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Parent topics

• Association (disambiguation): Multiple uses and connotations of the term. ^[e]
• Organization: Add brief definition or description
• Voluntary action: A unified type of social, political and economic activity, grounded in human group experience and based in autonomous, self-defining and self-governing communities of non-market, non-state actors with shared mutual interests in identified common purposes and the production of common goods. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Voluntary labor: Add brief definition or description
• Volunteers: Add brief definition or description
• Volunteering: Add brief definition or description

Other Related Topics

• Voluntary sector: Used in Great Britain to describe the set or category of organisations very close to those characterized in the U.S. as nonprofits. ^[e]
• Nonprofit sector: A sector or category of formal organizations, associations or corporations organized for purposes other than profit and governed by legal or ethical non-distribution constraints. Controversy continues over whether the nonprofit sector defines the third sector or civil society or is merely one of the component parts. ^[e]
• Nongovernmental sector: The category or network of all nongovernmental organizations. ^[e]
•  Nongovernmental organization: A term used in much of the world to describe third sector organizations in terms of their location outside of formal government. ^[e]
• Independent sector: (1) A sector (logical or empirical subset) of civil society independent of or autonomous from government. (2) A national umbrella organization of civil society organizations or nonprofit organizations in Washington DC. ^[e]
• Voluntary organization: Add brief definition or descriptions