For the sixth consecutive time, Instituto Ramacrisna is recognized as one of the 100 best organizations in the Third Sector in Brazil. The Best NGOs 2022 Awards announced the organizations that stand out the most for their excellence in management, governance, financial sustainability and transparency. The initiative is carried out by Instituto O Mundo que Quero, Instituto Doar and Ambev VOA, with the support of researchers from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Instituto Humanize and Fundação Toyota do Brasil

“Receiving a tribute of this importance makes us very happy and certain that the social work we have been developing for 63 years with our partners and collaborators is recognized, is on the right track and will continue to contribute to transforming the reality of people in situations of social vulnerability”, celebrates Solange Bottaro, vice president of Instituto Ramacrisna.

The directors of Ramacrisna will meet the winners in the special categories during the official ceremony of the Best NGOs Award, which this year will once again take place in person and is already scheduled for November 25, at Unibes Cultural, in São Paulo. In addition to the 100 best, the best NGOs by state, cause, the ten best small NGOs and the best among them will be awarded.

This Saturday (22/10), Instituto Ramacrisna participates together with the other NGOs that won the Best NGOs Award at the International Festival of Social Innovation, at 10:30 am, at the Ibirapuera Auditorium, in São Paulo. On the occasion, the traditional platform will be officially launched to help the 100 organizations that were highlighted to raise donations. The tool allows anyone to make donations online directly.

“The list of the 100 Best NGOs is a tribute to organizations that have managed to achieve the highest degree of management and efficiency to help society in its causes. They are made up of people who had the determination and freedom to act for a just cause,” says Alexandre Mansur, project director at O ​​Mundo Que Queremos..

About the Instituto Ramacrisna

The Institute was founded in 1959 by journalist Arlindo Corrêa da Silva, and has already impacted the lives of almost 2 million people in 13 cities in Greater BH in the last 63 years. Located in Betim/MG, Ramacrisna is considered a reference in self-sustainability projects. The Institute also has a partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral since 2008, with the objective of training managers and implementing management tools to improve internal processes.

This year, it won international recognition for the first time: Thedotgood (formerly NGO Advisor) was ranked 178th in the global ranking and 12th in the Brazilian ranking, in addition to the 2022 Brazil ODS Strategy Award, which recognizes and values ​​practices aligned with the SDGs, developed by organizations affiliated to the SDG Strategy Network. In 2021, it won the A+ Seal from Instituto Doar, which audits and recognizes civil society organizations that follow international management and transparency standards. In 2018 it was elected the best Social Assistance Organization in the country and in 2020 it received the Transparent NGO seal. In the last five years, Ramacrisna was among the 100 best NGOs in Brazil, according to the Best NGOs Award.