They included political and ethnic organizations.
The bulletin board outside lists 49 ethnic organizations.
It involved signing up over 30 large employers, civic organizations, and specialized labor and ethnic organizations.
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. led a number of Congressmen, senators and ethnic organizations in deriding the action.
The Whitlam government in particular encouraged a variety of ethnic organizations, most importantly the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (founded in 1973, from 1977 renamed the National Aboriginal Conference).
Aki Soga, a member of the Unity board and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, said that having four different ethnic organizations come together was complicated enough.
A growing coalition of church groups, ethnic organizations and civil liberties lawyers, encouraged by news media and United Nations agency support, has advocated replacing the policy of detention with one that uses temporary visas until refugee claims are assessed.
The budget also contains money for hundreds of pet projects, including $7.7 million in discretionary funds that Council members distribute to community groups, and for hundreds of religious, charitable and ethnic organizations.
"The government actively encourages the investment of narcotics profits in the Burmese economy, as part of a strategy to wean the ethnic organizations from heroin production and to offset the shortage of foreign investment," according to the Country Commercial Guide published by the American Embassy in September.
There is tremendous support throughout New York for playing host to the Olympic Games in 2012: from the Eastern New York State Amateur Soccer Association, representing 150,000 children and 10,000 adult soccer players, from more than 300 ethnic organizations, more than 511 Olympic and Paralympic athletes within the metropolitan region.
