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  2. Civil society - Wikipedia

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    In modern America, Yuval Levin writes that civil societies are considered to be a gateway between the U.S. government and citizens [33] Some state that civil societies help maintain individual freedoms as a check to the U.S. government's power, while others see its role as upholding the state's efforts by helping it fuel social causes while ...

  3. Non-governmental organization - Wikipedia

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    Government funding of NGOs is controversial, since "the whole point of humanitarian intervention was precise that NGOs and civil society had both a right and an obligation to respond with acts of aid and solidarity to people in need or being subjected to repression or want by the forces that controlled them, whatever the governments concerned ...

  4. NGO-ization - Wikipedia

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    NGO-ization is a process resulting from neoliberal globalization. [5] It consists of the flourishing of NGOs founded on issue-specific interventions [6] associated with the rising centrality of civil society [7] where NGOs are in charge of social services that used to be fulfilled by the public sector. [5]

  5. International non-governmental organization - Wikipedia

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    NGOs are independent of governments and can be seen as two types: advocacy NGOs, which aim to influence governments with a specific goal, and operational NGOs, which provide services. [4] Examples of NGO mandates are environmental preservation, human rights promotions or the advancement of women.

  6. Category : Non-profit organizations based in the United States

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    B. B4U-ACT; Ballet Society; Balloon Federation of America; Battelle for Kids; BeyGood; Big Green (non-profit company) Big Seven (United States) Black Mountain Center for the Arts

  7. Category:Civic organizations - Wikipedia

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    Аԥсшәа; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Чӑвашла

  8. United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service - Wikipedia

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    According to the UN, NGOs and other civil society organizations (CSOs) are system partners and valuable UN links to civil society. [8] CSOs play a key role at major United Nations Conferences and are indispensable partners for UN efforts at the country level. NGOs are consulted on UN policy and programme matters.

  9. Category:Non-governmental organizations - Wikipedia

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    This is not a category for articles about individual organizations. This category is closely related to the Charities and Non-profit organizations categories. For English speaking countries, whether an article appears in one or the other depends primarily on local usage, which varies from one country to another.