service organizations
Community help nonprofits
Service organizations are groups formed to provide charitable work, community assistance, or volunteer efforts rather than to generate profit for members.
The term covers local civic clubs like Rotary and Lions as well as larger nonprofits focused on specific causes: She joined several service organizations after retiring.
In some contexts, service organizations simply means businesses in the service sector rather than manufacturing.
- public schoolFree government-run education
- food pantryCharity supplying free groceries
- soup kitchenFacility feeding the poor
- meals on wheelsFood brought to homebound
- blood driveOrganized collection of donations
NGO · fire department · charity · cooperative · neighborhood association · youth club · police department · social enterprise · foundation · fraternal order · boy scouts · advocacy group · volunteer network · mutual aid · relief agency · housing authority · town hall · sports league
- student organizationsstudent government, student unions, student associations, fraternities, sororities
service organizationscommercial enterprises
For-profit organizations
corporations · businesses · hedge funds · multinational corporations · investment banks
service organizationscartels
Collusive business alliances
special interest groups · lobbying groups · exclusive clubs · trade associations · industry groups
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