NGOs may be classified by level of co-operation as following:
1.) Community-based organization
2.) City-wide organization
3.) National NGO
4.) International NGO
(i) Community-based organization: The Non-governmental Organizations Cooperation Division, a unit which specializes in cooperation and partnerships with Japanese NGOs, has been established within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Division prepared this booklet in consultation with NGO members of the Public Relations Task Force for providing useful information about the activities of the Division in an easy to understand format. We also wanted to present you with snapshots of the various activities Japanese NGOs engage in to give you a clear understanding of the range of their activities. Community-based nonprofits pervade all facets of life in Massachusetts and its neighborhoods, whether in health, the environment, recreation, education, public safety, or any number of neighborhood issues. Although a prominent player in civic and economic life, the individual and collective work, and impact, of nonprofit activities can be overlooked; yet, ironically, as observed by Douglas Baird of Associated Day Care, “it is the absence of services distributed by nonprofits” that allow citizens to see and appreciate the work of this sector. This observation is iterated by Gita Gulati-Partee, the Director of Public Policy for the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits: “Nonprofits are so entwined in communities that it is easy to miss the impact they have on daily life. Consider the organizations with which people come into regular contact – churches, day-care centers, arts programs, human services, youth centers, and the many groups that work to improve the quality of life in communities…” but can remain quite un-noticed. (3) Thus, nonprofits are an essential feature of civic and economic life today. As Brian O’Connell reminds us in Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy, nonprofits are links between individual, community, government, business, and other entities.
(ii) City-wide organization : The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers is an organization that seeks to improve the quality, capacity and accessibility of the health care system for vulnerable, chronically ill residents of Camden, N.J. The Coalition’s activities focus on community outreach, care management of high-needs patients, health care provider education, practice management capacity building, data collection and evaluation and coalition-building among key stakeholders. The Camden Citywide Diabetes Collaborative will use the Coalition’s existing relationships and project strategies to pursue citywide coordination of services and care for city residents with diabetes. The project seeks to fundamentally change how providers, office staff and community agencies in Camden care for city residents with diabetes by building an accessible, high-quality, coordinated and data-driven health care delivery system with a strong primary care base.
(iii) National NGO: The NGO Policy is a document that sets out the overall framework for strengthening partnerships between Government and NGOs in development. It is set within the context of the Constitution of Republic of Uganda and the Public Private Partnerships Principles (PPPs).
(iv) International NGO: NGO is the acronym for “non-governmental organization.” Originally used in the United Nations Charter to refer to a non-governmental entity, the meaning of this term has broadened to be used in reference to non-government and non-profit organizations which engage on a voluntary basis in global issues such as development, poverty, peace, humanitarian efforts and the environment.
