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| x Nonprofit organization |
A not-for-profit corporation is an incorporated organization created by statute, government or judicial authority and registered at the Registry of Commerce, that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. It differs from a for...
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| x Apache Software Foundation |
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)(3) in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in...
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| x National Public Radio |
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National Public Radio (NPR) is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to 797 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage...
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| x Public Library of Science |
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The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS...
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| x Internet Archive |
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The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web. The Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996....
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| x National Forensic League |
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The National Forensic League (NFL) is a non-partisan, non-profit educational honor society established to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking, and...
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| x National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws |
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The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML, pronounced /ˈnɔrməl/) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization in the United States whose aim is to "move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of cannabis...
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| x Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute |
The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit corporation. MCLI was founded in 1965 .
The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute carries on a wide range of activities, including research, publication,...
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| x Mozilla Foundation |
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The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate key infrastructure and control trademarks and...
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| x The Hunger Project |
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The Hunger Project (THP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization incorporated in the state of California. The Hunger Project describes itself as an organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. the organization works in...
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| x MITRE |
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The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia. It manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) supporting the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation...
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| x Pink Triangle Press |
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Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian non-profit organization which specializes in LGBT media including publishing, online interactive media, and television. PTP's main asset is the LGBT magazine, Xtra! and its spinoffs Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!. The...
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| x Kaiser Permanente |
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Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is a consortium of three distinct groups of...
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| x National Catholic Forensic League |
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The National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) is a speech and debate league that was formed in 1951. It is organized into regions which correspond to Roman Catholic dioceses. Member schools include both public and parochial high schools. The NCFL...
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| x Open Source Applications Foundation |
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The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software.
The mission of the OSAF is stated this way:
Chandler...
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| x The Disclosure Project |
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The Disclosure Project is an organization started by Steven M. Greer in 1993 that alleges the existence of a US government cover-up of information relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Project claims that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by...
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| x Ten Thousand Villages |
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Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by disadvantaged artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in 35 countries.
As one of the world’s largest fair trade organizations, Ten Thousand...
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| x Atlanta Botanical Garden |
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The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a 30 acre (12 hectare) botanical garden located adjacent to Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Incorporated in 1976, the garden's mission is to "develop and maintain plant collections for the purposes of...
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| x Institute for Cooperation in Space |
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The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate decision makers and the general public about why they believe space weapons should be banned.
ICIS was created in 2001 by Dr....
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| x Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship |
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Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF) is a non-denominational neocharismatic Christian church in Toronto, Canada. It is affiliated with the Partners in Harvest group of churches and with Catch the Fire Ministries. The church is famous as the...
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| x Cross Examination Debate Association |
The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States. Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National...
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| x Canadian Light Source Synchrotron |
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The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is a third-generation 2.9 GeV synchrotron located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It opened on October 22, 2004 after three years of construction and cost C$173.5 million. One of forty-two such facilities in the...
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| x The Institute for Genomic Research |
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) was a non-profit genomics research institute founded in 1992 by Craig Venter in Rockville, Maryland, United States. It is now a part of the J. Craig Venter Institute.
TIGR sequenced the first genome of a...
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| x Teach For America |
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Teach For America (TFA) is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to build a movement "to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort."
The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp...
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| x NAV CANADA |
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Nav Canada is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS).
The company employs approximately 2,000 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 800 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700...
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| x Adventist Development and Relief Agency |
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The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is a humanitarian agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief.
ADRA's mission statement is...
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| x Oddcast |
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Edcast (formerly known as Oddcast) is an audio encoder that can be used to create Internet streams of varying types. Currently, mp3, ogg vorbis, ogg flac, as well as AAC+ are supported. And this application can be used to stream to both icecast2 and...
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| x Harvard Management Company |
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Harvard Management Company (HMC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, charged with managing the university's endowment, pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts. HMC is perhaps best known for managing the university's $34.9...
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| x National Safety Council |
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The National Safety Council (NSC) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental public service organization dedicated to protecting life and promoting health in the United States. Located in Itasca, Illinois, the NSC is a membership organization, founded in 1913...
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| x Prometheus Radio Project |
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The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit advocacy and community organizing group committed to building an inclusive and representative media landscape in the United States and around the world. Their primary focus has been to create a large...
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| x National Academy Foundation |
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National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an educational non profit organization. The mission of the National Academy Foundation (NAF) is to sustain a national network of career academies to support the development of youth toward personal and...
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| x University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is an $8 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 50,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 1.3 million-member health insurance division, as...
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| x Mutual UFO Network |
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The Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, is one of the oldest and largest UFO investigative organizations in the United States.
MUFON was established as the Midwest UFO Network in Quincy, Illinois, on May 30, 1969, by Walter H. Andrus, Allen Utke, John...
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| x Social Weather Stations |
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The Social Weather Stations or SWS is a public opinion polling body in the Philippines. It is a private, independent, non-partisan, non-profit scientific institute in the Philippines which conducts social surveys and does survey-based social science...
