Social institutions have a role in public services

Social institutions have a role in public services: "n the United States, non-profit organizations received about 35 percent of their 2005 income from the administrative, either through contracts or applications to special funds. The non-profit organizations in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region receive 80 to 100 percent of their income from the administrative.

In Hong Kong, the government and the social institutions used to form a 'partnership' in offering public services. Under this partnership, the social institutions dispensed advice as consultants or carried out plans as the agents.

But in recent years, the Hong Kong government began to award contracts to these institutions, in which the financial input of the government and the services offered by the organizations are explicitly stated."