PROCESSO DE SELEÇÃO DE PROJETOS NA GESTÃO DE PORTFÓLIO: o caso de uma organização sem fins lucrativos

Nonprofit organizations are increasing their participation in society and are also pursuing tools that facilitate the management leadership and control of their work routines, in the Administration area of knowledge. These organizations also present the adoption of strategic planning techniques, which happens to make the acceptance of the project portfolio management methodology a natural consequence. Based on this context, the goal of this paper is to verify a Specialized Medical Association’s the practices developed in selecting projects, by using models of project portfolio management. Through an exploratory case study as a research strategy and qualitative evaluation technique, we conclude that the organization develops strategic planning for fundraising and partially and informally applies the process of selecting projects for portfolio composition. The analysis in the light of the four models, identified that there is a model applicable to the case studied, but some of these phases are adherent, and other hard to fit the context of nonprofit organizations. Finally, the conclusion motivates reflection and expectation on the need to develop methodologies applied to the nonprofit sector that contemplates the characteristics and peculiarities of these organizations.