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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an international collection of autonomous community-based organizations that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues.
Political advocacy groups in the United States by political party (4 C) + Political advocacy groups in Puerto Rico (1 C, 7 P) 0–9. 527 organizations (1 C, 47 P) D.
People for the American Way (PFAW / ˈ p f ɔː /) is a progressive advocacy group in the United States. [5] Organized as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, PFAW was registered in 1981 by the television producer Norman Lear , [ 6 ] a self-described liberal [ 7 ] who founded the organization in 1980 to challenge the Christian right agenda of ...
Economic advocacy groups in the United States (1 C, 25 P) Education policy organizations in the United States (15 P) Electoral reform groups in the United States (2 C, 16 P)
The videos were recorded over the summer of 2009 while visiting ACORN offices in eight cities, [50] and purported to show low-level ACORN employees in several cities providing advice to Giles and O'Keefe on how to avoid taxes and detection by the authorities with regard to their plans to engage in tax evasion, human smuggling, and child ...
Here are the major focus points of the AFPI’s plan that could end up becoming government policy. The Economy. Increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve, isolating the United States economy ...
Voters of Tomorrow is an American left-leaning advocacy organization that seeks to promotes political engagement among Generation Z through online and on-campus efforts. The group is reportedly the largest Gen Z-led organization of its kind, with chapters in 25 states.
As a result of group pressure from the NAACP, the supreme court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in education was indeed unconstitutional and such practices were banned. This is a novel example of how advocacy groups can exert influence in the judicial branch of government. Advocacy groups can also exert influence on political parties.