Governance and Management of International Membership Organizations

  • The last few decades have witnessed the unprecedented expansion of nonprofit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to the extent that they now account for about seven percent of total employment in the United States and six percent in OECD countries. While most NGOs remain domestic organizations, some have become increasingly international in their scope and have grown into global actors. Oxfam, Save the Children, Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth, the Red Cross and GreenPeace have become the"brand-names" among international NGOs (INGOs), with significant budgets, political influence, and responsibility. Indeed, NGOs dedicated to international relief and development have combined expenditures totaling over US$ 13 billion, a figure approximately equal to the official U.S. aid budget. Membership-based INGOs, a subset of this emerging global third sector, have grown dramatically in recent years. In just over four decades, global membership in Amnesty International has exceeded 1.8 million. Similarly, GreenPeace membership reached 2.8 million in just over three decades, while revenues topped US$ 120 million.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Helmut K. Anheier, Nuno Themudo
Parent Title (English):The Brown Journal of World Affairs
ISSN:1080-0786
Publisher:Brown Univ.
Place of Publisher:Providence
Publication year:2005
First Page:185
Last Page:198
Related URL:https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/journal-world-affairs/sites/brown.edu.initiatives.journal-world-affairs/files/private/articles/11.2_Anheier.pdf
Release Date:2015/03/05
Volume:11
Issue:2
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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