A garbage-strewn park could be cleaned up by a grassroots group, for example, rather than waiting for a municipal agency to take action.
That's why groups such as National People's Action, recently honored by the Nation magazine as the most effective grassroots group for its efforts to confront predatory lenders and "Make Wall Street Pay," also promote sound new mortgage strategies the Obama administration could adopt without necessarily needing legislative approval.
For a grassroots group of volunteers we've taken great leaps forward in terms of food education and food quality.
"The political revolution was never about Bernie Sanders alone," Moumita Ahmed, a Sanders delegate from New York and organizer for the grassroots group People for Bernie, told VICE News.
"The word 'revolution' scares my mother because she thinks of the Cold War, communism, Stalin," said Matthew Collura, a 24-year-old organizer for the grassroots group Millennials for Bernie.
The 3 Million, a grassroots group lobbying for the rights of EU citizens, has criticised the cumbersome process for permanent residency, which involves an 85-page application form and complicated diary of movements in and out of the country.
In the latest push, the grassroots group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America on Wednesday launched a petition calling on the Target retail chain to prohibit individuals openly carrying rifles in its stores.
Kamran Memon, a civil rights lawyer in Chicago who also heads the grassroots group Muslims for a Safe America, said education isn't the problem.
Recently, the Kochs' "grassroots" group Americans for Prosperity, is telling potential donors (with typically hyperbolic capitalization) that the Kochs' three-part agenda consists of "1.
Steve Abbott, a leader for a local union in Iowa that represents communications workers, is one of some 3,500 individuals from within the labor movement who have joined the all-volunteer grassroots group Labor for Bernie.
Winnie Wong, co-founder of grassroots group People for Bernie, which coined the catch-slogan "Feel the Bern," said that Kaine "is a wholly predictable, if entirely unimaginable pick" designed to draw in demographics not yet moved by Clinton's message.
