NAMI, The National Alliance on Mental Illness, formerly known as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is an American non-profit national advocacy organization founded in 1979 for people affected by serious mental illnesses and their families. NAMI claims to have over 200,000 members, offices in all 50 states, and 1200 affiliates across the United States. Image File history File links Nami-glogo-blk. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ...

NAMI is a grassroots organization that is run primarily by volunteers. A grassroots political movement, inspired by the German word Graswurzel, is a movement organized by a network of citizens. ...

External links

• NAMI's website - an excellent resource for mental illness issues.

Nami actually has 54,000 dues-paying members. Their policy is to take the actual number of members and multiply that by 2.8 because they believe this better represents "families" who make up NAMI. The remaining number of "members" are actually donors to the national office and national "professional members", a category of membership which no longer exists.