NGO
"NGO" is an acronym for non-governmental organization.
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" Nike now has some of the best factories in the developing world, yet is still unfairly branded as a sweatshop by critical NGOs.” —no author, “Face Value: Get Naked: Every firm should have a nudity strategy, says Don Topscott,” The Economist, October 18, 2003, p. 66. “With funding from several conservation NGOs, Douglas-Hamilton organized a hugely ambitious survey to gauge the status of elephant populations throughout the continent. He mailed out questionnaires to field biologists, game wardens, conservationists, and other well-informed people, asking for their counts or best estimates of local and regional populations, and he flew surveys himself.” —David Quammen, “An African Love Story,” National Geographic, September, 2008, p. 47. Links Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on Non-Governmental Organizations
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