- The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is an international financial institution which offers political risk insurance and credit enhancement guarantees. These guarantees help investors protect foreign direct investments against political and non-commercial risks in developing countries. MIGA is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.In September 1985, the Board of Governors of the World Bank endorsed the Convention establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. MIGA was established and became operational on April 12, 1988 under the leadership of then-Executive Vice President Yoshio Terasawa, becoming the fifth member institution of the World Bank Group.
- 根據以往慣例，世銀行長由最大股東美國提名的美國公民擔任。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190208/00180_015.html
federal reserve bank
- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the United States' central bank. Missouri is the only state to have two main branches of Federal Reserve Banks. (Kansas City also has a bank).Congress gave the Federal Reserve responsibility for setting monetary policy under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 so that actions taken by the central bank would be free from political concerns. Along with the other 11 regional Feds, the St. Louis Fed helps guide the nation's economy by participating on the Federal Open Market Committee. Advised by the research division staff, President James Bullard contributes informed opinions about national and district conditions, and participates in FOMC decisions concerning monetary policy, including setting the federal funds rate.The St. Louis Fed supervises state-member banks and bank holding companies, and, since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, savings and loan holding companies. The Banking Supervision and Regulation division, led by executive vice president Julie Stackhouse, is tasked with assessing the safety and soundness of financial institutions' assets and operations, the effectiveness of their risk management practices, and their compliance with laws and regulations governing activities and consumer protection. Examiners collect and verify data from financial institutions to ensure an accurate accounting of financial institutions' conditions, as well as data on the money and reserves in the banking system. The Federal Reserve is considered the "lender of last resort" for financial institutions, and the St. Louis Fed is tasked with ensuring adequate liquidity in financial markets by making loans to depository institutions through the "discount window" and allowing the prudent use of intraday credit. The St. Louis Fed processes bank applications for acquisitions and new activities.
- リッチモンド連邦準備銀行（リッチモンドれんぽうじゅんびぎんこう、Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond）は、アメリカ合衆国の連邦準備銀行のひとつ。 この項目は、金融機関（銀行等）に関連した書きかけの項目です。この項目を加筆・訂正などしてくださる協力者を求めています（プロジェクト 経済/プロジェクト 金融）。
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international
- multilateral investment guarantee agency http://www.miga.org/
- international studies association http://www.isanet.org/
- international strategic studies association http://www.strategicstudies.org/
- world policy institute
- http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2012/03/07/world-order-models-project
- The Atlanta Council on International Relations (ACIR) is the successor organization to the Atlanta Committee on Foreign Relations (ACFR). ACFR was the Atlanta Chapter of the Council on Foreign Relations, the pre-eminent foreign policy think tank which was instituted in 1921 and continues as a national organization today. The founders of ACFR, Robert Summerville and Granger Hansell, a prominent businessman and lawyer, respectively, sought to bring to Atlanta business, professional and academic communities exposure to issues relating to United States foreign policy through this association with the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations sponsored visiting speakers which they brought to the ACFR with particular knowledge and expertise concerning international issues facing the United States. The ACFR was one of Atlanta's first international organizations and has impacted Atlanta's growth into the vibrant international city it is today.In the early 1990s the membership of ACFR voted to terminate its affiliation with the Council on Foreign Relations and form a new organization, ACIR, which would act independently through the organization of its own programs and speakers. https://atlantacir.org/about
- 台灣當局放寬對美豬、美牛進口限制惹起爭議之際，台灣的外交部長吳釗燮前日出席「亞特蘭大國際關係協會」（ACIR）視訊會議表示，現在正是絕佳時機，讓台美雙方洽簽雙邊貿易協定（BTA）。他又對美國即將啟動的台美高層「經濟暨商業對話」表示期待。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200912/00178_001.html
- the mission of the Columbia Council for Internationals (CCFI) to stimulate community interest and participation in services to international students, scholars, visiting family, medical staff, and other visitors during their stay in South Carolina, while acting as a clearinghouse for activities with internationals. https://www.columbiacfi.org/about/
- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/07/05/americas-amateur-diplomats
- The Group of Thirty, often abbreviated to G30, is an international body of leading financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sectors related to these issues. Topical areas within the interest of the group include: the foreign exchange market, international capital markets, international financial institutions, central banks and their supervision of financial services and markets, and macroeconomic issues such as product and labor markets. The group is noted for its advocacy of changes in global clearing and settlement.
regional
- The Organization of American States (Spanish: Organización de los Estados Americanos, Portuguese: Organização dos Estados Americanos, French: Organisation des États américains), or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in Washington, United States,[1]the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of the Americas. As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.The notion of an international union in the New World was first put forward by Simón Bolívar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama (still being part of Colombia), proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela), Peru, Bolivia, The United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately ratified only by Gran Colombia. Bolívar's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than New World outlooks in the newly independent American republics. Bolívar's dream of American unity was meant to unify Hispanic American nations against external powers. The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the forefront in 1889–1890, at the First International Conference of American States. Gathered together in Washington, D.C., 18 nations resolved to found the International Union of American Republics, served by a permanent secretariat called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (renamed the International Commercial Bureau at the Second International Conference in 1901–1902). These two bodies, in existence as of 14 April 1890, represent the point of inception to which the OAS and its General Secretariat trace their origins. At the Fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the Union of American Republics and the Bureau became the Pan American Union. The Pan American Union Building was constructed in 1910, on Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
- The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB or IDB or BID) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development, social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies, including State corporations.
- Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) is a public-private partnership between Florida’s business and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for Florida. EFI’s mission is to expand and diversify the state’s economy through job creation. In pursuit of its mission, EFI works closely with a statewide network of economic development partners and is funded both by the State of Florida and by private-sector businesses.
- The National Governors Association (NGA) is an American political organization founded in 1908. The association’s members are the governors of the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. Members come to the association from across the political spectrum, but NGA itself is nonpartisan.In 1907, the Inland Waterways Commission thought it necessary to ask the Conference of Governors to provide both state and national views relating to practical questions dealing with natural resources utilization and management in the Progressive Era.[1] The NGA represents the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). It is funded primarily by state dues, federal grants and contracts, and private contributions.The NGA serves as a public policy liaison between the state governments and the federal government. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and at the White House when discussing federal issues to developing policy reports on state programs and hosting networking seminars for state executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors.NGA adopted a policy in 1977 formalizing its standard practice for many years: The position of NGA chair alternates yearly between Republican and Democratic governors, so that neither party can control the position for two consecutive years. The vice chair is usually of the opposite party to the chair, and generally assumes the role of NGA chair the following year.
political party
- The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States. For a few years, 1892–96, it played a major role as a left-wing force in American politics. It was merged into the Democratic Party in 1896; a small independent remnant survived until 1908. It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left-wing of American politics. It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement. Established in 1891, as a result of the Populist movement, the People's Party reached its zenith in the 1892 presidential election, when its ticket, composed of James B. Weaver and James G. Field, won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried five states (Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada and North Dakota), and the 1894 House of Representatives elections, when it took over 10% of the vote. Built on a coalition of poor, white cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the Plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), the Populists represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to elites, cities, banks, railroads, and gold. The party sometimes allied with labor unions in the North and Republicans in the South. In the 1896 presidential elections the Populists endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adding their own vice presidential nominee. By joining with the Democrats, the People's Party lost its independent identity and rapidly withered away. The terms "populism" and "populist" have been used in the 20th and 21st centuries to describe anti-elitist appeals against established interests or mainstream parties, referring to both the political left and right.
think tank
- urban institute http://www.urban.org/
- american enterprise institute http://www.aei.org/
- tax analysts http://www.taxanalysts.com/, on government tax policy
- american enterprise institute http://www.aei.org/
- wilson centre http://www.wilsoncenter.org/
- milken institute http://www.milkeninstitute.org/
- cato
- http://www.christenseninstitute.org/
- http://www.manhattan-institute.org/about/
- http://www.rand.org/
- The Economic Strategy Institute is an activist think tank formed for the purpose of developing a new economic agenda in the United States.
- United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace http://carnegieendowment.org/
- International Development Exchange https://www.idex.org
- organisation of american states http://www.oas.org/ - centre for strategic and international studies http://csis.org/
- http://www.afsa.org American Foreign Service Association
- The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, our work across the region addresses five overarching goals—strengthen governance, empower women, expand economic opportunity, increase environmental resilience, and promote regional cooperation. Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation works through a network of offices in 18 Asian countries and in Washington, DC. Working with public and private partners, the Foundation receives funding from a diverse group of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. In 2016, we provided $87.8 million in direct program support and distributed textbooks and other educational materials valued at $9.5 million. http://asiafoundation.org/
- The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental, non-partisan discussion group founded by David Rockefeller in July 1973, to foster closer cooperation among North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The Trilateral Commission initiated its biannual meetings schedule in October 1973 in Tokyo. In May 1976, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups took place in Kyoto. It was through these early meetings that the group effected its most profound influence, the integration of Japan into the global political conversation. Before these exchanges, the country was much more isolated on the international stage. Since its founding, the discussion group has produced an official journal called Trialogue. Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of the think tank's three regional areas. The North American continent is represented by 120 members (20 Canadian, 13 Mexican and 87 U.S. citizens). The European group has reached its limit of 170 members from almost every country on the continent; the ceilings for individual countries are 20 for Germany, 18 for France, Italy and the United Kingdom, 12 for Spain and 1–6 for the rest. At first, Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan. However, in 2000 the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, 7 Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also included 9 members from China, Hong Kong (include Lawrence Lau) and Taiwan. Currently, the Trilateral Commission claims "more than 100" Pacific Asian members. While Trilateral Commission bylaws exclude persons holding public office from membership, the think tank draws its participants from political, business, and academic worlds. The group is chaired by three individuals, one from each of the regions represented. The current chairmen are former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet and Yasuchika Hasegawa.
- Global Policy Forum is an independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United Nations and scrutinizes global policymaking. We promote accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international law. GPF gathers information and circulates it through a comprehensive website, as well as through reports and newsletters. We play an active role in NGO networks and other advocacy arenas. We organize meetings and conferences and we publish original research and policy papers. GPF analyzes deep and persistent structures of power and dissects rapidly-emerging issues and crises. GPF's work challenges mainstream thinking and questions conventional wisdom. We seek egalitarian, cooperative, peaceful and sustainable solutions to the world's great problems.
- The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College is an applied research and advocacy center with the mission of advancing community-driven programs and policies to build healthy, thriving communities and achieve social, economic, and environmental justice.
Political science
- http://www.apsanet.org American Political Science Association
honor society
- Pi Delta Phi (ΠΔΦ) is the National French Honor Society for undergraduate and graduate students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States. Pi Delta Phi was founded as a departmental honor society for French at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1906. After twenty years as a local chapter, Pi Delta Phi declared itself the National French Honor Society and chartered the Beta Chapter at the University of Southern California in 1925, and the Gamma Chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1926. The society expanded slowly during the next fifteen years but enjoyed renewed interest after World War II when the it received the official endorsement of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) in 1949.[1] The society was admitted to membership in the Association of College Honor Societies in 1967. It currently numbers more than 380 chapters established at representative public and private colleges and universities in almost every state, as well as chapters in Paris and Aix-en-Provence.
- Delta Phi Beta was originally a fraternity established in 1988 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This co-ed fraternity was created to strengthen the link between the main campus and the branch campus in Kittanning, PA. Delta Phi Beta (ΔΦΒ), established in 1992 at the University of California, Berkeley, is the United States' first South Asian fraternity. Delta Phi Beta is a co-ed South Asian Greek organization based on the pillars of community involvement, cultural awareness, academic excellence, and social enhancement. Currently, there are chapters at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, Davis. symbol is elephant.
- The Phi Beta Delta Society (ΦΒΔ) is an international honor society that was founded at California State University, Long Beach in 1986. It was the first honor society dedicated to recognize scholarly achievement in international education, giving scholarships to deserving students and enhancing knowledge about various cultures around the world.[2] It was established as a national organization in 1987 with 38 chartered chapters, and has grown to become an international organization with over 168 chapters. The motto of the society is "Scientia Mutua Mundi" (World's Shared Knowledge).[4] Phi Beta Delta (ΦΒΔ) stands for philomatheia, biotremmonia, diapheren — "Love of knowledge, valuing of human life; and achieving excellence".
- Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), also known as "Sammy", is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909.[2] Originally a Jewish-only organization,[2] the fraternity became open to men of all faiths in 1953. Originally headquartered in New York, the national fraternity relocated its international headquarters to Indianapolis, Indiana. Since its inception, Sigma Alpha Mu has initiated more than 63,000 members at more than 120 active and inactive chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada.In the fall of 1909, the sophomore class at the College of the City of New York had found itself embarrassed by "lowly freshmen". At a school where "warfare" between freshman and sophomore class was a tradition, the sophomores found it necessary to regain their fallen honor. Class Marshal Lester Cohen called a meeting of sophomore leaders on November 26, 1909 to decide on a plan for redemption. Eight appeared in proper order Ira N. Lind, Jacob Kaplan, Lester Cohen, Samuel Ginsburg, Hyman I. Jacobson, David D. Levinson, Abraham N. Kerner, Adolph I. Fabis, who are now known as the Founders of Sigma Alpha Mu.
"elite"
- The Economic Club of Chicago was founded in 1927 by Lucius Teter, president of the Chicago Trust Company. Teter and his co-founders wisely understood that simply listening to speeches did not stimulate and encourage leadership. Rather, they wanted to provide a venue for experienced leaders to meet with future leaders so they could pass on to them their business and civic ideas and ideals. Ultimately, they invited 800 rising young executives and 200 of Chicago’s senior business leaders to join the Club. Together, they invited the foremost authorities on contemporary economic and business ideas to join them for debate and discussion.
fraternal
- The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society[2] founded in Washington, D.C., on 19 February 1864. The Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress.[3] It was founded by Justus H. Rathbone, who had been inspired by a play by the Irish poet John Banim about the legend of Damon and Pythias. This legend illustrates the ideals of loyalty, honor, and friendship that are the center of the order. The order has over 2,000 lodges in the United States and around the world, with a total membership of over 50,000 in 2003. The order is headquartered in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Some lodges meet in structures referred to as Pythian Castles.
trade/business
- WORLD TRADE CENTERS ASSOCIATION https://www.wtca.org Board Members contribute diverse global trade and industry expertise that encompass the WTC global brand of iconic properties and integrated trade services.
- international economic alliance http://www.iealliance.org/
- coalition of services industries (involved in TISA) https://servicescoalition.org/negotiations/trade-in-services-agreement
- competitive enterprise institute http://cei.org/
- Southern United States Trade Association http://www.susta.org/
retail
- retail industry leaders association http://www.rila.org/Pages/default.aspx
- national retail federation https://nrf.com/
- international council of shopping centers http://www.icsc.org/
investment
- association to invest in usa http://www.iiusa.org/
- international centre for settlement of investment disputes https://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/Index.jsp
finance
-The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is the association or trade group for the global financial services industry. It was created by 38 banks of leading industrialized countries in 1983 in response to the international debt crisis of the early 1980s,[1] [2] and has since expanded to represent more than 450 firms from more than 70 countries. IIF members include commercial and investment banks, asset managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, central banks and development banks. http://www.iif.com/
- inter-american development bank http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html
- Global platform http://www.globalplatform.org/ a cross industry, non-profit association which identifies, develops and publishes specifications that promote the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple applications on secure chip technology.
- investor responsibility research centre institute http://www.irrcinstitute.org/
- international tax and investment center http://www.iticnet.org/
- The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute or SWF Institute, or SWFI, is a global corporation analyzing public asset owners such as sovereign wealth funds and other long-term governmental investors http://www.swfinstitute.org/
- future industry association http://www.futuresindustry.org/
- National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
- The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the National Academies is one of the highest honors in the scientific field. Members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation" on science, engineering, and medicine. The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. Founded in 1863 as a result of an Act of Congress that was approved by Abraham Lincoln, the NAS is charged with "providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. … to provide scientific advice to the government 'whenever called upon' by any government department. The Academy receives no compensation from the government for its services."
- Federation of American Scientists http://fas.org/
- association of university technology managers http://www.autm.net/Home.htm
- http://www.aaas.org/ american association for the advancement of science
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences in the United States, with 286 active chapters.
Social science
- http://www.russellsage.org
Artificial intelligence / robots
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
food
- Food and Agriculture Association http://www.fao.org/home/en/
- http://www.nasda.org/About/9401.aspx regional associations and trade groups
- us meat export federation http://www.usmef.org/, has office in HK
- FAS supports four State Regional Trade Groups (SRTGs), which in turn assist U.S. companies with creating and expanding export markets for value-added food and agricultural products. These non-profit organizations work closely with state Departments of Agriculture http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/market-access-program-map/state-regional-trade-groups
http://www.foodprotection.org/
- international food policy research institute http://www.ifpri.org/
- institute for agriculture and trade policy http://www.iatp.org/about
- escoffier society http://www.escoffier-society.com/
- national coffee association http://www.ncausa.org/
- https://www.allianceforcoffeeexcellence.org/en/cup-of-excellence/country-programs/colombia-second-program/2014/international-jury/
- organic trade association https://www.ota.com/
- national sanitation foundation http://www.nsf.org/
- intertribal agriculture council www.americanindianfoods.com
- 4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".[1] Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto ‘head, heart, hands, and health’ which was later incorporated into the fuller pledge officially adopted in 1927. In the United States, the organization is administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 4-H Canada is an independent non-profit organization overseeing the operation of branches throughout Canada.[2] Throughout the world, 4-H organizations exist in over 50 countries;[3] the organization and administration varies from country to country. Each of these programs operates independently but cooperatively through international exchanges, global education programs, and communications.4-H membership hit an all-time high in 1974 as a result of its popular educational program about nutrition, Mulligan Stew, shown in schools and on television across the country. Today, 4-H clubs and activities are no longer focused primarily on agricultural activities, instead emphasizing personal growth and preparation for lifelong learning. Participation is greatest during the elementary school years, with enrollment in programs and activities peaking in the 4th grade. In the southern United States, in the mid-1960s 4-H began to broaden its programming to cover life experiences unrelated to agriculture. It merged its segregated African American and white programs, but full-fledged integration proved elusive. 4-H was successful in removing gender-based restrictions on participation. Past Honorary Chairmen of Council have included U.S. Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
soybean
- us soybean export council
Commodities
- Asian American Journalists Association http://www.aaja.org/
- food service
Licensing/trademark
- Society of Product Licensors Committed to Excellence http://spliceonline.com/
- International Trademark Association http://www.inta.org/
- international franchise association http://www.franchise.org/
- music
- PactUS is an all-American association of TV and content production companies drawing on the incredible success of its sister organization in Britain, representing creatives for over 20 years - See more at: http://pact.us/#sthash.Tpwj7Qjx.dpuf
PactUS will hold small meetings, webinars, and podcasts offering expert advice. We keep our members interconnected with the latest news and each other for the broadest view of the TV and content landscape.
