How to Use nonprofit in a Sentence

nonprofit

adjective
  • Schools don't pay sales tax on supplies because they have nonprofit status.
  • Since then, the nonprofit clubs have shared the cost of care, repair and maintenance.
    Daniel Brenner, The Denver Post, 13 July 2024
  • When asked to help a friend's nonprofit group get donations to some of the more than two two million refugees in Poland, Ramsey didn't blink.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The nonprofit center hosts walking tours of the city that start in March and continue throughout the year (tickets are $25; visitahc.org).
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Lown Institute is a nonprofit health care think tank based in a Boston suburb.
    The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The city had to find nonprofit organizations to manage the sites and people to staff them.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Annelise Cochran, a 30-year-old who worked for an ocean conservation nonprofit, couldn’t get out by car, and the building next to her was on fire.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • That’s partly because medicine has swallowed much of the nonprofit sector.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Both the nonprofit and CNN define mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter.
    Josh Campbell, CNN, 7 May 2023
  • In an agreement with the city, the nonprofit organization now owns the plot, marking its importance as a resource in one of the city’s many food deserts.
    Hailey Closson, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • The nonprofit organization has run the system for the entire US for 37 years.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Residents are given advance notice of the cleanup, and city and nonprofit staff are on hand to help pack up belongings.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • They will be collected in a volume to be produced by the nonprofit publishing house Deep Vellum.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • But the decline was so dramatic that one of the largest nonprofit homeless services providers in the region questioned the count’s accuracy.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
  • Chloe also shared that a portion of proceeds earned from sales were donated to the nonprofit Solving Kids' Cancer, raising a total of $9,000.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The nonprofit, right-of-center Tax Foundation estimates the 4 percent tax would raise more like $185 billion.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Those fears have largely come true, at least according to anecdotal accounts like Rose’s and research from nonprofit groups.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The Tribune has been on the cutting edge of a golden age in local nonprofit journalism — and even after Wednesday’s layoffs, remains one of the largest local newsrooms in the country.
    Laura Wagner, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Common App is a nonprofit platform that enables students to apply to more than 1,000 colleges and universities.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, OpenAI is preparing to announce a new structure that will see its for-profit arm no longer subservient to the board of its nonprofit foundation.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Another study by the nonprofit RMI found that a fifth of childhood asthma cases in California could be attributed to gas stove use.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Widely seen as a pillar of Vietnam’s nonprofit sector and a leading critic of fossil fuels, Hong has led petition drives and protests against coal plants.
    Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • The number of days of fire weather, which refers to the conditions that promote wildfire spread, has already increased, according to the nonprofit Climate Central.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 July 2024
  • Most nonprofit organizations have at least a few staff members and volunteers whose work puts them in front of the general public.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Garner's special story-time sessions are part of her work for the nonprofit organization Save the Children.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Bannon was accused of taking more than $1 million through a separate nonprofit, then secretly paying some of it back to Kolfage.
    Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
  • After six years of having cancer-research nonprofit 5 for the Fight as their jersey patch sponsor, the Utah Jazz will announce a new patch partnership on Thursday morning.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • All team members have been displaced and have started living in tents, the nonprofit organization says.
    Vincent Ni, NPR, 11 May 2024
  • The nonprofit organization provides services and resources to all persons with disabilities to help further their independence in Santa Clara County.
    Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The Conference Board is a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank and business membership organization that has been measuring consumer confidence since 1967.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2024

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