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Parent topics

  • Community [r]: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]

Subtopics

  • Civics [r]: (1) Topics of, or pertaining to a city or to citizenship. (2) A primary or secondary school course or curriculum unit addressing such topics. [e]
  • Citizen [r]: A legally recognized member of a political or civil community. [e]
  • Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
  • Civic engagement [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Civil society organization [r]: An organization found in or characteristic of civil society. [e]
  • Commons [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Commons (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Family [r]: (1) Persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship, including individuals placed for foster care. (2) The social organization of a household or housekeeping unit using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. See nuclear family and extended family [e]
  • Independent sector [r]: (1) A sector (logical or empirical subset) of civil society independent of or autonomous from government. (2) A national umbrella organization of civil society organizations or nonprofit organizations in Washington DC. [e]
  • Market [r]: A term used in commerce and economics to denote a conjunction of buyers and sellers. [e]
  • Nonprofit organization [r]: An organization that is institutionalized, private, separate from government, not profit distributing, self-governing and voluntary. [e]
  • Nonprofit sector [r]: A sector or category of formal organizations, associations or corporations organized for purposes other than profit and governed by legal or ethical non-distribution constraints. Controversy continues over whether the nonprofit sector defines the third sector or civil society or is merely one of the component parts. [e]
  • Nongovernmental organization [r]: A term used in much of the world to describe third sector organizations in terms of their location outside of formal government. [e]
  • Nongoverment sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations not part of government. [e]
  • Foundation [r]: A tax-exempt corporation and certain trusts created for charitable purposes, according the the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Foundations are generally prohibited from self-dealing with their donors and certain others, required to make annual distributions for charitable purposes, permitted to have only restricted holdings in private businesses, expected to be prudent in making investments that do not threaten their charitable purposes, and to assure that their expenditures are only for charitable purposes. Also known as private foundations. [e]
  • Social capital [r]: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. [e]
  • Social enterprise [r]: Any organization or program that advances a social mission through entrepreneurial, earned income strategies; the category of social enterprise may, in specific uses, transcend more conventional profit/nonprofit and government/nongovernment distinctions. [e]
  • Social movements [r]: Widely defined as a group of people with a common ideology acting to achieve certain general goals, often associated with major or significant social change. [e]
  • State [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See State (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Third sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations and associations operating outside of government or markets (and, thus, in a third place or space). [e]
  • Voluntary association [r]: A term used in the Tocqueville tradition in political science and sociology to refer to associations characterized by uncoerced participation, in which participants are free to join and leave at will, and for whom participation may be independent of incentives or expectations of gain or personal profit. See voluntary organisation. [e]
  • Voluntary organisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Voluntary organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Voluntary sector [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Zivilgesellschaft [r]: Add brief definition or description

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