what does a grassroots organization mean
"What does ""grassroots"" mean?" What does grassroots mean? Grassroots movements are generally those that are not top-down, but rather more horizontal in nature. Not coopted by traditional power structures, etc. I'm totally okay with that definition. What I am curious about is the other part of the defintition. Grassroots organisations are generally driven by the politics of a community, as Wiki puts it. So. If your organisation is all about the politics of a particular community, yet none of the people in that organisation are part of the community in question...is it grassroots just because it's not a top-down structure?