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3 unusual facts about non-governmental organization


Hayward Medical Communications

The company also publishes multimedia products and services for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as for government agencies, charities and non-governmental organisations.

INGOs Conference of the Council of Europe

It is the only assembly of NGOs playing an institutional role in an international intergovernmental organization.

Przemysław Lechowski

The Longest Birthday won two S3KTOR awards from President of Warsaw: Grand Prix and award for the best NGO’s cultural event in the capital city of Warsaw in 2010.


ACT Alberta

ACT Alberta (short for Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta) is a Canadian coalition of Government of Alberta representatives, non-governmental organizations, community organisations, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

The association currently acts as a professional network primarily for professors and teachers of home economics and related courses, but also includes large numbers from government, business and non-profit organizations.

Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage

The Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage or APLH is a cultural heritage, non-governmental organization based in Zouk Mosbeh, Keserwan District of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon.

Aza Raskin

During the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, Raskin mobilized with a group of other entrepreneurs (including Joshua Rosen, the art director of Steven Spielberg's movie A.I.) to create a crowd-source Web site to turn real-time information streams into meaningful map data, used by several major non-governmental organizations helping on the group in Haiti hosted at Haiti.com.

Barefoot doctor

In 1977, Jean-Pierre Willem created an international humanitarian apolitical NGO of doctors called Medecins Aux Pieds Nus in France.

Casa Alianza

It is a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children.

Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies

The Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies(CBHA) consists of 15 UK based NGOs - ActionAid, Action Against Hunger, CARE International UK, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide UK, Helpage International, International Rescue Committee, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Merlin, Oxfam GB, Plan International UK, Save the Children UK, Tearfund and World Vision UK.

Costică Canacheu

In the early 1990s, Canacheu was among a group of former revolutionaries who, citing concerns that granting revolutionary certificates and privileges had become an instrument of corruption, formed the non-governmental organization Asociaţia Revoluţionarilor fără Privilegii (the Association of Non-Privileged Revolutionaries); other members include Ion Caramitru, Dan Pavel, Victor Rebengiuc, and Radu Filipescu.

Egalitarian Mission, Africa

Egalitarian Mission, Africa is a non-governmental organization and non-profit organization founded and funded by Kayode Ajulo, a lawyer and human rights activist, to maintain and promote the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities.

Ek Alag Mausam

As a result, a non-governmental organization ActionAid took the initiative and made a film on AIDS titled 'Ek Alag Mausam'.

European Network Against Racism

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is an EU-wide network of NGOs in all European Union Member States and Iceland.

Girjet

The Boeing 757-200 chartered by a French Non-Governmental Organization called Zoé's Ark was impounded in Chad in October 2007 and the crew arrested due to accusations of human trafficking of minors for flying children out of the country with no national authorities authorization.

H2O Africa Foundation

The H2O Africa Foundation is an NGO founded by Matt Damon to raise awareness about clean water initiatives in Africa.

Hayq, Ethiopia

Funds for construction of the building, budgeted at a million Birr, was provided by the woreda and Helvidius, a non-governmental organization.

INCTR Challenge Fund

The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1998 by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the Institut Pasteur in Brussels.

Jonathan Peizer

Peizer founded and chairs Aspiration, a non-profit whose Social Source Commons library of GNU software provides resources for non-governmental organizations, and Capaciteria, a user-managed database of management resources

Liberal Reformers

Internationally Liberal Reformers, alongside with the Italian Radicals, were members of the Transnational Radical Party, a NGO working at the United Nations level.

Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey

Indian non-governmental organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, criticized Lohan for a Twitter post where she appeared to take credit for one of their raids, something BBC said was a misinterpretation.

Lokichogio

It is about 30 kilometers from the international border with South Sudan and hosts the UN offices (part of the Operation Lifeline Sudan program), around 49 NGOs, and a large orthopedic hospital run by the ICRC.

Nhlangano AIDS Training Information and Counseling Center

The Nhlangano AIDS Training Information and Counseling Center (NATICC) is a faith-based, non-profit NGO that provides information, training and counseling on HIV/AIDS in Nhlangano, Swaziland.

October 2008 Central America floods

Non-governmental organizations and other groups providing aid included $1.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund, $300,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $120,000 from Catholic Relief Services, and $289,000 from ACT Alliance.

Ornithological Society of Polynesia

The Ornithological Society of Polynesia (French: Société d'Ornithologie de Polynésie), also known as Manu, a Polynesian word for “bird”, is an environmental non-governmental organization dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats in Polynesia.

