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Action Organizations seek to mobilize citizens to take concerted actions on behalf of a cause or a candidate with concrete activities like protest, organizing, fundraising, active disinformation, and violent or non-violent civic action

Information Organizations seek to educate and inform the electorate on issues and causes they feel voters need to know.  Also referred to as ‘educational’ organizations. Some examples follow:

The Commons Social Change Library

The Pew Research Center

 

Advocacy organizations lobby for, monitor, and provide guidance to elected leaders on a narrow range of issues, such as voting rights, health and welfare, education, and labor.