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NGOsource cares deeply about the health and safety of our staff, partners, NGOs, and members. We hope that you are taking the necessary precautions to protect yourselves and your loved ones. 

La 27e Région is an innovation lab dedicated to transforming the public sector in France through citizen-centric design. Based in Paris, La 27e Région was first developed in 2008 in partnership with the Next Generation Internet Foundation (FING) and with support from the Associations of Regions in France (ARF). It has been an independent nonprofit association since 2012.

As many of our readers are aware, the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Although GDPR is an EU regulation, its impact is global. This is because GDPR protects the information of EU residents, no matter who is processing that information, or from where.

Since 2007, Libraries Without Borders has worked to bring knowledge to those who are the most in need. Libraries are simultaneously excellent places for personal development as well as for collective work. However, they are too often absent in those places where they could have the most impact.

Founded in 1980, Tanzania Home Economics Association (TAHEA) works every day to empower families and communities experiencing poverty in the Mwanza region of Tanzania to transform their lives socially and economically. This is done through education, training, information sharing, and consultancy services. TAHEA supports full inclusion in the communities and works with small community-based organizations (CBOs) from a strengths-based approach to enhance what families and communities already have.

TAHEA's goals in its work with CBOs are

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) was founded in 1952 to foster and strengthen national and international justice systems. Working across five continents, the ICJ is composed of 60 eminent judges and lawyers from all regions of the world and from all legal systems. The ICJ works to ensure that international law, and human rights and humanitarian law in particular, is employed for the protection of the most vulnerable through effective national and international procedures.

As we bring another year to a close at NGOsource, we invite private foundations and donor advised funds (“grantmakers”) to think about how to maximize equivalency determination (ED) validity periods. The ED validity period, which is dictated by U.S. tax law, indicates when a grantmaker can rely on the written advice provided in the ED. The validity period of an ED is based on an organization’s fiscal year.

This has been a huge year of growth and change for NGOsource.

As we approach Thanksgiving here in the U.S. (and Native American Heritage month), NGOsource's legal team would like to extend its heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the many grantmakers and NGOs that populate, support, and enrich our ED repository. It is entirely thanks to the expertise, drive, and diversity of our grantmakers and NGOs that we have grown to over 8,000 EDs in 239 countries.