PactUS reaches out to...
• Local Governments
• State Governments
• Industry Leaders
...in search of tax incentives and grants for our members. As part of our outreach, PactUS will initiate detailed research so we are recognized as an informed voice speaking for our members and the industry. - See more at: http://pact.us/about-us.html#sthash.3ZzmBAS4.dpuf
Film
- American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) is a non-profit theatre producer and training organization that was established in 1935 to be the official United Statesnational theatre that would be an alternative to the for-profit Broadway houses of the day.
Pirate
- us pirate party
Fashion/textile
- American Apparel and Footwear Assosciation https://www.wewear.org/
- Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry http://www.inda.org
- http://www.ifai.com Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), a nonprofit trade association representing the global specialty fabrics market.
Gems/jewellery
- gemological institute of america http://www.gia.edu/
- world diamond council http://www.worlddiamondcouncil.com/
wood
- american hardwood export council http://ahec.org/
Arts
- Artist Pension Trust http://www.aptglobal.org/en/
Futurist
- The World Future Society (WFS) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1966 and based in Chicago, IL.[1] Each year it reviews the past year in order to make predictions about the future,[2] and each July holds a conference which features speakers and one- or two-day courses dealing with futures studies. Membership is open and many members are not professional futurists.[3] The society says that its membership includes sociologists, scientists, corporate planners, educators, students and retirees.
mongolia
- The Mongolia Society was founded in 1961 as a private, non-profit, non-political organization interested in promoting the study of Mongolia, its history, language, and culture. The aims of the Society are exclusively scholarly, educational, and charitable.
http://mongoliasociety.org/news-events/
Middle east
- Middle East Studies Association (often referred to as MESA) is a learned society, and according to its website, "a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom." Founded in 1966.
- http://timep.org Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Africa
- corporate council on africa http://www.africacncl.org/
- http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/about/
chinese
- http://www.cgccusa.org Founded in 2005, China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. (CGCC) is a non -profit organization representing Chinese enterprises in the United States.
- http://www.uschinainternationaltradeassociation.com/
- Chinese Globalisation Association http://www.chinagoesglobal.org/
http://www.80-20initiative.net/
- Yale China Association http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/art/20140416/18690676
- US States and Ports Association Greater China (including HK) http://www.usspahk.org/
- http://uschinastrong.orgThe US-China Strong Foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen US-China relations by investing in a new generation of leaders who have the knowledge and skills to engage with China.
antarctica
- The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) was founded in 1991 by seven companies.[1] The primary goal of the association is to "advocate and promote the practice of safe and environmentally responsible private-sector travel to the Antarctic".
legal
- The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), founded as the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) in 1983, is a professional association serving the business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations around the world.
healthcare/medical
- The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota, focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.[4] It employs more than 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff. The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary care and destination medicine. It is home to the highly ranked[how?] Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in addition to many of the largest, best regarded residency education programs in the United States. It spends over $660 million a year on research and has more than 3,000 full-time research personnel. William Worrall Mayo settled his family in Rochester in 1864 and opened a sole proprietorship medical practice that evolved under his sons, Will and Charlie Mayo, into Mayo Clinic. Today, in addition to its flagship hospital in Rochester, Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Arizona[12] and Florida.[13] The Mayo Clinic Health System also operates affiliated facilities throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
- cardlinx http://cardlinx.org/ The CardLinx Association increases interoperability, eliminates friction, and promotes the growth of the card linked offers industry
- fibre to home council http://www.ftthcouncil.org/
- computer and communications industry association https://www.ccianet.org/real estate
- national association of realtors http://www.realtor.org/
- http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org
- Internet Security Alliance
- Wi-Fi Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes Wi-Fi technology and certifies Wi-Fi products for conformity to certain standards of interoperability. Not every IEEE 802.11-compliant device is submitted for certification to the Wi-Fi Alliance, sometimes because of costs associated with the certification process. The lack of the Wi-Fi logo does not necessarily imply a device is incompatible with Wi-Fi devices. The Wi-Fi Alliance owns the Wi-Fi trademark. Manufacturers may use the trademark to brand certified products that have been tested for interoperability. Founded in 1999.
- The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge."[notes 2][notes 3] It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of public-domain books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[notes 4][4] The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects. Founded in 1996.
The Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in the United States. It has an annual budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources: revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation.Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. From 1996 to 2009, headquarters were in the Presidio of San Francisco, a former U.S. military base. Since 2009, headquarters have been at 300 Funston Avenue in San Francisco, a former Christian Science Church.
-The International Game Developers Association (IGDA)was founded in 1994 by Ernest W. Adams and was initially known as the Computer Game Developers Association (CGDA).[3] Modeled after the Association for Computing Machinery, Adams envisioned the organization to support the careers and interests of individual developers, as opposed to being a trade organization, or an advocacy group for companies.
infrastructure
- Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy http://www.usc.edu/schools/price/keston/institute/staff.html
building/construction
- International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
- international association of lighting designers http://www.iald.org/
PR/marketing
- Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) http://www.ccsso.org/
museum
- The Smithsonian Institution (/smɪθˈsoʊniən/ smith-SOE-nee-ən), established in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.[1] Originally organized as the "United States National Museum," that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967.
heritage preservation
- World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.
The International Fund for Monuments(IFM) was an organization created by Colonel James A. Gray (1909–1994) after his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1960. Gray had conceived of a visionary project to arrest the settlement of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by freezing the soil underneath, and formed the organization in 1965 as a vehicle for the implementation of this idea.
student
- http://enactus.org/
fragrance
- research institute fragrance materials http://www.rifm.org/
- american society of perfumers http://www.perfumers.org/
material
- materials research society http://www.mrs.org/home/
- The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) is the global organization for the accountancy profession. Founded in 1977, IFAC has more than 175 members and associates in more than 130 countries and jurisdictions, representing almost 3 million accountants employed in public practice, industry and commerce, government, and academe.[3] The organization supports the development, adoption and implementation of international standards for accounting education, ethics, and the public sector as well as audit and assurance. It supports four independent standard-setting boards, which establish international standards on ethics, auditing and assurance, accounting education, and public sector accounting. It also issues guidance to encourage high quality performance by professional accountants in business and small and medium accounting practices.Among the key initiatives of IFAC is the organizing of the World Congress of Accountants.
- The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is an independent standards body which issues standards, like the International Standards on Auditing, quality control guidelines and other services, to support the international auditing of financial statements. It is a body supported by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). The Public Interest Oversight Board provides oversight of the IAASB, ensuring that the standards are in the public interest.
Taxation
corporate goverance
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the audits of public companies and other issuers in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports. Since 2010, the PCAOB also oversees the audits of broker-dealers, including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws, to promote investor protection. All PCAOB rules and standards must be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
private detective
- world association of detectives http://www.wad.net
corruption/graft
- https://www.opensecrets.org
Whistle blowing
- http://www.whistleblowers.org The Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. A non-partisan public-interest group, GAP litigates whistleblower cases, helps expose wrongdoing to the public, and actively promotes government and corporate accountability. Since 1977, GAP has helped over 6,000 whistleblowers. - See more at: http://whistleblower.org/truth-be-told-it-isn%E2%80%99t-tagline-it%E2%80%99s-our-driving-purpose#sthash.qoyEYOhk.dpuf
Ethics
- The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) empowers its members across the globe to operate their businesses at the highest levels of integrity. ECI provides leading ethics and compliance research and best practices, networking opportunities and certification to its membership, which represents more than 450 organizations across all industries. ECI is comprised of three nonprofit organizations: the Ethics Research Center, the Ethics & Compliance Association and the Ethics & Compliance Certification Institute. www.ethics.org
freedom
- http://www.freedomhouse.org/
- world service authority http://www.worldgovernment.org/
human rights
- http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
immigration
- World Education Services (WES) is a nonprofit organization that provides credential evaluations for international students and immigrants planning to study or work in the U.S. and Canada.[1] Founded in 1974, it is based in New York, U.S.. It also has operations in Toronto, Canada. WES evaluates more than 200,000 credentials per year, they auto-authenticate and define foreign education in U.S. or Canadian terms. WES reports that their credential evaluations are non-binding advisory opinions. WES's proprietary database collects and stores information of academic certificates of more than 200 countries, 45,000 foreign institutions, 20,000 academic credentials. However, they do not have formal agreements with educational systems of any country and the kept certificates are voluntarily provided by the candidates, and they operate with third party motives.
standard
- council on accreditation http://coanet.org/
fire protection
- national fire protection association http://www.nfpa.org/
family
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3)[4]and a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). PPFA has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921,[5]which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942. Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States.[2][3] It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally.[2][3] The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of reproductive rights. PPFA is the largest single provider of reproductive health services, including abortion, in the U.S. The origins of Planned Parenthood date to October 16, 1916, when Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in the Brownsville section of the New York borough of Brooklyn.[15] They distributed birth control, birth control advice, and birth control information. All three women were arrested[16][17][18] and jailed for violating provisions of the Comstock Act, accused of distributing obscene materials at the clinic. The so-called Brownsville trials brought national attention and support to their cause. Sanger and her co-defendants were convicted on misdemeanor charges, which they appealed through two subsequent appeals courts. While the convictions were not overturned,[19] the judge who issued the final ruling also modified the law to permit physician-prescribed birth control. The women's campaign led to major changes in the laws governing birth control and sex education in the United States. In 1921 the clinic was organized into the American Birth Control League,[5] the core of the only national birth-control organization in the U.S. until the 1960s. By 1941 it was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients.[21] However, some found its title offensive and "against families", so the League began discussions for a new name.[22] In 1938, a group of private citizens organized the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood to aid the American Birth Control League in spreading scientific knowledge about birth control to the general public. In 1942, the League officially changed its name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Largely relying on a volunteer workforce, by 1960 the Federation had provided family planning counseling in hundreds of communities across the country.[21] Planned Parenthood was one of the founding members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation when it was launched at a conference in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in 1952. Both Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are strongly associated with the abortion issue today. For much of the organization's history, however, and throughout Sanger's life, abortion was illegal in the United States, and discussions of the issue were often censored.[26] During this period, Sanger – like other American advocates of birth control – publicly condemned abortion, arguing that it would not be needed if every woman had access to birth control.
women
- http://www.womencorporatedirectors.com/
religion
- American Atheists https://atheists.org/
Jew
- orthodox union
catholic
- Center of Concern https://www.coc.org/
- Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.Congregationalism in the United States traces its origins to the Puritans of New England, who wrote the Cambridge Platform of 1648 to describe the autonomy of the church and its association with others. Within the United States, the model of Congregational churches was carried by migrating settlers from New England into New York, then into the Old North West, and further. With their insistence on independent local bodies, they became important in many social reform movements, including abolitionism, temperance, and women's suffrage. Modern Congregationalism in the United States is largely split into three bodies: the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, which is the most theologically conservative.
- Biblica, The International Bible Society, was founded in 1809 and is the worldwide copyright holder of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), licensing commercial rights to Zondervan in the United States and to Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom. Biblica is also a member of the Forum of Bible Agencies International and Every Tribe Every Nation. Biblica was founded December 4, 1809, in New York City as the New York Bible Society by a small group including Henry Rutgers, William Colgate, Theodorus Van Wyke and Thomas Eddy.
- bible league international
- International Lutheran Council
- first church of christ, scientist, boston
Islam
- council on arab american islamic relations
- american arab anti discrimination committee
- Arab american institute
- american muslim council
Superstition
Philanthropy
- The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership. A not-for-profit corporation, the Luce Foundation operates under the laws of the State of New York and aims to exemplify the best practices of responsible, effective philanthropy. [linked to christine loh]
Equestrian
- The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF or US Equestrian) is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States. It began on January 20, 1917, as the Association of American Horse Shows, later changed to the American Horse Shows Association (AHSA). In 2001, the organization changed its name to USA Equestrian (USAE) and, in 2003 it merged with the United States Equestrian Team (USET). In 2017, USEF rebranded as US Equestrian.
sports
- American Canyoneering Association
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) was founded in New York Cityon June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It changed its name to the National Basketball Association on August 3, 1949, after merging with the competing National Basketball League (NBL).The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional men's basketball league in the United States established in 1937.
social service
- Zonta International is an international service organization with the mission of advancing the status of women.
- The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.[3] The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time.[4] The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.
- Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. Junior Achievement works with local businesses and organizations to deliver experiential programs on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to students in kindergarten through high school.
charity
- site to check reports of charities
dubious
- G30 was founded in 1978 by Geoffrey Bell at the initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, which also provided initial funding for the body. Its first chairman was Johannes Witteveen, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The G30's current Chairman is Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Its current Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Jacob Frenkel, and Paul Volcker is Chairman Emeritus. The Bellagio Group, formed by Austrian economist Fritz Machlup, was the immediate predecessor to the Group of Thirty.[4] It first met in 1963, to investigate international currency problems, particularly the balance of payments crisis which America faced throughout the early 1960s. In June 2011, the group released a report that examines the most recent developments in the 2008 financial crisis, including the causes, the responses and the future outlook for the United States and other markets. In January 2018, the European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly requested that ECB President Mario Draghi resign from the group because his membership in the organization could be interpreted as undue influence.
- list of members in chinese and deutsche wiki version 周小川 is the 31st
- William C. Dudley (born 1953) is an American economist who served as the president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009-2018 and as vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He was appointed to the position on January 27, 2009, following the confirmation of his predecessor, Timothy F. Geithner, as United States Secretary of the Treasury.In 2019, Dudley joined the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University as a senior research scholar. He is a member of the G30 and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the Bank for International Settlements Board of Directors from 2009 to 2018 and chaired the BIS Committee on Payment Settlement Systems (2009-2012) and the Committee on the Global Financial System (2012-2018).Dudley pioneered the importance of financial conditions in assessing the appropriate stance of monetary policy. He also led an effort by the NY Fed to highlight the importance of improving culture and conduct in the financial services industry. He has stressed the importance of incentives. Incentives drive conduct and behavior and this helps establish the social norms that define culture.In 2002, Dudley wrote the Federal Reserve should have "tightened policy earlier and more aggressively during the 1996-1999 period", with the hope that the downward forces would not have been so intense after the collapse of the stock market that began in 2000.Dudley was criticized for remarks over food inflation in 2011 when he argued that you have to look at all prices when looking at inflation.
regional
- The Organization of American States (Spanish: Organización de los Estados Americanos, Portuguese: Organização dos Estados Americanos, French: Organisation des États américains), or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in Washington, United States,[1]the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of the Americas. As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.The notion of an international union in the New World was first put forward by Simón Bolívar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama (still being part of Colombia), proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela), Peru, Bolivia, The United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately ratified only by Gran Colombia. Bolívar's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than New World outlooks in the newly independent American republics. Bolívar's dream of American unity was meant to unify Hispanic American nations against external powers. The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the forefront in 1889–1890, at the First International Conference of American States. Gathered together in Washington, D.C., 18 nations resolved to found the International Union of American Republics, served by a permanent secretariat called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (renamed the International Commercial Bureau at the Second International Conference in 1901–1902). These two bodies, in existence as of 14 April 1890, represent the point of inception to which the OAS and its General Secretariat trace their origins. At the Fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the Union of American Republics and the Bureau became the Pan American Union. The Pan American Union Building was constructed in 1910, on Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
- bolivia
- The Organization of American States in a preliminary report published on Sunday said there had been widespread computer manipulation of the result, explaining: “In the four elements reviewed (technology, chain of custody, the integrity of the minutes and statistical projections) irregularities were found, ranging from very serious to indicative. This leads the audit technical team to question the integrity of the results of the election”.Defenders of the 60-year-old Morales said the OAS was a discredited organisation led by rightwing governments. They added Morales had offered to run the elections again and pointed to alternative reports by a leftwing thinktank claiming no electoral fraud had occurred. Critics of Morales said the OAS had been asked by the Bolivian government itself to investigate the fraud. The OAS auditors revealed that at least one of the system’s servers, initially set aside to serve as a database for the electoral authorities, “was not used for the purpose on which the team was notified” and that the data of the system were diverted to an external server, outside the official network.Defenders of Morales claim late-reporting areas were pro-Morales, and so showed a surge in support for him.However, the OAS said it was possible that Morales won first place, but “improbable that he had obtained the 10% advantage to avoid a second round”.The OAS called for fresh elections run by new electoral authorities.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/11/raab-attacks-corbyn-over-support-for-ousted-bolivian-leader-evo-morales
- 中國於 2004年 5月成為該組織常任觀察員。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/28/a23-0428.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170428/00180_015.html委內瑞拉反政府示威浪潮持續，大批反總統馬杜羅的示威者周三湧上首都加拉加斯街頭，高叫口號並焚燒雜物，警方出動防暴隊及催淚氣鎮壓。連日來的衝突已造成最少二十九人死亡、逾四百三十人受傷，及一千三百人被捕。美洲國家組織（OAS）周三召開外長峰會討論委國反政府浪潮；委國批評OAS不斷侵犯該國主權，宣布將退出該組織。
- The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB or IDB or BID) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development, social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies, including State corporations.
