Concept
Nonprofit organization
Overview
organization operated for a collective benefit
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The efficiency of labor, they therefore expect, would be unexampled, while the saving of labor would be prodigious, by diverting to useful occupations that which is now wasted on things useless or hurtful, and by dispensing with the vast number of superfluous distributors, the buying and selling for the whole community being managed by a single agency. The free choice of individuals as to their manner of life would…
John Stuart Mill, Socialism
Close in meaning to Nonprofit organization; the term itself is not named.
It served also to make the organization of the state more constructively interested in matters of public concern. It left less to chance, less to mere individual logical conviction, less to the workings of private self-interest.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Nonprofit organization; the term itself is not named.
(1) any such copy or phonorecord is retained and used solely by the organization that made it, or by a governmental body or nonprofit organization entitled to transmit a performance of a work under section 110(8), and no further copies or phonorecords are reproduced from it; and (2) any such copy or phonorecord is used solely for transmissions authorized under section 110(8), or for purposes or archival preservation…
Library of Congress. Copyright Office, Copyright Law of the United States of America
Names Nonprofit organization several times; opens on Nonprofit organization.
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Part of Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.