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Ways to celebrate
World NGO Day is more than a celebration. Held every 27 February, it is the only global day dedicated to honoring the people behind nonprofits and non-governmental organizations.
10+Million nonprofits
50+Million people behind them
140+Countries and territories
27 FebEvery single year
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Three ways to
take part
Anyone can mark the Day. Choose an activity that works best for you and your community.
Local
Host an event, fair, discussion, marathon, or awards evening. Work with schools, universities, or city leaders.
Creative
Run a photo exhibition, create a short documentary, or launch an awareness campaign—and make an impact.
The toolkit
Choose who
you are
Plan, promote and celebrate the Day — and show your community what your organization achieved this year.
Written or video statements
Share your achievements, milestones, and impact. A short video from a leader or beneficiary can reach further than a press release.
Social media engagement
Post updates about your work, tag partners, supporters, and beneficiaries, and encourage staff and volunteers to share. Visuals and short videos perform best.
PR and media collaboration
Offer interviews, articles or features to local newspapers, magazines and news channels. Include the official hashtags in every release.
Events and community activities
Webinars, panels or workshops, online or in person — ideally co-hosted with another local organization so the day builds a partnership.
Mark the Day by shining a light on the organizations and causes you support.
Written or video statements
Highlight your social responsibility work, the partnerships behind it, and the impact they have achieved.
Showcase your partnerships
Share posts, videos, or short case studies highlighting the organizations you support and why their work matters. Transparency is the point.
PR and media collaboration
Bring the nonprofits you support to local media—offer their stories, spokespeople, and impact data, not just your own.
Celebrate with your team
Invite employees and partners to take part — stories, discussions, a small event. Use the day to unite the team around shared values.
Recognize the nonprofits working in your community, and put that recognition on the public record.
Official written statement
Mark the Day on the public record by recognizing local organizations and their achievements. Publish it through official channels so the recognition can be referenced later.
Media and PR collaboration
Offer interviews or feature stories highlighting your support for civil society to local news outlets, newspapers, and magazines.
Official video message
A 60–90-second message of thanks to local NGOs from a named office-holder—durable, quotable, and valuable for years to come.
Use the official hashtags
Include #WorldNGODay and #NGODay in press releases, posts and media work so the observance is findable and counted.
Share
Invite your community to say what the Day means to them — posts, video, newsletters, a live Q&A.
Educate
Use your platforms to explain what nonprofits and non-governmental organizations do. Partner with a school, university or media.
Unite
Bring people together: virtual panels, fireside chats, meetups, marathons, hackathons.
Recognize
Name the people who do the work — staff, volunteers, board members, founders — and say publicly what they achieved this year.
Going further
Put 27 February in
the calendar — permanently
Marking the Day once is a celebration. Writing it into a calendar is a decision that outlives whoever made it. There are two routes, and the first usually leads to the second.
Your city’s calendar
A city or county can recognize World NGO Day on its own authority, without waiting for national action. A mayor’s signature is where that record begins.
01Find one person to sponsor it — a mayor, a councillor, or the department that works with NGOs. Nothing reaches an agenda without a name on it.
02Ask for the instrument your system uses: a mayoral proclamation where that tradition exists, or a municipal council decision everywhere else.
03Bring the local numbers — how many nonprofits operate in the city, how many people they employ, how many volunteers they mobilize.
04Ask for the words “annually and in perpetuity”, so it does not have to be requested again next year.
05Send a certified copy to your national NGO umbrella body and to the World NGO Day Global Council, so it enters the record.
Your country’s calendar
Two countries have written the Day into national law, and both arrived by the same route. It is repeatable.
01The Day is observed informally, year after year, by organizations, universities or cities — and a public record starts to exist.
02A national NGO umbrella body adopts the date, so the country has one convener rather than scattered events.
03The umbrella body brings that record to a sympathetic parliamentarian: other parliaments, the EU statements, the founding chain.
04A formal proposal amends the national law on commemorative days. Committee first, then the plenary.
05The Day enters the national calendar permanently. It no longer depends on anyone continuing to convene it — and it survives changes of government.
Lithuania2023
The Seimas added Pasaulinė NVO diena to the Law on Memorable Days on 8 June, by 94 votes to one with 10 abstentions, on a proposal from the Speaker. The first country in the world to do so.
Latvia2025
The Saeima added 27 February to the Law on Public Holidays, Commemoration Days and Celebration Days — on 27 February itself. An earlier proposal had been declined in 2022, so this was a contested path, not a formality.
The name and the logo
Logo and symbol
The World NGO Day logo is free to use when celebrating nonprofits, NGOs, CSOs, charities, foundations, and the people behind them. Create a free account to access the MyWND workspace, where you’ll find the brand guide, logo files, Global Review, Nonprofit City Guides, and other resources—all in one place.
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The brand guide · Logo files · The Global Review · Nonprofit City Guides
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Use only “World NGO Day” or “World Non-Governmental Organization Day”. Avoid variations.
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The logo is free for everyone to use when celebrating NGOs, nonprofits, CSOs, charities and foundations.
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Official websites are worldngoday.org and worldngoday.com.
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Official hashtags: #WorldNGODay, #NGODay, #DíaMundialDeLasONG, #JournéeMondialeDesONG.
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Do not alter the logo. It symbolizes unity and diversity, inspired by a beehive.
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Do not change the logo’s colors. They represent the four seasons.
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Do not use the logo or name for illegal, questionable or misleading fundraising.
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Do not use the name “World NGO Day Global Council”. It is legally protected.