- The IDB has four official languages: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- The March 24 ceremony celebrated the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) choice to hold its next annual meeting in Chengdu, China, a decision criticized by the United States, whose regional influence has been increasingly challenged by the Asian economic superpower. Just over a week later, China imposed tariffs on a range of U.S. products from frozen pork to wine in response to U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s decision to place tariffs on steel and aluminum from countries including China. The trade fight, which escalated further on Wednesday with China targeting key American imports including soybeans, planes and cars in retaliation for proposed U.S. tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods, has left Latin America in the middle, analyzing risks and opportunities. “The U.S. is forcing countries in the region to choose between the U.S. and China,” said Margaret Myers, director of the Latin America and the World program at the Inter-American Dialogue. “It’s putting Latin American countries in a very challenging position while at the same time not offering a particularly attractive policy.”https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-latin-america/u-s-china-rivalry-poses-risks-benefits-for-latin-america-idUSKCN1HC0F4
- https://www.iadb.org/en/news/news-releases/2017-06-14/northern-triangle-in-major-infrastructure-push%2C11824.html The Inter-American Development Bank and the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras today announced an initiative to unleash an unprecedented series of infrastructure investments as a complement to funding already being provided under the Plan of the Alliance for the Prosperity of the Northern Triangle. The initiatives would use up to $750 million in funds from the IDB Group to leverage $1.75 billion in additional funds from private and public sources in the three Northern Triangle countries over the next five years. “Under the Alliance for Prosperity, the countries of the Northern Triangle have been making real progress in areas such as citizen security, strengthening institutions and developing human capital,” said IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno. “The key over the next five years will be to tap the private sector to help build critical infrastructure that will generate jobs, improve competitiveness, and create the conditions that encourage people to build prosperous lives in their homelands.”
- 美洲開發銀行（IADB）將於下周首度在中國成都舉行年會。華府官員警告，若北京拒絕讓委內瑞拉反對派領袖瓜伊多的代表出席，美國及盟友便會杯葛會議。成立六十年IADB上周表決，獲瓜伊多支持的哈佛大學經濟學家豪斯曼（Ricardo Hausmann），將取代委國總統馬杜羅的代表。不過消息指，中國作為馬杜羅政府少數的國際盟友，已婉拒馬杜羅或瓜伊多陣營的代表赴會，以免年會政治化。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190323/00180_015.html
- 美洲開發銀行（IADB）上周五決定，取消原定下周在中國成都舉行年會，但沒有解釋原因。惟美國副總統彭斯同日表示，中方拒絕向委內瑞拉反對派領袖瓜伊多的代表豪斯曼發出簽證。中國外交部對此表示遺憾，但稱不會負上責任。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190324/00180_011.html
- Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) is a public-private partnership between Florida’s business and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for Florida. EFI’s mission is to expand and diversify the state’s economy through job creation. In pursuit of its mission, EFI works closely with a statewide network of economic development partners and is funded both by the State of Florida and by private-sector businesses.
- hk office - 1903 Cambridge House, Taikoo Place www.eflorida.com.hk
political
- emma yeung杨婉芬, director eyeung@eflorida.com.hk
- The National Governors Association (NGA) is an American political organization founded in 1908. The association’s members are the governors of the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. Members come to the association from across the political spectrum, but NGA itself is nonpartisan.In 1907, the Inland Waterways Commission thought it necessary to ask the Conference of Governors to provide both state and national views relating to practical questions dealing with natural resources utilization and management in the Progressive Era.[1] The NGA represents the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). It is funded primarily by state dues, federal grants and contracts, and private contributions.The NGA serves as a public policy liaison between the state governments and the federal government. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and at the White House when discussing federal issues to developing policy reports on state programs and hosting networking seminars for state executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors.NGA adopted a policy in 1977 formalizing its standard practice for many years: The position of NGA chair alternates yearly between Republican and Democratic governors, so that neither party can control the position for two consecutive years. The vice chair is usually of the opposite party to the chair, and generally assumes the role of NGA chair the following year.
political party
- The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States. For a few years, 1892–96, it played a major role as a left-wing force in American politics. It was merged into the Democratic Party in 1896; a small independent remnant survived until 1908. It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left-wing of American politics. It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement. Established in 1891, as a result of the Populist movement, the People's Party reached its zenith in the 1892 presidential election, when its ticket, composed of James B. Weaver and James G. Field, won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried five states (Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada and North Dakota), and the 1894 House of Representatives elections, when it took over 10% of the vote. Built on a coalition of poor, white cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the Plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), the Populists represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to elites, cities, banks, railroads, and gold. The party sometimes allied with labor unions in the North and Republicans in the South. In the 1896 presidential elections the Populists endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adding their own vice presidential nominee. By joining with the Democrats, the People's Party lost its independent identity and rapidly withered away. The terms "populism" and "populist" have been used in the 20th and 21st centuries to describe anti-elitist appeals against established interests or mainstream parties, referring to both the political left and right.
- hkej 18sep17 shum article
think tank
- urban institute http://www.urban.org/
- american enterprise institute http://www.aei.org/
- tax analysts http://www.taxanalysts.com/, on government tax policy
- american enterprise institute http://www.aei.org/
- wilson centre http://www.wilsoncenter.org/
- milken institute http://www.milkeninstitute.org/
- cato
- 雙「賤」合璧 唱衰香港
http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/07/31/a01-0731.pdf
- http://www.christenseninstitute.org/
- http://www.manhattan-institute.org/about/
- http://www.rand.org/
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150921/00178_001.html 中國軍事實力兩年後有望挑戰美國。美國著名智庫蘭德公司一份最新報告指，中國軍方近廿年來有迅速進步，中美雙方若兩年後在台灣和南沙群島上空開戰，美國將無法快速打敗中國，甚至有機會落敗，換言之解放軍已有條件化解美軍優勢。報告又指，在未來五至十五年間，美國在亞洲的區域主導地位會下降。
- established in 1945 hkej 28may18 shum article
- The Economic Strategy Institute is an activist think tank formed for the purpose of developing a new economic agenda in the United States.
- Clyde Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. He formerly served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration.[1] He is a labor economist.[2] Prestowitz has written for Foreign Affairs.Prestowitz was born to a family with a conservative Republican and evangelical Christian background[4][5] and earned a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- The Roosevelt Institute is a liberal American think tank. According to the organization, it exists "to carry forward the legacy and values of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by developing progressive ideas and bold leadership in the service of restoring America’s promise of opportunity for all."[4] It is headquartered in New York.
- The Center for the National Interest is a Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tank. The Center was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon on January 20, 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.[2] The group changed its name to The Nixon Center in 1998. In 2001 the Center acquired The National Interest, a bimonthly journal, in which it tends to promote the realist perspective on foreign policy. The Center's President is Dimitri K. Simes. In March 2011, it was renamed the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI).The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly international affairs magazine published by the Center for the National Interest. It is associated with the realist school of foreign policy thought. It was founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and until 2001 was edited by Owen Harries. The National Interest is not restricted in content to "foreign policy" in the narrow, technical sense but attempts to pay attention to broad ideas and the way in which cultural and social differences, technological innovations, history, and religion affect the behavior of states.
- The R Street Institute is an American conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.. The Institute's stated mission is to “engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government.”[2] R Street was established in 2012 when its founders split from the Heartland Institute out of disagreement with Heartland's public denial of the scientific opinion on climate change. In addition to its Washington headquarters, R Street has branch offices in Tallahassee, Florida; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.
- The Center for the National Interest is a Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tank. The Center was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon on January 20, 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.[2] The group changed its name to The Nixon Center in 1998. In 2001 the Center acquired The National Interest, a bimonthly journal, in which it tends to promote the realist perspective on foreign policy. The Center's President is Dimitri K. Simes. In March 2011, it was renamed the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI).The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly international affairs magazine published by the Center for the National Interest. It is associated with the realist school of foreign policy thought. It was founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and until 2001 was edited by Owen Harries. The National Interest is not restricted in content to "foreign policy" in the narrow, technical sense but attempts to pay attention to broad ideas and the way in which cultural and social differences, technological innovations, history, and religion affect the behavior of states.
- The R Street Institute is an American conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.. The Institute's stated mission is to “engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government.”[2] R Street was established in 2012 when its founders split from the Heartland Institute out of disagreement with Heartland's public denial of the scientific opinion on climate change. In addition to its Washington headquarters, R Street has branch offices in Tallahassee, Florida; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.
- The Economic Club of New York is a U.S. nonprofit and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to promoting the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions.The Economic Club of New York was founded in 1907 by J. W. Beatson, Secretary of the National Economic League in Boston, and four business leaders from New York City. Its founders sought to follow the successful example of the Economic Clubs of Boston, Providence, Worcester, Portland, Springfield, and New Haven with the aim of bringing business people and others together for discussions of economic, social and other public issues in a non-partisan forum.[1] For many years, the Economic Club of New York was affiliated with the League for Political Education; their first president Robert Erskine Ely was also director of the League.
- The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is an American think tank and lobbying group founded in 1975 by Charls Walker.[2]It is located on the District of Columbia's Connecticut Avenue.[3] Mark Bloomfeld and George "David" Banks serve as its president and executive vice president, respectively. The group lobbied for the Revenue Act of 1978, which cut capital gains taxes. The council supports ending the ban on crude oil exports and a flexible approach to the regulation of greenhouse gases. The council describes itself as nonpartisan,[4] while journalists generally describe its positions as "free market"[5][6] or "pro-business."
- mckinsey global institute - formed in 1990
foreign affairs
- The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. It is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Its membership, which numbers 5,103, has included senior politicians, more than a dozen secretaries of state,[citation needed] CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures http://www.cfr.org/, publishes Foreign Affairs
- The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is an American think tank and lobbying group founded in 1975 by Charls Walker.[2]It is located on the District of Columbia's Connecticut Avenue.[3] Mark Bloomfeld and George "David" Banks serve as its president and executive vice president, respectively. The group lobbied for the Revenue Act of 1978, which cut capital gains taxes. The council supports ending the ban on crude oil exports and a flexible approach to the regulation of greenhouse gases. The council describes itself as nonpartisan,[4] while journalists generally describe its positions as "free market"[5][6] or "pro-business."
- mckinsey global institute - formed in 1990
- hkej 2may19 shum article
- hkej 3may19 shum article
foreign affairs
- The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. It is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Its membership, which numbers 5,103, has included senior politicians, more than a dozen secretaries of state,[citation needed] CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures http://www.cfr.org/, publishes Foreign Affairs
- magazine http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
- The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III. Initially established to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the US, today the Society is a global institution—with offices throughout the US and Asia—that fulfills its educational mandate through a wide range of cross-disciplinary programming. As economies and cultures have become more interconnected, the Society's programs have expanded to address Asian American issues, the effects of globalization, and pressing concerns in Asia including human rights, the status of women, and environmental and global health issues such as HIV/AIDS.
- invited Anson Chan and Martin Lee to give talk
- Asia Society Policy Institute
- hkej 4aug17 shum article
- United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace http://carnegieendowment.org/
- International Development Exchange https://www.idex.org
- organisation of american states http://www.oas.org/ - centre for strategic and international studies http://csis.org/
- The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) was conceived of and designed by CSIS. It is an interactive, regularly-updated source for information, analysis, and policy exchange on maritime security issues in Asia.
- http://www.afsa.org American Foreign Service Association
- The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, our work across the region addresses five overarching goals—strengthen governance, empower women, expand economic opportunity, increase environmental resilience, and promote regional cooperation. Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation works through a network of offices in 18 Asian countries and in Washington, DC. Working with public and private partners, the Foundation receives funding from a diverse group of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. In 2016, we provided $87.8 million in direct program support and distributed textbooks and other educational materials valued at $9.5 million. http://asiafoundation.org/
- The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental, non-partisan discussion group founded by David Rockefeller in July 1973, to foster closer cooperation among North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The Trilateral Commission initiated its biannual meetings schedule in October 1973 in Tokyo. In May 1976, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups took place in Kyoto. It was through these early meetings that the group effected its most profound influence, the integration of Japan into the global political conversation. Before these exchanges, the country was much more isolated on the international stage. Since its founding, the discussion group has produced an official journal called Trialogue. Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of the think tank's three regional areas. The North American continent is represented by 120 members (20 Canadian, 13 Mexican and 87 U.S. citizens). The European group has reached its limit of 170 members from almost every country on the continent; the ceilings for individual countries are 20 for Germany, 18 for France, Italy and the United Kingdom, 12 for Spain and 1–6 for the rest. At first, Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan. However, in 2000 the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, 7 Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also included 9 members from China, Hong Kong (include Lawrence Lau) and Taiwan. Currently, the Trilateral Commission claims "more than 100" Pacific Asian members. While Trilateral Commission bylaws exclude persons holding public office from membership, the think tank draws its participants from political, business, and academic worlds. The group is chaired by three individuals, one from each of the regions represented. The current chairmen are former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet and Yasuchika Hasegawa.
- Global Policy Forum is an independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United Nations and scrutinizes global policymaking. We promote accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international law. GPF gathers information and circulates it through a comprehensive website, as well as through reports and newsletters. We play an active role in NGO networks and other advocacy arenas. We organize meetings and conferences and we publish original research and policy papers. GPF analyzes deep and persistent structures of power and dissects rapidly-emerging issues and crises. GPF's work challenges mainstream thinking and questions conventional wisdom. We seek egalitarian, cooperative, peaceful and sustainable solutions to the world's great problems.
- The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College is an applied research and advocacy center with the mission of advancing community-driven programs and policies to build healthy, thriving communities and achieve social, economic, and environmental justice.
- The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce is part of the University of Kentucky located in Lexington, Kentucky. It is a graduate program devoted to the study of diplomacy, international affairs and commerce. With a small and select student body, only 35 students are admitted annually to pursue full-time study towards a master's degree.The vision to create a school of diplomacy and international commerce came from Dr. James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky. The 1898 Spanish–American War convinced Patterson a new school was needed that "shall have for its special object the preparation of young men for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States. It shall also provide special training for those who may seek employment in extending upon rational and scientific lines the commercial relations of America." Patterson took as his model the programs he saw then being established at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cornell and Yale.
- American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), established in 1924, is the professional association of the United States Foreign Service. With over 15,000 dues-paying members, American Foreign Service Association represents 28,000 active and retired Foreign Service employees of the Department of State and Agency for International Development (AID), as well as smaller groups in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Foreign Commercial Service (FCS), and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
- The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad.[1] It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress in the form of a grant awarded through the United States Information Agency (USIA). It was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation, and in turn acts as a grant-making foundation.[1] In addition to its grants program, NED also supports and houses the Journal of Democracy, the World Movement for Democracy, the International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Reagan–Fascell Fellowship Program, the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and the Center for International Media Assistance.A bill was introduced in April 1967 by Congressman Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) to create an institute of International Affairs. And although the bill did not pass it led to discussions on Capitol Hill to establish an institution in which democracy efforts abroad would benefit the U.S. as well as countries struggling for freedom and self- government. In a 1982 speech at the Palace of Westminster, President Ronald Reagan proposed an initiative, before the British Parliament, "to foster the infrastructure of democracy—the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities." The U.S. government, through USAID (United States Agency for International Development), contracted The American Political Foundation to study democracy promotion, which became known as "The Democracy Program." The Program recommended the creation of a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). NED, though non-governmental, would be funded primarily through annual appropriations from the U.S. government and subject to congressional oversight.
economic research
- Peterson Institute for International Economics http://www.iie.com/
- Acton Institute http://www.acton.org/
- International Tax and Investment Center http://www.iticnet.org/
- Institute for New Economic Thinking http://ineteconomics.org/about
- american economic association http://www.aeaweb.org/
- American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), established in 1924, is the professional association of the United States Foreign Service. With over 15,000 dues-paying members, American Foreign Service Association represents 28,000 active and retired Foreign Service employees of the Department of State and Agency for International Development (AID), as well as smaller groups in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Foreign Commercial Service (FCS), and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
- The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad.[1] It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress in the form of a grant awarded through the United States Information Agency (USIA). It was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation, and in turn acts as a grant-making foundation.[1] In addition to its grants program, NED also supports and houses the Journal of Democracy, the World Movement for Democracy, the International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Reagan–Fascell Fellowship Program, the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and the Center for International Media Assistance.A bill was introduced in April 1967 by Congressman Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) to create an institute of International Affairs. And although the bill did not pass it led to discussions on Capitol Hill to establish an institution in which democracy efforts abroad would benefit the U.S. as well as countries struggling for freedom and self- government. In a 1982 speech at the Palace of Westminster, President Ronald Reagan proposed an initiative, before the British Parliament, "to foster the infrastructure of democracy—the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities." The U.S. government, through USAID (United States Agency for International Development), contracted The American Political Foundation to study democracy promotion, which became known as "The Democracy Program." The Program recommended the creation of a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). NED, though non-governmental, would be funded primarily through annual appropriations from the U.S. government and subject to congressional oversight.
- hkej 15jan18 shum article
- The Solidarity Center is a non-profit organization aligned with the AFL-CIO labor federation. It is one of the core grantees of the National Endowment for Democracy.Its stated mission is to help build a global labor movement by strengthening the economic and political power of workers around the world through effective, independent, and democratic unions.The AFL-CIO established the Solidarity Center in 1997. The Solidarity Center was created through the consolidation of four labor institutes: the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, the African-American Labor Institute, and the Free Trade Union Institute. The pre-existing institutes were merged by John Sweeney shortly after he became president of the AFL–CIO.The AFL-CIO had worked internationally for many decades. With some funding from the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency, it had worked to stop Communist movements in Western Europe after World War II. With the 1997 launch of the Solidarity Center, those ties ended.
