Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 10, 2025
David Horton Smith, a leading researcher of AVOs and emeritus professor of Sociology at Boston College, prefers the term “grassroots association” and proposes this definition : locally based, significantly autonomous, volunteer-run, formal nonprofit (i.e., But informal hierarchies may be the dominant—if inexplicit—system in place. (Of
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