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American Association for Respiratory Care

The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) is a non profit organization and is the only professional organization supporting Respiratory Care in the United States.


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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

AFCA

American Foundation for Children with AIDS, a non-profit organization that helps children in sub-Saharan Africa

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.

Alive and Well

Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, a 501(c) non-profit organization of AIDS denialists

American Assistance for Cambodia

American Assistance for Cambodia is a non-profit organization founded in 1993, by Bernard Krisher aimed at giving hope to the Cambodian people following the extermination of 2 million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Anel Townsend

She is involved with the Advisory Council of the Latin American Parliament, which gathers 22 legislative bodies from Latin America and the Caribbean and also participates in the Advisory Council of Vital Voices for a Global Partnership in Washington DC which is a non profit organization chaired by Senator Hillary Clinton and Kay Bailey Hutchison that promotes female involvement in global leadership.

AOJ

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

Artists for Peace and Justice

Artists for Peace and Justice is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by Paul Haggis that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world.

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine was founded as the Journal of Aviation Medicine in 1930 by Louis H. Bauer, M.D., and is published monthly by the Aerospace Medical Association, a non-profit organization of physicians, physiologists, psychologists, nurses, engineers, and others working to solve the problems of human existence in threatening environments on or beneath the Earth or the sea, in the air, or in outer space.

Barry F. Cooper

In 2006, Cooper became involved with a non-profit organization, Friends of Science, which openly criticized the Kyoto Protocol and the science behind it.

Capital Research Center

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

Center for Food Safety

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a U.S. non-profit organization, based in Washington, D.C., that also maintains an office in San Francisco, CA.

Child Development Associate

In 1985, ACYF, in cooperation with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) created a separate non-profit organization for the administration of the CDA Credential.

Convergence Technologies Professional

CTP+ is the official convergence certification for CompTIA, a non-profit organization that specializes in creating education standards for the entire IT industry.

Delaware River Greenway Partnership

The Delaware River Greenway Partnership (DRGP) is a non-profit organization, created in 1989 and located in Stockton, New Jersey, in the historic Prallsville Mills complex.

Digital sweatshop

The crowdsourcing company has a partnership with Samasource, a non-profit organization that brings computer based work to developing countries, they have currently outsourced millions of repetitive microwork to the Kenyan refugee camps.

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

Fouad Elkoury

a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect, preserve and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora.

Gela21

gela21 is a non-profit organization located in Talence in the campus of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, France.

Giovanna Negretti

Over the past several years Negretti has consulted with Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández, worked with Sapientis, a non-profit organization focused on education in Puerto Rico.

Global administrative law

The Istituto di Ricerche sulla Pubblica Amministrazione (IRPA), an Italian non profit organization founded in 2004 by Professor Sabino Cassese and other professors of administrative law, promotes advanced studies and research projects on GAL.

Guilé Foundation

This non-profit organization of Swiss private law has been founded in 1997 by the Charles Burrus family headquartered in Boncourt, Switzerland.

Heather Payne

Payne, along with Denise Jones, Shelley Breen, Terry Jones and Leigh Cappillino, has proudly supported Mercy Ministries of America, a non-profit organization for women who face life-controlling issues such as self-mutilation, sexual abuse, and unplanned pregnancies.

Hog Farm

In 1978, the Hog Farm assisted in the founding of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating suffering caused by disease and poverty.

ICEC

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

Incentive Mentoring Program

The Incentive Mentoring Program or IMP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was originally founded by Sarah and Ryan Hemminger as a partnership between students at Johns Hopkins University and two Baltimore City High Schools: Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Baltimore, Maryland) and the Academy for College and Career Exploration .

International Extension College

More commonly referred to as the IEC, the International Extension College is a defunct non-profit organization that was based in Cambridge in the UK.

Kiran Seth

Kiran Seth (born 1949) is an Indian academician, Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 1976, and is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY (1977), a non-profit organization which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, and other aspects Indian culture, amongst youth the world over; through its about 500 chapters and through conventions, baithaks, lectures and musical fests.

Lange Foundation

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

Lauren Jones

Jones was raised in Jackson, Wyoming, the only child of Deborah Martinson Parsons and James Harrison Jones Junior, and the granddaughter of "Ageless Hero" Gloria Martinson, founder of the non-profit organization, Gleaners, and Mike Martinson, Founder and CEO of the Dobbs Maynard Advertising Agency, who was often referred to as "The King Maker" due to his strong political influence and clout.

Lauren LoGiudice

During her tenure in Bangalore, India, she worked with a non-profit organization that served victims of AIDS and studied Bharata Natyam.

Lifa

Long Island Forensic Association, a non-profit organization which direct high school competitive speech events

Lila Azam Zanganeh

Up until the end of 2011, she also served on the advisory board of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa.

Marin Rowing Association

The Marin Rowing Association, located in Greenbrae, California, is a rowing association and non-profit organization founded in 1968 by Coach R.C. "Bob" Cumming.

Mary Edwards Wertsch

In 2006, Army brat and filmmaker Donna Musil completed a documentary film significantly based on subject areas initially explored in Wertsch's book, and funded by several grants and hundreds of small monetary contributions from military brats to her non-profit organization, Brats without Borders.

Metro Cinema

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

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association is a non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Mount Vernon estate originally owned by George Washington.

One drop

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

Open-source unionism

Freelancers Union - A non-profit organization in the United States that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service.

QF

Qatar Foundation, a private, chartered, non-profit organization in the state of Qatar

Recognition Professionals International

A non-profit organization, RPI is currently sponsored by companies including Discover Financial Services, BMW Manufacturing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Wells Fargo, and Sears.

Ribera, New Mexico

East of Ribera is the site of the Imus Ranch, a non-profit organization that helps children of all ages afflicted with cancer.

Salt Lake Community College

The Thayne Center is a non-profit organization established in 1994 (originally named the Emma Lou Thayne Community Service Center) to coordinate a variety of service-related programs for Salt Lake Community College.

Sing For Hope

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

Spanish Society for Immunology

The Spanish Society for Immunology (Sociedad Española de Inmunología, SEI) is a legally recognized professional non-profit organization in Spain, dedicated to promote and support excellence in research, scholarship and clinical practice in immunology

Teach First Deutschland

Teach First Deutschland is a German non-profit organization started in 2008 and adapted from Teach For America and Teach First.

World Union for Protection of Life

The World Union for Protection of Life (German: Weltbund zum Schutz des Lebens, French: Union Mondiale pour la Protection de la Vie, Russian: Всемирный союз для защиты жизни) is an international non-profit organization and non-governmental organization which was founded 1958 in Salzburg (Austria) by the writer Günther Schwab.

Zilker Botanical Garden

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