- 職工盟被揭1994年至2014年，公然收受美國國家民主基金會（NED）轄下的美國國際勞工團結中心（American Center for International Labour Solidarity）折合約一千三百萬港元。職工盟其後亦承認，每年平均接受資助金額約60萬港元。根據NED年報，2018年撥款團結中心15萬5千美元（折合1201250港元），美國國際事務民主協會（NDI）則獲20萬美元（折合1556000港元）用於香港地區工作，為香港法律界人士及政團領袖組織一系列活動，從中施加影響力。此外，2014年有文件披露，職工盟捲入外國資助風波，時任國際工會聯合會香港聯絡處代表（IHLO）黃靜文發電郵給國際工會聯合會（ITUC）的人權和工會權利部的Stephen Benedict，指稅局正調查職工盟財政，尤其是收取海外資助的情況；廉政公署又複印李卓人銀行戶口資料。黃靜文當時建議「清理」職工盟一筆涉及十二萬元的借款紀錄，作為兩個月行政開支。文件又披露黃靜文雖然是國際工會聯合會香港聯絡處代表，但薪金由職工盟支付，兩個組織的財務關係錯綜複雜。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20191231/PDF/a4_screen.pdf
- Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was one of the major twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics.Morgenthau was born in an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany in 1904, and, after attending the Casimirianum, was educated at the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich, and pursued postdoctoral work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 据路透社报道：代表美国外交官的美国外交人员协会（AFSA）18日表示，仅在上周就募得数万美元捐款，以帮助在美国总统特朗普弹劾调查中作证的外交官员支付法律费用。 在特朗普近日批评数名赴国会作证的美国外交官员，以及国务卿蓬佩奥未能特地发声支持这些作证官员后，AFSA发表声明支持这些人员。AFSA主席鲁宾（Eric Rubin）在声明中说，仅过去一周，协会的法律辩护基金就募得数万美元，帮助支付律师费用，但他没有提供细节。 鲁宾还说：“这些爱国者出国前往世界各个角落，为美国人民的利益服务。他们是带着刚正不阿的精神从事这份工作，没有党派利益或暗自盘算。我们应向他们每个人提供的服务致敬。” 国务院发言人此前曾表示，国务院打算向赴国会作证的职员提供法律协助，但没有提供细节。一名曾参与调查的人说，他已产生超过2.5万美元的法律帐单。国务卿蓬佩奥18日被问及为何未发声力挺下属，但他没有作出特别说明，仅表示自己会捍卫国务院职员。http://www.takungpao.com/news/232111/2019/1120/376845.html
economic research
- Peterson Institute for International Economics http://www.iie.com/
- hkej 5jul17 shum article
- Acton Institute http://www.acton.org/
- International Tax and Investment Center http://www.iticnet.org/
- Institute for New Economic Thinking http://ineteconomics.org/about
- american economic association http://www.aeaweb.org/
economics education
- https://fee.org/about/ The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is the premier source for understanding the humane values of a free society and the economic, legal, and ethical principles that make it possible. At FEE, you’re connected with a global community of individuals who are inspired by the ideas of free association, free markets, entrepreneurship, and a diverse civil society.Political science
- http://www.apsanet.org American Political Science Association
honor society
- Pi Delta Phi (ΠΔΦ) is the National French Honor Society for undergraduate and graduate students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States. Pi Delta Phi was founded as a departmental honor society for French at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1906. After twenty years as a local chapter, Pi Delta Phi declared itself the National French Honor Society and chartered the Beta Chapter at the University of Southern California in 1925, and the Gamma Chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1926. The society expanded slowly during the next fifteen years but enjoyed renewed interest after World War II when the it received the official endorsement of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) in 1949.[1] The society was admitted to membership in the Association of College Honor Societies in 1967. It currently numbers more than 380 chapters established at representative public and private colleges and universities in almost every state, as well as chapters in Paris and Aix-en-Provence.
- Delta Phi Beta was originally a fraternity established in 1988 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This co-ed fraternity was created to strengthen the link between the main campus and the branch campus in Kittanning, PA. Delta Phi Beta (ΔΦΒ), established in 1992 at the University of California, Berkeley, is the United States' first South Asian fraternity. Delta Phi Beta is a co-ed South Asian Greek organization based on the pillars of community involvement, cultural awareness, academic excellence, and social enhancement. Currently, there are chapters at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, Davis. symbol is elephant.
- The Phi Beta Delta Society (ΦΒΔ) is an international honor society that was founded at California State University, Long Beach in 1986. It was the first honor society dedicated to recognize scholarly achievement in international education, giving scholarships to deserving students and enhancing knowledge about various cultures around the world.[2] It was established as a national organization in 1987 with 38 chartered chapters, and has grown to become an international organization with over 168 chapters. The motto of the society is "Scientia Mutua Mundi" (World's Shared Knowledge).[4] Phi Beta Delta (ΦΒΔ) stands for philomatheia, biotremmonia, diapheren — "Love of knowledge, valuing of human life; and achieving excellence".
- Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), also known as "Sammy", is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909.[2] Originally a Jewish-only organization,[2] the fraternity became open to men of all faiths in 1953. Originally headquartered in New York, the national fraternity relocated its international headquarters to Indianapolis, Indiana. Since its inception, Sigma Alpha Mu has initiated more than 63,000 members at more than 120 active and inactive chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada.In the fall of 1909, the sophomore class at the College of the City of New York had found itself embarrassed by "lowly freshmen". At a school where "warfare" between freshman and sophomore class was a tradition, the sophomores found it necessary to regain their fallen honor. Class Marshal Lester Cohen called a meeting of sophomore leaders on November 26, 1909 to decide on a plan for redemption. Eight appeared in proper order Ira N. Lind, Jacob Kaplan, Lester Cohen, Samuel Ginsburg, Hyman I. Jacobson, David D. Levinson, Abraham N. Kerner, Adolph I. Fabis, who are now known as the Founders of Sigma Alpha Mu.
- notable members - steve wynn
- notable members
- Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ), commonly known as AEPi, is a college fraternity founded at New York University in 1913 by Charles C. Moskowitz. The fraternity has more than 186 active chapters across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria,[2] Australia, and Israel, and has initiated more than 102,000 members. Although the fraternity is based upon Jewish principles, it is non-discriminatory and is open to all who are willing to espouse its purpose and values.
- Richard Green Lugar (April 4, 1932 – April 28, 2019) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.Richard Lugar was born on April 4, 1932, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Bertha (née Green) and Marvin Lugar.[3] He was of part German descent.During Lugar's tenure, he served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 to 2007, serving as the ranking member of the committee from 2007 until his departure in 2013. Lugar also twice served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, from 1995 to 2001 and briefly again in part of 2001. Much of Lugar's work in the Senate was toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world, co-sponsoring his most notable piece of legislation with Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn: the Nunn–Lugar Act.
- Several members of the Scottish university's chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), an all-male and predominantly Jewish society, were suspended following a series of claims made on the St Andrews Survivors Instagram page.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8521253/Demands-fraternity-St-Andrews-hand-names-students-suspended-sex-attacks.html
"elite"
- The Economic Club of Chicago was founded in 1927 by Lucius Teter, president of the Chicago Trust Company. Teter and his co-founders wisely understood that simply listening to speeches did not stimulate and encourage leadership. Rather, they wanted to provide a venue for experienced leaders to meet with future leaders so they could pass on to them their business and civic ideas and ideals. Ultimately, they invited 800 rising young executives and 200 of Chicago’s senior business leaders to join the Club. Together, they invited the foremost authorities on contemporary economic and business ideas to join them for debate and discussion.
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/art/20170902/20139734三年前，應袁天凡之邀，出席「芝加哥經濟學會」（Economic Club of Chicago）的一個演講會，因而認識了羅鷹瑞醫生（M.D., U. of Chicago），羅醫生是心臟科專家，1987年回港執業，他的五位兄弟在香港商界鼎鼎大名。
fraternal
- The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society[2] founded in Washington, D.C., on 19 February 1864. The Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress.[3] It was founded by Justus H. Rathbone, who had been inspired by a play by the Irish poet John Banim about the legend of Damon and Pythias. This legend illustrates the ideals of loyalty, honor, and friendship that are the center of the order. The order has over 2,000 lodges in the United States and around the world, with a total membership of over 50,000 in 2003. The order is headquartered in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Some lodges meet in structures referred to as Pythian Castles.
trade/business
- WORLD TRADE CENTERS ASSOCIATION https://www.wtca.org Board Members contribute diverse global trade and industry expertise that encompass the WTC global brand of iconic properties and integrated trade services.
- international economic alliance http://www.iealliance.org/
- coalition of services industries (involved in TISA) https://servicescoalition.org/negotiations/trade-in-services-agreement
- competitive enterprise institute http://cei.org/
- Southern United States Trade Association http://www.susta.org/
retail
- retail industry leaders association http://www.rila.org/Pages/default.aspx
- national retail federation https://nrf.com/
- international council of shopping centers http://www.icsc.org/
investment
- association to invest in usa http://www.iiusa.org/
- international centre for settlement of investment disputes https://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/Index.jsp
- cases
- https://www.ft.com/content/0d0dfd96-af6c-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c A joint venture between Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni has been awarded a $2bn settlement from Egypt over gas supplies by a World Bank arbitration body, in a move that could accelerate the resumption of the country’s liquefied natural gas exports. The ruling by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes comes after Egypt stopped supplying gas to Unión Fenosa Gas joint venture’s Damietta LNG plant as the country faced internal energy shortages in the wake of the political turmoil unleashed by the Arab Spring. Unión Fenosa Gas took its case to the ICSID in 2014. The arbitration body on Monday found that in stopping the gas supply Egypt had failed to grant Unión Fenosa Gas “fair and equitable treatment”, contravening the country’s bilateral investment protection treaty with Spain, Naturgy said in a statement. The $2bn is likely to be paid in the form of renewed gas supplies to Damietta rather than in cash, according to people familiar with the matter.
finance
-The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is the association or trade group for the global financial services industry. It was created by 38 banks of leading industrialized countries in 1983 in response to the international debt crisis of the early 1980s,[1] [2] and has since expanded to represent more than 450 firms from more than 70 countries. IIF members include commercial and investment banks, asset managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, central banks and development banks. http://www.iif.com/
- inter-american development bank http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html
- Global platform http://www.globalplatform.org/ a cross industry, non-profit association which identifies, develops and publishes specifications that promote the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple applications on secure chip technology.
- investor responsibility research centre institute http://www.irrcinstitute.org/
- international tax and investment center http://www.iticnet.org/
- The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute or SWF Institute, or SWFI, is a global corporation analyzing public asset owners such as sovereign wealth funds and other long-term governmental investors http://www.swfinstitute.org/
- future industry association http://www.futuresindustry.org/
- National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
- The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the National Academies is one of the highest honors in the scientific field. Members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation" on science, engineering, and medicine. The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. Founded in 1863 as a result of an Act of Congress that was approved by Abraham Lincoln, the NAS is charged with "providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. … to provide scientific advice to the government 'whenever called upon' by any government department. The Academy receives no compensation from the government for its services."
- http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=182510 Renowned flu expert Malik Peiris has received one of the highest honors for a scientist. The University of Hong Kong professor has been elected one of the 21 new foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, HKU announced yesterday.
- Federation of American Scientists http://fas.org/
- association of university technology managers http://www.autm.net/Home.htm
- http://www.aaas.org/ american association for the advancement of science
- economist 23feb19 this year's meeting looked at crop biology, origin of heavy elements, how species raft around oceans and problems of flying to mars
-SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology,On July 1, 1955 SPIE was founded as the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers in California to specialize in the application of photographic instrumentation. In 1964 the society changed its name to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.In 1977 SPIE moved its headquarters to Bellingham, Washington, and in 1981 the Society began doing business as (DBA) SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering to reflect a changing membership. In 2007, the society ended its DBA and is now referred to simply as SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
- 國際光電工程學會 (SPIE)日前宣布年度榮譽獎項得獎名單，香港大學校長張翔（見圖）獲頒2021年度SPIE墨子獎（SPIE Mozi Award），以表彰他於物理光學、完美透鏡的實驗研究方面的傑出貢獻。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2021/01/25/a07-0125.pdf
- A new semiconductor industry alliance recently announced its formation in the US. Consisting of 64 global semiconductor players, such as TSMC based on the island of Taiwan, Samsung based in South Korea and ASML based in Holland, the group has a mission to "help bolster the US' economy, critical infrastructure, and national security by advancing semiconductor manufacturing and research in the US."In a statement, the new lobbying group, Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC), said that its primary focus is to secure funding for "the Chips for America Act," and called on congressional leaders to appropriate $50 billion for domestic chip manufacturing incentives and research initiatives.https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1223448.shtml
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences in the United States, with 286 active chapters.
Social science
- http://www.russellsage.org
Artificial intelligence / robots
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
food
- Food and Agriculture Association http://www.fao.org/home/en/
- http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/tea/tea-meetings/en/ The FAO Intergovernmental Group (IGG) on Tea represents a forum for intergovernmental consultation and exchange on trends in production, consumption, trade and prices of tea, including regular appraisal of the global market situation and short term outlook.
- http://www.nasda.org/About/9401.aspx regional associations and trade groups
- us meat export federation http://www.usmef.org/, has office in HK
- FAS supports four State Regional Trade Groups (SRTGs), which in turn assist U.S. companies with creating and expanding export markets for value-added food and agricultural products. These non-profit organizations work closely with state Departments of Agriculture http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/market-access-program-map/state-regional-trade-groups
- Western United States Agricultural Trade Association www.wusata.org
- https://www.foodexport.org/Resources/GlobalFoodMarketerList.cfm?navItemNumber=544
- us foodlink newsletter https://www.foodexport.org/Buyers/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1053
http://www.foodprotection.org/
- international food policy research institute http://www.ifpri.org/
- institute for agriculture and trade policy http://www.iatp.org/about
- escoffier society http://www.escoffier-society.com/
- national coffee association http://www.ncausa.org/
- https://www.allianceforcoffeeexcellence.org/en/cup-of-excellence/country-programs/colombia-second-program/2014/international-jury/
- Patrick tam of hk is an international jury, re hkej 26sep15 沈旭輝article
- organic trade association https://www.ota.com/
- national sanitation foundation http://www.nsf.org/
- http://www.nsf.org/regulatory/regulator-nsf-standards/
- intertribal agriculture council www.americanindianfoods.com
- 4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".[1] Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto ‘head, heart, hands, and health’ which was later incorporated into the fuller pledge officially adopted in 1927. In the United States, the organization is administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 4-H Canada is an independent non-profit organization overseeing the operation of branches throughout Canada.[2] Throughout the world, 4-H organizations exist in over 50 countries;[3] the organization and administration varies from country to country. Each of these programs operates independently but cooperatively through international exchanges, global education programs, and communications.4-H membership hit an all-time high in 1974 as a result of its popular educational program about nutrition, Mulligan Stew, shown in schools and on television across the country. Today, 4-H clubs and activities are no longer focused primarily on agricultural activities, instead emphasizing personal growth and preparation for lifelong learning. Participation is greatest during the elementary school years, with enrollment in programs and activities peaking in the 4th grade. In the southern United States, in the mid-1960s 4-H began to broaden its programming to cover life experiences unrelated to agriculture. It merged its segregated African American and white programs, but full-fledged integration proved elusive. 4-H was successful in removing gender-based restrictions on participation. Past Honorary Chairmen of Council have included U.S. Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
- The official 4-H emblem is a green four-leaf clover with a white H on each leaf standing for Head, Heart, Hands, and Health. The stem of the clover always points to the right.
- USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC)
soybean
- us soybean export council
- Plant Based Foods Association plantbasedfoods.org
Salt
- http://www.saltinstitute.org/about-salt-institute/
Seafood
- www.alaskaseafood.org
- www.alaskafood-china.com
- Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Culinary arts
The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)traces its roots to 1975, when Peter Kump opened Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, one of the first culinary schools in New York City. When Kump died in 1995, the school was acquired by Rick Smilow, an entrepreneur with an interest in education and the culinary arts.After the acquisition, the school’s professional programs expanded, requiring a move to a new location in the Flatiron neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City at 50 W. 23rd Street, where it then expanded twice, in 1999 and 2004, growing to 45,000 square feet over seven floors. In 1999, the older East 92nd Street facility was closed.In 2001, the school's name was changed to The Institute of Culinary Education.In 2015, the school relocated to a brand new, 74,000 square foot facility in Battery Park City
food services / catering
- national restaurant association http://www.restaurant.org/Home
- north american association of food equipment manufacturers http://www.nafem.org/
- new york city food truck association http://www.nycfoodtrucks.org/
Salt
- http://www.saltinstitute.org/about-salt-institute/
Seafood
- www.alaskaseafood.org
- www.alaskafood-china.com
- Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Culinary arts
The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)traces its roots to 1975, when Peter Kump opened Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, one of the first culinary schools in New York City. When Kump died in 1995, the school was acquired by Rick Smilow, an entrepreneur with an interest in education and the culinary arts.After the acquisition, the school’s professional programs expanded, requiring a move to a new location in the Flatiron neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City at 50 W. 23rd Street, where it then expanded twice, in 1999 and 2004, growing to 45,000 square feet over seven floors. In 1999, the older East 92nd Street facility was closed.In 2001, the school's name was changed to The Institute of Culinary Education.In 2015, the school relocated to a brand new, 74,000 square foot facility in Battery Park City
food services / catering
- national restaurant association http://www.restaurant.org/Home
- publishes restaurants usa magazine
- north american association of food equipment manufacturers http://www.nafem.org/
- new york city food truck association http://www.nycfoodtrucks.org/
- The American Bakers Association (ABA) is the Washington D.C.-based voice of the wholesale baking industry. Since 1897, ABA has worked to increase protection from costly government overreach, build the talent pool of skilled workers with specialized training programs, and forge industry alignment by establishing a more receptive environment to grow the baking industry. ABA advocates on behalf of more than 1,000 baking facilities and baking company suppliers. www.americanbakers.org
Beverage
- american beverage association http://www.ameribev.org/
wine/liquor
- The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) is a national trade association representing producers and marketers of distilled spiritssold in the US. DISCUS was formed in 1973 by the merger of three organizations (the Bourbon Institute, the Distilled Spirits Institute, and the Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc.) that had been in existence for decades.
cannabi
Beverage
- american beverage association http://www.ameribev.org/
wine/liquor
- The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) is a national trade association representing producers and marketers of distilled spiritssold in the US. DISCUS was formed in 1973 by the merger of three organizations (the Bourbon Institute, the Distilled Spirits Institute, and the Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc.) that had been in existence for decades.
cannabi
- us hemp authority https://ushempauthority.org/about
- The Mission of The Lambert Center is to serve as the nationwide comprehensive resource for education, research, and clinical practice in the therapeutic use of cannabinoids and industrial hemp. Jefferson is the first major health sciences university in the United States to provide a comprehensive academic resource for the medicinal application and business of cannabis and hemp, in keeping with its nearly 200-year history of innovation in science and medical education.https://www.jefferson.edu/university/emerging-health-professions/lambert-center.html
- Barry Lambert is renowned in the Australian banking industry for founding Count Financial, Australia’s largest network of accounting-based advisory firms. Barry is now the Chairman of Ecofibre Limited which owns leading US-based nutraceutical and hemp producer Ananda Hemp.
