Abstract:
The main purpose of the article is to present the current circumstances
of non-government organizations development and the key opportunities and
threats in the process of launching ngos into the process of Polish civic society
building. In the first part of the paper the stages of non-governmental sector
development in Poland are described. The traditions of the so-called Third
Sector in Poland and two main causative factors forming its development in
the transition time are shown next. The increasing role of non-government
organizations in shaping the civic society in Poland as the result of SWOT
analysis of civic society is considered in the further parts of the paper.