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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Dec 2006 that the U.S. government has issued ten core NGO principles to guide the way governments treat these organizations, which are meant to complement existing U.S., UN and EU documents dealing with NG

Management wisdom says that nonprofits must be large and in charge to do the most good. But some of the world’s most successful organizations instead stay small, sharing their load with like-minded, long-term partners. The success of these networked nonpro

The heads of 11 of the world's leading human rights, environmental and social development international organisations have today publicly endorsed the first global accountability charter for the non-profit sector. International NGOs play an increasingly in

... nearly one-fifth of the world’s 37,000 NGOs were formed in the 90’s.

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Link to Stanford social innovative review on creating high impact nonprofits. There are six steps they outline that we all might find useful. Read at: http://www.ssireview.org/site/printer/creating_high_impact_nonprofits/

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Leadership is Global Co-Creating a More Humane and Sustainable World Global Leadership Network co-chairs and Leadership is Global co-editors Walter Link (Europe), Thais Corral (Brazil) and Mark Gerzon (USA) are pleased to announce the publication of the fi