Description

The book by Andres Pablo Falconer and Roberto Vilela, supported by GIFE – Grupo de Institutos Fundações e Empresas and Synergos Institute, presents the main private, non-profit organizations that finance Brazilian social projects. Brings the following data for each: mission, target audience, areas of Donation, main sources of resources, number of employees and activities carried out. Highlights the importance of private social investment and cooperation between Government, market and Civil society in realizing the common good.

In the last ten years, Brazil has witnessed the emergence of a new model of social organization, which configures its own sector, opposed to the business sector and the State. This is – in the absence of a better name
– of a “third” sector, made up of a set of private, non-profit organizations with a public or collective purpose

1. This sector emerges in Brazil in a similar way to what occurs in both the developed world and developing countries, characterizing what one scholar identified as a “global associative revolution”.

2. It is marked by the diversity of the entities that form it and the roles they play.
   Organizations of Third sector They lend themselves to the expression of distinct interests, values and beliefs, to the execution of services, and as a vehicle for citizen participation.

The diversity of Third sector is a reflection of the plurality of society itself and its capacity for organization and expression of Solidarity. “Non-governmental organization” (or NGO), “non-profit organization” or, appropriately, “organization of Civil society” constitute some of the denominations by which the components of the Third sector.