For example, in George Carlin's phrase " Atheism is a non-prophet institution ", the word " prophet " is put in place of its homophone " profit ", altering the common phrase " non-profit institution ".

The Institute for Strategic and Development Studies ( ISDS Philippines ) is an independent non-profit, policy research and advocacy institution that is also involved in training activities in cooperation with other training institutions at home and abroad.

* National Geographic Society, an American non-profit scientific and educational institution

There can also be non-political governors: high-ranking officials in private or similar governance such as commercial and non-profit management, styled governor ( s ), who simply govern an institution, such as a corporation or a bank.

The National Soccer Hall of Fame is a private, non-profit institution established in 1979 that honors soccer achievements in the United States.

* The African Development Bank ( also AfDB ), a non-profit financial institution whose aim is to help developing African countries

* The Asian Development Bank, a non-profit financial institution whose aim is to help developing Asian countries

By 1979, with the establishment of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) as a California non-profit research institution, an effort led by Robert F. Smith began to take full account of Larson ’ s work and to publish a Critical Text of the Book of Mormon.

* Sea Research Society, a non-profit research institution for diving and underwater archaeology

* Part of an institution such as a commercial company ( see departmentalization ) or a non-profit organization such as a university.

The Michigan State University College of Law is an independent, non-profit corporation affiliated with the public institution.

Christopher Booker and Richard North wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph in January 2010 alleging potential conflicts of interest related to Pachauri's membership of the board of ONGC and to research grants for TERI, a non-profit institution of which Pachauri is director general.

It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by three German federal states ( Bundesländer ).

UNU / IIST is a non-profit research and education institution of The United Nations.

The NYSE was a non-profit institution during Richard Grasso's reign, and as such was governed by State of New York rules governing executive compensation for same.

Esalen was incorporated as a non-profit institution in 1963.

The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.

The school suffered financial problems in the 1930s, and eventually became a non-profit institution in 1940.

* Center for American Archeology, in Kampsville, Illinois, an independent non-profit research and education institution

Founded in 1982, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

From then until the school was incorporated as a non-profit institution in 1943, he, his wife, Elizabeth Hale Keep, and their son Robert Porter Keep Jr. ran the school.

Not until the school's Centennial, in 1943, was the school incorporated as a non-profit institution.

It is a member of Museums10 and is a non-profit institution, and its cultural programs are funded by memberships and grants.

The School was purchased by Sydney Temple, whose daughter, Helen Temple Dickinson, was headmistress until 1966, when Westlake became a non-profit institution.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The second Eta chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1958.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

By the early 1990s there was sufficient interest among his seminar graduates to launch a collaborative implementation of his work, and the Bootstrap Alliance was formed as a non-profit home base for this effort.

A voucher system for children three to six years-old who attend a non-profit kindergarten was implemented in Hong Kong in 2007.

IETF, an international non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that derives its support entirely from its membership and the general public, was founded in 1988 and is guided by a board of directors and a medical advisory council.

PIW charged that Greenpeace was using non-profit donations for advocacy instead of charity and educational purposes.

It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

In 1983, Bonewits founded Ár nDraíocht Féin ( also known as " A Druid Fellowship " or ADF ), which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of Delaware as a U. S. 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit organization.

* Founded Ar nDraiocht Fein, which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of Delaware as a U. S. 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit organization.

The Mars Society French chapter was established in 1999 as " Association Planète Mars ", a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Paris.

On 15 July 2003, the organization was formally registered as a non-profit organization, and became the Mozilla Foundation.

In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye.

In 2000, a non-profit corporation, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. was chartered in Mississippi to handle the project's legal needs.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay " Unite or Fie!

The Tau chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1966.

In October 1968, the SCA was incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit corporation in California.

The American Humanist Association was incorporated as an Illinois non-profit organization in 1943.

The Franklin Fellows Program was established in 2006 by the DoS to bring in mid-level executives from the private sector and non-profit organizations to advise the Department and to work on projects.

The Omega chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1961.

The Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) has ruled that the Church was tax-exempt some years, and not tax-exempt other years, based on the annual filing statement required of non-profit organizations.

This provision of McCain-Feingold, sponsored by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Vermont Independent James Jeffords, as introduced applied only to for-profit corporations, but was extended to incorporate non-profit issue organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund or the National Rifle Association, as part of the " Wellstone Amendment ," sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone.

The non-profit project Pediaphon was created in 2006 to provide a similar web-based TTS interface to the Wikipedia.