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A. Thomas McLellan

He has served as an adviser to many government and nonprofit scientific organizations, including the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National Practice Laboratory of the American Psychiatric Association, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the World Health Organization, the Greek government and Public Health England.

Al Giordano

On April 18, 2000, Giordano launched Narco News, a nonprofit news organization, to better inform Americans on the actions of the United States and other governments in the War on Drugs in Central and South America.

Alexander von Hoffman

"Issues in Nonprofit Community Development," Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2002,

Andrew Tisch

As for Andrew, he sits on the board of PENCIL, the nonprofit known for its "Principal for a Day" program, as well as the New York City Police Foundation and the City Parks Foundation.

Assemblies of Yahweh

The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania.

Beatrice's Goat

Beatrice's Goat (ISBN 978-0-689-82460-9) is a 2001 children's story based on the true account of Beatrice Biira, an impoverished Ugandan girl whose life is transformed by the gift of a goat from the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.

Camp Kesem

The first Camp Kesem project was founded at Stanford University in 2001 as a project of Hillel at Stanford, a nonprofit serving Jewish students at the University.

Center for Performance Research

Center for Performance Research is a nonprofit organization founded by Jonah Bokaer and John Jasperse in 2008.

Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust

The Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust was established in 1992 by the community of Northern Tasmania to be an independent, non-profit organisation interested in discovering and sharing better treatments of disease.

CMTA

Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a coalition of Baltimore area business, civic and nonprofit leaders intent on improving travel efficiency within Central Maryland.

Davis Campus Cooperatives

Davis Campus Co-ops (DCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide low-cost cooperative housing for students attending University of California, Davis.

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Gaspee Days Committee

The Gaspee Days Committee is a civic-minded, nonprofit organization that operates many community events in and around Pawtuxet Village, including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each June.

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

The Conservancy is an authorized "cooperating association" of the National Park Service, and is one of more than 70 such nonprofit organizations working with national parks around the country.

Goodman Center

The Goodman Center is a partnership between Lipman Hearne, the largest full-service marketing and communications firm dedicated to serving the nonprofit sector and Andy Goodman, communications consultant and author of the books Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes.

Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation

The Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation is a German nonprofit organization based in Hamburg which awards an annual literary prize for nostalgic literature.

HCCA

Health Care Compliance Association, a nonprofit, individual membership association which provides resources for ethics and compliance professionals in the United States;

Insurance

In the United States, insurance is regulated by the states under the McCarran-Ferguson Act, with "periodic proposals for federal intervention", and a nonprofit coalition of state insurance agencies called the National Association of Insurance Commissioners works to harmonize the country's different laws and regulations.

JCPS

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a national nonprofit American research and public policy institution

Kevin Gentry

From 1991 to 1997, Gentry served as executive vice president of the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia.

Kyrgyzstani presidential election, 2009

Apart from Bakiyev and Atambayev, three more candidacies were approved: Those of Toktayym Ümötalieva (chairwoman of the Association of Nongovernmental and Nonprofit Organizations), physician Jengishbek Nazaraliev and Temir Sariev.

Link TV

In October 2012, Link TV announced that it was merging with KCET, an independent public television station in Los Angeles, to form a new nonprofit entity, to be called KCETLink.

Mach Song

The paper has a readership of approximately 75,000 in 15 cities across the United States and is published by Boat People SOS—a national Vietnamese American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Marines' Memorial Club

The nonprofit Marines Memorial Association owns the large building in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco that houses a hotel, theater, restaurant/bar, sports club, special event facilities, library, museum, memorial, and a military history bookstore.

Mudderella

Mudderella supports Futures Without Violence, a national nonprofit that aims to prevent and end domestic violence by standing with survivors and developing innovative programs and policies that engage new allies as partners in the solution.

MUFI

Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Detroit, Michigan, United States

Nonprofit VOTE

Grantmakers as Conveners: Nonprofit VOTE state-based initiatives build partnerships with community foundations, United Ways and Regional Associations of Grantmakers to act as co-conveners of trainings on nonprofit voter and civic engagement.

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public.

NWEAMO

New West Electronic Arts & Music Organization (NWEAMO), founded by composer Joseph Waters in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in 1998, is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego, California that produces the annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.

OVC

Open Voting Consortium, a nonprofit group advocating for open-source electronic voting technology

Paul Suttell

Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell is a Little Compton, Rhode Island resident and serves on numerous community and nonprofit organizations.

Polly Trottenberg

Trottenberg also served as a transportation policy adviser to politicians Charles Schumer, Barbara Boxer, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in addition to holding positions with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the nonprofit Building America’s Future.

Ronald Logue

Logue serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, a nonprofit, low-income housing organization, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, and The Institute of Contemporary Art.

Save the Elephants

Save the Elephants is a London-headquartered nonprofit organization founded in September 1993 by Iain Douglas-Hamilton.

Showdown at Somerby

The title sponsor from 2004 to 2006 was Scholarship America, which is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charity that is the largest provider of scholarships for postsecondary education in the country.

Social nudity in Seattle

Body Freedom Collaborative is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the integration and acceptance of non-sexual social nudity in a variety of public and private settings, and was formed in the early 2000s by Mark Storey and Daniel Johnson

St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

Louis Filmmakers Showcase (SLFS), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area's primary venue for films made by local artists.

Switchboard

Switchboard of Miami, a nonprofit organization offering hotline, informational and referral services in Miami, Florida.

TechSoup Global

TechSoup Global's founding organization CompuMentor was created in 1987 when Daniel Ben-Horin (today Founder and Chief Instigator of TechSoup Global) was inspired by the participants on The WELL, one of the very first online communities, to create a program in which those with technology skills (“mentors”) volunteered to assist nonprofit organizations gain a foothold with new information technologies.

TerraNature

TerraNature is informally affiliated with, and supported by Terra Nature Fund, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation based in San Francisco.

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

Jane Alcorn, president of the nonprofit group The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, and Matthew Inman, creator of web cartoon The Oatmeal, joined forces in 2012 to honor "the Father of the Electric Age", by preserving the Wardenclyffe facility as a science center and museum.

The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks

This work details the author's continuing search for famous shipwrecks with his nonprofit organization NUMA.

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Three Angels Broadcasting Network, or 3ABN, is an American nonprofit television and radio network broadcasting Christian and health-oriented programming, based in West Frankfort, Illinois.

Up the Ridge

Up the Ridge was created as a part of the Thousand Kites project, a nonprofit organization aimed at exacting prison reform through narrative means.

Vanessa Kirsch

In 1992, Kirsch and Katrina Browne founded Public Allies, a program that links youth volunteers with nonprofit organizations in their communities.

Virtual Library of Virginia

Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the six doctoral degree-granting universities, nine four-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 34 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and the Library of Virginia.

Voice of San Diego

In November 2008, New York Times media writer Richard Pérez-Peña profiled Voice of San Diego and more generally, the nonprofit journalism model.

Warft

WARFT, or WAran Research FoundaTion, a nonprofit organization

Wolf Park

Wolf Park is a nonprofit education and research facility which was established in 1972 by Dr. Erich Klinghammer.

Youth vote

They include Our Time, Rock the Vote, League of Young Voters, 18 in '08, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Declare Yourself, Young Voter PAC, WWE Smackdown Your Vote, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Headcount and YouthVote USA.


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