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    Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are a federation of U.S. and Canadian non-profit organizations that employ grassroots organizing and direct advocacy...
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  • Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) is a non-profit organization that is one of the largest of the state PIRG organizations. It works...
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    The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is a New York statewide student-directed, non-partisan, not for profit political organization. It...
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  • Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations. PIRGIM has a history of...
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  • Missouri Public Interest Research Group (MoPIRG) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations. MoPIRG began in March, 1971...
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  • Ontario Public Interest Research Group is a decentralized network of local Public Interest Research Groups located in the province of Ontario, Canada....
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  • Illinois Public Interest Research Group (Illinois PIRG) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations. It works on a variety...
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  • The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (also known as MPIRG) describes itself as "a grassroots, non-partisan, nonprofit, student-directed organization...
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  • Ohio Public Interest Research Group (Ohio PIRG) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations. It works on a variety of political...
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    Maryland Public Interest Research Group (MaryPIRG) is a student activist non-profit organization and one of many State PIRGs. The organization works on...
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  • Alaska Public Interest Research Group American Council on Consumer Awareness Arizona Consumers Council Arizona Public Interest Research Group Democratic...
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  • safeguards and public health in the United States. FFPI was set up in 1982 as the fundraising arm of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRGs). The Fund...
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  • Advocacy groups, also known as lobby groups, interest groups, special interest groups, pressure groups, or public associations, use various forms of advocacy...
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  • Straphangers Campaign (category New York Public Interest Research Group)
    transit interest group that advocates on behalf of riders of public transport. The organization is part of the NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group)...
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  • Public interest design is a human-centered and participatory design practice that places emphasis on the “triple bottom line” of sustainable design that...
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  • Against Health Fraud Organic Consumers Association Public Citizen Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Quackwatch TURN (The Utility Reform Network)...
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  • moved on to a position as executive director with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. After a stint with People For the American Way as field director...
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    A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community...
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    Ralph Nader (category Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni)
    number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen. Two of Nader's most...
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    stockholders were both defrauded by this practice. A 2016 report by Public Interest Research Group stated that "Goldman Sachs reports having 987 subsidiaries in...
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  • Mierzwinski, Edmund (17 April 2007). "Testimony of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group" (PDF). Legislative Hearing On HR 5244, the Credit Cardholders...
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  • acquisition led to an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, which was resolved by a consent decree reached between Safeway...
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    Environmental Research, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nevada Desert Experience, Nuclear Control Institute, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen...
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  • more broadly the public good, can benefit by shaping the law to serve the interests of some private parties, a conflict of interest exists. Many critiques...
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  • Public Interest Watch (PIW) was established in September 2002 by Mike Hardiman. The PIW website states that the group was created "in response to the...
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    in 1954 and commercial radio in 1972. Public service advertising, non-commercial advertising, public interest advertising, cause marketing, and social...
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  • Public interest accounting is a branch of academic accounting research that attempts to understand how accounting practices and the activities of the accounting...
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    president of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, a collective action student organization dedicated to public interest advocacy. After graduating...
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  • book serves as a manual for college students establishing Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), and chronicles the formation of PIRGs in Oregon and...
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  • Interest (food/nutrition) National Consumers League U.S. Public Interest Research Group CLARIFIED CONSUMER LLC (Consumer Right Advocacy) By 1969 most capitalist...
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