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Particularly in the past decade, there has been a broadening in the focus of NGO activities. | Particularly in the past decade, there has been a broadening in the focus of NGO activities. | ||
| − | NGOs espouse a wide variety of agendas, causes, and ideologies | + | NGOs espouse a wide variety of agendas, causes, and ideologies from promoting research and education, to human rights and aid-related activities, to environmental activism, to health care. According to a 1995 survey of 22 nations by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies, NGOs in these countries had 29 million people on staff (including 10 million volunteers). Twenty-three percent of those involved were active in education and research, 20.6% in social services, 18.9% in culture, sports and recreation activities, 15.7 % in health care, and the remainder in areas such as business and professional associations (6/3%), development and housing (6.1%), law, advocacy and politics 3%), environmental protection (2.5%), philanthropy (1.2%), and international activities (1.0%), including human rights, relief and aid groups. |
In the survey it was found that most NGO funding comes via income from fees for services rendered (47%), and from public support (42%). Very little NGO funding comes from foundations and organized philanthropy – an average of just 11% in the 22 countries surveyed. | In the survey it was found that most NGO funding comes via income from fees for services rendered (47%), and from public support (42%). Very little NGO funding comes from foundations and organized philanthropy – an average of just 11% in the 22 countries surveyed. | ||
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| − | Anheier, Helmut, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor. [http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Publications/Yearbooks/2001/2001chapter1.pdf Introducing Global Civil Society]. In H. Anheier, M. Glasius, and M. Kaldor (eds.), Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science Governance, London School of Economics), ''Global Civil Society Yearbook 2001''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199246440. | + | Anheier, Helmut, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor. [http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Publications/Yearbooks/2001/2001chapter1.pdf Introducing Global Civil Society]. |
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| + | In H. Anheier, M. Glasius, and M. Kaldor (eds.), Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science Governance, London School of Economics), ''Global Civil Society Yearbook 2001''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199246440. | ||
Revision as of 10:48, 5 August 2008
Since the mid-1950s, the number of NGOs worldwide has increased dramatically, along with a broadening of the focus of their activities and a strengthening of their influence. NGOs are now impacting policies and guiding agendas that once were nearly exclusively the arena of governments and corporations.
In terms of NGOs internationally active, the Yearbook of International Organizations has documented an almost 30-fold increase between 1956 and 2000. In 1956, the Yearbook listed 985 active, “international NGOs,” with this category, including organizations operating in at least three countries. By 1996, that number had swelled to more than 20,000. In 2000, the Yearbook documented 29,495 active, international NGOs. Anheier (2001) places the number of internationally operating NGOs at 32 in 1874, at 1,083 in 1914, and at 13,000 in 2000, with one-quarter of these created after 1990.
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