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Non-profit organizations based in New York City

  • Associated PressIn May 1846, five daily newspapers in New York City gathered to form a new organization. They needed a way to share the high costs of sending news about the…
  • Human Rights WatchIn 1978, three American activists established a private organization called Helsinki Watch. Robert L. Bernstein, Jeri Laber, and Aryeh Neier created the…
  • JSTORWilliam G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1994. The project began as a solution to the physical and financial…
  • ProPublicaHerbert and Marion Sandler, former chief executives of Golden West Financial Corporation, committed $10 million per year to launch ProPublica in 2008.
  • TED (conference)Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks launched TED in February 1984 as a technology conference. The first event featured a demonstration of the compact disc…
  • Natural Resources Defense CouncilThe year was 1970 when a dozen concerned citizens gathered to stop a massive hydroelectric project on Storm King Mountain.