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A category for organizations which are rooted in or based in a specific community, and geared toward serving that community's needs. Community refers here to a grouping of people living in a certain geographic region(s), neighborhood(s), or a local grouping based on vocation occupation, or ethnicity or culture which is still geared towards a particular geographic area or set of areas.
Baan Gerda; Beckstrand Cancer Foundation; Belarus Solidarity Foundation; Best Friends Animal Society; Bharat Sevashram Sangha; Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Community organization is differentiated from conflict-oriented community organizing, which focuses on short-term change through appeals to authority (i.e., pressuring established power structures for desired change), by focusing on long-term and short-term change through direct action and the organizing of community (i.e., the creation of alternative systems outside of established power ...
The mandate of the national community organizing network was to partner with religious congregations and civic organizations to build "broad-based organizations" that could train up local leadership and promote trust across community divides. [51] After Alinsky died in 1972, Edward T. Chambers became the IAF's executive director.
The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...
A community development corporation (CDC) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated to provide programs, offer services and engage in other activities that promote and support community development. CDCs usually serve a geographic location such as a neighborhood or a town. They often focus on serving lower-income residents or struggling ...
Pages in category "Non-profit organizations based in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 419 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups; List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBTQ hate groups; List of healthcare accreditation organizations in the United States; List of historical societies in the United States; List of U.S. state historical societies and museums