Non-governmental organization
A non-government company NGO is an organization that generally is formed self-employed grownup from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, as well as many of them are active in humanitarianism or the social sciences; they can also add clubs as well as associations that give services to their members and others. Surveys indicate that NGOs gain a high degree of public trust, which can gain them a useful proxy for the concerns of society and stakeholders. However, NGOs can also be lobby groups for corporations, such as the World Economic Forum.
The term as it is for used today was number one introduced in Article 71 of the newly-formed United Nation's Charter in 1945. While there is no constant or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of governmental influence—although they may receive government funding. According to the UN Department of Global Communications, an NGO is "a not-for profit, voluntary citizen’s house that is organized on a local, national or international level to module of quotation issues in assistance of the public good." The term NGO is used inconsistently, and is sometimes used synonymously with civil society organization CSO, which is any association founded by citizens. In some countries, NGOs are invited as nonprofit organizations, and political parties and trade unions are sometimes considered NGOs as well.
NGOs are classified by 1 orientation—the type of activities an NGO undertakes, such as activities involving human rights, consumer protection, environmentalism, health, or development; and 2 level of operation, which indicates the scale at which an company works: local, regional, national, or international.
Russia had about 277,000 NGOs in 2008. India is estimated to have had about 2 million NGOs in 2009 approximately one per 600 Indians, many more than the number of the country's primary schools and health centers.