Changemakers: Canadian NGO Effectiveness by https://padlet.com/sara_faulkner1/egtw6pz94fay How did your NGO measure up? Describe the focus of the NGO Has your organization effectively made positive social change? What criteria did you apply to decide "effectiveness"? en-us 2017-11-15 17:54:01 UTC 2017-11-17 18:47:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Amnesty International https://padlet.com/sara_faulkner1/egtw6pz94fay/wish/207739430 Amnesty International is a NGO that focuses their efforts on abolishing violations of human rights around the world. They create campaigns and lobby governments to, for example, free unjustly detained prisoners, or abolish the death penalty. 
My criteria to assess this NGO was 
- how much positive change have they created? Is this long-lasting change?
- do they have support from the public? (fundraising, amount of members)
- what is their process of selecting who to help? Is this bias?

Change created:
- freed tens of thousands of innocent prisoners
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]]> 2017-11-16 16:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sara_faulkner1/egtw6pz94fay/wish/207739430 Amnesty International - Natalie Pang 072615917 https://padlet.com/sara_faulkner1/egtw6pz94fay/wish/208252309 Amnesty International is a NGO that focuses their efforts on abolishing violations of human rights around the world. They create campaigns and lobby governments to, for example, free unjustly detained prisoners, or abolish the death penalty. 

My criteria to assess this NGO was 

  1. How much positive change have they created? Is this long-lasting change?
  2. Do they have support from the public? (fundraising, amount of members)
  3. What is their process of selecting who to help? Is this bias?


  1. Amnesty International has freed tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, or unjustly detained people. They have also campaigned for over 40 years, and counting, to abolish the death penalty and have gotten rid of it in two thirds of the world’s countries.
  2. They have support from over 7 million members across the globe. Amnesty also is mostly funded by fundraisers and individuals’ donations. In 2016, they raised $13.3 million to fund their organization. 
  3. They have a specific criteria to decide who they will help first. (direct from website: “Gravity of the violation,
    Quality and ongoing reliability of information about the case, Alignment with our broader work, Whether it represents a pattern of violations in the country, The likelihood of having an impact, Our capacity to follow the case and to plan/develop campaigning, Whether other organisations or agencies are already working on the case, The wishes of the individual, Benefit to harm ratio (i.e. we will not make the situation worse by acting)”) 

This criteria is very logical however there are many articles citing the bias of Amnesty International to making reports that are one-sided. 


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