service organization

Community help club

A service organization is a group formed to perform charitable or community work rather than to generate profit for members.

Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, and similar civic groups are service organizations—they raise funds for scholarships, sponsor community events, and volunteer for local causes.

The term also applies to nonprofits that provide services to specific populations: a service organization for veterans, a service organization supporting the homeless.

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purpose/profit motive

service organizationcommercial enterprise

Profit-seeking organization

corporation · private company · business · hedge fund · investment firm

orientation/beneficiary

service organizationcartel

Price-fixing coalition

criminal organization · exclusive club · country club · special interest group · secret society

structure/formality

service organizationgrassroots movement

Citizen-led collective action campaign

flash mob · ad hoc committee · mob

Family

service, serve, served, server, servers, serving, servings, servant, servants

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