I hadn’t originally thought I would blog about the World Cup. But as I’ve spent a significant amount of time over the past month watching matches, talking about them with family, friends and colleagues, and yes, even tweeting about them, a blog post seemed appropriate. For those of you who may not follow it, the World Cup is a quadrennial event in the football (outside the U.S.) soccer (in the U.S.) world. The World Cup takes place
CIVICUS World Assembly 2010
Submitted by Bonnie Koenig on 1 September, 2010 - 22:14
I have been a member of CIVICUS (http://www.civicus.org) since it was founded in the mid-1990’s. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of NGOs (Civil Society Organizations in CIVICUS parlance) and partners who work together “to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world”. In its short life CIVICUS has been enormously successful but has also carried the weight of “being many things to many people” in the international NGO world.
