It is a global not-for-profit group working in a federated structure of national organizations, under a Brussels headquarters.
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In 2006, the IRS took a close look at groups helping potential home buyers secure down payments, after finding some had been essentially for-profit entities working for home sellers.
The UK National Commission for UNESCO is seeking to appoint two Non-Executive Directors to its Board with a range of relevant expertise and experience in the fields of education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication, and experience of working with not for profit organisations.
What managerial lessons have you drawn from your own experience working in the non-profit sector?
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They are expected to meet profit targets while working with an appropriate level of risk.
She began her career working in the non-profit sector and still commits her time to serving local and global causes.
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For example, by working with a non-profit organization, a corporation can demonstrate its expertise to a new audience, expanding its business network.
Many non-profit groups are working to ease the financial burden of rebuilding.
And that forces you to look at both sides of the profit equation, working on the revenue side and working on the cost side.
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The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) is an International not-for-profit trade association working to promote global standards and regulations in the fast developing Powerline communications market.
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The outlines of the plan call for the creation of either a branch of the Treasury Department or an independent agency to buy or take on troubled assets, with the goal of either selling them at a profit later or working them off.
Unless concerns for people, planet, and profit are connected, working harmoniously together in a single business, that business is incomplete.
Viacom, for example, is working with a national non-profit called MENTOR to provide flextime to employees who sign up to be mentors and to produce educational materials for mentoring organizations across the country.
Cambridge Biostability, with support from Britain's Department for International Development and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, an American not-for-profit group, is working on a sugar-glass version of a combined shot against five nasty childhood diseases, including diphtheria and meningitis.
Rick cites the example of Grand Junction, Colorado, a community that has achieved low health care costs (Medicare spend about 30% below average) and good outcomes through a regional program led by a physicians organization working together with a non-profit insurance company.
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The company is working with the not-for-profit organisation to launch a new operating system based on the Firefox internet browser that Mozilla owns.
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One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
Doing this is hard, which is exactly why we need profit seeking companies and a market working to do it better.
While working for a micro-finance non-profit in South Africa after graduating college, Beshara created dvelo.org to help charities group-fund donations for projects in developing countries.
According to Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, the spread of profit-related pay and flexible working hours has enabled firms to adjust quickly to slowing demand with far fewer lay-offs than would have occurred in past downturns.
As well as helping big companies become more focused and efficient, McKinsey has ample experience in public-private partnerships, and in working with social innovators in the non-profit sector (who are likely to be a crucial source of bright ideas for the new administration).
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The point is that American Express, a publicly-traded company, is working with a team of not-for-profit entities to address this area of societal need.
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Working within these messy, complex, for-profit companies these intrapreneurs are daring to try new approaches to create long-term value for shareholders, customers, communities and the planet.
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Participants profit as they broaden their network and explore a new working environment.
He has been working part time at Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a non-profit group that promotes legislation to reduce harsh prison sentences for non-violent offenders.
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Today we celebrate all business leaders who are working to connect harmoniously the interdependent concerns of people, planet, and profit.
In each of these areas, we are working to strengthen government policies and programs and partner with private and non-profit sectors to achieve our objectives.
To extend the Bel-Air circuit to a larger group and possibly profit from it, a start-up called Prima Cinema is working with the studios to roll out a service that will make first-run studio films available the day they hit the big screen.
Nike management had effectively cut costs, maintained strict inventory controls, and raised profit margins over the last year, but external impacts appear to be working against those efforts.
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