The Cross-sector Cooperation Mode of NPOs Providing Community-based Elderly Care Service: Case Study of a Civilian-run Nonprofit Elderly Care Institution in Beijing

Content introduction：

China's aging problems have become increasingly prominent, and seriously challenge the elderly care system in cities. The rise of community-based elderly care provides a new idea and a breakthrough to solve the problem. However, community-based elderly care model based on cross-sector cooperation. Understanding correctly cross-sector cooperation is undoubtedly crucial to enlarge its social impacts and to solve the elderly care problem. Existing studies of cross-sector cooperation focus on single dimension, while research on two-dimensional partnership is very rare. This thesis compares the mode of NPO-government cooperation and NPO-corporate cooperation, explores the interaction of these two cooperation modes, and discusses their impacts on elderly care service and nonprofit organization. Through empirical analysis, this study suggests that, "NPO-government" and "NPO-enterprise” cooperation model differs in prerequisite, status, limit factors, etc. Under the influence of the two cross-sector cooperation’s interactive, highlights social innovation and social entrepreneurship; strengthens the citizens' ability; forms a new pension model which adapts to China's context. Through inter-sectoral cooperation, social resources are effectively concentrated, social forces are mobilized, all those are conducive to solve the pension problems.