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The aim of the article is to present the role of non-governmental organizations in stimulating vocational activity in such a local community as district (powiat). This aim seems to be particularly important in the context of the revival of localness and decentralization of social policy in Poland and thus the growth of non-governmental organizations' role. They are considered as potential employers, places to acquire professional experience in a form of voluntary service and partners in solving local problems, including labour market problems. Therefore, deliberations in the article concern among others the functions of non-governmental organizations, in particular the functions of building and providing labour market services. For that purpose, non-governmental organizations in selected districts were researched. The research was conducted in organizations which in their statute aims presented action supporting local labour markets. In order to obtain research material, the representatives of these institutions were interviewed. The findings indicate that providing labour market services do not determine the main directions of action of the presented organizations, but are rather objectives which supplement the basic activity of the chosen organizations. However, within action accomplished by non-governmental organizations, which operate in selected districts, several important areas can be distinguished. Unfortunately, scarce number of organizations undertaking this kind of activity in the researched area causes that their impact on local labour markets is little which, on the other hand, proves the part of hypothesis formulated for the needs of conducted research which assumes that the potential of NGO is still not used.