A Study on the Impact of Charitable Organization Capacity on Community Governance Performance: Based on the Perspective of Social Capital

In the context of deepening the grassroots governance system in the new era, charitable organizations, as an important complementary force of the social governance system, have gradually become the focus of research on their functions and paths in community governance. Based on the social capital theory, this paper explores the influence mechanism of charitable organizations’ resource integration, social mobilization, and information transfer capacity on community governance performance. The study finds that: (1) the capacity of charitable organizations significantly improves the performance of community governance; (2) social capital has a partially intermediary role; and (3) there is an operable interactive mechanism between the three.

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