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Non-profit organizations
Abbreviated as NGO, and also known as not-for-profit organisation; an organisation that does not distribute its surplus capital to shareholders or owners, but instead uses them to pursue its original goals.They are usually exempt from income and property tax and most often include charitable organisations, trade unions and public arts organisations.
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Peter Hodes - stem cells courier
Non-profit organizations; Charity
Peter Hodes is a British citizen who has been interested in charity and donor issues. He first donated a kidney to one of his friends, became a blood donor and then subsequently a ...
Goodwill Industries
Non-profit organizations; Charity
Founded in 1902 in Boston by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister and early social innovator, Goodwill Industries is a nonprofit organization that provides job training, ...
famine relief
Non-profit organizations; Charity
Famine relief is an organized effort to reduce starvation in a region in which there is famine. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large proportion of the population of a region ...
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Non-profit organizations; Charity
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private, independent biomedical research foundation based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. BWF was founded as the corporate foundation ...
Cancer Research UK
Non-profit organizations; Charity
Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, formed by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. ...
CARE
Non-profit organizations; Charity
CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering broad-spectrum emergency relief and long-term international development projects. CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and ...
Carter Center
Non-profit organizations; Charity
The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. In partnership with Emory ...
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