For us in TANEO, VC funding is not just a pure financial injection; is the grass root for building solid and growth enhancing businesses.
"I can see a lot of grass roots excitement building because prices have plummeted," he said.
When we initially started it was a grass roots community building effort.
Sure, campaign funds go to grass roots organizing and building an infrastructure (with plenty of help from parties and unions), but the bulk of a campaign budget is in ads.
Since that event (like all citizen deliberation events) was the kind of grass roots democracy-building exercise that one would expect to be trumpeted from the heights of liberalism, one must ask: What's going on here?
Ultimately, it's from the grass roots that movement building like this happens.
Today some 80,000 "base communities," as the grass-roots building blocks of liberation theology are called, operate in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation, and nearly one million "Bible circles" meet regularly to read and discuss scripture from the viewpoint of the theology of liberation.
Rustin's decades of experience building grass roots leaders paid off.
Collectively, this research provides a detailed understanding of the grass-roots building blocks of Neolithic households over a short time frame and a more detailed understanding of the local social and economic trajectory of Neolithic households.
In December 2010 another colleague and I started a non-profit tax deductible organization Serengeti Watch for the express purpose of building a strong grass roots support in Tanzania for preserving the Serengeti ecosystem for future generations.
In Michigan, as well as in other large industrial states that Mr. Bush lost, the Republican Party, nationally and at the state level, is making big investments in building new grass roots operations that its leaders contend will pay huge dividends in the next election -- and put the party in an even more commanding position.
