Grassroots NGO Social Work Specialization Development Path Selection

With our country entering into society of transforming period,the failure of market and government has provided a broad space for the development of NGO.On the other hand, institutional exclusion,insufficient capacity,resource bottlenecks and barriers on the interaction with government also bring great challenges on the survival and development of puny NGO.Facing the opportunities and challenges,domestic NGO actively respond to it and seek road that is suitable for their own development eagerly.The majority of scholars consider the specialized construction,cooperation with government as the best action strategy for NGO.But due to the diversity, complexity, and dynamic characteristics,the development route presents the trend of diversification.For some organizations,"specialization" and "cooperation"may not be the optimal choice.Through action research on the specialization development process of a NGO in Xiamen that provides service to migrants,this paper analyzed factors affecting the development path selection on NGO.In which,team will,driving force to survive,tissue type and other internal factors and institutional environment, relationship with government and other external factors comprehensive influence the organization’s specialization development.While service areas and patterns of organization is a decisive factor in the NGO choice of the development path of social work specialization. Service-oriented NGO hope to improve their competitiveness,expand their range and influence of their service through standardization,specialization development.Hence one can see that service-oriented NGO in vulnerable groups field,social work specialization development is an inevitable choice.In the process of NGO social work specialization development,maintaining the vitality and openness,bringing grassroots organizations’unique superiority into full play should be pay attention to,take professional social services and non-professional volunteer service into effective integration.Meanwhile,NGO should actively establish a new partnership of equality and coordination among multi-subjects,strengthen the organization’s self-innovation capability,expand the ability to multi-channel financing, strengthen the organization system construction,cultural construction and a series of its own capacity building to ensure the continuous power of organization development.