The research aimed to determine the degree of knowledge of the respondents of the beneficiaries of civil society organizations as well as their employees of the social and economic roles of these organizations, and the degree to which they perform these roles, and to test the significance of the relationship between the characteristics of the beneficiaries of the respondents and the degree of their knowledge of these roles and the degree to which they are performed, and to identify the obstacles of civil society organizations and proposals to solve them. This research was conducted in Al-Arish and Bir Al-Abed districts, sample of 186 beneficiaries. Weighted, simple correlation coefficient. The most important results of the research were: the higher knowledge of the respondents of the beneficiaries about the social and economic roles of civil society organizations than the working respondents, the higher the opinion of the beneficiary respondents with regard to the civil society organizations carrying out their studied social and economic roles about the working respondents, showing the significance of the relationship between the variables of monthly income, the number of electrical appliances and the respondents' knowledge of social roles, showing the significance of the relationship between housing condition variables, number of electrical appliances, membership in organizations, monthly income, and the respondents' opinion on the degree to which organizations play social roles, the most important obstacles facing civil society organizations, lack of understanding of board members of their roles.