Organizational Readiness of Non-profit Organizations to Participate in the State (Municipal) Social Order

At the moment, the social economy is actively developing around the world, including in the Russian Federation, with a focus on improving the well-being of the population. Non-profit organizations, providers of services in the social sphere, are an important part of the social economy, which prompts the state to improve the current and create new ways of providing funding for providers of services in the social sphere. The state and municipal social order - a single mechanism for the provision of social services at the expense of public funding, adopted in 2020 and operating in the framework of approbation, has a number of advantages for the non-profit sector if there is organizational readiness to participate in it. Since the social order is being tested in 7 fixed and real social areas, it was analyzed in which of the areas the largest number of SO NCOs is registered and which of them have already had experience in receiving state support by analyzing the register of socially oriented non-profit organizations. These are the NCOs that can be most active in participating in the state and municipal social order. Non-profit organizations have a large number of variations of organizational and legal forms, therefore, in the course of the analysis of legal acts on the types of economic activities, the most suitable types of NCOs for participation in the social order were identified. The most important elements of organizational readiness to accept any changes are personnel and property support of enterprises; therefore, in the course of the research, the current state of SO NCOs was analyzed in terms of the average number of full-time employees and availability of non-residential premises in the ownership of organizations.