Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and before the height of role-playing games, SJG created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes.

Founded in 1980, Toronto Ultimate Club based in Toronto, has 3300 members and 250 teams, playing year round.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Founded in 1966, the ski hill operated intermittently due to varying conditions, and seldom after 1980.

Founded in 1980 by members of Chichester Hockey Club as a fund-raising event, the festival has grown in size and ambition.

Founded in 1869, the party dominated Liberian politics from 1878 until 1980 to the extent that the country was virtually a one-party state, although opposition parties were never outlawed.

Founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, the A. R. T.

Founded in 1974, Monaghan County Museum is recognised as one of the leading provincial museums in Ireland, with a prestigious Council of Europe Award conferred in 1980, among others, to its credit.

Founded as the Lutheran Bible Institute of Seattle in 1944, the school was located in Seattle for nearly four decades before moving to the Providence Heights campus in Issaquah, Washington, in 1980.

* 1980: April 2, Iomega Founded

Founded in 1980 by Luiz Mott, in the city of Salvador, Bahia, the GGB was registered as a non-profit organization in 1983, and was declared a public service organization of the city of Salvador in 1987.

Founded in 1980, the NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust is an organisation involved in forest restoration.

Founded in 1980 by David Blatter with a single armored car in Missoula, Montana, the company now stretches throughout the western US, providing service to Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, North Dakota, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state.

Founded in 1980 in New Orleans as an independent union of Hyatt employees, the union became part of SEIU in 1984.

Founded November 10, 1980, the station is broadcast locally in high-definition on channel 43 ( virtual channel 69. 1 ).

Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas ( 1980 ), and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec.

Founded in 1980, it is located in the 1905 Summit School building, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Founded in 1980, it specialises in manufacturing ultrafiltration membranes and provides engineering support for its worldwide plants.

Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they became successful outside their native country.

Founded in 1980 as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. ( which was renamed " Panasonic Corporation " on October 1st, 2008 ) soccer club in Nara Prefecture and a member of the Japan Soccer League.

Founded in November, 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS was officially registered on March 19, 2000 in Vatican City as a foundation.

Founded as the Lothian Specialist Music School in 1980, it changed its name in 1996 when Lothian Regional Council was dissolved into four separate unitary councils.

Founded in 1980, it is one of the first niche-oriented television providers in the United States.

Founded in 1980 in New York City's Chinatown, the museum began as the New York Chinatown History Project by historian John Kuo Wei Tchen and community resident and activist Charles Laiand to promote a better understanding of Chinese American history and to address the concern that " the memories and experiences of aging older generations would perish without oral history, photo documentation, research and collecting efforts.

Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500, 000 members and has an annual budget over $ 100 million.

Founded in 1971, the World Economic Forum is one of the major annual meetings in the world

Founded at a conference in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria, that was attended by Othmar Anderlie, Pitirim Sorokin, and Arnold Toynbee, this is an international association of scholars that publishes a journal, Comparative Civilization Review, and hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.

Founded in 1999 by Newman and a few leading CEOs, CECP has grown to include more than 175 members and, through annual executive convenings, extensive benchmarking research, and best practice publications, leads the business community in developing sustainable and strategic community partnerships through philanthropy.

Founded in 1993, the 17 store chain, with outlets in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, recorded more than half a billion dollars in annual sales.

* Passion Conferences Founded by Louie Giglio to provide annual gathering of Christian students

Founded in 1975, the Society for Social Studies of Science, initially provided scholarly communication facilities — including a journal ( Science, Technology, and Human Values ) and annual meetings — that were mainly attended by science studies scholars, but the society has since grown into the most important professional association of science and technology studies scholars worldwide.

Founded in 1886, the SJFA is responsible for disciplinary matters within the grade, certain player registration procedures and organising the annual Scottish Junior Cup.

Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 40, 000 students, making it the second largest university in Ohio and one of the largest universities in the United States.

Founded in 2005 by Dan Savage, Hump has since become an annual event that has gained international condemnation from religious fundamentalists and second wave feminists.

Founded on December 27, 1850 by Kamehameha III and Alexander Cartwright, the Honolulu Fire Department serves and protects the entire island of O ' ahu, covering over 600 square miles ( 1, 600 km² ) of territory, home to more than 880, 000 residents and over 4 million annual visitors.

Founded in 2001, a major event of DocNet is the annual DocNet Management Symposium.

Founded in 1999 by Maximillion Cooper, it sees an annual entry of 120 cars, which are mostly exotic and powerful sports cars.

Founded in 1991 as the Washington Hemp Expo, a self-described " humble gathering of stoners " attended by only 500 people, and renamed the following year as Hempfest, it has grown into a 3-day annual political rally, concert, and arts and crafts fair with attendance typically over 250, 000.

Founded in 1871, the nucleus of the school ’ s research is Bibliothèque de Sciences Po, which " houses " 650, 000 books about social sciences and 4, 500 journals and annual publications, although only approximately one fifteenth of these is available to students at any given time.

Founded in 1970, Purdue plays college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference against its traditional Big 10 rivals such as Indiana, and also plays in the annual Big 10 rugby sevens tournament each fall.

Founded in 1983, the company employs about 700 people and has annual revenues of around $ 300 million, with Darin Billerbeck as the chief executive officer.

Founded in 2003, the Cornerstone Journalism Institute is an annual summer camp for high school students is held the last week of July at Cornerstone University.

Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10, 000 people, with $ 2. 4 billion in annual sales by 2004.

Founded in 1994 by filmmakers Todd Phillips ( Road Trip, Old School ) and Andrew Gurland, the New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008.

Founded in 1996, the competition was created to provide a high level, national annual rugby competition in the United States.

Founded in 1936, the program, two-year hospitality program in the country, is the oldest of any kind on emphasizing culinary arts with an annual average enrollment of 200 international students.

Founded in 1865 by Richard P. Blakeney, the Association stated in its first annual report that the objectives of the Association were:

Founded by composer Joseph Waters in Portland, Oregon, U. S. in 1998, the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization ( NWEAMO ) produces an annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.