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accountability

activist

ad hoc committee

advocacy

affirmative action

affordable housing

agenda

agent of change

Americans with Disabilities Act

America's Promise

AmeriCorps, AmeriCorpsVISTA

apartheid

Articles of Incorporation

assembly

audit

ballot measure

beneficiaries

bequest

best practices

board of directors, trustees

bond

Bono

bottom of the pyramid

break away

bylaws

call to action

Campus Compact

capacity-building

capital campaign

cause

census

challenge grant

changemaker

charity, charitable

citizen soldier

city planning

City Year

civic education, civics

civic engagement, civic participation, civic involvement

civic journalism

Civic Life Index

civil disobedience

Civilian Conservation Corps

civility

civil rights

civil society

climate change/global warming

common good

conflict of interest

community-based

community foundation

community organizer

consensus

consumer protection

constituents

cooperative

corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Corporation for National and Community Service

cross-sector partnerships

cyber-volunteer

cultural entrepreneur

Darfur

deliberation

deliberative democracy

direct mail

disadvantaged

discrimination

disenfranchised

dissent

diversity

divestment

donor

donor-advised fund

due process

earned income

editorial

education award

elder law

electorate

eminent domain

empower

encore career

endowment

entitlement program

environment, the

equal opportunity

Equal Protection

equity

evaluation

Executive Director

Experience Corps

extreme poverty

faith-based organizations

family foundation

federalism

federal mandate

fiduciary duty

fiscal year

for-benefit corporation

foundation, private

foundation, public

fourth sector

free speech

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

fund raising

gay marriage, same sex marriage

genocide

GI Bill

giving circle

global warming/climate change

governance

government

Grameen Bank

grants, grant-making

grassroots

green banking

gut-wrencher (in fund raising)

hate crime

Head Start

health care reform

H.I.V./AIDS

historic preservation

homelessness

human rights

hunger

hybrid philanthropy

immigrant

indigent

indigenous

informed citizen

infrastructure

innovation, social innovation

intellectual freedom

Kiva.org

LGBT

labor unions

land trust

land use planning

law-related education

leadership

Learn and Serve America

legacy

legal aid

Letter to the Editor

leverage

litigation

livable communities

Living Constitution

living wage

lobbying

Martin Luther King
Day of Service

members

mentor, mentoring

metrics

micro-enterprise

Millennium Development Goals

minimum wage

mission-based, mission driven

mission statement

mobilize

National Guard

National Public Radio

National School Lunch Program

national service

netroots

new philanthropy

New Service, The

noblesse oblige

nonpartisan

nonprofit association

nonprofit career fair

Nonprofit Congress

nonprofit organization, NGO

nonprofit sector

nonviolence

officers, corporate

open society

operating budget

organizing, community

outcomes, outcome-based

outreach

pay equity

payout, annual payout

Peace Corps

planned gift

philanthropy

philanthropic advisor

pledges

Points of Light and Hands-On Network

poverty level, poverty guidelines

predatory lending

program officer

programs, program funds

public awareness, public awareness campaign

public comment

public interest law firms

public policy

public policy institutes, think tanks

Public Service Announcement/PSA

public square

real estate development

reflection

refugee

representation

retreat

rhetoric

rule of law

safety net

same sex marriage

scale

school board

sectors

sector-switchers

seed funding

Selective Service

Semester of Service

service-learning

Skoll Foundation

smart growth

social benefit organization

social benefit hybrid corporation

social business

social change

social citizens

social conscience

social contract

social entrepreneur

social innovation

social investing

social justice

social sector, nonprofit sector

social venture philanthropy

socially responsible

solicitation

staff

stakeholder

state service commissions

strategic philanthropy

strategic planning

streams of service

Summer of Service

sustainability

sustainable communities

systems, systemic change

Talloires Network, The

tax-exemption, 501(c)(3)

Teach for America

think tank

Third Sector

town hall

transparency

triple bottom line

venture philanthropy

vision statement

volunteering

voting, voting rights

watershed

watchdog

whistle blower

working poor

Yunus, Muhammad

zoning



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