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| x Sampan Newspaper |
Sampan is a newspaper based in Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts. It is New England's only bilingual Chinese and English newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1972 by volunteers of the Asian American Civic Association, then known as the Chinese...
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| x Hong Kong Red Cross |
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The Hong Kong Red Cross (traditional Chinese: 香港紅十字會) is a the national Red Cross society of Hong Kong as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It was established officially on 12 July 1950 as a branch of the British Red...
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| x The Aerospace Corporation |
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The Aerospace Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation headquartered in El Segundo, California that has operated a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for the United States Air Force since 1960. The purposes of the...
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| x OpenSkills |
OpenSkills is a global non-profit internally-funded association that promotes the skills of individuals.
The pivotal service provided by OpenSkills is the SkillsBase.
HR-XML resumes can be imported into the SkillsBase, and/or edited through the...
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| x National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship |
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The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, also referred to as NFTE (pronounced Nifty), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing entreprenership education programs to young people from low-income communities. NFTE's vision...
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| x League of Professional System Administrators |
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The League of Professional System Administrators, or LOPSA, is a non-profit organization. The organization's mission is "to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve...
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| x Grameen Foundation |
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Grameen Foundation, founded as Grameen Foundation USA, is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance...
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| x Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation |
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The Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (FEAST) is a non-government organisation aimed at highlighting and developing collaborative research activities between Europe (European countries and the European Union) and...
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| x National Youth Science Forum |
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The National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) is a prestigious Australian program dedicated to exposing year eleven students who are heading into year twelve and are thinking about a career in science, engineering and related disciplines to major...
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| x Snow Foundation |
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The Snow Foundation is a non-profit organisation operating in Canberra. It was established to assist those in need in the Canberra community whose needs are not covered by government sources.
The Snow Foundation is a response to the long association...
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| x PHAMALy |
The Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League, or PHAMALY, is a theater group and touring company formed in 1989 when a group of former students of the Boettcher School in Denver, Colorado, frustrated with the lack of theatrical...
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| x Chicken Lips |
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Chicken Lips and the World Humor Organization, Inc. (WHO) are an improvisational comedy company which operate not only in the Denver, Colorado but nationwide across the United States of America. They provide customized entertainment and workshops...
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| x IMEC |
IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) is a micro- and nanoelectronics research center located in Leuven, Belgium with affiliated laboratories throughout Flanders. IMEC focuses on next generation electronics research, three to ten years...
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| x Riverside Health System |
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Founded in 1916, Riverside Health System has evolved from a small hospital in Newport News, Virginia into a nonprofit healthcare organization. The health system and each major facility in the organization are governed by a voluntary Board of...
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| x World Affairs Council of Northern California |
The World Affairs Council of Northern California, founded in 1947 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, offers a forum where diverse audiences engage in critical issues that inform their actions. Policymakers, business executives, philanthropists,...
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| x Teach First |
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Teach First is an independent educational charity United Kingdom, Reg. No. 1098294, established in 2002. It recruits exceptional graduates and places them in challenging teaching positions across London, Yorkshire, the East & West Midlands and the...
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| x National Science Summer School Inc. |
The National Science Summer School Inc. is the council that reviews and appoints staff that run the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF). It is a non-profit organisation charged with overseeing the operation of the National Youth Science Forum in...
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| x Georgia Tech Research Institute |
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The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. GTRI employs around 1,400 people, and is involved in approximately $200 million in research annually for...
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| x Saskatchewan Railway Museum |
The Saskatchewan Railway Museum is a railway museum located west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the intersection of the Pike Lake Highway (Hwy 60) and the Canadian National Railway tracks. It is operated by the Saskatchewan Railroad Historical...
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| x Fletcher Allen Health Care |
Fletcher Allen Health Care, together with its partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont's academic medical center. Its mission is to improve the health of the people in the...
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| x International Debate Education Association |
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The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) is an association that develops, organizes and promotes debate and debate-related activities in communities throughout the world. Established in 1999 to coordinate pilot debate programs created...
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| x Rutland Regional Medical Center |
Founded in 1896, Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC) has grown from a 10-bed hospital with eight attending physicians into Vermont's second largest health care facility. RRMC has 188 licensed beds,and 120 physicians. RRMC is designated a Sole...
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| x STAND UP |
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STAND UP is a national campaign that seeks to positively impact the current crisis within the United States public education system by calling upon community leaders, parents, students and citizens to encourage change and STAND UP for better schools...
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| x Canadian Information Processing Society |
The Canadian Information Processing Society (C.I.P.S) is the Information Technology professional society in Canada. The society certifies and regulates the Information Systems Professional (I.S.P) designation in most provinces. The society also...
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| x Crown Financial Ministries |
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Crown Financial Ministries is a nondenominational, evangelical Christian ministry with the mission of equipping Christians around the world to learn, apply and teach financial principles which they claim are based on the Bible. The ministry's goal...
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| x Ankur Group |
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Ankur is working toward supporting Bengali language (Bangla) on GNU/Linux operating system. Most of Ankur's projects are focused on XFree86.org's XServer. Some of its projects are in fact platform independent and add language support to other...
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