- Oregon State University’s Hemp Innovation Lab
Commodities
- Intercontinental exchange https://www.theice.com/homepage.jhtml, ft reported in March 2014 that cotton futures would be listed next year http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/77da6d4a-abba-11e3-aad9-00144feab7de.html#axzz2wJJ4K3su
- Oil Change International http://priceofoil.org/
- Association for rare earth http://www.rareearthassociation.org/
- The International Copper Association, Ltd. (ICA), its 35 members and the alliance of national and regional associations responsible for program development and implementation with ICA’s more than 500 current program partners around the world bring together the global copper industry to develop and defend markets for copper and to make a positive contribution to society’s sustainable-development goals.https://copperalliance.org/about-ica/
- Silver Institute est1971
forestry
- The National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) is a professional organization in the United States of over 5,100 "Christmas tree professionals" in various capacities. The group focuses its work into three areas: promotion and research, federal representation (which includes Congressional lobbying), and professional education.[1] The association was founded in 1955 and has more than 1,800 members.
energy
- http://www.usesc.org/energy_security/
- american gas association http://www.aga.org/Pages/default.aspx
- rocky mountain institute http://www.rmi.org/
- american wind energy association http://www.awea.org/
- Silver Institute est1971
forestry
- The National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) is a professional organization in the United States of over 5,100 "Christmas tree professionals" in various capacities. The group focuses its work into three areas: promotion and research, federal representation (which includes Congressional lobbying), and professional education.[1] The association was founded in 1955 and has more than 1,800 members.
energy
- http://www.usesc.org/energy_security/
- Co-organiser of sino us colloquium (ix) 24jan16 by china energy fund committee
- american gas association http://www.aga.org/Pages/default.aspx
- rocky mountain institute http://www.rmi.org/
- american wind energy association http://www.awea.org/
- The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is the national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States.
- The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) is a non-profit think tank which directs attention to the strong link between energy and security and provides a stage for public debate on the various avenues to strengthening the world's energy security.
professionals
Journalism
- The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) is a non-profit think tank which directs attention to the strong link between energy and security and provides a stage for public debate on the various avenues to strengthening the world's energy security.
- 何志平在落網前的最後行程，包括在美國智庫「全球安全分析研究所（Institute for Analysis of Global Security, IAGS）」主辦的一帶一路論壇上致辭；控方在庭上爆料，指IAGS及其主席曾接收何志平背後的中華能源基金會（下稱基金會）或中國華信能源合共近300萬港元匯款，暗示何以金錢買曝光機會，營造公益形象。涉事的IAGS、華信和基金會均無回覆本報查詢。https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20171219/20248885
- 被指曾接受何志平一方近300萬港元匯款的美國智庫「全球安全分析研究所（IAGS）」，主席麥克法蘭於80年代出任美國國家安全顧問期間，曾捲入「伊朗門」，支持向伊朗秘密出售軍火，東窗事發後他嘗試自殺不果，其後認罪被判處緩刑2年，但最終獲得特赦。https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20171219/20248908
professionals
- Institute of Internal Auditors https://na.theiia.org/Pages/IIAHome.aspx
- Association of Corporate Counsel https://www.acc.com
- 日本偷襲珍珠港七十八周年紀念日前夕，美國夏威夷珍珠港海軍船塢周三發生槍擊案，釀成三死一傷。自轟身亡槍手身份曝光，他是二十二歲現役海軍士兵羅梅羅（Gabriel Romero），行兇動機未明。報道引述消息指，羅梅羅被指派到美軍核動力攻擊潛艇哥倫比亞號（USS Columbia）服役，該艦駐守在珍珠港-希卡姆聯合基地，正在船塢維修。他先以M4軍用步槍射擊三名國防部人員，包括已為人夫的三十歲男子考波伊（Vincent Kapoi Jr.），最終以M9手槍自殺身亡。在案中受傷的三十六歲男子，事後獲送院治療。死傷者均是國際專業及技術工程師聯盟（IFPTE）成員，該工會發聲明向家屬表達哀悼。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191207/00180_012.html
Journalism
- 联合通讯社The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. Its members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. AP news reports, distributed to its members and customers, are produced in English, Spanish and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries.[4] It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP traditionally employed the "inverted pyramid" formula for writing, a method that enables news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essentials, although in 2007, then-AP President Tom Curley called the practice "dead."The Associated Press was formed in May 1846[6] by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War. The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun, joined by the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express. Some historians[9] believe that the New-York Tribune joined at this time; documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851. Initially known as the New York Associated Press (NYAP), the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press (1862), which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. An investigation completed in 1892 by Victor Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, revealed that several principals of the NYAP had entered into a secret agreement with United Press, a rival organization, to share NYAP news and the profits of reselling it. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, the Western Associated Press was incorporated in Illinois as The Associated Press. A 1900 Illinois Supreme Court decision (Inter Ocean Publishing Co. v. Associated Press)—that the AP was a public utility and operating in restraint of trade—resulted in AP's move from Chicago to New York City, where corporation laws were more favorable to cooperatives.When the AP was founded, news became a saleable commodity. The invention of the rotary press allowed the New-York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, on-the-spot reporting.
- hket 5nov2020 fung article
- 美國白宮記者協會成立於一九一四年，該協會的晚宴從上世紀二十年代起每年舉辦一次，目的是加強白宮與新聞媒體的溝通。三十年代之後，時任總統參加年度晚宴成為慣例，晚宴席間，記者與總統互開玩笑，彼此吐槽，展現幽默才華，加強白宮與新聞媒體的關係。特朗普今次拒絕出席，開創了先河。
- Asian American Journalists Association http://www.aaja.org/
consultant
- political
- american Association of political consultants http://www.theaapc.org/
- international association of political consultants http://www.iapc.org/
- foodservice consultants society international www.fcsi.org
- air conditioning, heating and refrigeration institute http://www.ari.org/site/1/Home
- ***** article by mark langley on obor in china daily 22feb18
Licensing/trademark
- Society of Product Licensors Committed to Excellence http://spliceonline.com/
- International Trademark Association http://www.inta.org/
- international franchise association http://www.franchise.org/
- music
- american society of composers, authors and publishers http://www.ascap.com/
- broadcast musicians incorporated http://www.bmi.com/
- european stage authors and composers http://www.sesac.com/
- promotional products association international http://www.ppai.org/
toy/children's products
- http://www.toy-icti.org/ The International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI)
army/national defense
- National Defense Industrial Association http://www.ndia.org/Pages/default.aspx
toy/children's products
- http://www.toy-icti.org/ The International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI)
- ICTI Care Foundation publishes guidance and audit handbook
army/national defense
- National Defense Industrial Association http://www.ndia.org/Pages/default.aspx
- http://www.nationaldefensemegadirectory.com/
- association of united states army http://www.ausa.org/
- The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense and security issues. In addition to publishing magazines and books, the Naval Institute holds several annual conferences.Established in 1873, the Naval Institute currently has about 50,000 members, mostly active and retired personnel of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The organization also has members in over 90 countries. The organization has no official or funding ties to the United States Naval Academy or the U.S. Navy, although it is based on the grounds of the Naval Academy through permission granted by a 1936 Act of Congress.
- Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) seeks to conduct transformational research, technology and educational development for effective characterization, detection, mitigation and response to the explosives-related threats facing the country and the world.http://www.northeastern.edu/research/centers/awareness-and-localization-of-explosives-related-threats-alert/
Entertainment- The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense and security issues. In addition to publishing magazines and books, the Naval Institute holds several annual conferences.Established in 1873, the Naval Institute currently has about 50,000 members, mostly active and retired personnel of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The organization also has members in over 90 countries. The organization has no official or funding ties to the United States Naval Academy or the U.S. Navy, although it is based on the grounds of the Naval Academy through permission granted by a 1936 Act of Congress.
- Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) seeks to conduct transformational research, technology and educational development for effective characterization, detection, mitigation and response to the explosives-related threats facing the country and the world.http://www.northeastern.edu/research/centers/awareness-and-localization-of-explosives-related-threats-alert/
- PactUS is an all-American association of TV and content production companies drawing on the incredible success of its sister organization in Britain, representing creatives for over 20 years - See more at: http://pact.us/#sthash.Tpwj7Qjx.dpuf
PactUS will hold small meetings, webinars, and podcasts offering expert advice. We keep our members interconnected with the latest news and each other for the broadest view of the TV and content landscape.
PactUS reaches out to...
• Local Governments
• State Governments
• Industry Leaders
...in search of tax incentives and grants for our members. As part of our outreach, PactUS will initiate detailed research so we are recognized as an informed voice speaking for our members and the industry. - See more at: http://pact.us/about-us.html#sthash.3ZzmBAS4.dpuf
Film
- Sundance Institute (http://www.sundance.org/), include Screenwriters Lab
- Independent television and film alliance http://www.ifta-online.org/
- American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) is a non-profit theatre producer and training organization that was established in 1935 to be the official United Statesnational theatre that would be an alternative to the for-profit Broadway houses of the day.
Pirate
- us pirate party
- New york pirate party
Fashion/textile
- American Apparel and Footwear Assosciation https://www.wewear.org/
- restricted substance list https://www.wewear.org/industry-resources/restricted-substances-list/
- hkc participation http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140414/PDF/b8_screen.pdf
- to sign MOU with 香港 紡 織 商 會 http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140512/PDF/b4_screen.pdf
- Call for blacklisting alibaba
- 加强与美国服装和鞋业的联繫，香港工业总会辖下国际事务委员会昨日与美国服装及鞋业协会（简称：AAFA）签订合作备忘录。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171025/PDF/a21_screen.pdf
- American Cotton Shippers Association http://www.acsa-cotton.org/
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition http://www.apparelcoalition.org/
- international cotton advisory committee https://www.icac.org
- us hide skin and leather association http://www.ushsla.org/
- natural resources defense council http://www.nrdc.org/
- cashmere and camel hair manufacturers institute http://www.cashmere.org/cm/index.php
- textile exchange http://textileexchange.org/
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition http://www.apparelcoalition.org/
- international cotton advisory committee https://www.icac.org
- us hide skin and leather association http://www.ushsla.org/
- natural resources defense council http://www.nrdc.org/
- cashmere and camel hair manufacturers institute http://www.cashmere.org/cm/index.php
- textile exchange http://textileexchange.org/
- considers global wool standard http://textileexchange.org/Wool?vsmaid=463&vcid=66
- Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry http://www.inda.org
- http://www.ifai.com Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), a nonprofit trade association representing the global specialty fabrics market.
Gems/jewellery
- gemological institute of america http://www.gia.edu/
- world diamond council http://www.worlddiamondcouncil.com/
wood
- american hardwood export council http://ahec.org/
- www.ahec-china.org
- www.ahec-seasia.org
- species of hardwood http://www.americanhardwood.org/fileadmin/docs/publications/english/FINALVERSION_SPECIES.pdf
- Recruit marketing manager to focus on greater china - dec15
Arts
- Artist Pension Trust http://www.aptglobal.org/en/
Futurist
- The World Future Society (WFS) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1966 and based in Chicago, IL.[1] Each year it reviews the past year in order to make predictions about the future,[2] and each July holds a conference which features speakers and one- or two-day courses dealing with futures studies. Membership is open and many members are not professional futurists.[3] The society says that its membership includes sociologists, scientists, corporate planners, educators, students and retirees.
- At the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977, DEC President Ken Olsen declares, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
Europe
- transatlantic academy http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/about-academy
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonpartisan American public policy think tank and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting cooperation and understanding between North America and Europe. Founded in 1972 through a gift from the West German government on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, GMF contributes research and analysis on transatlantic and global issues; convenes policy and business leaders at international conferences; provides exchange opportunities for emerging American and European leaders; and supports initiatives to strengthen democracies. GMF focuses on policy, leadership, and civil society. GMF is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has offices in several European cities.GMF was founded as a permanent memorial to Marshall Plan assistance through a grant from the West German government. It was founded by Guido Goldman, who was the director of Harvard's West European Studies program in the early 1970s. Goldman, an American whose family had fled Germany in 1940, lobbied the West German government, particularly Finance Minister Alex Möller for an endowment to promote European and U.S. relations on the 25th anniversary of Marshall Plan aid.[4] Working with a planning group that was to constitute the Fund's initial Board of Trustees - including physicist Harvey Brooks, diplomat Robert Ellsworth, journalist Max Franke, economist Richard N. Cooper, and educator Howard Swearer - Goldman eventually received an agreement to support an independent institution in 1971.
italy
- Italic Institute of America
ASEAN
- US ASEAN business council http://www.usasean.org/
Asia
- The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation was established in 1983 to "promote understanding and cooperation among the nations and peoples of Asia and the United States." The Foundation honors Mike Mansfield (1903-2001), congressman from Montana, Senate majority leader and U.S. ambassador to Japan. The Foundation is a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and works with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at The University of Montana. The Foundation's exchange programs include the Mansfield Fellowship Program, Japan Legislative Exchange, Women in Politics and Public Service, and the Mansfield Congressional Study Tour on Asia. In addition, the Foundation sponsors policy dialogues on such topics as entrepreneurship in Asia, the Rule of Law, the emergence of India and China, global climate change, and the role of NGOs in North Korea. The Foundation maintains offices in Washington, D.C.; Tokyo, Japan; and Missoula, Montana. The Foundation is not a grant-making organization and does not accept grant proposals. http://mansfieldfdn.org/
- The American Schools of Oriental Research
(ASOR) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to initiate, encourage, and support research into, and public understanding of, the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world, from the earliest times. ASOR is apolitical and has no religious affiliation.
- transatlantic academy http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/about-academy
- The Transatlantic Academy is a research institution devoted to creating common approaches to the long-term challenges facing Europe and North America. The Academy does this by each year bringing together scholars, policy experts, and authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from different disciplinary perspectives to research and analyze a distinct policy theme of transatlantic interest.
- The Transatlantic Academy (TA) serves as a forum for a select group of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and from different academic and policy disciplines to examine a single set of issues. In cooperation with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Washington, D.C., the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, WI, the Robert Bosch Stiftung founded the TA, located in Washington, D.C. at GMF's headquarters, in 2007. Further partners are Compagnia di San Paolo, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Joachim Herz Stiftung and Volkswagen Stiftung. Working together from a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective, TA fellows use research, publications, and ideas to make policy-relevant contributions to policy debates facing the transatlantic community. http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language2/html/19558.asp#
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonpartisan American public policy think tank and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting cooperation and understanding between North America and Europe. Founded in 1972 through a gift from the West German government on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, GMF contributes research and analysis on transatlantic and global issues; convenes policy and business leaders at international conferences; provides exchange opportunities for emerging American and European leaders; and supports initiatives to strengthen democracies. GMF focuses on policy, leadership, and civil society. GMF is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has offices in several European cities.GMF was founded as a permanent memorial to Marshall Plan assistance through a grant from the West German government. It was founded by Guido Goldman, who was the director of Harvard's West European Studies program in the early 1970s. Goldman, an American whose family had fled Germany in 1940, lobbied the West German government, particularly Finance Minister Alex Möller for an endowment to promote European and U.S. relations on the 25th anniversary of Marshall Plan aid.[4] Working with a planning group that was to constitute the Fund's initial Board of Trustees - including physicist Harvey Brooks, diplomat Robert Ellsworth, journalist Max Franke, economist Richard N. Cooper, and educator Howard Swearer - Goldman eventually received an agreement to support an independent institution in 1971.
- ******major conferences include Stockholm China Forum - a bi-annual, trilateral conversation between European, U.S. and Chinese officials, academics, business leaders and other influencers. The forum has run since 2007, when it was established to create an informal, off-the-record space to foster transatlantic cooperation on China policy, and trilateral cooperation on areas of agreement and mutual interest.
italy
- Italic Institute of America
- one of the mission is highlighting the Roman foundations of the Italic people by spotlighting the Ara Pacis Monument in Rome, the Altar of Augustan Peace.
ASEAN
- US ASEAN business council http://www.usasean.org/
Asia
- The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation was established in 1983 to "promote understanding and cooperation among the nations and peoples of Asia and the United States." The Foundation honors Mike Mansfield (1903-2001), congressman from Montana, Senate majority leader and U.S. ambassador to Japan. The Foundation is a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and works with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at The University of Montana. The Foundation's exchange programs include the Mansfield Fellowship Program, Japan Legislative Exchange, Women in Politics and Public Service, and the Mansfield Congressional Study Tour on Asia. In addition, the Foundation sponsors policy dialogues on such topics as entrepreneurship in Asia, the Rule of Law, the emergence of India and China, global climate change, and the role of NGOs in North Korea. The Foundation maintains offices in Washington, D.C.; Tokyo, Japan; and Missoula, Montana. The Foundation is not a grant-making organization and does not accept grant proposals. http://mansfieldfdn.org/
- contributed an article to SCMP on 8aug14
- 美國The Maureen & Mike Mansfield Foundation邀請8位香港立法會議員在8月19日至22日訪問美國，當中6位議員將會出席與美國國會議員交流，討論雙方感興趣的議題。已確定會出席交流會的香港立法會議員為葉劉淑儀、鍾國斌、楊岳橋、郭榮鏗、葉建源及涂謹申。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/08/13/a08-0813.pdf
- The American Schools of Oriental Research
(ASOR) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to initiate, encourage, and support research into, and public understanding of, the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world, from the earliest times. ASOR is apolitical and has no religious affiliation.
