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Finance allah shmoop what is an ngo Oh come on

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You remember the song Sing it with me You know

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there was a farmer had a dog and bingo was

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his name I'll be all right Well you get the

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idea then an ngo is way more meaningful in the

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world though Although not to a six year old kid

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Thank you very much Ngo stands for non governmental organization

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which is an intentionally nonprofit organization like greenpeace the red

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cross united way unicef the x files books for dogs

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all that stuff Well ngos receive all of the favorable

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tax and operational treatment of a normative nonprofit but because

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they're overseeing and protected by uncle sam well there's less

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pressure on them to raise a ton of money fast

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so they tend to be able to focus on more

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long term efforts like if there's an ngo that's working

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on delivering warm clothes to every village in zaire Well

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they're not going toe bold if they go three weeks

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without holding a fundraising chili cook off there's Some senator

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or congressman or other politico who you know can shake

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a tree raise money and they're off to the races

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And it's Almost a shame about that cook off thing

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because well chili cook offs in zaire are off the 00:01:17.559 --> [endTime] hook No

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