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There
are more than 12 million Non Governmental Organisations currently
active in the world. [UN/Wikipedia].
Of these roughly 7 million are ersatz NGOs, that is to say were
formed for purposes other than what is written in their mission
statements: they were actually formed to hide taxable wealth, conduct
fundraising for their promoters etc. Of the remaining NGOs, 4 million
exist to satisfy the social conscience of their founders, funders
and operators - while commendable, they do not make a contribution
to the world's major social needs proportionate to the effort and
funds they absorb. That leaves 1 million serious NGO's to do all
the heavy lifting. Of these, 40 thousand are viewed as respectable
international NGOs, each with a recognisable mission that is addressing
at least one of the earth's more serious social needs [Climate,
demographic pressure, flora, fauna, etc.].
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| The system we
use to rate the 40 thousand recognised international NGOs is based
on algorithms which rank pertinent data stored on computers belonging
the world's largest information entity - GOOGLE - this data is being
constantly updated. Ask Google appropriate questions, and in return
Google presents the best available ratings, while generating a higherarchy
of pertinent documentation on the serious NGOs which are addressing
the global social problems in most urgent need of resolution. Here
is how to make this rating system work: |
Step 1 - Enter the NGO's Official Name in the Google search
box. [For the purpose of this exercise we will use "Doctors Without
Borders" - one of our favorite NGOs - as an example].
Enter this name and hit the "Search" button. Google will
return something like this: |
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| Any of the serious
NGOs will receive a listing like this in the Google search returns
page. If the NGO you are searching for does not receive a return like
this it is not considered to be a major player in its field(s) of
endeavour. |
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| Step 2
- Now type into the search box key phrases from the first line of
text (one at a time) and hit search. This will rate Doctors Without
Borders against other NGOs doing similar work. HOW? Simple: the Google
search returns will be a list of web pages, the first one to appear
will be the highest ranked (according to Google data pertinent to
what the NGO does, and how others on the web value its relevance compared
with its peers). To be even more scientific, take the first 50 returns
and see what percent of the pages returned pertain to Doctors Without
Borders, and how many pertained to its nearest peer. Even if an NGO
does not appear first, if the overwhelming percent of returns are
for its pages, it is the most important NGO in its field. Example:
from our knowledge of what the NGO purports to do let us enter: "french
medical charity" |
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| Note:
If the particular NGO you are trying to get Google to rate for you
has not yet appeared, try this: refine your search - limit it to a
particular activity or geographic region. Here is an example. We are
looking for "Volunteers Without Borders" - Google is sending back
lots of returns because there is no dominant NGO in this space. The
particular 'Volunteers without Borders' we are looking for is located
in the UK, so we give Google the search thread: " volunteers without
borders uk ". Google gives it to us and we can see from the returns
how this NGO compares to its UK peers. |
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