Is there any international association of charity foundations?

Question by mouse_tail_0: Is there any international association of charity foundations?
Is there a way for an NGO charity foundation (in Europe) to become an affiliated member of some international association? Do they exist, in the first place? I crawled through www for quite some hours and couldn’t find anything truly international. Most of charity associations and the like are nation-centered. Please, advice.

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Answer by Jayne says READ MORE BOOKS
There is not such an international association. Foundations and NGOs vary HUGELY from country-to-country. It’s too hard to set criteria, as well as to ensure that criteria is followed by international members. There’s just no money for that at all.

There is an organization called the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, but it seems to be a self-declared “world” association — not sure how *really* international it is, in terms of leadership. I see no activities outside the USA.
http://www.wango.org/

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