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nonprofit

[non-prof-it] / nɒnˈprɒf ɪt /
ADJECTIVE
not for profit
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WattTime, an environmental tech nonprofit, helps companies time their electric vehicles, phones or other devices to periods when the energy is coming from cleaner power sources.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

"AI can also have a detrimental impact on climate change from that angle," said Maria Joao Sousa, executive director of Climate Change AI, a nonprofit promoting the use of AI for climate action.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

She met the third victim, prosecutors said, after she cold-called him to solicit donations for her nonprofit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The nonprofit paid for the Santa Monica apartment for its CEO despite her living thousands of miles away in Hawaii.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

His first floor was now being retrofitted to accommodate his wheelchair—its doorways widened, its kitchen sink lowered—part of a joint effort between a nonprofit called Rebuilding Together and the company that owned Sears and Kmart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, for example, has doled out billions of dollars since 2021 to local nonprofits trying to house people, including at least $25 million to the 1736 FCC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Anthropic’s president, Daniela Amodei, sister of CEO Dario Amodei, is the wife of Holden Karnofsky, who co-founded two large effective altruist nonprofits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

City officials said they looked into the nonprofits after receiving complaints about how often they used the fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The philanthropic funder has since rebranded itself as Coefficient Giving, and is a prolific backer of AI safety nonprofits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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