NGO Monitor
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| Founded | 2001 |
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| Founder | Gerald M. Steinberg |
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Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | End promotion of "politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas" by certain NGOs. |
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Area served
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Israel |
| Method | Academic research institute |
| Owner | NGO Monitor |
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Key people
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Gerald M. Steinberg (President); Naftali Balanson, Managing Editor; Anne Herzberg, Legal Advisor |
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Revenue
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US$ 385,000 (2008) |
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Employees
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13 (November 2010) |
| Slogan | Making NGOs Accountable |
| Mission | "to generate and distribute critical analysis and reports on the output of the international NGO community " |
| Website | ngo-monitor.org |
NGO Monitor (Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is a non-governmental organization based in Jerusalem, which analyzes and reports on the output of the international NGO community from a pro-Israel perspective. It has been characterized as being pro-Israel and as right-wing. NGO Monitor says in its mission statement that it was founded "to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of humanitarian NGOs in the framework of the Arab–Israeli conflict."
The organization was founded in 2001 by Gerald M. Steinberg under the auspices of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. NGO Monitor became a legally and financially independent organization in 2007.
The organization has been criticized by academic figures, diplomats, and journalists who have said that NGO Monitor's research is not objective, that it does not examine right-wing NGOs, and that it puts out information that it knows is wrong. Other journalsits have praised the organization for investigating and exposing self-described human rights groups as being what they call anti-Israeli groups.
NGO Monitor states that its mission is to "end the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated agendas". A number of academics have written that NGO Monitor's aims and activities are political in nature.
The organization's leader Gerald M. Steinberg has reportedly worked for the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Office of the Prime Minister while heading NGO Monitor.
NGO Monitor is the central project of the Organization for NGO Responsibility, an independent non-profit organization registered in Israel. Its president is Gerald M. Steinberg, professor of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University.
Its staff includes:
Its critics state that NGO Monitor is not transparent about its own funding, a claim denied by NGO Monitor. The Wechsler Family Foundation is one of the founding donors of NGO Monitor. Other acknowledged supporters are Nina Rosenwald (New York) and Newt Becker (Los Angeles). Since its separation from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and its formation as an independent organization in 2007, NGO Monitor has drawn on a wider range of funding sources. NGO Monitor has said it receives no governmental support and is currently funded by private donors and foundations, although it did receive some funds, in 2010 and 2011, via The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), a quasi-governmental agency.
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