How to Use nonprofit in a Sentence

nonprofit

adjective
  • Schools don't pay sales tax on supplies because they have nonprofit status.
  • Since then, the nonprofit clubs have shared the cost of care, repair and maintenance.
    — Daniel Brenner, The Denver Post, 13 July 2024
  • The city worked with the nonprofit Project Restore to make some of the more recent improvements.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Find out more about the program and the nonprofit’s other efforts at kindnessgrowshere.com.
    — Katie V. Jones, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2022
  • Leddy is the secretary of the Alamo Heights Bike Park nonprofit.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2022
  • When asked to help a friend's nonprofit group get donations to some of the more than two two million refugees in Poland, Ramsey didn't blink.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The nonprofit center hosts walking tours of the city that start in March and continue throughout the year (tickets are $25; visitahc.org).
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Hambly, who is head of the nonprofit group the Badger Trust, believes those in favor of the cull are mistaken.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The Lown Institute is a nonprofit health care think tank based in a Boston suburb.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The city had to find nonprofit organizations to manage the sites and people to staff them.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The sweet message, which was released on the website of his and Meghan's Archewell nonprofit, was in part written to address the queen directly.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Annelise Cochran, a 30-year-old who worked for an ocean conservation nonprofit, couldn’t get out by car, and the building next to her was on fire.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Because her business is a small nonprofit, Black praised the Urban League for stepping up as a co-sponsor.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • That’s partly because medicine has swallowed much of the nonprofit sector.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The scholarships are part of a nonprofit program called the College Promise.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
  • Both the nonprofit and CNN define mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN, 7 May 2023
  • Pugh worked at the nonprofit Kids Crossing, which aims to help foster children find homes, according to the statement.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • An article on Page 68 about the playwright Adrienne Kennedy misstates where the nonprofit Africare is based.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • In an agreement with the city, the nonprofit organization now owns the plot, marking its importance as a resource in one of the city’s many food deserts.
    — Hailey Closson, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • Spaces, a small, nonprofit art gallery on Cleveland’s West Side, has just joined that exclusive club.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The nonprofit organization has run the system for the entire US for 37 years.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Residents are given advance notice of the cleanup, and city and nonprofit staff are on hand to help pack up belongings.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • And when Engelbrecht, founder of the nonprofit True the Vote, has found herself in hot water, Paxton’s office has turned out to be a helpful ally.
    — Cassandra Jaramillo, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Is the nonprofit model the future for good bookstores in America?
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Effective oversight is vital for the nonprofit world to thrive.
    — Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The nonprofit leader was at first outraged and then sorrowful.
    — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • They will be collected in a volume to be produced by the nonprofit publishing house Deep Vellum.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • Serna used a portion of the lawsuit proceeds to start the nonprofit advocacy group.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • But the decline was so dramatic that one of the largest nonprofit homeless services providers in the region questioned the count’s accuracy.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
  • Neighborhoods have generally been required to create a nonprofit community parking district that would handle the money generated by the meters.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025

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