A not-for-profit organization with more than 700, 000 members, it invests 100 % of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels.

This has also led to a campaign introduced in 2000 called RASR ( Racers Against Street Racing ) a grass-roots enthusiast group consisting of auto manufacturers, after market parts companies, professional drag racers, sanctioning bodies, race tracks and automotive magazines devoted to promoting the use of safe and legal raceways as an alternative to street racing.

The development and promotion of grass-roots talent, the urban music scene and minority community groups were identified as key drivers for pirate radio.

As part of a larger KWUR initiative to encourage grass-roots and community radio, on 3 January 2007, KWUR released all of these tools via SourceForge. net under the GNU General Public License.

Help is needed from dealers, at the grass-roots level.

Ratzinger also argued that liberation theology is not originally a " grass-roots " movement among the poor, but rather, a creation of Western intellectuals: " an attempt to test, in a concrete scenario, ideologies that have been invented in the laboratory by European theologians " and in a certain sense itself a form of " cultural imperialism ".

ALEC's membership list and the origin of its model bills were not disclosed ; BusinessWeek wrote that " part of ALEC's mission is to present industry-backed legislation as grass-roots work.

In his inaugural address, he said: That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life.

Knight reports that, “ There is no evidence that any of the foremost Millerite preachers accepted this grass-roots development until late September.

According to their website " OneVoice is a global undertaking to: " Amplify the voice of moderates ; Empower Palestinians and Israelis at the grass-roots level to seize back the agenda away from violent extremists ; Achieve broad-based consensus on core issues, configuring a roadmap for conflict resolutions.

Historically the party had a strong base in the ' free churches ' ( Protestant congregations not part of the state church that turned into powerful grass-roots movements in the late 19th century ), but with the exception of certain regions, that is not a significant feature today.

This meeting is one component of the Bahá ' í Administrative Order ( which is held up as a model for secular society to consider implementing some of its features ), and the meeting is considered by Bahá ' ís to be an example of grass-roots democracy.

She became the mother of a son in 2008, and is currently the director of grass-roots sponsorship and marketing for Santa Cruz Bicycles, in Santa Cruz, California.

The NCP is an affiliate of the Labour Representation Committee ( LRC ), a grass-roots membership organisation with around a thousand individual members and affiliates that was established in 2004.

Linux-Kongress is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world.

They reason that a socialist state is antithetical to socialism, and that socialism will emerge spontaneously from the grass-roots level in an evolutionary manner, developing its own unique political and economic institutions for a highly organized stateless society.

Alinsky-style community organizing is dedicated to creating grass-roots organizations led by local people with the end of combating government bureaucracies or businesses or other powers unresponsive to local concerns.

The alternative health movement is now accepted as part of modern life, having progressed from a grass-roots revival in the 1960s reacting against environmental degradation, unhealthy diets and rampant consumerism.

This statutory provision is intended to foment grass-roots democracy.

He continues to serve the Tennessee Republican Party as something of an " elder statesman " who is still very popular with grass-roots party members in Middle Tennessee and West Tennessee.

The Satpura Foundation, is a grass-roots organization that coordinates conservation efforts in the area, which continue to face challenges from development and infrastructure projects, logging and poaching.

The town is also known as a hot-spot for alternative social activities, grass-roots political discourse, and the espousal of naturalist, humanist, anarchist, feminist, libertarian, permissive, new-age, mystical and radical social philosophies ( which can all be seen as collective creative endeavours ).

The conference is one of three major, international, grass-roots open-source conferences world wide.

The PCO is one of the most grass-roots offices available.

The Keshet is active in a plethora of fields, both as a sophisticated think tank and at the grass-roots level.

The Cuba Solidarity Campaign, a group based in the United States, says: “ Electoral candidates are not chosen by small committees of political parties … Instead the candidates are nominated individually by grass-roots organisations and by individual electors … The successful candidate is chosen by secret ballot.

Although the CPS called itself a grass-roots movement, it had no members and was financed by The 61, " a private sector operational intelligence agency " said by its founder, Brian Crozier, to be funded by " rich individuals and a few private companies ".

In any case, Ace was forced to cease publishing the unauthorized edition and to pay Tolkien for their sales following a grass-roots campaign by Tolkien's U. S. fans.

A grass-roots online campaign was launched and a petition established by supporters of the Council.

In February 1989, opposition to Soviet nuclear testing and its ill effects in Kazakhstan led to the creation of one of the republic's largest and most influential grass-roots movements, Nevada-Semipalatinsk, which was founded by Kazak poet and public figure Olzhas Suleymenov.

According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more " folksy, all-American, grass-roots image ".

His insurgent campaign used his soaring rhetoric to mobilize grass-roots right wing opinion against what he saw as the bland Washington establishment ( personified by Dole ) which he believed had controlled the party for years.

The British Columbia legislature passed Bill 40 ( the UNBC Act ), which formally established the university, on June 22, 1990 The university was established in response to a grass-roots movement spearheaded by the Interior University Society.

They were joined in the effort by grass-roots organizations that collected record numbers of signatures on petitions to place anti-airport initiatives on the ballot and raised funds for the election campaigns.

These were the genuine grass-roots organizations, staffed by unpaid local residents elected by their neighbors.

In the winter of 1982-83 communes were replaced by township governments, and grass-roots committees were patterned after urban committees.

These rural grass-roots committees were given legal status by the Draft Organic Regulations for Villagers ' Committees approved by the National People's Congress in April 1987.

Previous mass demonstrations had taken place in Australia in December 1997, in which newly formed grass-roots organizations blockaded Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Darwin city centers. The Seattle protests were by far the largest actions to have taken place in the United States.

She claimed that women could have it all, " love, sex, and money ", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage.

Respect had hoped to take over the left-wing space they saw as deserted by New Labour and start to attract disaffected labour grass-roots members, but suffered a series of splits.

Critics from organized labor have argued since the late 1970s < ref name =" Machinist_1977 ">< nowiki > http :// www. library. gsu. edu / dlib / iam / getBrandedPDF. asp? issue_id = 1883 </ nowiki > " Examining the opposition's tangled web — the who's who in the right wing " The Machinist, published by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO / CLC, October 1977 ; accessed February 4, 2008 </ ref > that while the National Right to Work Committee purports to engage in grass-roots lobbying on behalf of the " little guy ", the National Right to Work Committee was formed by a group of southern businessmen with the express purpose of fighting unions, and that they " added a few workers for the purpose of public relations ".< ref name =" UAW_FAQ ">< nowiki > http :// www. uawlocal3520. org / right % 20to % 20workfliner. pdf </ nowiki > " Questions and Answers about the National Right to Work Committee and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation ," United Auto Workers, Accessed February 3, 2008 .</ ref >

Originally begun as a " grass-roots " movement among the Russian clergy for the reformation of the Church, it was quickly corrupted by the support of the Soviet secret services ( CheKa, then GPU, NKVD ), who had hoped to split and weaken the Russian Church by instigating schismatic movements within it.