Types of organization

thumb|Community townhall in Makoko, Nigeria

organization independent of any government, usually created to aid those in need

organization operated for a collective benefit

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thumb|The volunteer board of a retail consumer cooperative, such as the former Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op, is held to account at an annual general meeting of members.

group of people with shared interests or aims

thumb|A Street fighting|street level rumble of Apache gang members battling Parisian Police officers en masse on 14 August 1904 A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.

A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. Consortia are generally nonprofit with a goal to help its members improve their competitiveness in the specific field.

thumb|The Aleksanteri Institute in [[Helsinki, Finland (2021)]] An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body.

A syndicate is a self-organizing group of individuals, companies, corporations or entities formed to transact some specific business, to pursue or promote a shared interest.

nonprofit organization with charitable purpose

A caucus is a group or meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement. The exact definition varies between different countries and political cultures.

organization for businesses in a given industry

company that helps startups grow in exchange for equity

organization that consists of several thematically, professionally, or regionally related sub-organizations

group where various types of help, usually nonprofessional and non-material, are provided for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic

cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers

mission-driven organization seeking to further a particular profession

organizational structure

surrogate organization answering to someone else

Adhocracy is a flexible, adaptable, and informal form of organization defined by a lack of formal structure and employs specialized multidisciplinary teams grouped by function. It operates in a fashion opposite to bureaucracy. Warren Bennis coined the term in his 1968 book The Temporary Society, and Alvin Toffler popularized the term in 1970 in his book Future Shock. The term has since been used often in the management theory of organizations (particularly online organizations). The concept has been further developed by academics such as Henry Mintzberg.

A presidium or praesidium is a council of executive officers in some countries' political assemblies that collectively administers its business, either alongside an individual president or in place of one. In Romance-speaking countries such as Spain, France, and Italy, this council is typically called the bureau. The term is also sometimes used for the governing body of European non-state organisations.

group involved with politics

domain-specific group of experts working together to achieve specified goals

thumb|Telecentre building in Senegal A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. Telecentres exist in almost every country, although they sometimes go by a different names including public internet access center (PIAP), village knowledge center, infocenter, Telecottage, Electronic Village Hall, community technology center (CTC), community multimedia center (CMC), multipurpose community telecentre (MCT)

civil society non-profit that operates within a local community

small group of people who meet multiple times to discuss an issue

association of graduates

Types of governing bodies

type of organizational structure

organization with a fixed set of rules of intra-organization procedures and structures

social structure that governs how people work together

a type of organizational structure that uses the principle of specialization based on function or role

Virtual organization temporary or permanent collection of geographically dispersed individuals, groups, organizational units, or entire organizations that depend on electronic linking in order to complete the production process

private school alumni social connections

organized component of a social movement

an organization grouping, in a given territory, all members of the same profession