NGO Fact Sheet

NGO Fact Sheet Assignment
Due Monday, February 28th
100 Points

Before you get started on the Sophomore Exhibition Project, you will be examining a grassroots nonprofit organization that helps fight against human rights abuses either nationally or internationally. These NGOs (non-governmental organizations) will give you an idea of what abuses are occurring in the world and what organizations are currently doing to improve the situation.

Use the following questions to guide your research. Each question should be answered as a bullet point. There may be many answers for one question. Remember, this is only a fact sheet- you just want to provide concise specific facts about the NGO. Make sure you neatly type and organize the information. Do not forget to include textnotes for any quotes!!

I. Mission

· Mission statement
· When was the NGO founded?
· Why? What happened to start their work?

II. Where is it located? Where do they do most of their work?

III. Background
· What do they do?
· What are their major projects?

IV. What are some of their successes?
Look for statistics on how many people they’ve helped, lives they’ve changed or saved, etc

III. Human Rights Violations

· HR violation- which articles do they address from the UDHR or Geneva Conventions?


V. URL web info

VI. Citations


*** Talk to your teacher if you cannot find any of this information***