We
plan to share 10 000 NGO Founders in the world.
They are shared by their name as well as by the NGO they
founded.
We know
there are millions of NGOs in the world (In India, there
are some 3.3. million NGOs) and we do not know their credibility.
We had started credit rating of NGOs for our earlier company
IndianNGOs.com Pvt. Ltd. in 2001 to 2003 and realised that
it takes months to credit rate 1 NGO. So rating millions
of NGOs is not possible for any organisation. Also, it is
unfortunate, that in many countries, NGOs have no succession
planning and as soon as the founder retires or leaves the
world, the NGO also goes in that mode. Of course, there
may be few exceptions to this, but we know it can be just
few.
More
important is that corporates, funding agencies, philanthropists
... will visit CSRidentity.com and look at NGOs they can
partner with. And if we just give any NGO, it will take
a lot of their time to do credit rating of the NGO.
So the
best way is to share NGOs with following criteria
1) NGOs whose founder is an Ashoka Fellow. Founder is an
Ashoka Fellow for 2005-08 period and knows the criteria
of selection of a fellow to whom they support they financially
support for some time but put them in the network of Ashoka
Fellows lifetime.
There are about 3600 Ashoka Fellows in 93 odd countries.
2) NGO Founder is supported by a well known funding agency
or corporate foundation or a philanthropist.
3) NGO Founder is invited as a speaker by TED
4) NGO founder who gets national award (awards given only
by the country government) or international award like Magsaysay.
Founder
will do research of them without any sponsor and could have
thought of No Sponsor whose banner can be shared at thet
top but realised that global promotion is costly excercise
and someoneh as to take care of these expenses and in return
they get tremendous goodwill from the social sector.
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