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  • Charity [r]: From the Latin, caritas, the non-erotic love of others; modern connotations stress efforts to aid or help others. [e]
  • Community [r]: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]
  • Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
  • Philanthropy [r]: Action for the love (or good) of humankind; can refer narrowly to fundraising or broadly to "private action for the public good". [e]
  • Religion [r]: Belief in, and systems of, worshipful dedication to a superhuman power or belief in the ultimate nature of existence. [e]
  • Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
  • Social economy [r]: A term long associated with European labor and leftist organizations and connotations of democratic forms of economic organization. Currently used in Canada, Europe and the United Nations to refer to a category similar to, but somewhat broader than, the U.S. conception of a nonprofit sector. Usually included in the social economy are associations, cooperatives, foundations and mutuals. [e]

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