"The World Language Documentation Centre, a non-profit making organisation that champions linguistic research and facilitates the needs of linguistic communities, is internationally democratic and diplomatic with a remit that is worldwide." (from the website)
Website: http://www.thewldc.org/
GUM3C
The WLDC and the Bangor University (Wales, UK) are cosponsoring a conference on 22-23 August 2008 called Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multimedia Contexts 
(GUM3C).
"The World Language Documentation Centre, together with Bangor University and Language Standards for Global Business, wishes to announce a major multidisciplinary conference to celebrate 2008 as the International Year of Languages."
