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The reviewed monograph is well characterised in motto placed by the author in the introduction: 'It is impossible to define whether it will be better when it will be otherwise. But if it has to be better, it has to be changed' (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg). Non-governmental and not profitable organisations - carriers of innovations of public services is a tittle of the monograph taking the current topic in Slovakia. So far lack of literature which could show in a holistic way the studied issues prompted the author to interest the topic. The task was not so difficult for her because she has a dozen items of literature with similar problems in her scientific achievements.(fragment of text)