Ohio Public Interest Research Group

Ohio Public Interest Research Group (Ohio PIRG) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations.

In the United States, Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are non-profit organizations that employ grassroots organizing, direct advocacy, investigative journalism, and litigation to affect public policy.

[1] Ohio PIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects our environment, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.

[2] The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses.

The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross.