Because in March of 1983 — 1863, rather — President Lincoln and Congress established the National Academy of Sciences as an independent and
nonprofit institution charged with the mission to provide the government with the scientific advice that it needed.
Not exact matches
Unlike most other groups, however, BALSA is most decidedly not a club, but a full - fledged
nonprofit corporation that
charges for the consulting services of its approximately 80 current members, who are graduate students and postdocs at WUSTL, Saint Louis University (SLU), and other St. Louis - area research
institutions.
Comments: One commenter expressed concern that independent,
nonprofit, and for - profit
institutions that do not
charge interest as part of a student's payment plan, either during the time the student is attending the
institution or later after the student completes the program, would be discouraged from continuing this practice because the debt burden used to calculate the D / E rates would be overestimated.
The Rubell Family Collection, a
nonprofit foundation that
charges admission, frequently loans works from and exhibitions of their collection to
institutions throughout the United States.
Opponents
charge that the move reflects financial mismanagement leading to a corporatization of the
nonprofit institution.
The Calder Foundation, a
nonprofit organization committed to preserving the legacy of the artist Alexander Calder, grants its restoration consulting services free of
charge to public
institutions worldwide, a program which has already served the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Honolulu Academy of the Arts.