Bankers' Bank

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Think of a banker's bank as an institution established by guppies for guppies. They're bigger institutions owned by a combination of banks that help community banks.

Banker's banks are important because they help guppies compete in the big, bad ocean. More services, better rates. Otherwise, they'd be eaten by the big, bad sharks (like PNC and Chase).

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Finance: What is NGO?4 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is an ngo Oh come on

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You remember the song Sing it with me You know

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there was a farmer had a dog and bingo was

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his name I'll be all right Well you get the

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idea then an ngo is way more meaningful in the

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world though Although not to a six year old kid

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Thank you very much Ngo stands for non governmental organization

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which is an intentionally nonprofit organization like greenpeace the red

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cross united way unicef the x files books for dogs

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all that stuff Well ngos receive all of the favorable

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tax and operational treatment of a normative nonprofit but because

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they're overseeing and protected by uncle sam well there's less

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pressure on them to raise a ton of money fast

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so they tend to be able to focus on more

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long term efforts like if there's an ngo that's working

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on delivering warm clothes to every village in zaire Well

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they're not going toe bold if they go three weeks

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without holding a fundraising chili cook off there's Some senator

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or congressman or other politico who you know can shake

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a tree raise money and they're off to the races

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And it's Almost a shame about that cook off thing

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because well chili cook offs in zaire are off the 00:01:17.559 --> [endTime] hook No

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