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Kisumu Rendezvous SUPAKEN

Kisumu Rendezvous SUPAKEN is the new name of Kisumu Rendezvous the non profit educational organisation located in Kisumu, Kenya.


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Abada

ABADÁ-Capoeira, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to spread and support Brazilian culture through the practice of Capoeira

ABIM

American Board of Internal Medicine, a non-profit, independent physician evaluation organization

ACLS

American Council of Learned Societies, a private non-profit federation of scholarly organizations

AIDS Project Los Angeles

APLA is one of the largest non-profit AIDS service organizations in the United States.

AIFD

American Institute of Floral Designers, American non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and promoting the art of floral design as a professional career

Alex Darrow

PictureTheWorld is a fiscally sponsored non-profit organization creating the world's largest photo-mosaic using photos submitted by people from all over the world, using the organization's website.

AMCC

Al-Madinah Cultural Center, a non-profit cultural student organization at the University of Minnesota

Anne Armstrong

She also served on the board of non profit organizations such as Center for Strategic and International Studies and was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, and the University of Oxford.

AOJ

Axis of Justice, a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, United States

Blossom Nnodim

She recently shared a stage with Nuhu Ribadu at "Project Mentor-Me", organized by Group of Patriotic Corpers (GPC), a non-profit group in Abuja.

Capital Research Center

Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative non-profit organization located in Washington, DC.

Chris Zurawsky

He is also a board member of Home of Hope – U.S., a non-profit that works with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, in southern India, to care for poor orphaned children.

Cowtown Marathon

The Cowtown Marathon was founded by the University of North Texas Health Science Center in 1978, with proceeds benefiting local charities and non-profit organizations.

EWB

Engineers Without Borders, a name used by several independent non-profit organizations in various countries

Fibernet Corp.

The company sponsors various non-profit organizations, community-oriented programs, and business development projects locally and nationally, including the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Utah County, Habitat for Humanity, and Great Strides, a national fundraising event run by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Foreign Policy Council

American Foreign Policy Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing information to those who make or influence the foreign policy of the United States

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

Gilman Louie

He was the first CEO of In-Q-Tel, a non-profit company created to help enhance national security by connecting the United States Intelligence Community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies and making venture capital style investments in promising new technologies.

Hangar Theatre

The Hangar Theatre is a non-profit, regional theatre located at 801 Taughannock Boulevard in Ithaca, NY.

Hollow Contemporary Art

Hollow Contemporary Art was a non profit making arts management organisation set up and run by James Bradshaw.

ICEC

International Cost Engineering Council, non-profit organization that promotes cooperation between cost engineering, quantity surveying and project management organisations

IJM

International Justice Mission, a Christian non-profit human rights organization

Inclusive capitalism

Allen Hammond is Vice President of Special Projects and Innovation at the World Resources Institute: a Washington, DC-based, non-profit, environmental, think tank created in 1982 through a $15 million donation by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago (World Resources Institute website 2008).

Jeffrey Roy

In 2010, he was elected as the Chairman of the Franklin Democratic Town Committee, co-chaired Franklin’s Anti-Bullying Task Force, served as a member of Franklin’s Horace Mann School Building Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors for the non-profit Masque Theatre Co., Inc. in Milford, Massachusetts.

Lange Foundation

The Lange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1993 in West Los Angeles, California by Gillian Lange.

Larry Taunton

Larry Alex Taunton (born, May 24, 1967) is an American author, columnist, radio talk show host, and cultural commentator based out of Birmingham, Alabama who serves as the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith.

Maine Huts and Trails

Maine Huts and Trails is a non-profit public service organization that aims to create a 180-mile network of cross-country ski trail stretching between the Mahoosuc Range in western Maine to Moosehead Lake, the state's largest water body.

Meltwater Group

The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.

Metro Cinema

Metro Cinema Edmonton, a non-profit organization and registered charity located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

Founded in 2002, by Riki Ellison, the 501(c) non-profit participates in the advocacy and educational analysis of United States Government missile defense strategies and technologies.

MKM Educational Trust

MKM Educational Trust ("Trust") is a Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Indian based trust foundation established and founded by Mr MKM Aboobakar.

Moldovan wine

The Moldova Wine Guild is a non-profit association established in August 2007 by several of Moldova’s leading private wineries, i.e. Acorex Wine Holding, Vinaria Bostavan, Chateau Vartely, DK-Intertrade, Dionysos-Mereni, Lion-Gri, and Vinaria Purcari.

Molinology

Cultural and scientific interest in molinology is maintained by The International Molinological Society (TIMS), a non-profit organisation which brings together more than six hundred members, mostly from Europe and the USA.

NameBase

At PIR's onset, Brandt was President of the newly formed non-profit corporation and investigative researcher, Peggy Adler, served as its Vice President.

National Civilian Community Corps

AmeriCorps (which includes the NCCC program) is a USA federally funded "network of more than 3,000 non-profit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations." AmeriCorps has met with sharp criticisms from fiscal conservatives who accused it of being a "boondoggle", most notably by libertarian James Bovard in a Fox News article that covered proposals to cut funding for the program.

Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance

The Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance (OSARA) is a U.S.-based non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to "exploring the biocultural wonders of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago".

One drop

One Drop Foundation, a non-profit organization that advocates for equal access to water

Paul French

Paul Comly French (1890–1956), American reporter, writer, anti-war activist and non-profit executive

Seymour, Connecticut

The Valley Independent Sentinel, an online-only, non-profit news site, launched in June 2009.

Sing For Hope

Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization founded by opera singers Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora.

Texans for Public Justice

Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) is an Austin-based non-profit that was organized in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas, USA.

TheCommunity.com

Founded in 1999 as a portal for non-profit organizations, TheCommunity.com provides news, projects and interaction with global leaders including the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Torie Osborn

From 1997 through 2005, Osborn was the Executive Director of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice.

U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton

The parties to the case were U.S. Term Limits, a non-profit advocacy group, and the politician Ray Thornton, among others.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Voluntary sector

Given the diversity of organizations that comprise the sector, Peter Frumkin prefers "non-profit and voluntary sector".

Voter Education Project

To raise, administer, and distribute the money, the NAACP, CORE, SCLC, and SNCC formed the Voter Education Project (VEP) under the auspices of the non-profit Southern Regional Council (SRC).

Welton Jones

Jones is on the board of directors of the Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO), which is a non-profit devoted to preservation in San Diego.

WSPA

World Society for the Protection of Animals, an international non-profit animal welfare organisation

Zilker Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden was established as a non-profit organization in 1955, and is the centerpiece of Zilker Park.