The World Is Changing
Posted on May 02, 2004 in misc.
Bob Hopkins founded Philanthropy World, so when he gave me a copy of the latest issue, I figured I would read it on my flight from Texas to Dallas. I randomly started at page 50, which read 'How to Change the World' ... what else? :)
So, page 50 read something like this:
Consider that twenty years ago, Indonesia has only one independent environmental organization. Today, it has more than 2,000. In Bangaladesh, most of the country's development work is handled by 20,000 NGOs; almost all of them were established in the past 25 years. India has well over a million citizen organizations. Between 1988 and 1995, 100,000 citizen groups opened shop in former communist countries of Central Europe. In Canada, the number of registered citizen groups has grown by more than 50 percent since 1987, reaching close to 200,000. In Brazil, in the 1990s, the number of registered citizen organizations jumped from 250,000 to 400,000, a 60 percent increase. In the US, between 1989 and 1998, the numbers of public service groups registered with the IRS jumped from 464,000 to 734,000, also a 60% increase.