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.  

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• Congress promises jobs, citizen’s charter in UP vision document (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Lucknow, Jan 27 (IANS) The Congress Friday released its vision document for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, promising to create 20 lakh jobs in the state in the next five years, rationalise quota provisions for Other Backward Classes and bring a citizen’s charter for services at the grassroots ...
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• Freedom 67?

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 454
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech in Davos yesterday signaled changes that may not be palatable to some Conservative supporters who are approaching 65 and counting on OAS to offset decreases in modest private pension plans that were originally constructed with that age of 65 in mind. The Globe explains ...
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• Congress promises jobs, citizen’s charter in UP vision document

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Lucknow, Jan 27 (IANS) The Congress Friday released its vision document for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, promising to create 20 lakh jobs in the state in the next five years, rationalising quota provisions for Other Backward Classes and bringing citizen’s charter for services at the grassroots ...
  5 days ago

• Part 4: Use video to your online fundraising advantage

  
  Online Fundraising Blog — Authority: 103
    The 4th post in our weeklong “Sharing your fundraising page” series discusses how to using a simple, webcam video can communicate your cause to your network in a fun and different way. Experiment with your computer’s webcam Most computers these days come with their own built-in webcams. This is a ...
  6 days ago

• Canada Soccer Revamps Community Coach Education Program

  
  Nuke Soccer — Authority: 118
  Canada Soccer launches new year with revamped Community Coach Education Program The Canadian Soccer Association has officially launched a new and completely revamped Community Coach Education Program in its Centennial year of 2012. Built in conjunction with the Coaching Association of Canada, the new National ...
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• Part 2: Share your fundraising page on Facebook

  
  Online Fundraising Blog — Authority: 103
    Part 2 of our “Sharing your fundraising page” series focuses on sharing on Facebook. Yesterday we touched upon Twitter and will hit other social media sharing channels in the days to come.  Share your fundraising page on Facebook Walls, Pages, and Groups In the realm of Facebook, there are many places ...
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• Unaccountable Oil: Is Enbridge Already Polluting the Canadian (Political) Environment?

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 595
  Enbridge oil spill.jpg If the pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. is content to cower behind a 20-something blog manager rather than acknowledge its role in the recent attack on the patriotism of Canadian environmentalists, what hope have we that the company would ever stand accountable for the accidents ...
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• Why one game developer is skipping E3 to start an anti-SOPA crusade

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 131
  The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate cousin the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are like thermonuclear devices deployed to kill an insect. They would give copyright holders and the US government unprecedented abilities to summarily block and cut off funding for websites accused of violating copyright. Major sites ...
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• Scott Walker

  
  Smoat — Authority: 144
  Kenneth Day column: Family Care benefits the region – Wausau Daily Herald Citing the recommendation of Gov. Scott Walker to lift the current enrollment cap and expansion freeze on the Family Care program, the editorial correctly noted that Wisconsin’s Family Care program provides “an important service to people ...
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• Bloodmasters Present Bloodbath Part 1 at Englishtown [VIDEO]

  
  Wrecked Magazine - A Drifting Magazine featuring Formula D, D1GP, MSC, D1 Grand Prix, Pro Drift, and more! — Authority: 111
    In case you ever tried to convince someone that drifting wasn’t just full of hooligan kids doing random hood-rat shit in the time  between robbing liquor stores and mugging old ladies then please don’t show them this video. All joking aside this Bloodmasters Part 1 video shows off some intense skill and ...
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• Oh... Oooooh PIPA.

  
  Mira Hartford — Authority: 97
  Pirated from http://derelictquestion.blogspot.com/ Summer 2011 kicked off with a royal bang. And by "royal bang", I naturally mean the Royal Bang of the Royal Wedding, which for was like the Kardashian wedding for the US but with horse drawn carriages and even wilder hats. I hadnt heard about it until I began ...
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• New Balance Joins Grassroots Outdoor Alliance as a Vendor Partner

  
  Grassroots Outdoor Alliance ... Independent Outdoor Retail Shops... — Authority: 396
  Grassroots Outdoor Alliance (GOA) is pleased to announce that New Balance has joined our organization as a Vendor Partner. New Balance, founded in 1906 as The New Balance Arch Company, [...]
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• Don’t send party faithful out to pasture for primary date

  
  Irreverent View — Authority: 102
  By Chris Ingram The Tampa Tribune Published January 17, 2012 Ask any Republican — from the rank-and-file grassroots to party leadership — what their No. 1 goal for 2012 is and the answer is always, “Send Obama an  eviction notice.” Yet somehow the Republican National Committee, most of ...
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• Help Warren Furutani

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 108
  Tomorrow night (Tue) history Angelenos could make history.  If AAA-Fund endorsee Warren Furutani pulls out a victory, he will become the first Japanese American and only the second Asian American to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council. As a grassroots and now elected leader (he currently serves in the ...
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• Belk Announces $1 Million+ Contribution to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® as Part of Three-Year Commitment

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 133
  Storewide campaign and grassroots efforts by Belk associates and customers support the fight against breast cancer (PRWeb January 16, 2012) Read the full story at
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• How to Get Ron Paul Elected

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  Tulsa Grassroots RON PAUL Campaign OfficeInfowars.comJanuary 16, 2012 How do you get Ron Paul elected President spending just a few hours of your time? We at the Tulsa Grassroots Ron Paul Campaign Headquarters have been feverishly helping supporters of Ron Paul plug into their precincts to impact the nominating ...
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• Talk about J16 Occupy the Dream and J17 Occupy Congress Grows in Decentralized Grassroots Fashion

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 470
  The social graph you see below is a representation of Twitter posts that contain the hashtags #OccupyTheDream or #OccupyCongress. Each dot is a post on Twitter made on January 14 or 15, and two posts are tied if one poster retweets or mentions the other. Communications about Occupy the Dream (a January 16 national ...
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• Grassroots Outdoor Alliance and Columbia Sportswear Company Announce Inaugural Belay Program Recipients

  
  Grassroots Outdoor Alliance ... Independent Outdoor Retail Shops... — Authority: 396
  Salt Lake City, UT — January 19, 2011 –  Grassroots Outdoor Alliance (GOA) and Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC) are proud to recognize dynamic local conservation projects and people who share [...]
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• Helen Sykes, Making Sense of Sharks

  
  Underwater Thrills:Swimming With Sharks — Authority: 411
  Bahamas Tiger, commercial shark diving Great article this week from Fiji and the value of live sharks. The international media is slowly adopting this valuable storyline and its first rate articles like this one that "kick the can down for road" for sharks in ways that open minds and spur debate : A NADI ...
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• CCFA Take Steps 2009

  
  Crohns Colitis IBD and IBS info — Authority: 128
  Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Take Steps Walk 2008 video Free! Beginners Guide to Crohns Colitis So youve been diagnosed with IBD. Find out what the Future Holds? Name:  Email:    Powered by ...
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