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.

In the Netherlands, the government funds " bijzondere " (" special ") schools, which are run by independent non-profit boards, on the condition that they charge no more tuition than public schools do and otherwise abide by practically the same rules as public schools.

She is also a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

It is an independent non-profit society, separate from the students ' union and the faculties of the university.

The spy heroes were independent of government ; MacGyver works for a non-profit, private think tank, and aviator Hawke and two friends work free-lance adventures.

* The UK Tea Council – an independent non-profit making body dedicated to promoting tea

The Foundation, a non-profit international organisation, has an independent identity from the United Nations University, although it has special links with the UN.

Fox is a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

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.

The PIPVTR is an independent, non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental research organization officially registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) on 29 November 2007 as Philippine Institute for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.

Atlantic Community think tank is an example of independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization set up as a joint project of Atlantische Initiative e. V.

Contraditório is a non-profit, independent and non-partisan think tank.

It is politically independent, as specifically expressed in the BBC Charter agreement, non-profit, and commercial-free.

* Sequoyah School, a non-profit, independent alternative school in Pasadena, California

Bildt is also a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 87 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

Norwegian Computing Center ( NR, in Norwegian: Norsk Regnesentral ) is a private, independent, non-profit research foundation founded in 1952.

The Hockey Hall of Fame is operated as a non-profit business called the " Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum " ( HHFM ), independent of the National Hockey League.

* The United States Sports Academy is an independent, non-profit, special mission school of sport offering sport-specific residential and online distance learning programs to students, teachers, and administrators around the world.

The name " Lo-Fi " is symbolic as an independent and " Low cost " ( free except for the price of equipment ) version of the " Wi-Fi " system, which was promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organization with the goal of driving the adoption of a single worldwide-accepted standard for high-speed wireless local area networking.

The New Jersey Scout Museum in Morganville was established as an independent non-profit in 2004 and concentrates on history of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in New Jersey.

It is also currently the location of independent label No Idea Records and the former home of Plan It X Records, which moved to Cairo, Ill. For two years, the Gainesville non-profit organization called Harvest of Hope Foundation hosted the Harvest of Hope Festival in St. Augustine, Florida.

* KeenAgers Corporation at 303 Brotherton Street is a non-profit organization that offers assisted living and independent living to the elderly.

Huron is the home of the Huron Playhouse, once a division of the Bowling Green State University Department of Theatre and Film, is now an independent non-profit corporation.

UDAEP is an independent non-profit entity separate from the Upper Darby School District.

Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.

The organization was formed in December 1997 to " provide IP registration services as an independent, nonprofit corporation.

According to the American Bar Association, a lawyer that is a certified specialist has been recognized by an independent professional certifying organization as having an enhanced level of skill and expertise, as well as substantial involvement in an established legal specialty.

The university also houses an independent nonprofit organization, Community Impact, which strives to serve disadvantaged people in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities.

Although the VCheKa was officially an independent organization from the NKVD, its main members such as Dzerzhinsky, Latsis, Unszlicht, and Uritsky ( all main chekists ), since November 1917 composed the collegiate of NKVD headed by Petrovsky.

Thus, the Debian Project is an independent decentralized organization ; it is not backed by a company like Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and Mandriva.

Social Democrats however continued to exist as an independent organization, including its paramilitary Republikaner Schutzbund, which could muster tens of thousands against Dollfuss ' government.

In September 1933 Dollfuss merged his Christian Social Party with elements of other nationalist and conservative groups, including the Heimwehr, which encompassed many workers who were unhappy with the radical leadership of the socialist party, to form the Vaterländische Front, though the Heimwehr continued to exist as an independent organization until 1936, when Dollfuss ' successor Kurt von Schuschnigg forcibly merged it into the Front, instead creating the unabidingly loyal Frontmiliz as paramilitary task force.

Since 1809, the Grand Duchy had benefited from a customs organization, an independent domestic state budget, its own currency ( Finnish markka, since 1860 ) and the industrial progress during 1860 – 1916.

The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) is an independent international treaty organization with its own legislative assembly.

Brundtland is also a member of the Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former leaders of democratic states, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.

A new judicial organization made all magistracies temporary and independent of the throne.

Baltic Development Forum ( BDF ) is an independent nonprofit organization which unites large companies, cities, business associations and institutions in the Baltic Sea region.

Unlike other forms of Marxism, autonomist Marxism emphasises the ability of the working class to force changes to the organization of the capitalist system independent of the state, trade unions or political parties.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

Stations may be owned by planetary governments, or by specific commercial organizations, or they may be completely independent of any planetary organization ( e. g. the Quaddie Union and Kline Station ).

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden called for Arab unity during the 1940s, and this was followed by specific proposals from pro-British leaders, including King Abdullah of Transjordan and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said of Iraq, but Egyptian proposals for a broader grouping of independent Arab states prevailed with the establishment of the League of Arab States, a regional international organization, in 1945.

Such independent organization persisted until the 2nd century BC amongst light infantry and cavalry, but was discarded completely in later periods with the supporting role taken instead by allied troops.

The RAWA was first initiated in Kabul in 1977 as an independent social and political organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and social justice.

In addition to these private organizations, the original schools ( kwans ) that formed the organization that would eventually become the Kukkiwon continue to exist as independent fraternal membership organizations that support the WTF and the Kukkiwon.

Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.

Using funds allegedly supplied by NCR, he set up what was ostensibly a completely independent organization, Watson's Cash Register and Second Hand Exchange, in Manhattan.

Through division of faculties and the addition of a previously independent school of Pharmacy as a new faculty, the traditional four-faculty organization of European universities has evolved into the present nine faculties: