A proposed conception to activate the role of civil society organizations to confront its funding problems using community dialogue

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Social Planning Department of Social Service and Community Development, Faculty of Education in Dakahlia, Al-Azhar University, Arab Republic of Egypt.

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The study aimed to arrive at a proposed vision to activate the role of civil society organizations to face its funding problems using community dialogue. Through a sample of members of civil society organizations to conduct research on them. Achieving this requires raising the efficiency of civil society organizations in facing the funding problems they encounter, and which stand as an obstacle to achieving their desired goal in community service. To achieve the desired goal of the efforts exerted by the state to provide services to members of society, but the state’s efforts alone are not sufficient to provide services, embodying realistic examples that emerged from theoretical and applied philosophies to improve the services provided by NGOs, Directing studies and research to this type of scientific studies and research that enriches the importance of community dialogue and its role in civil society organizations, by using effective and fruitful community dialogue on all sides within society, The study relied on the social survey method, using a questionnaire tool that was applied to a sample of (50) members of civil society organizations working in the finance sector of civil society organizations.
 

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