Ashoka
The fourth edition of the Top 500 NGOs World was published June 23, 2016, by NGO Advisor, an independent media company based in Geneva in order to showcase the best practices and newest ideas in the sector and highlighting the strongest innovation, impact and governance in the nonprofit sector. Ashoka: Innovators for the Public was ranked number 6 moving up from last year’s position at 19. Ashoka is the world’s largest collection of social entrepreneurs working in 84 countries around the world.
According to the NGO Advisor website the NGOs in this year’s ranking are more influential, more powerful, and more innovative than ever before. With 89 new entrants to the list, and thus 89 NGOs leaving the list, this edition reflects the broader evolution of the nonprofit sector as well as the issues faced by global civil society from the local level to the transnational level. The company, currently chaired by Jean-Christophe Nothias, works with a team of researchers who evaluate leading organizations with a goal of serving as a lens to bring the transformations of the NGO sector into focus and to magnify the evolving range of nonprofit values.
“The Ashoka Fellows, staff, and partners – our “team of teams” -- working in more than 84 countries around the world engage in systems changing solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.” said Diana Wells, President of Ashoka. “We are grateful for this recognition of their work as they continue to build an everyone a changemaker world where all young people will grow up with the skills of leadership, teamwork, empathy and changemaking.”
According to NGO Advisor, in the last ten years, NGOs have moved further and further from their origins as charity businesses and expanded into an increasingly diverse range of activities. Nonprofits are investing in social enterprise, cultivating academic expertise, and finding strategic ways to address urgent development crises around the world. The fourth edition highlights the evolving values of the sector as a whole, as nonprofits shift away from older strategies of playing to investors and instead focus on producing tangible results.
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