Written by Casey Ruschman with some content from an earlier edition by Melia Tourangeau
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Teach for America is a nonprofit organization with the vision "one day, all children in our nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent...
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Suffrage is the right or privilege of voting and is frequently incorporated among the rights of citizenship (the duties and privileges of a person...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton forever changed the social and political landscape of the United States of America by succeeding in her work to guarantee rights for women and slaves. Among the...
Written by DeAirra Goss
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Special Olympics is an international organization dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities to become...
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Special events are social engagements that bring together people from the organization and community to raise awareness of a need, awareness of an organization, and support for a...
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The Sierra Club is the oldest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. The organization was founded in 1872 by a San Francisco group of professors, businessmen, and other...
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Evaluation is a systematic process for an organization to obtain information on its activities, its impacts and the effectiveness of its work, so that it can improve its activities and...
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Reciprocity: mutual dependence, action, or influence (Merriam-Webster)
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Written by Bethany Hansen with some content from an earlier edition by
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Several definitions exist, but most seem to agree that civil society is the “sum of institutions, organizations, and individuals located...