It’s been one month since my first post. Any comments so far?
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Last night I got together with my friend Lachlan, to talk in quite general terms about organizational structure and organizational design. What came out of it was our first podcast.
The organization we occasionally refer to is SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development), the nonprofit startup we’re both working on and in which Lachlan is [...]
A recent comment to my previous post by abenamer made me realize that the words “international nonprofit organization” or “international NGO” might mean different things to different people. He wrote:
I tend to define international NGOs in a developed world/undeveloped world relationship. I tend to think of it as the facilitation of resources from the West elsewhere. I [...]
Short answer, more than 40000.
Long answer, 40000 is just the tip of the iceberg. Wikipedia says that ”The number of internationally operating NGOs is estimated at 40,000″: the source is ‘Global Civil Society 2001′ (Anheimer et al., 2001), containing info about international organizations and the location of their secretariats (together with other useful stats like links between international organizations, nationality and [...]
Very often, when a nonprofit is being established, many of the people who get involved and try to get things running will either already have a job/career of their own, or perhaps some other major activity they’re focusing on in their life (e.g. involvement in another nonprofit, perhaps). The resulting effects from this situation vary [...]
