According to Carol Lancaster, a former deputy director of USAID, America's development body, NGOs have become "the most important constituency for the activities of development aid agencies".
On one hand the opposition is attempting attract this broad constituency by casting its activities in religious terms: calling for reform not revolution, using Shia holidays to organise rallies, and declaring loyalty to Khomeini's vision.
Vocabulary: Disavow, constituency, foregone, specter, denunciation Extension Activities: 1.
In Ealing North we have seen a similar increase in registered supporters and affiliates, and have been keen to involve them in the campaigning, social and political activities of the constituency, but with little or no success.
Some campaigning activities cover multiple constituencies or cannot easily be allocated to one or another.
From the perspective of leveraging social media for political organization, the baseline level of activity among a constituency is one of the most important characteristics of a population.
Besides bringing their own constituencies together for some interfaith activities, Shala and Stone have gone public together with their example.
Organizations that are small to medium size as well as those that represent poor, minority, and other grass-roots constituencies, pursue controversial causes and activities, or lack influential connections or friends struggle to get foundation support.
Vocabulary: priorities, pledged, leverage, coalition, reconstruction, expeditious, competent, prevailing, wage, segregation, constituency, attribute, strategies, empowerment, endemic Extension Activities: 1.