Palestinian Prisoners Club

Palestinian Prisoners Club is an independent, non-governmental, Palestinian organization which was established in 1993 with around 1,600 members of former Palestinian prisoners who were at least a year in an Israeli jail.

Pannella List

When the Radical Party was transformed into Transnational Radical Party, a NGO working at the UN level and coordinating the efforts of several national parties and groupings mainly in support of human rights, in 1989, the Italian Radicals were free to join the party of their choice.

Press videoconferencing

In February 2009, the African Press Organization’s Secretary-General, Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, has declared that his non-governmental organization was anticipating a significant increase in demands for international press videoconferences because of the global economics crisis which limit journalists in their ability to find time and resources to travel.

Public Services International

PSI is an officially recognised non-governmental organization for the public sector within the International Labour Organization, and works with the United Nations system in partnership with labour, civil society and other organisations.

Salsa d'Haïti

Shortly after the 2010 Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010, SALSA d'Haïti began organizing relief efforts with several non-governmental organizations and foreign governments to assist in the transportation of supplies into Port-au-Prince and other Haitian communities outside of the capital.

Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health

Society for Education Action and Research in Community health (SEARCH), is an non-governmental organization in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, which works in the field of rural health services and research.

The International League of Dermatological Societies

The International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) is a non-governmental organization affiliated with the World Health Organization.

Tigray Region

The ruling party attempted to address these challenges in forums with its middle class critics, as well as the establishment of a number of charitable non-governmental organizations controlled by the EPRDF, which include Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray, Relief Society of Tigray, and Tigray Development Association.

Tony Cunningham

On leaving Strasbourg and Brussels in 1999 he became the Chief Executive of Human Rights NGO INDICT where he remained until his election to Westminster.

UBINIG

UBINIG (Unnayan Bikalper Nitinirdharoni Gobeshona, the Policy Research for Development Alternatives) is a non-governmental organization based in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

University of Toronto School of Public Policy and Governance

The school internship partners include the Canadian Federal Public Service, the Ontario Public Service, the City of Toronto, the City of Mississauga, as well as many non-governmental organizations and research think tanks.

Village by Village

Village by Village is a small UK International development charity/NGO working in Ghana, West Africa to help rural communities improve their quality of life.

Yayasan Merah Putih

The Merah Putih Foundation (YMP – Yayasan Merah Putih) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization first established on December 14, 1989 in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.


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American Society of Health Informatics Managers

ASHIM is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed in 2009, in response to data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Department of Education, and independent studies that indicated a 2009-2015 shortfall of approximately 51,000 qualified Health IT workers required to meet the needs of hospitals and physicians as they move to adopt electronic health care systems.

Bagar, Jhunjhunu

Pratham is the largest non-governmental organization working to provide high-quality education to the under-privileged children of India.

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is an independent non-governmental organization for human rights founded on July 14, 1992 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

DAPG

Dolphin Action and Protection Group, a non-governmental organization in South Africa which campaigns for the protection and conservation of dolphins and whales

Deeds

Development Education Society (DEEDS), an Indian non-governmental organization

FPDL

Partners Foundation for Local Development, a Romanian non-governmental organization active since 1994, now allied with Partners for Democratic Change International

FWN

Fund for Wild Nature, non-governmental organization working for the preservation of wild nature

IBJ

International Bridges to Justice is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries.

Karp

Korean Association of Retired Persons, a non-governmental organization affiliated with the United Nations

Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey

Indian non-governmental organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, said she had not been part of the raid mentioned and threatened legal action over the post.

Live and Learn in Kenya

Live and Learn in Kenya NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) is a charitable organization with the goal of changing the lives and the futures of children living in poverty in Nakuru, Kenya as well as in other parts of Kenya.

Magdalo

Samahang Magdalo, a non-governmental organization in the Philippines.

SGAC

Space Generation Advisory Council, a non-governmental organization which aims to bring the views of students and young space professionals to the United Nations, Space Agencies and other organisations

SHH

Students Helping Honduras, an international non-governmental organization operating in the U.S. and Honduras

Virginia Bar

Virginia Bar Association - a non-governmental organization of attorneys licensed to practice law in Virginia

WCIP

World Council of Indigenous Peoples, a non-governmental organization in operation from 1974 to 1996.

World Union for Protection of Life

The World Union for Protection of Life (German: Weltbund zum Schutz des Lebens, French: Union Mondiale pour la Protection de la Vie, Russian: Всемирный союз для защиты жизни) is an international non-profit organization and non-governmental organization which was founded 1958 in Salzburg (Austria) by the writer Günther Schwab.