The voluntary welfare associations in Germany: An overview



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ing the social welfare and services will rise due to the growing of the European single
market and its impact on the social sector. So the voluntary welfare associations will
have to get ready to substitute at least partly their traditional state dependency for a
stronger market orientation79 and to increase the share of market made funding and the
extent of internal funding.80

This development will lead to even more competitive structures in social welfare and
services and to the emerging of more private providers outside of the voluntary welfare
associations including commercial providers of social services in different fields and on
equal footing regardless of their organizational form.81 But there is still a big need for
more cooperation and networking among all stakeholders in the field of social welfare
and services.82

There will be a process of convergence affecting all private organizations providing
social welfare and services. The extent of this process will very strongly depend on the
framework conditions set by the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union.

But it will depend very much on the voluntary welfare associations themselves whether
to develop to
ordinary private agencies and companies or to maintain the specific char-
acter
of historically established and on charity and voluntary work based associations.
Their pattern of reactions cannot be an exclusive strategy “less state, more market”, but
at least a comprehensive combination with the strategy “less state, more civil society”.83

79 Priller/Zimmer/Anheier/Toepler/Salamon 1999: 117.

80 With regard to the nonprofit sector in general: Priller/Zimmer 2001: 214-216.

81 Priller/Zimmer/Anheier/Toepler/Salamon 1999: 117.

82Dahme/ Wohlfahrt 2000: 20-24.

83 See to these patterns: Priller/Zimmer 2001: 213-216. See also very detailed Klug 1997: 301-311.



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