Non-governmental organizations in Georgia, nongovernmental[1] organizations, or nongovernment organizations in Georgia,[2][3] commonly referred to as NGOs in Georgia,[4] are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations[5] independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments)[6] that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives[7][8][9][10] and operate in Georgia.
- ^ US dictionaries record only the unhyphenated spelling, and this is also recorded by some UK dictionaries, e.g. Collins English Dictionary
- ^ Claiborne, N (2004). "Presence of social workers in nongovernment organizations". Soc Work. 49 (2): 207–218. doi:10.1093/sw/49.2.207. PMID 15124961.
- ^ Ship Monitoring Rescues of Migrants Refuses to Be Rescued, The New York Times
- ^ The term NGO is so common and its expansion so rare that all dictionaries have an entry for the abbreviation but many don't have one for the expansion, or they even explain it by using the abbreviation, e.g. Collins English Dictionary
- ^ Because many of the most famous NGOs are international organizations, many people believe NGOs are by definition international, but that is not the way the term is used by NGOs, the media, governments, or international governmental organizations. (See the sources at the end of this sentence.)
- ^ "NGO", Macmillan Dictionary
- ^ "Nongovernmental Organization (NGO)". United States Institute of Peace.
- ^ Karns, Margaret P. "Nongovernmental organization". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- ^ "NGO - meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.
- ^ "NGO". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on March 5, 2020.
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