Non-profit organisations represent an important entity of modern society since they operate with the purpose of providing general social interest. Interest comprised of public interest, the interest of the majority, which is implemented by public non-profit organisations, as well as private and common interest, or the interest of the minority, provided by private organisations. To best contribute to the interest of citizens they have to be well managed and led, as well as operate with sufficient financial means. Public institutions get constant national or municipal budgetary financing, while private institutions do not actually have regular financing. In my dissertation I focused mostly on the public and private non-profit institutions that operate in the field of youth culture. I analysed the operation of both institutions from 2013 to 2017 and compared them to determine similarities and differences in management, leadership and financing. The public non-profit institution is important in its local environment for providing a full range of youth programmes, while the private non-profit institution, with its programmes, fills in the gaps and represents a space for connecting different organisations, positively affecting the creation of new content. Even though the studied public institution has regular financing it has not gone into routine management because of the interest of the local youth. Concern that the studied private institution will fall into routine is unnecessary because, for its own survival, it has to be informed of the needs of the environment, has to search for different sources of financing while at the same time be managed and led innovatively enough to adjust to the needs, wishes and demands of visitors and financiers.
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