In other words, transparency is not a core competitiveness, but a necessary condition for the survival of NGOs. There are specialties in the industry, and so are NGOs. NGO is a general term with different doorways, whether it is professional in its field and whether it has good communication with the public. These are the core competitiveness. Take environmental NGOs as an example. Greenpeace pays attention to topics that the public is enthusiastic about, and pays attention to large enterprises, because they mainly rely on public donations to survive. Its core competitiveness is whether the project is attractive enough to the public (if it is not attractive to the public, there will be no donation), whether the report provided is from a professional laboratory, and whether the conclusion drawn is reasonable. The core competitiveness of WWF seems to be the symbol of giant panda. I haven't got the gist of it yet, wait till I do. The core competitiveness of TNC is ecological protection, that is, buying valuable habitats (buying a large area of land in the United States, which is the second largest landlord outside the US government), and then carrying out scientific protection and monitoring. Why buy a place? TNC has its own system, which uses geographic information and blueprints for data analysis. What species and how to protect this habitat, TNC also has its own system, called CAP, for analysis.
These are all experiences and technologies developed in the past 60 years. In addition to more than 500 scientists who work full-time for TNC for a long time, TNC has many cooperative scientists. The protection of different species is done by these full-time or contracted scientists. Habitat ecosystem is well protected, which is the core competitiveness. The slogan of the early TNC was "Protecting America's Living Museum".