Institutions
- academia
- activist groups
- charities
- citizens' militia
- civic groups
- clubs (sports, social, etc.)
- community foundations
- community organizations
- consumers/consumer organizations
- cooperatives
- churches
- cultural groups
- environmental groups
- foundations
- intermediary organizations for the voluntary and non-profit sector
- men's groups
- non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- non-profit organizations (NPOs)
- policy institutions
- political parties
- private voluntary organizations (PVOs)
- professional associations
- religious organizations
- social enterprises
- support groups
- trade unions
- voluntary associations
- women's groups
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Famous quotes containing the word institutions:
“Have we no culture, no refinement,—but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil?—to acquire a little worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
—Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)
“You can’t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.”
—Casey Hayden (b. c. 1940)