Abstract:
This research aims to shove Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as Non-Profit Organization to be self-reliance in their funding, by applying Banjar culture to improve organizational performance. It targets the development of Central Business Unit as a mean towards CSOs independency. Test of quality data excluded two data sources as outlier data with the result 34 data that normally distributed for instrument analysis. Validity testing output for Banjar Culture provides instruments with r-value above r-table of 0.3891 with its reliability score of 0.792. Meanwhile, the validity testing output for CSOs performance provides instruments with rvalue above r-table of 0.4187 with its reliability score of 0.885. The simple regression proofed the model is not significant to explain the role of Banjar Culture in improving CSOs performance; in line with the accepted hypothesis null statement (Application of Banjar culture will not improve CSOs performance significantly). This research suggest for specific sample of population in assessing culture, especially at community organization or organization which are specialized in culture as well, because the culture live in personal context, not in the professional context. In addition, applying local cultures does not against the value of professionalism as long as they are the cultural values that promote the best interest for all and uphold partnership than individualistic
