Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not seeking or producing a profit or profits.
- noun An organization, such as a charity, that does not seek or produce a profit.
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- adjective Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain).
- noun An organization that exists for reasons other than to make a profit, such as a charitable, educational or service organization.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not commercially motivated
- noun an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although often associated with the term nonprofit, social entrepreneurs don't have to be consumed with the hassles of corporate legal structures, reporting, and documentation.
Working at Home on the Internet Joe 2010
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The term nonprofit can be a misnomer when it comes to hospitals, because 77 percent of the nation's 2,033 nonprofit hospitals operate in the black, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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Partnership for Public Service - as its name suggests, this nonprofit is a partnership between public-sector, private-sector, academic, and nonprofit institutions.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step 4, Coordinator Gadi Ben-Yehuda 2010
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Yet nowhere in this year's State of the Union did President Obama, the first president who began his career at a nonprofit, utter the word "nonprofit" or mention the sector, its contribution to society or its role in the nation's economic recovery.
Robert Egger: Nonprofits, 2012 Political Game Changers? Robert Egger 2012
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Partnership for Public Service - as its name suggests, this nonprofit is a partnership between public-sector, private-sector, academic, and nonprofit institutions.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step 4, Coordinator Gadi Ben-Yehuda 2010
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Yet nowhere in this year's State of the Union did President Obama, the first president who began his career at a nonprofit, utter the word "nonprofit" or mention the sector, its contribution to society or its role in the nation's economic recovery.
Robert Egger: Nonprofits, 2012 Political Game Changers? Robert Egger 2012
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Running a nonprofit is a huge amount of work and I have to wear so many hats: the grant-writing hat, the fundraising hat, the administrative hat, even the taking-out-the-garbage hat, which is made out of old take-out Thai food containers and scrap paper.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Yet nowhere in this year's State of the Union did President Obama, the first president who began his career at a nonprofit, utter the word "nonprofit" or mention the sector, its contribution to society or its role in the nation's economic recovery.
Robert Egger: Nonprofits, 2012 Political Game Changers? Robert Egger 2012
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Running a nonprofit is a huge amount of work and I have to wear so many hats: the grant-writing hat, the fundraising hat, the administrative hat, even the taking-out-the-garbage hat, which is made out of old take-out Thai food containers and scrap paper.
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Yet nowhere in this year's State of the Union did President Obama, the first president who began his career at a nonprofit, utter the word "nonprofit" or mention the sector, its contribution to society or its role in the nation's economic recovery.
Robert Egger: Nonprofits, 2012 Political Game Changers? Robert Egger 2012
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