Soon, a local grassroots effort to clean up the waterway and create public access to the river corridor began to take hold.

In the 1980s, a grassroots effort began to mount opposition to pornography.

The biosphere was declared as a result of grassroots efforts, the only one to be established this way in Mexico.

Much of the enthusiasm within communities to become a fair trade town is stimulated by grassroots efforts.

Originally, the soviets were a grassroots effort to practice direct democracy.

The small house movement is a grassroots effort of people living more simply and using less space.

Once others read the stories, a grassroots effort took hold to get them into print.

In 1925 a grassroots effort took place to fund a gymnasium.

The organization began as a grassroots effort in support of equality of opportunity for all.

The play has also inspired grassroots efforts to combat homophobia.