An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and identities to the smaller organizations. In this kind of arrangement, it is sometimes responsible, to some degree, for the groups under its care. Umbrella organizations are prominent in
cooperatives
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democr ...
and in civil society, and can engage in advocacy or collective bargaining on behalf of their members.
Examples
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AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together r ...
and other
national trade union center
Organizers within trade unions have sought to increase the bargaining power of workers in regards to collective bargaining by acting in collaboration with other trade unions. Multi-union organizing can take place on an informal basis, or on ...
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DD172
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Department of Public Safety
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European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy
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European Music Council
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European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF)
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Federation of Poles in Great Britain
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Federation of Student Islamic Societies
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Independent Sector
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National Retail Federation
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National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotion and governing body owned by Billy Corgan and operated by its parent company Lightning One, Inc.
Founded in 1948, the NWA be ...
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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Software in the Public Interest
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UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach soccer, beach football in Europe and the List of transcontinental countries#A ...
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Ulster Defence Association
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United Way
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Yamaguchi-gumi
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National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
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ANC
Asia
Bangladesh
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Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
Europe
Russia
* The former
KGB
The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ...
United Kingdom
Bond network for organisations working in international development
NAVCA(National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) (UK)
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Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom.
TfL is the successor organization of the London Passenger Transport Board, which was established in 1933, and His ...
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Maritime UK
North America
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Canadian GeoAlliance
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Canadian Hockey League
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...
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Jewish Federations of North America
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), formerly the United Jewish Communities (UJC), is an American Jewish umbrella organization for the Jewish Federations system, representing over 350 independent Jewish communities across North Ameri ...
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Rainbow Railroad
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Metropolitan Toronto School Board and its
six boards
* United Fund for the Arts and Humanities
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United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
Global
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International Co-operative Alliance
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International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
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Girls on the Run
* United Nations umbrella organizations
See also
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Big tent
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Federation
A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a political union, union of partially federated state, self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a #Federal governments, federal government (federalism) ...
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Supraorganization
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Umbrella brand
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Umbrella company
An umbrella company is a company that employs agency contractors who work on temporary contract assignments, usually through a recruitment agency in the United Kingdom. Recruitment agencies prefer to issue contracts to a limited company to reduce ...
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Umbrella fund
* Umbrella school
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Umbrella term
Hypernymy and hyponymy are the wikt:Wiktionary:Semantic relations, semantic relations between a generic term (''hypernym'') and a more specific term (''hyponym''). The hypernym is also called a ''supertype'', ''umbrella term'', or ''blanket term ...
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