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Parent topics
- Association (disambiguation): Multiple uses and connotations of the term. [e]
- Organization: Add brief definition or description
- Voluntary action: A unified type of social, political and economic activity, grounded in human group experience and based in autonomous, self-defining and self-governing communities of non-market, non-state actors with shared mutual interests in identified common purposes and the production of common goods. [e]
Subtopics
- Voluntary labor: Add brief definition or description
- Volunteers: Add brief definition or description
- Volunteering: Add brief definition or description
Other Related Topics
- Voluntary sector: Used in Great Britain to describe the set or category of organisations very close to those characterized in the U.S. as nonprofits. [e]
- Nonprofit sector: 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 sector: The category or network of all nongovernmental organizations. [e]
- Nongovernmental organization: A term used in much of the world to describe third sector organizations in terms of their location outside of formal government. [e]
- Independent sector: (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]
- Voluntary organizations: A term widely used in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries for membership associations, groups of volunteers, and other small or informal groups. In the U.S., such groups are commonly known as voluntary associations [e]