Grassroots

The term grassroots, among activists and community organizers, refers to an independent nationally unaffiliated organization, governed by and serving the needs of the people. A grassroots movement is an upstart movement usually devoid of corporate investors and sponsors. 

Grassroots organization and movements utilize volunteers to distribute the main goals and objectives of the movement and often have offices dispersed throughout surrounding neighborhoods.

To be grassroots is to have an ideology or political stance, which has newly developed in response to the environmental needs of a local population. For this reason, grassroots organizations generate money from local business leaders and community organizers.  

by Jason J. Campbell Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Grassroots”

• Anthrax Guitarist Comes Out for Gay Marriage

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and his wife Pearl Aday, singer/songwriter and daughter of legendary crooner Meat Loaf, are featured in the NOH8 campaign. Award-winning American fashion photographer Abam Bouska started the campaign as a response to banning gay marriage in California. On November 4, 2008 Proposition ...
  6 hours ago

• Green Party to Obama: No escalation; withdraw US troops from Afghanistan instead

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Green Party opposes escalation, urges Obama to announce US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in his Dec. 1 speech2008 Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and 2010 Maine Green gubernatorial candidate Lynne Williams will speak at Dec. 12 Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally outside the White House ...
  11 hours ago

• Taking Home the Tools - Reflecting on the 2009 Tools for Grassroots Activists Conference

  
  The Cleanest Line — Authority: 416
  Todays post comes to us from Hans Cole, Patagonias Environmental Grants Manager. Hans job is all about supporting grassroots environmental groups through grant money and training, and helping to plan and run Patagonias environmental campaigns. He facilitates the Grants Council that decides which environmental ...
  11 hours ago

• GP Prez cand Cynthia McKinney: Shame on Press Already Calling President Obama’s Plan an “Exit Strategy”

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  Many in the special interest press are cynically reporting the President’s speech tonight as an “Afghanistan exit plan.”  We have now reached the point where those who make and interpret current events think they can make us believe that war is for peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom, and lies are ...
  12 hours ago

• Rush Limbaugh, Question for Limbaugh Show, December 2, 2009, Obama not eligible, Billboard, Barack Obama not natural born citizen, US Constitution, Father Kenyan British, No birth certificate, Obama spends millions to avoid

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 566
  INTERNET BILLBOARD Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 5 of the US Constitution “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. . .” From the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution. “or if the ...
  15 hours ago

• Grassroots Motorsports Celebrates 25 Years

  
  CarDomain Blog — Authority: 447
  Our friends at Grassroots Motorsports just put out their 25th anniversary issue. That’s a pretty big accomplishment for a totally independent, family run operation, and my hat is off to Tim Suddard and his crew. If you’re not a subscriber or can’t make it down to the newstand, they made the entire issue ...
  16 hours ago

• Go Red! Celebrate World AIDs Day Today

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 146
  (RED), created by Bono and Bobby Shriver,is a brand designed to engage business and consumer power in the fight against AIDS in Africa. (RED) works with the world’s biggest brands to make unique (PRODUCT) RED-branded products and direct up to 50% of their gross profits to the Global Fund to invest in African AIDS ...
  19 hours ago

• Orwellian lies, Obama camp brainwashing, Obama eligibility, Obama not natural born citizen, Mail Online, London, British Isles, 1984, George Orwell, Nazi Germany

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 566
  “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed –if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”… George Orwell, “1984″   This is ...
  19 hours ago

• Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection

  
  Progressive Democrats of America Blog — Authority: 132
  By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog ContributorOn January 29, 2001, just nine days after taking office, Dick Cheney created The National Energy Policy Development Group, commonly known as the Cheney Energy Task Force. The task ...
  22 hours ago

• Money Into The Working Families Organization Buys Influence Over Ballot Lines For The Working Families Party

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  from City HallNothing demonstrates the connection between the Working Families Party and the Working Families Organization like the power the non-profit has over the Party’s political decisions. The Organization’s confidential New York City Coordinating Council Constitution & Rules and a not-for-distribution ...
  22 hours ago

• Drogba Laces Up

  
  Nike Football Great Britain — Authority: 418
  For Drogba, the accolades are piling up. He is the all-time leading scorer for the Ivory Coast. Hes scored more goals for Londons Blues than any foreign player and ranks 9th all-time for the club which he helped to their first-ever league title in 2006. He is considered one of the best strikers on earth. At the age ...
  1 day ago

• Hot Video: Al Gore Confronted on Climategate

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 560
  This video is masterful, done by "We Are Change." It shows the We Are Change Chicago group asking Al Gore some inconvenient questions at his recent appearance at Borders book store downtown. The production is top notch, with a brilliant montage leading up to, and mashed together with, the confrontation at Borders. ...
  1 day ago

• All Worries Related to Diet Have Come to an End With the Resveratrol Supplements

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 157
  Nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to supply nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fatty acids or amino acids , that are missing or are not consumed in sufficient quantity in a person’s diet . Some countries define dietary supplements as foods, while in others they are defined as drugs. ...
  1 day ago

• Drogba Laces Up

  
  Nikesoccer — Authority: 473
  For Drogba, the accolades are piling up. He is the all-time leading scorer for the Ivory Coast. Hes scored more goals for Londons Blues than any foreign player and ranks 9th all-time for the club which he helped to their first-ever league title in 2006. He is considered one of the best strikers on earth. At the age ...
  1 day ago

• Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Football

  
  Nikefootball Australia — Authority: 119
  A common love- and a common enemy. The love is for the game of football. The enemy is AIDS. And many programs in Africa like Grassroot Soccer are using the one to fight the other. These programs use the unifying language and passion of the world’s greatest game to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The ...
  1 day ago

• Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Football

  
  Nike Football Great Britain — Authority: 418
  A common love- and a common enemy. The love is for the game of football. The enemy is AIDS. And many programs in Africa like Grassroot Soccer are using the one to fight the other. These programs use the unifying language and passion of the world’s greatest game to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The ...
  1 day ago

• Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Football

  
  Nikefootball Europe English — Authority: 129
  A common love- and a common enemy. The love is for the game of football. The enemy is AIDS. And many programs in Africa like Grassroot Soccer are using the one to fight the other. These programs use the unifying language and passion of the world’s greatest game to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The ...
  1 day ago

• Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Soccer

  
  Nikesoccer — Authority: 473
  A common love- and a common enemy. The love is for the game of football. The enemy is AIDS. And many programs in Africa like Grassroot Soccer are using the one to fight the other. These programs use the unifying language and passion of the world’s greatest game to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The ...
  1 day ago

• Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Football

  
  Nikesoccer — Authority: 473
  A common love- and a common enemy. The love is for the game of football. The enemy is AIDS. And many programs in Africa like Grassroot Soccer are using the one to fight the other. These programs use the unifying language and passion of the world’s greatest game to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The ...
  1 day ago

• Karnataka’s sexual minorities in fight against AIDS (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Helen is a busy woman as she goes about counselling those in the flesh trade about the danger of HIV-AIDS. She is one of many sex workers who are proving crucial in the fight against the disease in Karnataka.“Sex workers are highly vulnerable to HIV-AIDS. It’s our responsibility to create ...
  1 day ago

Comments about Grassroots