The United Nations added additional descriptions to the definition of NGO’s, such as the membership of citizens from different countries with a collective goal or advocacy in the communities or kinds of communities that these NGO’s operate in (Simmons, 1998, p.83). The existence of such groups has been recorded for many years, and as long as there are states, republics, countries, or sovereigns being made, it would be expected that there would be NGO’s that would rise alongside them.While in the beginning, these independent groups do not exert any strong influence over the way the ruling parties run the country and its people, it was during the establishment of the United Nations that the strength of such organized groups became known. Their capacity to reach out to regions where the administrations of countries were unable to go to helps them identify what is lacking in the different sectors of the government, allowing them to push forth changes that were otherwise incomprehensible to uninformed public officials (Thomas, 2001, p. 389). Also, because of the non-profiteering nature of most NGO’s, these groups are seen as people who do not have strong political agendas but are rather a service or cause-oriented (Raustiala, 1997, p. 720). Thus, the ability of NGO’s to see things that were otherwise inaccessible to public officials and the rest of the public gives them the edge to become credible in their decision-making, advocacies, as well as their plan of actions for the sectors that they serve, which could in turn help officials choose or make the proper decisions when it comes to people management and restructuring or creating new policies.As with all kinds of people, NGOs are also very diverse, in terms of their membership, their advocacies, as well as the services which they may provide. Whether these groups were formed to help prevent wars or pollution in certain areas of the world, or aiming for the recognition of human rights and stopping discriminatory actions towards certain groups of people, these NGO’s are tied together with the aspect of being formed out of a free will, not seeking profit, as well as forming bonds that encompass or transcend all kinds of borders (Charnovitz, 2006, p. 351).