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| x Alumni association |
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The Association of Former Students |
An alumni association is an association of graduates (alumni) or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities...
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| The University of Houston Alumni Association | |||
| x Benefit society |
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A benefit society or mutual aid society is an organization or voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. Such organizations may be formally organized with charters and established...
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| x Booster club |
A booster club is an organization that is formed to contribute money to an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. The clubs are generally run and...
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| x Non-governmental organization |
Non-governmental organization (NGO) is a term that has become widely accepted as referring to a legally constituted, non-governmental organization created by natural or legal persons with no participation or representation of any government. In the...
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| x GONGO |
GONGO stands for Government-operated Non-governmental organization, which may have been set up by governments to look like NGOs in order to qualify for outside aid. Often, GONGOs are set up by undemocratic governments to create confusion when NGOs...
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| x Charitable organization | One Laptop per Child |
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). The term is relatively general and can technically refer to a public charity (also called "charitable foundation," "public foundation" or simply "foundation") or a private...
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| UNICEF Ireland | |||
| x Club |
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and...
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| x Learned society |
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with...
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| Royal Geographical Society | |||
| British Computer Society | |||
| Royal Statistical Society | |||
| London Mathematical Society | |||
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| x Professional body | National Education Association |
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is a non-profit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and...
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| Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations | |||
| American Congress on Surveying and Mapping | |||
| American Association for Women Radiologists | |||
| Public Affairs Council | |||
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| x Bar association |
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American Bar Association |
A bar association is a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases,...
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| National Lawyers Guild | |||
| Bar council | |||
| x Fan club | Dogbert's New Ruling Class |
A fan club is a group that is dedicated to a well known person, group, idea (such as history) or sometimes even an inanimate object (such as a famous building). Most fanclubs are run by fans who devote considerable time and resources to supporting...
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| Outside The Nine | |||
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| x Think tank | Hansard Society |
A think tank (also called a policy institute) is an organization, institute, corporation, group, or individual that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues,...
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| Citizens Against Government Waste | |||
| Discovery Institute | |||
| Fabian Society | |||
| Freedom House | |||
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| x Honor society | Phi Beta Kappa Society |
In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization, the induction into which recognizes excellence among one's peers. There are numerous societies recognizing various fields and circumstances; the Order of the Arrow, for example, is the...
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| Phi Theta Kappa | |||
| Golden Key International Honour Society | |||
| Tau Beta Pi | |||
| Cap and Skull | |||
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| x Gentlemen's club |
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Alpine Club |
A Gentlemen's club is a members' club originally for male members of the English upper class. Today however they are now generally more open about the gender and social status of the potential member.
The original gentlemen's clubs were...
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| Yale Club of New York City | |||
| Travellers Club | |||
| White's | |||
| Boodle's | |||
| x User Group | Association of C and C++ Users |
A set of people who have similar interests, goals, or concerns.
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| x Nonprofit organization | Lance Armstrong Foundation |
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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| Rupert's Kids | |||
| Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History e.V. | |||
| Haiku Society of America | |||
| Rock the Vote | |||
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| x Political party |
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Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform...
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| Republican Party of Florida | |||
| Pirate Party International | |||
| German Pirate Party | |||
| Piratenpartei Baden-Württemberg | |||
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| x Gang |
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A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word...
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| x Community association | Cardinal Creek Community Association |
A community association is a nongovernmental association of participating members of a community, such as a neighborhood, village, condominium, cooperative, or group of homeowners or property owners in a delineated geographic area. Participation may...
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| Carlsbad Springs Community Association | |||
| Convent Glen South Community Association | |||
| Cumberland Village Community Association | |||
| Fallingbrook Community Association | |||
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| x Joint venture |
A joint venture (often abbreviated JV) is an entity formed between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. The parties agree to create a new entity by both contributing equity, and they then share in the revenues, expenses, and...
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| x Conservation Joint Venture | Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture | ||
| Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture | |||
| Atlantic Coast Joint Venture | |||
| Central Hardwoods Joint Venture | |||
| Central Valley Joint Venture | |||
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| x Livery Company |
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Worshipful Company of Fishmongers |
The 108 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, almost all of which are known as the "Worshipful Company of" the relevant trade or profession. The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for...
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| Worshipful Company of Musicians | |||
| Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths | |||
| Worshipful Company of Skinners | |||
| Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors | |||
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| x Comedy club |
A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts. The term ...
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| x 501 | Craft in America Inc. |
501(c) is a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)), listing 26 types of non-profit organizations exempt from some federal income taxes. Sections 503 through 505 list the requirements for attaining such exemptions....
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| x 501(c)(3) | The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis | ||
| The Center for Emerging Media | |||
| Long Now Foundation | |||
| x Standards organization | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
A standards organization, standards body, standards development organization or SDO is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards...
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| x Transport standards organisations | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
Transportation systems are inherently distributed systems with complex information requirements. Robust modern standards for transportation data are important for the safe and efficient operation of transportation systems. A wide variety of...
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| x Intergovernmental | Shanghai Cooperation Organization | ||
| x Engineering |
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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers |
Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired...
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| x Hispanic |
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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers |
Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) ient Hispania (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula). During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain.
Still more recently, the term is...
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| x Youth Organization | North American Federation of Temple Youth | ||
| x Child advocacy | Children's Defense Fund |
Child advocacy refers to a range of individuals, professionals and advocacy organizations who promote the optimal development of children. An individual or organization engaging in advocacy typically seeks to protect children's rights which may be...
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| x Research |
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Children's Defense Fund |
Research can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research (as opposed to basic research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems...
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| x Eingetragener Verein | Jung Israel |
Eingetragener Verein (e.V.) ("registered association") is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany and Austria. While any group may be called a Verein, registration as eingetragener Verein holds many legal benefits because a...
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| x Head Wing Post Democratic Political Party | Nepal Pariwar Dal | ||
| x Political organisation | World Zionist Organization |
A political organisation is an organisation that involves itself in the political process. In a broader sense, a political organisation can also be viewed as a political system, as long as it includes the entire system and body of government. It...
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| Australian Christian Lobby | |||
| x Student society | Kadimah |
A student society or student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students. They are often affiliated with a university's students' union. Student societies often aim to...
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| x Colonisation society | Ahawas Zion | ||
| x Housing society | Ahuzat Bayit | ||
| x Sports club |
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Triathlon Verein Berlin |
A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization. In a larger sense, it may also refer to any...
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| x Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung | Flughafen Münster/Osnabrück GmbH |
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH) is a type of legal entity very common in Germany (where it was created in 1892), Austria (adopted in 1906; legal abbreviations are GmbH, GesmbH, Ges.m.b.H.), Switzerland, and other Central European...
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| x Art group |
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Visual Arts Brampton |
An art group refers to an association of artists who may work (or live) communally, for the purpose of facilitating the creation of art, either that belonging to the individual, or the collective.
Art groups typically were formed by established...
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| x National trade union center |
A national trade union centre is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a single country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. When there is more than one national center, it is...
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| x Homeowners association |
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A homeowners' association (abbrev. HOA) is an organization created by a real estate developer for the purpose of developing, managing and selling a development of homes. It allows the developer to exit financial and legal responsibility of the...
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| x Voluntary association |
A voluntary association or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, unincorporated association, or just an association) is a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a...
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| x Judenrat |
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Warsaw Jewish Council |
Judenräte (singular Judenrat; German for "Jewish council") were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union
The first Judenräte...
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