Non-profit Organizations in Saudi Arabia: Reforming to Achieve the Kingdom Vision-2030 Goals

Abstract

Non-profit organizations at global level play a distinctive social and developmental role via providing many social and humanitarian services. At the state level, Saudi nonprofit organizations receive significant financial support from the government, individuals and corporations to enable them to play a vital and active role in the service of Saudi society. However, this role seems to be weak and this weakness is due to insufficient performance of these organizations. Therefore, this study aims to identify the reasons behind insufficient performance of Saudi nonprofit organizations, in order to contribute in solving this problem, in addition to develop the current role of these nonprofit organizations to fit with international best practices to meet the objectives of Saudi Arabia vision 2030. The study has formulated three hypotheses that cause organizations insufficient performance, management practices, funding, and legalization. Data has conducted through questionnaire, interviews, records and observation. Statistical Package of Social Studies (SPSS) has used to test the hypotheses and get results. The results confirmed that, insufficient performance of Saudi nonprofit organization mainly caused by poor management practices, lack of funding, and inadequate legalization. In order to ascertain the real reasons for the insufficient performance of Saudi nonprofit organizations, the study used two methods, the questionnaire and Delphi method. Methods findings confirmed that the causes were identical, and this, in turn, confirms the credibility of the results and thus the importance of research.

Keywords: - Nonprofit, Organizations, Vision, Performance, Management. Reforming.