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Special interest group. A special interest group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.
Advocacy group. Advocacy groups, also known as lobby groups, interest groups, special interest groups, pressure groups, or public associations, use various forms of advocacy or lobbying to influence public opinion and ultimate public policy. [1] They play an important role in the development of political and social systems.
Democratic Party, one of America's two major political parties, supports liberal policies, including abortion access. Freedom Socialist Party, a socialist feminist party and defender of free elective abortion care, no forced sterilization, gender-affirming health care and bodily autonomy for all. Green Party of the United States, promotes green ...
American Solidarity Party (ASP), supports a consistent life ethic, opposing abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and capital punishment. Constitution Party, a conservative political party opposing abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), a tax-exempt political advocacy nonprofit organization that seeks to ...
K Street in Washington, D.C., has become a metonym for the American lobbying industry.. Lobbying in the United States is paid activity in which special interest groups hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.
Kentucky Voices for Health. Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition. Medicare Rights Center. National Coalition on Health Care. National Physicians Alliance (merged into Doctors for America, 2019) [1] Pennsylvania Health Access Network. Pennsylvania Medical Society. Physicians for a National Health Program.
The Arc of the United States – A national organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ARC Association for Real Change (1976) – supports the providers of the individuals with learning disabilities. Aspies For Freedom (AFF) – Raises public awareness for autism. Autism Network International (ANI) (1992 ...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) is the standards organization that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. The SIG is a not-for-profit, non-stock corporation founded in September 1998. The SIG is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, US.