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New Report For NGOs Wanting To Upgrade Their Advocacy At The UN
We just released our new report on "Making Your NGO's Advocacy Dynamic." This report goes over one "big idea" and three areas of focus that will massively change the way many NGO staff, interns and activists think about their advocacy and how they can increase their...
An Introduction to Building Social Capital
[videojs youtube="http://youtu.be/xo-AsgN1VNE"] This video tutorial reviews some of the core competencies of advocacy with a particular focus on building social capital. So what is "social capital"? I'm guessing you get a sense of what it means. And more than ever in...
How To Get An Internship At The United Nations
The UN, with all its growing challenges in our complex world remains a focal institution for those who crave to make the world a better place. Building on these natural hopes, many people from around the world aspire to connect with and even work for the United...
Call For End To Impunity
UN Agrees to Advance Women’s Rights through Accountability States meeting at the Commission on the Status of Women call for end to impunity for perpetrators of grave crimes against women and girls. "There can be no peace, no progress, as long as there is...
What Kind Of Training Do You Need Most?
International activists have a unique role, and not all come to this work because we were trained in international affairs and diplomacy. BUT we still roll up our sleeves and dig in, and some make a massive difference. Usually, when we look back at what we...
UN NGLS
Subscribing to the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) Updates is one way to keep your finger on the pulse of what the UN is looking to the NGO community to do or where to be involved. Is an inter-agency programme of the United Nations mandated to...
NGO Leadership & Human Rights
NGO Leadership and Human Rights covers various topics of importance to those who work in development and/or advocacy organizations with human rights orientations and for undergraduate and graduate students aspiring to such careers. This book provides context,...
Alliances and Coalitions
With the burgeoning numbers both of member states and NGOs active around the UN, leadership challenges abound. If the original group of countries that gathered in San Francisco thought it was difficult to agree on what the UN should be at that time, imagine the...
Peace Corps NGO Training Guide
This free pdf training guide goes into detail about NGOs, why they are important, their role in development, tools to help assess the health of an NGO, and guidelines for how Peace Corps Volunteers (Volunteers) can acknowledge, appreciate and further empower NGOs....
What Happens When NGOs Fail?
A TED video about what happens when NGOs admit failure. http://youtu.be/HGiHU-agsGY How different is the work of your NGO to what David Damberger is talking about? Many well intentioned NGOs still think "things" make all the difference, but it is people, and the...
Three Stories By Steve Jobs
http://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc This 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address by Steven Jobs is well worth pausing for. For those of us who love Macs (yes, I am a macophile) taking a moment of silence for Jobs and in that moment, listening to these three stories both...
Volunteer & Intern Training
Do you have volunteers and interns anxious to help you do your work at the United Nations, but all you can think about is how much time it would take you to give them the basic training about the UN itself that they would need to be useful? There are options, and the...
Bonus Video Tutorial: The UN Charter
[hdplay id=25 ] This lesson looks more in depth at the Charter of the UN: what it is how it gained it’s “legal personality” a little about what that means to the nations that signed the charter the components of the charter Does the charter enable the UN to “stay...
How to Make QR Codes To Promote Your Work
Do you distribute literature of any kind? Do you want people to visit your website to sign up for an event, get news or take a survey? Are you looking to get people to take some action such as make a phone call, send an email, personalize a letter and send it to a...
Tapping the Underutilized Resources of Volunteers and Interns
To Power Change & Develop New Ways To Help Fund Your NGO Too many times I have watched NGO directors and managers wince as one of the members of their organization animated indicated their interest in offering their time to contribute to the work of their...