36 c. a. which had their annual report from year 2011 available on webpage. Analysis of their activity was made by questionnaire on sample of 451 c. a., which had available e-mail addresses. According the contacts only 5.14 % seem to be active c. a. 66 % from 140 answered respondents work on a volunteer basis.