{"id":1222,"date":"2008-04-24T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/1222"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:42","slug":"the-21st-century-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"The 21st Century Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford Foundation\u2019s Governance and Civil Society Unit – The 21st Century Trust is a Registered Charity, No. 295676<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linked with Michael Edwards – USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

… In an age of \u201csmall\u201d government and privatisation of increasing areas of state activity, NGOs need to understand and influence the private sector more than they have in the past. There are signs that some large firms are becoming increasingly aware of the need, in their own corporate interest, to take civic and environmental interests into account in their activities. There are some of course who take a more pessimistic view that the exploitative nature of free-market economics was by no means balanced by a general obligation to societies in the developing world. Both sides are agreed, however, that NGOs would do well to spend more time trying to understand and enlist the efforts of the private sector in support of their causes … (excerpt one<\/a> of long text of \u00ab\u00a0Global Civil Society\u00a0\u00bb).<\/p>\n

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More a out the 21st Century Trust<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Global Civil Society\u00a0\u00bb: In recent years, NGOs have had a major impact on world politics by, for example:<\/p>\n

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