Civil society/Catalogs/Organization Types
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This page contains an alphabetical catalog listing of a variety of terms for civil society organizations.
Association
- 1) A group of three or more persons organized for the achievement of some purpose.
- 2) Also, a shorter term for voluntary association (see below)
Civil society organization
- An increasingly used term used outside the U.S. for any organization operating outside the economic market, political state and the intimate sphere of the household.
Club
- Usually a small association with a narrow or clearly defined purpose and limited formal organization. (E.g., card club, model club, chess club). The term can also be applied to larger membership associations (e.g. 4H Clubs).
Commons
- A group of independent individuals voluntarily sharing a common purpose (e.g. raising crops, grazing sheep, operating a public charity, creating and maintaining open source software, etc.), and pooled resources (land, grass, money, programming skills).
Company
Cooperative
Corporation
- One of three principal forms of organization of business. (The other two are sole proprietorships and group ownership). In American legal doctrine, a corporation is technically an individual, not an organization. At minimum, the organization of a corporation is its board, but paid employees or "agents" may also be organized into a company (in the archaic sense or an organized group). The organization of business corporations also includes another category of owners or stock- or shareholders who receive portions of the profits of the corporation.
Family
Family Foundation
Firm
Foundation
Group
Household
- The organization of persons living together in a residence. A single family household includes only related family members of one family and any resident household employees and retainers, like live-in cooks, housekeepers, au pairs, etc. The U.S. census also tabulates households of unrelated individuals (often termed "roommates").
Interest group
Krewe
'Membership association'
Nonprofit corporation
Nonprofit organization
Not-for-profit organization
Political association
Political party
Professional association
Social movement
Tong
- A Chinese-American association. Originally primarily mutual aid associations, tongs in some cities evolved into secret societies or criminal organizations.
Voluntary association
Waqf
- A Turkish foundation.