- note the emblem of the association
- The U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) of NYU School of Law seeks to promote the rule of law and human rights in Asia, including both domestic and international law. The Institute, which is funded by institutional and individual grants, serves as a resource and partner to various Asian countries as they develop their legal systems. USALI is especially known as one of America’s preeminent research centers for the study of law in Mainland China and Taiwan and works to improve popular, professional and scholarly understanding at home and abroad through its publications and exchanges concerning comparative and international law.
mongolia
- The Mongolia Society was founded in 1961 as a private, non-profit, non-political organization interested in promoting the study of Mongolia, its history, language, and culture. The aims of the Society are exclusively scholarly, educational, and charitable.
http://mongoliasociety.org/news-events/
Middle east
- Middle East Studies Association (often referred to as MESA) is a learned society, and according to its website, "a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom." Founded in 1966.
- The International Journal of Middle East Studies is a scholarly journal published by the society
- http://timep.org Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Africa
- corporate council on africa http://www.africacncl.org/
- Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Membership is open to any woman who meets the requirements, regardless of religion, race, or nationality. Women may join through undergraduate chapters at a college or university, or through an alumnae chapter after earning a college degree. The largest predominately black sorority, more than 300,000 initiated members are mostly college-educated women. The sorority currently has over 940 chapters located in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, England, Germany, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, South Korea, and the United States. Delta Sigma Theta is a member of multiple umbrella organizations, including the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) – an organization of nine international Greek-letter sororities and fraternities – as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).
- Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950)[1][2] is an American Democratic politician serving as the 50th and current mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. Pugh has been involved in Maryland politics since 1999 when she served on the Baltimore City Council. She has also held office in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate, serving as the Majority Leader from 2015 to 2016. She first ran for Baltimore City mayor in 2011 and lost the primary to Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Pugh ran again in 2016 and won the primary against former Mayor Sheila Dixon. Pugh then won the mayoral election on November 8, 2016 with 57% of the popular vote, and took office on December 6, 2016.[3] She is Baltimore's third consecutive female mayor. In April 2019 Pugh announced she was taking an indefinite leave of absence to recover from pneumonia. The announcement coincided with a scandal over a "self-dealing" book-sales arrangement, whereby organizations allegedly purchased large quantities of Pugh's books in exchange for contracts with the city.
- http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/about/
- Established in 2005, the India China Institute’s (ICI) objective is to teach and explore new research and to provide opportunities for both The New School and our international network of innovative scholars, leaders and opinion-makers to engage in critical inquiries involving China, India and the United States. Within the past decade ICI has been successful in the promotion of the academic and public understanding on these issues through providing research and scholarship opportunities through fellowships, courses, publications, public lectures and conferences.
- The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is a non-profit organization, founded for strengthening the U.S.-India bilateral & strategic partnership. https://usispf.org/
- 美印戰略夥伴關係論壇周二去信印度商務部，指當局突然叫停大部分機場和港口來自中國或其他國家的進口貨清關，將「對有意尋求可預測及透明市場的外國投資者，發出不安信號」。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200626/00180_004.html
chinese
- The Chinese Historical Society of America (simplified Chinese: 美国华人历史学会; traditional Chinese: 美國華人歷史學會; pinyin: Měiguó Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì; Jyutping: Mei5gwok3 Waa4jan4 Lik6si2 Hok6wui6; abbreviated CHSA) is the oldest and largest archive and history center documenting the Chinese American experience in the United States. It is based in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California.The CHSA was conceived in the fall of 1962 and incorporated on January 5, 1963, founded by Thomas W. Chinn, C.H. Kwock, Chingwah Lee, H.K. Wong, and Thomas W.S. Wu D.D.S.[4] The five challenged the accepted history that excluded the contribution of Chinese immigrants to building California and the West Coast.The first permanent headquarters for the CHSA were a small building on Adler Place, which also was used as a museum.In 1916, the first Chinatown YWCA branch was established in a former saloon at Stockton and Sacramento; the San Francisco YWCA passed a resolution in October 1929 to build a new facility on three adjacent lots bounded by Joice, Clay, and Powell.[4] Noted architect Julia Morgan was contracted to design the now-historic building, and after consultation with Chinese-Americans, included cultural elements from Chinese arts and crafts.[6] The building housed the Chinatown branch of the YWCA from 1932 until it was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; the board of the YWCA decided to sell the building to the CHSA in 1996 with the help of Supervisor Tom Hsieh and Mayor Willie Brown.In November 2001 the CHSA relocated and opened the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center in the Chinatown YWCA building. The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded the CHSA its National Preservation Honor Award in 2004 for its work restoring and retrofitting the 1932 building, nicknamed the "Lantern on the Hill".[7] In 2005, CHSA received another award from the California Heritage Council for its restoration of the YWCA building
- The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) held its formation meeting on November 1975 and was incorporated as a non-profit the following year. CHSSC has since undertaken many efforts to support its goals of collecting, preserving, and sharing Chinese American history. https://chssc.org/about/
- The Committee of 100 is a leadership organization of Chinese Americans in business, government, academia and the arts whose stated aim is "to encourage constructive relations between the peoples of the United States and Greater China." [1] It was founded in 1990 by I. M. Pei. Its current chair is Frank H. Wu, Distinguished Professor, University of California Hastings College of Law.
- hkej 23jun2020 tsuui wing suen article
- http://www.cgccusa.org Founded in 2005, China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. (CGCC) is a non -profit organization representing Chinese enterprises in the United States.
- http://www.uschinainternationaltradeassociation.com/
- Chinese Globalisation Association http://www.chinagoesglobal.org/
http://www.80-20initiative.net/
- Yale China Association http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/art/20140416/18690676
- US States and Ports Association Greater China (including HK) http://www.usspahk.org/
- http://uschinastrong.orgThe US-China Strong Foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen US-China relations by investing in a new generation of leaders who have the knowledge and skills to engage with China.
antarctica
- The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) was founded in 1991 by seven companies.[1] The primary goal of the association is to "advocate and promote the practice of safe and environmentally responsible private-sector travel to the Antarctic".
legal
- The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), founded as the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) in 1983, is a professional association serving the business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations around the world.
- brazilian-american lawyers association http://www.brazamlaw.org/
- founded in 2013 in nyc
healthcare/medical
- The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota, focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.[4] It employs more than 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff. The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary care and destination medicine. It is home to the highly ranked[how?] Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in addition to many of the largest, best regarded residency education programs in the United States. It spends over $660 million a year on research and has more than 3,000 full-time research personnel. William Worrall Mayo settled his family in Rochester in 1864 and opened a sole proprietorship medical practice that evolved under his sons, Will and Charlie Mayo, into Mayo Clinic. Today, in addition to its flagship hospital in Rochester, Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Arizona[12] and Florida.[13] The Mayo Clinic Health System also operates affiliated facilities throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
- Sohn Conference Foundation http://www.sohnconference.org/, Sohn Conference would be held in HK
cosmetics
- The Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of cosmetic science. Founded in 1945 in New York.
- https://www.cew.org Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), founded in 1954
bioethics
- http://www.thehastingscenter.org/
- http://www.thebuck.org
Cosmetics
- https://www.icmad.org Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and distributors
ICT
- US Information Technology Office http://www.usito.org/
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/
- cloud standards customer council http://www.cloud-council.org/
- information technology industry council http://www.itic.org/
- The Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of cosmetic science. Founded in 1945 in New York.
- https://www.cew.org Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), founded in 1954
bioethics
- http://www.thehastingscenter.org/
- one of the organisers of cuhk bioethics event in Jan 2015
- http://www.thebuck.org
Cosmetics
- https://www.icmad.org Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and distributors
ICT
- US Information Technology Office http://www.usito.org/
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/
- cloud standards customer council http://www.cloud-council.org/
- information technology industry council http://www.itic.org/
- john neuffer, SVP for global policy advocates talks on APEC ITA
- cardlinx http://cardlinx.org/ The CardLinx Association increases interoperability, eliminates friction, and promotes the growth of the card linked offers industry
- fibre to home council http://www.ftthcouncil.org/
- computer and communications industry association https://www.ccianet.org/real estate
- national association of realtors http://www.realtor.org/
- http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org
- Internet Security Alliance
- US-based Internet Security Alliance (ISA) has been established since 2000 and has since attracted big-name members such as Verizon, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman as well as other public companies operating in aviation, defence, education, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. The Virginia-based think tank has advised White House and Congress officials on cyber security in the past – including the US Cyber Security Framework most recently – and does this via an assortment of face-to-face meetings, thought leadership white papers and public policy. SCMagazineUK.com understands that a European spin-off of the advisory body is now in the works, with the Internet Security Alliance for Europe (ISAFE) expected to be formally launched next spring. The group is to be led by Vodafone group corporate security director Richard Knowlton who will manage a small team based out of Brussels, Belgium.http://www.scmagazineuk.com/internet-security-alliance-to-launch-european-spinoff/article/382265/
- SACA, formerly the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, said it sees great strategic importance in China, especially its cybersecurity sector, and has increased its investment in the country by establishing a Beijing office to support the nation's digital transformation and business technology workforce.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201806/12/WS5b1f2951a31001b82571f890.html
- Wi-Fi Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes Wi-Fi technology and certifies Wi-Fi products for conformity to certain standards of interoperability. Not every IEEE 802.11-compliant device is submitted for certification to the Wi-Fi Alliance, sometimes because of costs associated with the certification process. The lack of the Wi-Fi logo does not necessarily imply a device is incompatible with Wi-Fi devices. The Wi-Fi Alliance owns the Wi-Fi trademark. Manufacturers may use the trademark to brand certified products that have been tested for interoperability. Founded in 1999.
- The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge."[notes 2][notes 3] It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of public-domain books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[notes 4][4] The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects. Founded in 1996.
The Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in the United States. It has an annual budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources: revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation.Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. From 1996 to 2009, headquarters were in the Presidio of San Francisco, a former U.S. military base. Since 2009, headquarters have been at 300 Funston Avenue in San Francisco, a former Christian Science Church.
- ft 18sep19
-The International Game Developers Association (IGDA)was founded in 1994 by Ernest W. Adams and was initially known as the Computer Game Developers Association (CGDA).[3] Modeled after the Association for Computing Machinery, Adams envisioned the organization to support the careers and interests of individual developers, as opposed to being a trade organization, or an advocacy group for companies.
infrastructure
- Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy http://www.usc.edu/schools/price/keston/institute/staff.html
building/construction
- International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
- uniform plumbing code
- international plumbing code
- international association of lighting designers http://www.iald.org/
PR/marketing
- word of mouth marketing association http://www.womma.org/
- Public Relations Society of America http://www.prsa.org/
- Effie www.effie.org
- international association for public participation http://www.iap2.org/
advertising
- The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) is a nonprofit industry association for creating, aggregating, synthesizing and sharing knowledge in the fields of advertising and media. It was founded in 1936 by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
aerospace
- The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) is a nonprofit industry association for creating, aggregating, synthesizing and sharing knowledge in the fields of advertising and media. It was founded in 1936 by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
aerospace
- National Business Aviation Association http://www.nbaa.org/
- The International Association of Airport Duty Free Stores (IAADFS) is an international trade association with approximately 400 company members. The purpose of the IAADFS is to promote the airport duty free industry as an important segment of the international business community; provide activities whereby operators of airport duty free stores and their suppliers can exchange information on products and their duty free market potential; and serve as a collective voice in representing the airport duty free industry on common issues affecting the membership. As international air travel developed in the years following World War II, the potential for duty free shopping in airport complexes was recognized. Accompanying that recognition was the need for a better understanding of the duty free business by government agencies and officials, as well as the need to provide a forum for the development of communication and business relationships between buyers and sellers of duty free products. In 1968, the IAADFS was formed to meet the needs of the airport duty free industry in the western hemisphere. One of the association's primary activities is the Duty Free & Travel Retail Summit of the Americas, co-hosted with ASUTIL, that is usually held during the spring in Florida. This annual event provides an opportunity for members of both organizations to meet with buyers from duty free and travel retail stores, to do business, network, and learn at valuable education sessions. https://www.iaadfs.org/page/AboutIAADFS
maritime/shipping
- World Ocean Council http://www.oceancouncil.org/
- women in shipping and trading association http://www.wista.net/
- In 1961, the Washington State Legislature authorized port commissioners to designate The Washington Public Ports Association (WPPA) as a port coordinating agency.
- us states and ports association, greater china http://www.usspahk.org
Vehicle
- World Electric Vehicle Association (WEVA) http://www.worldelectricvehicleassociation.info
- recreational vehicle industry association http://www.rvia.org/
GIS
- us states and ports association, greater china http://www.usspahk.org
- est in oct 1989
- exhibited at 2018 smartbiz expo
Vehicle
- World Electric Vehicle Association (WEVA) http://www.worldelectricvehicleassociation.info
- recreational vehicle industry association http://www.rvia.org/
GIS
- American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing http://www.asprs.org/
- American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) merged into National Society of Professional Surveyors, Inc. (NSPS)
- american society of civil engineers
- packaging
- world packaging organisation http://www.worldpackaging.org/
MICE
- International Special Events Society (ISES) http://www.ises.com/, has HK (http://iseshk.org/) and UK (http://www.isesuk.org/) chapters
- global business travel association http://www.gbta.org/
- The International Institute For Peace Through Tourism (IIPT) is a not for profit organization dedicated to fostering and facilitating tourism initiatives which contribute to international understanding and cooperation, an improved quality of environment, the preservation of heritage, and through these initiatives, helping to bring about a peaceful and sustainable world.
- hotel association of new york
- global business travel association http://www.gbta.org/
- The International Institute For Peace Through Tourism (IIPT) is a not for profit organization dedicated to fostering and facilitating tourism initiatives which contribute to international understanding and cooperation, an improved quality of environment, the preservation of heritage, and through these initiatives, helping to bring about a peaceful and sustainable world.
- hotel association of new york
-Historic Hotels of America is the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest Historic Hotels. Historic Hotels of America was founded in 1989 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with 35 charter members.Today, Historic Hotels of America has more than 300 historic hotels. https://www.historichotels.org/us/about-historic-hotels/
- The Association of Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals https://vrhp.clubexpress.com
Gambling/casino
- amercian gaming association http://www.americangaming.org/
- The World Luxury Association (世界奢侈品协会) is a self-proclaimed "international organisation" that conducts various activities relating to luxury goods. (us site weblink not work) http://www.wla.hk/html/aboutus/WLAIntroduction/
electronics
- consumer electronics association https://www.ce.org/
environment
- world resources institute http://www.wri.org/
- earth institute http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sections/view/9
- institute of scrap recycling industries http://www.isri.org/
- american restroom association http://www.americanrestroom.org/
- The Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy( Center ) is a private, public interest group focusing on environmental issues. Its stated aims include protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing participation in the environmental movement. The African American Environmentalist Association( AAEA ) is the outreach arm of the Center. The Center describes itself as "aggressively non-partisan". It has supported Republican policy positions, and particularly those of President George W. Bush on such issues as stem cell research and nuclear power, but has also expressed support for Democrats including Joseph Lieberman.
- The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for both economic and cultural reasons. In 1854, the Société zoologique d'acclimatation was founded in Paris by French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, whose 1849 treatise Acclimatation et domestication des animaux utiles ("Acclimatization and Domestication of Useful Animals") had urged the French government to introduce, and when necessary selectively breed, foreign animals both to provide meat and to control pests. The group inspired the formation of similar groups around the world, particularly in countries that had been colonized by Europeans.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in San Diego, California, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world. Hundreds of ocean and Earth scientists conduct research with the aid of oceanographic research vessels and shorebased laboratories. Its Old Scripps Building is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. SIO is a division of the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The public explorations center of the institution is the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Since becoming part of the University of California in 1912, the institution has expanded its scope to include studies of the physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and climate of Earth.
water
- The Water Quality Association (WQA) is an Illinois-based trade association representing the residential, commercial, industrial, and small community water treatment industry in the United States. It has more than 2,500 members consisting of both manufacturers as well as dealers/distributors of equipment. The Water Quality Association was founded in 1974 from the merger of two trade associations, the Water Conditioning Association International which represented water treatment dealers and the Water Conditioning Foundation which primarily comprised water treatment equipment manufactures. WQA represents the water treatment industry as a whole devoted to treating water for both residential and commercial/industrial use. Final barrier has become the industry standard preventing waterborne contaminants in treated water. WQA's member companies are committed to making sure that water safe following industry regulations.
aboriculture
- The International Society of Arboriculture, commonly known as ISA, is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Library
- american library association
Archive
- http://www2.archivists.org
translation
- american translators association http://www.atanet.org/
indigenous people
- The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (“The Tenure Facility”) is a unique new institution that provides grants to advance land and forest tenure security and the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. It is emergent and responsive to the growing global land and forest tenure crisis that often pits communities, businesses, and governments against one another. This crisis is growing as result of weak governance and unclear, unenforced or undocumented rules for governing land, forests, and people. The Tenure Facility is the first and only institution exclusively focused on securing collective rights to land and forests.- rights and resources institute http://www.rightsandresources.org/
- ********The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) was founded by William Denis Fugazy Sr., a transportation magnate from New York City, in 1986. Currently the organization is led by Chairman Nasser J. Kazeminy. Lee Iacocca, who was friends to both Fugazy and Kazeminy,[1] co-charied the organization until 2012. The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations - NECO- was created on the conviction of its founders that the diversity of the American people is what makes this nation great. Its mission is to honor and preserve this diversity and to foster tolerance, respect and understanding among religious and ethnic groups. Additionally, NECO continues its commitment to the restoration and maintenance of Ellis Island, a living tribute to the courage and hope of all immigrants.NECO sponsors the Ellis Island Medals of Honor which are presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic groups while exemplifying the values of the American way of life. Past Medalists include six U.S. President, one foreign President, Nobel Prize winners and leaders of industry, education, the arts, sports and government, along with everyday Americans who have made freedom, liberty and compassion a part of their life's work.
