Well, I'm not sure they're NGOs per the US definition, the concept doesn't translate all that well (I'm in Germany), but publicly funded projects essentially. I

Well, I'm not sure they're NGOs per the US definition, the concept doesn't translate all that well (I'm in Germany), but publicly funded projects essentially. I was personally just part of Prototype Fund, a German thing that funds open source software for public benefit. Some cool projects in our round: - https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ - https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction - https://privact.org https://privact.org (what I worked on :P) These things aren't well funded, they don't have permanent staff. They get some funding to make some progress, then look for some more. I'm sure there's bigger ones with fixed staff, but so far I've been involved only in smaller niche ones, and the people that do this kind of stuff are usually a pleasure to work with. And almost most importantly, they don't have the funding to finance any top down "agile transformations", chase short sighted questionable ideas from marketing, or any of that stuff. The world is certainly full of depressing stuff, but it's large enough to also host a life time supply of wonderful people and efforts. At least that's my sunny disposition.