Nonprofit organizations

Retirees with less concern about financial rewards can find some very satisfying employment opportunities with nonprofit organizations. The varieties of opportunities are broad enough to accommodate just about any kind of experience. 

Approximately 1.3 million charities, church organizations, foundations, schools, agricultural coops, quasigovernmental bodies plus arts, health, social service, and educational organizations operate on a nonprofit basis. They employ more than 20 million people and generate annual revenues of 750 billion. You can get a list of nonprofit organizations from your state commerce division or county clerk. 

Tapping into the realm of nonprofits is as simple as deciding what cause you re motivated to support. Do you want to eliminate world hunger, provide homes for low-income families, help stamp out illiteracy, protect the environment, or feed the homeless There is a place for you and your talents wherever your heart leads 

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The Japan Crop Protection Association is the nonprofit organization of Japanese manufacturers, formulators and distributors of crop protection products. JCPA represents 90 companies that manufacture, sell and distribute more than 95% of Japan s crop protection products. 

The American Institute of Chemists is a national, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the relevance of the chemical profession and its practitioners to society. 

A nonprofit organization that is the authoritative source for developing standards for minimizing the possibility and effects of fire and explosion conducts fire safety programs provides information on fire protection, prevention, and suppression develops systems for prevention and suppression offire and explosions arising from hazardous substances. 

He had considerable financial skill and was well informed on the stock market. When the surplus from the sales of Organic, Syntheses became more than was anticipated for a nonprofit organization, he was on the committee that arranged for its investment. 

A Nonprofit Organization for Global Issues Requiring Global Solutions, and for Problems on the Frontiers of Science... 

Incorrect Through my work at various nonprofit organizations as a high-school student, I acquired skills in policy development and analysis, organizational management, and worked directly with low-income women and families. 

NOFAS is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 dedicated to eliminating birth defects caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy and improving the quality of life for those individuals and families affected. ... 

Foresight Nanotech Institute. Available online. URL http //www. foresight.org/. Accessed May 28, 2009. Founded in 1986 and based in Menlo Park, California, this nonprofit organization aims to promote the beneficial aspects of nanotechnology and inform the public on the achievements and the realistic goals in this field of research. Foresight Nanotech Institute s Web site contains many articles with current news and basic scientific information on nanotechnology, as well as a roadmap for future developments. 

Breakthrough Technologies Institute Fuel Cells 2000. Available online. URL http //www.fuelcells.org/. Accessed May 28, 2009. Breakthrough Technologies Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting fuel cell research and development, sponsors this informative Web site. Sections include fuel cell basics, hydrogen, and the latest research and industrial news. 

It s all well and good if you have 100,000 or some such amount of money to invest. Wouldn t we all just love that Frequently, though, the question is more like, How much do I need to invest in order to get that kind of interest Nonprofit organizations like to have endowment funds (money put aside that s never touched, with only the interest used to pay expenses). They want to know how much is needed in the endowment fund in order to have a particular income every year from the interest. 

The Bayh-Dole Act, or the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act, gives universities, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations the intellectual ownership of property, including new drugs, that they discover and develop with government funding. 

Technical information concerning bismuth and its compounds is distributed periodically by the Bismuth Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated in La Paz, Bolivia, that has an information center in Brussels. 

Home pagefor the Foresight Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping prepare society for anticipated advanced nanotechnologies. 

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is an independent, nonprofit organization that develops standards for safety in electrical products. UL 746 A, B,... 

Cottrell, Frederick G. (1877-1948). American scientist, inventor of an electrostatic precipitator, now known as Cottrell Precipitator, for smoke, dust fumes. Among other inventions are the pebble bed furnace, boiling point apparatus the Cottrell-Daniels process for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Cottrell was Director of US Bureau of Mines Director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, and founder of the Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization... 

Inorganic Syntheses, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to further interest in synthetic inorganic chemistry. Since the preparations are detailed and checked, they can probably be carried out even by uninitiated workers in a new field. The generous cooperation of inorganic chemists is necessary for the continued success of this series. 

Approach volunteer service with realistic expectations or you will be disappointed. Most nonprofit organizations get by on less. If you come from a business or corporate career, you may find many things missing that you took for granted. Adequate facilities, secretarial help, and equipment are often in short supply. 

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