Extraterrestial
- http://www.seti.org
Writing
- http://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/The-Writers-Institute-at-The-Graduate-Center/The-Institute
Publishing
- american institute for conservation of historic and artistic works http://aic.standford.edu
- www.guildofbookworkers.org
- www.lbibinders.org
- www.nedcc.org
- www.rarebookschool.org
- www.societyofbookbinders.com
The Color Association of the United States (CAUS), known until 1955 as the Textile Color Card Association of the United States (TCCA), is an independent color trend forecasting and color consulting service to the business community, known for its textile color swatch book, the Standard Color Reference of America (formerly the Standard Color Card of America).Prior to the creation of the TCCA in 1915, later to become The Color Association, hat makers took on the responsibility of color forecasting in the textile industry. Following World War I the information and supplies the milners were using from Europe, especially France, was cut off. Textile manufacturers who had grown dependent of these color decisions decided to form their own committee, the TCCA, which immediately published a Standard Color Card. Early on the TCCA set out to create what they termed "staple colors" that would facilitate the color coordination and consistency, especially among unrelated trades. By 1930 the TCCA had built close ties to the United States government, especially in the military. The TCCA played a major role in defining the colors and their names for all manner of government related items such as uniforms, ribbons, medals, and flags. For example, the modern Flag of the United States uses specific colors selected and named by the TCCA (Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue). Through the 1940s and 1950s the TCCA membership increased, including international companies. This expansion led to the creation of industry specific trends and color books sponsored by those industries and more direct consulting to individual companies. To this day CAUS plays a major role in the determining of color trends for industry.
education
- The Institute of International Education is a 501 organization which focuses on International Student Exchange and Aid, Foreign Affairs, and International Peace and Security. IIE creates programs of study and training for students, educators and professionals from various sectors.
- national education association http://www.nea.org/
- The Association of Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals https://vrhp.clubexpress.com
Gambling/casino
- amercian gaming association http://www.americangaming.org/
- organises G2E Asia in Macao
- The World Luxury Association (世界奢侈品协会) is a self-proclaimed "international organisation" that conducts various activities relating to luxury goods. (us site weblink not work) http://www.wla.hk/html/aboutus/WLAIntroduction/
- On its official website, it claims to be a "U.S. government International Non-profit Organisation". Another website claimed to be run by this organisation, the "World's Most Valuable Top100 Luxury Brand Official Release Ceremony" website, claims that the organisation was "signed" by a "former Secretary of State of the U.S. Government" to "regulate the international luxury market". It also claims to have "more than 700 countries" [sic] around the world.[3] All of the association's reported activities are conducted in the People's Republic of China, where it has a high media profile. These activities are usually conducted in the name of its claimed Chinese representative office. The public face of this association is Ouyang Kun ( 欧阳坤), a former acting student also known as Mao Ouyang Kun and Mao Shaokun, who is claimed to be the chief executive officer of the Chinese representative office of this association. The association conducts high profile activities in China which are frequently reported in the mainstream media. These activities include offering "official registration" to owners of their brands as "official luxury brands", "launches" of "official lists" of top luxury brands, the release of "official reports" into the luxury market in China, and meetings with government officials. The association is frequently quoted by the mainstream news media in relation to the luxury market in China and globally. The discrepancy between the organisation's claimed official provenance and worldwide activities on the one hand, and the Chinglish employed on its English language websites and its activities being restricted to China on the other hand, has roused suspicion. In 2013, China's China Central Television ran an exposé program in which it was claimed that the World Luxury Association is a scam. However, the "CEO" Ouyang Kun returned to the front pages in September 2013 when he claimed that "Huazong", a Chinese internet personality who had previously accused Ouyang Kun and the World Luxury Association of being a scam, has been arrested, and that he has been to the police station "as the victim" to identify "Huazong"; "Huazong"'s other claim to fame is that he exposed a number of corrupt officials by identifying their luxury watches from official photographs. Commentators in China have expressed fears that the arrest is politically motivated.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Luxury_Association
electronics
- consumer electronics association https://www.ce.org/
environment
- world resources institute http://www.wri.org/
- earth institute http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sections/view/9
- institute of scrap recycling industries http://www.isri.org/
- american restroom association http://www.americanrestroom.org/
- The Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy( Center ) is a private, public interest group focusing on environmental issues. Its stated aims include protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing participation in the environmental movement. The African American Environmentalist Association( AAEA ) is the outreach arm of the Center. The Center describes itself as "aggressively non-partisan". It has supported Republican policy positions, and particularly those of President George W. Bush on such issues as stem cell research and nuclear power, but has also expressed support for Democrats including Joseph Lieberman.
- The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for both economic and cultural reasons. In 1854, the Société zoologique d'acclimatation was founded in Paris by French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, whose 1849 treatise Acclimatation et domestication des animaux utiles ("Acclimatization and Domestication of Useful Animals") had urged the French government to introduce, and when necessary selectively breed, foreign animals both to provide meat and to control pests. The group inspired the formation of similar groups around the world, particularly in countries that had been colonized by Europeans.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in San Diego, California, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world. Hundreds of ocean and Earth scientists conduct research with the aid of oceanographic research vessels and shorebased laboratories. Its Old Scripps Building is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. SIO is a division of the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The public explorations center of the institution is the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Since becoming part of the University of California in 1912, the institution has expanded its scope to include studies of the physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and climate of Earth.
water
- The Water Quality Association (WQA) is an Illinois-based trade association representing the residential, commercial, industrial, and small community water treatment industry in the United States. It has more than 2,500 members consisting of both manufacturers as well as dealers/distributors of equipment. The Water Quality Association was founded in 1974 from the merger of two trade associations, the Water Conditioning Association International which represented water treatment dealers and the Water Conditioning Foundation which primarily comprised water treatment equipment manufactures. WQA represents the water treatment industry as a whole devoted to treating water for both residential and commercial/industrial use. Final barrier has become the industry standard preventing waterborne contaminants in treated water. WQA's member companies are committed to making sure that water safe following industry regulations.
aboriculture
- The International Society of Arboriculture, commonly known as ISA, is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, USA.
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Library
- american library association
Archive
- http://www2.archivists.org
translation
- american translators association http://www.atanet.org/
indigenous people
- The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (“The Tenure Facility”) is a unique new institution that provides grants to advance land and forest tenure security and the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. It is emergent and responsive to the growing global land and forest tenure crisis that often pits communities, businesses, and governments against one another. This crisis is growing as result of weak governance and unclear, unenforced or undocumented rules for governing land, forests, and people. The Tenure Facility is the first and only institution exclusively focused on securing collective rights to land and forests.- rights and resources institute http://www.rightsandresources.org/
- ********The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) was founded by William Denis Fugazy Sr., a transportation magnate from New York City, in 1986. Currently the organization is led by Chairman Nasser J. Kazeminy. Lee Iacocca, who was friends to both Fugazy and Kazeminy,[1] co-charied the organization until 2012. The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations - NECO- was created on the conviction of its founders that the diversity of the American people is what makes this nation great. Its mission is to honor and preserve this diversity and to foster tolerance, respect and understanding among religious and ethnic groups. Additionally, NECO continues its commitment to the restoration and maintenance of Ellis Island, a living tribute to the courage and hope of all immigrants.NECO sponsors the Ellis Island Medals of Honor which are presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic groups while exemplifying the values of the American way of life. Past Medalists include six U.S. President, one foreign President, Nobel Prize winners and leaders of industry, education, the arts, sports and government, along with everyday Americans who have made freedom, liberty and compassion a part of their life's work.
- The Ellis Island Honors Society (EIHS) is a United States 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to honor and preserve cultural diversity and to foster tolerance, respect and understanding among ethnic groups[1]. The EIHS was founded in 1984 as the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) and adopted its current name in 2017.[1] The EIHS awards the "Ellis Island Medal of Honor" to naturalized or native-born American citizens "who preserve and celebrate the history, traditions and values of their [ethnic heritage] while exemplifying the values of the American way of life".NECO was founded by William Denis Fugazy Sr in June 1984 in response to discontent with the choice of 12 recipients of the "Medal of Liberty" awarded as part of ABC's Liberty Weekend celebration of the Statue of Liberty's pre-centennial renovation. A committee appointed by ABC producer David L. Wolper was tasked with selecting eminent living immigrants, and Fugazy was among those who felt many prominent immigrant communities were unrepresented. Fugazy, a real-estate agent and founder in 1984 of the Coalition of Italo-American Associations, mentioned in particular Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Polish Americans.[3] Committee member Arthur Schlesinger Jr pointed out that most Irish and Italian Americans were not first-generation and therefore ineligible.[4][3] The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, which had cooperated with the Medal of Liberty award, agreed to co-operate with NECO on the Ellis Island Medals of Honor.[4] A Congressional resolution of October 10, 1986 endorsed the awards.[5]Fugazy awarded the first 80 Ellis Island Medals of Honor on October 27, 1986; recipients present included Joe DiMaggio, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, and Donald Trump (a business associate of Fugazy).In 2018, Ellis Island Honors Society communications director confirmed that Donald Trump was a 1986 recipient of the Ellis Island Medals of Honor and that a photo of the event with Trump alongside Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks was authentic. Trump was honored for his work as a successful developer in New York City and his German heritage, not for helping inner city youth. Seven U.S. Presidents are among those who have been nominated, along with both celebrities and ordinary people.
- awradees of medals of honor
- Hamid R. Moghadam (born August 26, 1956) is an American business executive, engineer, and philanthropist. In 1983, Moghadam co-founded Abbey, Moghadam & Company,[1][2] an investment manager headquartered in San Francisco, California.[3] After the company became AMB Property Corporation,[1] Moghadam took AMB public in 1997,[4] becoming CEO.[5] In 2011 Moghadam orchestrated the "merger of equals" between AMB and ProLogis to create Prologis, the largest logistics real estate company in the world. Moghadam currently serves as Prologis Chairman and CEO, with Prologis operating as a multinational logistics real estate investment trust (REIT) and S&P 500 company. Born in 1956[13] in Iran,[3] Hamid Moghadam grew up in Tehran,[1] where his father was a businessman.[1][3] In 1969[3] he began attending Aiglon College in Switzerland.[1][13][3] In 1973 Moghadam entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[3][13] where he received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in engineering.[3][14] In 1980 Moghadam received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. Moghadam and his wife Christina[15] have a son together.[1][3] Moghadam, a lifelong Republican, endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
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Extraterrestial
- http://www.seti.org
Writing
- http://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/The-Writers-Institute-at-The-Graduate-Center/The-Institute
Publishing
- american institute for conservation of historic and artistic works http://aic.standford.edu
- www.guildofbookworkers.org
- www.lbibinders.org
- www.nedcc.org
- www.rarebookschool.org
- www.societyofbookbinders.com
The Color Association of the United States (CAUS), known until 1955 as the Textile Color Card Association of the United States (TCCA), is an independent color trend forecasting and color consulting service to the business community, known for its textile color swatch book, the Standard Color Reference of America (formerly the Standard Color Card of America).Prior to the creation of the TCCA in 1915, later to become The Color Association, hat makers took on the responsibility of color forecasting in the textile industry. Following World War I the information and supplies the milners were using from Europe, especially France, was cut off. Textile manufacturers who had grown dependent of these color decisions decided to form their own committee, the TCCA, which immediately published a Standard Color Card. Early on the TCCA set out to create what they termed "staple colors" that would facilitate the color coordination and consistency, especially among unrelated trades. By 1930 the TCCA had built close ties to the United States government, especially in the military. The TCCA played a major role in defining the colors and their names for all manner of government related items such as uniforms, ribbons, medals, and flags. For example, the modern Flag of the United States uses specific colors selected and named by the TCCA (Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue). Through the 1940s and 1950s the TCCA membership increased, including international companies. This expansion led to the creation of industry specific trends and color books sponsored by those industries and more direct consulting to individual companies. To this day CAUS plays a major role in the determining of color trends for industry.
education
- The Institute of International Education is a 501 organization which focuses on International Student Exchange and Aid, Foreign Affairs, and International Peace and Security. IIE creates programs of study and training for students, educators and professionals from various sectors.
- national education association http://www.nea.org/
- The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is a non-profit education corporation that was[2] recognized by the United States Department of Education as an independent and autonomous national accrediting body. ACICS was established in 1912. At one time it accredited 245 institutions of higher education offering undergraduate and graduate diplomas and degrees in both traditional formats and through distance education.[3] ACICS is incorporated in Virginia and operates from offices in Washington, D.C.During the presidency of Barack Obama, concerns about the validity of its accreditation led the U.S. Department of Education to revoke the accreditor's recognition in 2016, making the students of schools without other accreditation ineligible for federal student aid.[5] After a legal battle, President Donald Trump's administration undid that move.[6] Through a lawsuit, Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, restored the institution's recognition (although the Council for Higher Education Accreditation withdrew the organization's membership).Immediately after President Biden's inauguration in January of 2021, an independent advisory board, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, following a recommendation from the U.S. Department of Education staff,[8] recommended 11–1 that the ACICS lose its recognition by the U.S. Department of Education as an authorized accrediting body. In June 2021, the department again revoked ACICS recognition as an accreditor.[1] At the time of this revocation, ACICS was accreditor for about 60 colleges.
- The agency has a history of approving questionable colleges with devastating consequences. It accredited ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges and Brightwood College, massive for-profit universities whose sudden closures in the past decade left thousands of students without degrees and undermined the value of the education of those who did graduate. Those closures led President Barack Obama’s Education Department to strip ACICS’ powers in 2016.The schools the agency had approved scrambled to find new accreditors, said Michael Itzkowitz, a senior fellow at the center-left think tank Third Way. The best of those colleges were able to find a new agency, he said."Many of the ACICS schools that remain are those that applied to other accreditors, but were ultimately rejected," Itzkowitz said. "If history repeats itself, it's likely they'll be rejected again, as the agency – and presumably a lot of the schools it continues to oversee – have been shown to be out of compliance since the initial termination five years earlier."After a federal court decision, President Donald Trump's administration and then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reinstated the accrediting agency in 2018. By that point, it had lost dozens of colleges and their membership fees. It needed new members, and fast.The decision in 2017 to approve Reagan National University as a viable college called into question ACICS’ ability to hold colleges accountable for the education they’re supposed to provide. A February 2020 investigation by USA TODAY and the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls found no evidence Reagan National was teaching students. Several important links on the college's website were broken. Its administrators seldom answered phone calls, or they hung up immediately when a reporter identified himself. Its offices were empty, both when journalists visited and when an investigator for ACICS dropped by the campus for a spot check."Accreditors are entrusted with assuring institutional quality and acting as gatekeepers to federal student aid. This oversight helps ensure that institutions deliver on the promises made to students and safeguard federal resources," the Department of Education said in a statement. Department staff, the statement said, found ACICS failed to monitor its colleges and had "inadequate administrative capability."https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/06/02/education-department-college-accreditation-acics/7510216002/
- Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) http://www.ccsso.org/
- http://www.ccsso.org/resources/programs/interstate_teacher_assessment_consortium_(intasc).html
museum
- The Smithsonian Institution (/smɪθˈsoʊniən/ smith-SOE-nee-ən), established in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.[1] Originally organized as the "United States National Museum," that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967.
- The Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage (CFCH) is one of three cultural centers within the Smithsonian Institution. The center is composed of three distinct units. The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is planned and implemented annually by the Festival staff at the Folklife center. The Smithsonian Folkways Record label comprises a second team working at the center; they produce this non-profit music label with the goal of promoting and supporting the cultural diversity of sound. The third team at CFCH manages and curates the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.
heritage preservation
- World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.
The International Fund for Monuments(IFM) was an organization created by Colonel James A. Gray (1909–1994) after his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1960. Gray had conceived of a visionary project to arrest the settlement of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by freezing the soil underneath, and formed the organization in 1965 as a vehicle for the implementation of this idea.
student
- http://enactus.org/
fragrance
- research institute fragrance materials http://www.rifm.org/
- american society of perfumers http://www.perfumers.org/
material
- materials research society http://www.mrs.org/home/
- one of the organisation of the strange matter exhibition in science museum
- The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) is the global organization for the accountancy profession. Founded in 1977, IFAC has more than 175 members and associates in more than 130 countries and jurisdictions, representing almost 3 million accountants employed in public practice, industry and commerce, government, and academe.[3] The organization supports the development, adoption and implementation of international standards for accounting education, ethics, and the public sector as well as audit and assurance. It supports four independent standard-setting boards, which establish international standards on ethics, auditing and assurance, accounting education, and public sector accounting. It also issues guidance to encourage high quality performance by professional accountants in business and small and medium accounting practices.Among the key initiatives of IFAC is the organizing of the World Congress of Accountants.
- The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is an independent standards body which issues standards, like the International Standards on Auditing, quality control guidelines and other services, to support the international auditing of financial statements. It is a body supported by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). The Public Interest Oversight Board provides oversight of the IAASB, ensuring that the standards are in the public interest.
Taxation
-Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT), also known as FairTax.org, is a U.S. political advocacy group based in Clearwater, Florida that is dedicated to fundamental tax code replacement.It is made up of volunteers who are working to get the Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25/S. 122) enacted in the United States – a plan to replace all federal payroll and income taxes (both corporate and personal) with a national retail sales tax and monthly tax "prebate" to households of citizens and legal resident aliens.AFFT was founded in 1994 by three Houston businessmen, Jack Trotter, Bob McNair, and Leo Linbeck, Jr., who each pledged $1.5 million as seed money to hire tax experts to identify what they perceived as faults with the current tax system, to determine what American citizens would like to see in tax reform, and then to design the best system of taxation. The three went on to raise an additional $17 million to fund focus groups with citizens around the country and tax policy studies.
corporate goverance
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the audits of public companies and other issuers in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports. Since 2010, the PCAOB also oversees the audits of broker-dealers, including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws, to promote investor protection. All PCAOB rules and standards must be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
private detective
- world association of detectives http://www.wad.net
corruption/graft
- https://www.opensecrets.org
Whistle blowing
- http://www.whistleblowers.org The Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. A non-partisan public-interest group, GAP litigates whistleblower cases, helps expose wrongdoing to the public, and actively promotes government and corporate accountability. Since 1977, GAP has helped over 6,000 whistleblowers. - See more at: http://whistleblower.org/truth-be-told-it-isn%E2%80%99t-tagline-it%E2%80%99s-our-driving-purpose#sthash.qoyEYOhk.dpuf
Ethics
- The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) empowers its members across the globe to operate their businesses at the highest levels of integrity. ECI provides leading ethics and compliance research and best practices, networking opportunities and certification to its membership, which represents more than 450 organizations across all industries. ECI is comprised of three nonprofit organizations: the Ethics Research Center, the Ethics & Compliance Association and the Ethics & Compliance Certification Institute. www.ethics.org
freedom
- http://www.freedomhouse.org/
- world service authority http://www.worldgovernment.org/
human rights
- http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
immigration
- World Education Services (WES) is a nonprofit organization that provides credential evaluations for international students and immigrants planning to study or work in the U.S. and Canada.[1] Founded in 1974, it is based in New York, U.S.. It also has operations in Toronto, Canada. WES evaluates more than 200,000 credentials per year, they auto-authenticate and define foreign education in U.S. or Canadian terms. WES reports that their credential evaluations are non-binding advisory opinions. WES's proprietary database collects and stores information of academic certificates of more than 200 countries, 45,000 foreign institutions, 20,000 academic credentials. However, they do not have formal agreements with educational systems of any country and the kept certificates are voluntarily provided by the candidates, and they operate with third party motives.
standard
- council on accreditation http://coanet.org/
fire protection
- national fire protection association http://www.nfpa.org/
family
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3)[4]and a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). PPFA has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921,[5]which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942. Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States.[2][3] It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally.[2][3] The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of reproductive rights. PPFA is the largest single provider of reproductive health services, including abortion, in the U.S. The origins of Planned Parenthood date to October 16, 1916, when Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in the Brownsville section of the New York borough of Brooklyn.[15] They distributed birth control, birth control advice, and birth control information. All three women were arrested[16][17][18] and jailed for violating provisions of the Comstock Act, accused of distributing obscene materials at the clinic. The so-called Brownsville trials brought national attention and support to their cause. Sanger and her co-defendants were convicted on misdemeanor charges, which they appealed through two subsequent appeals courts. While the convictions were not overturned,[19] the judge who issued the final ruling also modified the law to permit physician-prescribed birth control. The women's campaign led to major changes in the laws governing birth control and sex education in the United States. In 1921 the clinic was organized into the American Birth Control League,[5] the core of the only national birth-control organization in the U.S. until the 1960s. By 1941 it was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients.[21] However, some found its title offensive and "against families", so the League began discussions for a new name.[22] In 1938, a group of private citizens organized the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood to aid the American Birth Control League in spreading scientific knowledge about birth control to the general public. In 1942, the League officially changed its name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Largely relying on a volunteer workforce, by 1960 the Federation had provided family planning counseling in hundreds of communities across the country.[21] Planned Parenthood was one of the founding members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation when it was launched at a conference in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in 1952. Both Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are strongly associated with the abortion issue today. For much of the organization's history, however, and throughout Sanger's life, abortion was illegal in the United States, and discussions of the issue were often censored.[26] During this period, Sanger – like other American advocates of birth control – publicly condemned abortion, arguing that it would not be needed if every woman had access to birth control.
- Planned Parenthood is an advocate for the legal and political protection of reproductive rights.[102] This advocacy includes helping to sponsor abortion rights and women's rightsevents.[103] The Federation opposes restrictions on women's reproductive health services, including parental consent laws for minors.[104][105] To justify this position, Planned Parenthood has cited the case of Becky Bell, who died following an illegal abortion rather than seek parental consent for a legal one.[106][107] Planned Parenthood also takes the position that laws requiring parental notification before an abortion can be performed on a minor are unconstitutional on privacy grounds. The organization opposes laws requiring ultrasounds before abortions, stating that their only purpose is to make abortions more difficult to obtain.[109] Planned Parenthood has also opposed initiatives that require waiting periods before abortions,[110] and bans on late-term abortions including intact dilation and extraction, which has been illegal in the U.S. since 2003.[111] Planned Parenthood supports the wide availability of emergency contraception such as the Plan B pill.[112] It opposes conscience clauses, which allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense drugs against their beliefs.[113] Planned Parenthood has been critical of hospitals that do not provide access to emergency contraception for rape victims.
women
- http://www.womencorporatedirectors.com/
- Soroptimist International (SI) is a worldwide volunteer service organization for women who work for peace, and in particular to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world.The organization has its roots in the Soroptimist movement, started in the USA in 1921 by Stuart Morrow,[8] and in particular in the Soroptimist Club of Oakland, California, founded that same year,[9][1] with Violet Richardson as president. Sources agree that the Soroptimist movement was influenced by the existence of Rotarianism, but differ on the precise relationship between the two. For instance, Davis, in reference to early Soroptimism in the USA, writes that "Soroptimism was a women's organization connected to the Rotary Clubs for men that promoted the support of professional women as well as the ideals of service and internationalism."The name "Soroptimist" was coined by combining the Latin words soror "sister" and optima "best", and can be taken to mean "best for women".
- people
- Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, Governor-General of Barbados
-The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national women's sororities throughout the United States and Canada. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae.Founded in 1902, NPC is one of the oldest and largest women's membership organizations, representing more than 4 million women at over 650 college/university campuses and 4,600 local alumnae chapters in the U.S. and Canada.
- Chi Omega (ΧΩ, also known as ChiO) is a women's fraternity and a member of the National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization of 26 women's fraternities.Chi Omega was founded April 5, 1895 at the University of Arkansas by Ina May Boles, Jean Vincenheller, Jobelle Holcombe, and Alice Simonds, with the help of Dr. Charles Richardson (an initiate of the Kappa Sigma fraternity). This founding chapter is called the Psi Chapter. It first expanded in Fall 1898 with Chi chapter at Transylvania University; located in Lexington, Kentucky and Hellmuth Ladies' College, located in London, Ontario.
- People
- Jennifer Rene Psaki (/ˈsɑːki/; born December 1, 1978)[1][2][3] is an American political advisorserving as the 34th and current White House press secretary.Psaki was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to James R. Psaki and Eileen Dolan Medvey.[7] Her father is a retired real estate developer, and her mother is a psychotherapist.[8] She is of Irish, Greek, and Polish descent[9] and has two younger sisters.
religion
- American Atheists https://atheists.org/
Jew
- orthodox union
catholic
- Center of Concern https://www.coc.org/
- rethinking bretton woods project https://www.coc.org/rbw
christianity
- The Rethinking Bretton Woods (RBW) was founded in 1995 to promote reforms of international financial institutions -- such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- and policies, with the purpose of democratizing economic policy-making, achieving human rights and sustainable development.
- Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.Congregationalism in the United States traces its origins to the Puritans of New England, who wrote the Cambridge Platform of 1648 to describe the autonomy of the church and its association with others. Within the United States, the model of Congregational churches was carried by migrating settlers from New England into New York, then into the Old North West, and further. With their insistence on independent local bodies, they became important in many social reform movements, including abolitionism, temperance, and women's suffrage. Modern Congregationalism in the United States is largely split into three bodies: the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, which is the most theologically conservative.
- The Cambridge Platform is a statement describing the system of church government in the Congregational churches of colonial New England. It was written in 1648 in response to Presbyterian criticism and in time became regarded as the religious constitution of Massachusetts. The platform explained and defended congregational polity as practiced in New England and also endorsed most of the Westminster Confession of Faith. The document was shaped most directly by the thinking of Puritan ministers Richard Mather and John Cotton.
- Biblica, The International Bible Society, was founded in 1809 and is the worldwide copyright holder of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), licensing commercial rights to Zondervan in the United States and to Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom. Biblica is also a member of the Forum of Bible Agencies International and Every Tribe Every Nation. Biblica was founded December 4, 1809, in New York City as the New York Bible Society by a small group including Henry Rutgers, William Colgate, Theodorus Van Wyke and Thomas Eddy.
- bible league international
- world bible translation center (WBTC), Inc is a subsidiary of Bible League International
- International Lutheran Council
- first church of christ, scientist, boston
- hk
- The Christian Science Society, Hong Kong, was formed on 22 October 1905 and began holding services in a small meeting house in Zetland Street on Hong Kong island. One of the earliest registered practitioners (full-time healers) was Mrs. Maud Dunn, the wife of the Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens. Mrs. Esther Sayres Richardson was also a registered practitioner in the early days of the Society. The vitality of the Christian Science Society increased with the growing number of adherents to Christian Science, and it was soon necessary to find a more spacious building for services. Property was acquired at 31 Macdonnell Road on 4 August 1910 under a renewable lease of 75 years. The first public Christian Science lecture in Hong Kong was given in 1911. Annual lectures have been sponsored by the Church ever since, with Chinese translations accompanying since 1961.The church built in Greek Revival style opened for services on Sunday, 14 January 1912. The Society achieved recognition from The Mother Church in Boston, USA, as First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong, on 12 August 1913, thus becoming the first branch of Christian Science in Asia. Except during World War II, the church has been open for services continuously - a total of about 107 years. The Church building was sacked and all records and books destroyed or sold during Hong Kong's occupation by the Japanese, December 1941 to August 1945. Members were interned in Stanley Camp, but continued to hold services there, being supplied with Bibles, hymnals and periodicals by other members who were not interned.http://www.firstchurchhongkong.com/history.html
Islam
- council on arab american islamic relations
- american arab anti discrimination committee
- Arab american institute
- american muslim council
Superstition
- American Federation of Astrologers https://www.astrologers.com/
Philanthropy
- The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership. A not-for-profit corporation, the Luce Foundation operates under the laws of the State of New York and aims to exemplify the best practices of responsible, effective philanthropy. [linked to christine loh]
Equestrian
- The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF or US Equestrian) is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States. It began on January 20, 1917, as the Association of American Horse Shows, later changed to the American Horse Shows Association (AHSA). In 2001, the organization changed its name to USA Equestrian (USAE) and, in 2003 it merged with the United States Equestrian Team (USET). In 2017, USEF rebranded as US Equestrian.
- 蓋茨女兒珍尼弗（Jennifer Katharine Gates）現年22歲，喬布斯女兒伊夫（Eve Jobs）現年20歲，均就讀史丹福大學。珍尼弗喺6歲接觸馬術運動，伊夫亦喺細個嘅時候愛上騎馬，兩人至今仍熱衷呢項運動，仲不時參加比賽，兩個靚女騎喺馬背上英姿凜凜，有姿勢有實際。兩人仲曾經兩度喺比賽上碰過頭添。邊個勁啲？據美國馬術協會（USEF）嘅障礙賽排名榜，珍尼弗排名19，伊夫就排第23，相當緊貼吓。喺USEF嘅賽事入面，珍尼弗自一四年八月以來共贏12.08萬美元獎金，伊夫亦自一六年四月以來已贏走15.93萬美元。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180120/00202_034.html
sports
- American Canyoneering Association
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) was founded in New York Cityon June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It changed its name to the National Basketball Association on August 3, 1949, after merging with the competing National Basketball League (NBL).The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional men's basketball league in the United States established in 1937.
- china
- Derek Chang will step down as the CEO of NBA China, it was announced by NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer Mark Tatum. Chang, who has been in his current role since June 2018, will continue to lead NBA China through May 15 after which he will return to his family in London. During Chang's tenure, the NBA expanded its partnerships with Tencent, Alibaba and Vivo and launched new partnerships with digital media companies ByteDance and China Mobile Migu.Under Chang's leadership, the league opened the largest NBA Store outside North America, in Beijing, the world's first NBA Center, an NBA-themed lifestyle complex in Tianjin, as well as eight other interactive NBA-themed destinations across the country for fans of all ages. Chang also managed the league's long-standing relationships with CCTV and BesTV and oversaw four NBA China Games in 2018 and 2019.Prior to joining the NBA, Chang held senior executive positions with Scripps Networks Interactive, DIRECTV, Charter Communications, the YES Network and TCI Communications and served on the board of directors of Starz after its public spin-off.https://www.chinadailyhk.com/article/128189#Chang-to-step-down-as-CEO-of-NBA-China
- NBA總裁阿當施華昨日宣布，任命馬曉飛下月一日起接替張墀駒，出任NBA中國行政總裁，成為首位中國本土CEO。阿當施華指，馬曉飛的經驗可幫助籃球運動在中國的持續發展。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200513/00178_008.html
social service
- Zonta International is an international service organization with the mission of advancing the status of women.
- 費明儀was linked to zonta club taipei
- Zonta Club of Hong Kong was established in 1972 and was the first club chartered in Hong Kong by the Zonta International, a worldwide service organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women through services and advocacy. There were 17 chartered members and 3 of which are still active in our Club today. Set up Z Clubs at St. Mary's Canossian College, St. Paul's Convent School, St. Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong International School, True Light Girls' College, Good Hope School; Golden Z Clubs at the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University. Co-hosted the Zonta Regional Conference in 1977, the Zonta International Convention in 1992 and the 10th Zonta District 17 Conference in 1999 with other sister clubs in Hong Kong. Sponsored the chartering of Zonta Club of Kowloon in 1977, Zonta Club of Hong Kong East in 1980, Zonta Club of the New Terrirories in 1982, Zonta Club of Victoria in 1990 and Zonta Club of Hong Kong II in 2002.
- The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.[3] The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time.[4] The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.
- Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. Junior Achievement works with local businesses and organizations to deliver experiential programs on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to students in kindergarten through high school.
- china daily 20dec17 article re JA China
- logo featured in 男兒節鯉魚旗https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190505/00180_029.html
charity
- site to check reports of charities
- http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/religious/wycliffe-bible-translators-in-orlando-fl-1614
- http://www.charitywatch.org/azlist.html#w
- http://www.charitynavigator.org/
- Heifer International (also known as Heifer Project International) is a global nonprofit working to eradicate poverty and hunger through sustainable, values-based holistic community development. Heifer distributes animals, along with agricultural and values-based training, to families in need around the world as a means of providing self-sufficiency. Recipients must agree to “pass on the gift” by sharing animal offspring, as well as the skills and knowledge of animal husbandry and agricultural training with other impoverished families. Based in Little Rock, Arkansas, Heifer International started with a shipment of 17 heifers to Puerto Rico in 1944.
Cold war related
Cold war related
- The National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP or ASP) was a United States based socialist organization of the 1950s. The ASP sponsored the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City for 3 days in late March, 1949. It was a controversial conference, picketed by Catholic War Veterans. W. E. B. Du Bois gave an impassioned speech on the final night.[2] The ASP asked Du Bois to represent them at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace in Paris in April 1949. Du Bois also attended, on behalf of the ASP, the All-Soviet Peace Conference in August 1949.
- The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States. However, it has become better known for its role in investigating alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". When the House abolished the committee in 1975,[1] its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
The Ku Klux Klan (/ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː-/),[a] commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans as well as Jews, immigrants, leftists, members of the LGBT community and, until recently, Catholics.[9] The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States. Each has advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white nationalism, anti-immigration and – especially in later iterations – Nordicism,[10][11] antisemitism, prohibition, homophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Catholicism. Historically, the first Klan used terrorism – both physical assault and murder – against politically active blacks and their allies in the South in the late 1860s, until it was suppressed around 1872. All three movements have called for the "purification" of American society and all are considered "right-wing extremist" organizations. In each era, membership was secret and estimates of the total were highly exaggerated by both friends and enemies. The first Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s during Reconstruction, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South, especially by using violence against African-American leaders. Each chapter was autonomous and highly secret as to membership and plans. Its numerous chapters across the South were suppressed around 1871, through federal law enforcement. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks and conical hats, designed to be terrifying and to hide their identities.[16][17] The second Klan started small in Georgia in 1915. It grew after 1920 and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, including urban areas of the Midwest and West. Taking inspiration from D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, which mythologized the founding of the first Klan, it employed marketing techniques and a popular fraternal organization structure. Rooted in local Protestant communities, it sought to maintain white supremacy, often took a pro-Prohibition stance, and it opposed Catholics and Jews, while also stressing its opposition to the alleged political power of the Pope and the Catholic Church. This second organization was funded by initiation fees and selling its members a standard white costume. The chapters did not have dues. It used K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others. It rapidly declined in the later half of the 1920s. The third and current manifestation of the KKK emerged after 1950, in the form of localized and isolated groups that use the KKK name. They have focused on opposition to the civil rights movement, often using violence and murder to suppress activists. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.[18] As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League puts total KKK membership nationwide at around 3,000, while the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it at 6,000 members total.The second and third incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan made frequent references to America's "Anglo-Saxon" blood, hearkening back to 19th-century nativism.[20] Although members of the KKK swear to uphold Christian morality, the group is widely denounced by Christian denominations.
- people- Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. Although scholars generally acknowledge Forrest's skills and acumen as a cavalry leader and military strategist, he has remained a controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his main role in the massacre of over 300 black soldiers at Fort Pillow and his 1867–1869 leadership of the Ku Klux Klan as its first Grand Wizard. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a cotton plantation owner, horse and cattle trader, real estate broker, and slave trader. In June 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and became one of the few soldiers during the war to enlist as a private and be promoted to general without any prior military training. An expert cavalry leader, Forrest was given command of a corps and established new doctrines for mobile forces, earning the nickname "The Wizard of the Saddle".
dubious
- Italic Institute of America - mission is to be the guardian of the Italian heritage.
- Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta Federation of Autonomous Priories http://www.kmfap.com
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201707/0707/HS08707CTAL.pdf hk's 邊陳之娟 awarded
- est 1925
- falun gong
- 「法輪功」近日擬擴建在美國紐約州橙縣的總部「龍泉寺」，計劃增建音樂廳、污水處理廠等設施，把可居住人數增至五百人，激起當地居民不滿，直指法輪功破壞社區環境及寧靜，危害所有人。龍泉寺距紐約市約一小時車程，佔地四百英畝，於二○○○年開始建造，內有中國唐朝風格的建築物、寺廟、學校等，現時有約一百人居住。據環評文件顯示，法輪功要求加建一個容納九百二十人的音樂廳、停車場、把一個禪室變成宿舍，以及其他公共用地，估計日後每日可讓二千人到訪。諮詢期至五月八日結束，預料市政府未來數月有決定。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190501/00178_009.html
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