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Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.

  • International Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentThe year 1944 marked a turning point for global finance when delegates gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
  • Council on Foreign RelationsIn September 1917, President Woodrow Wilson established a working fellowship of about 150 scholars called The Inquiry. This academic group directed by…
  • Guttmacher InstituteThe Guttmacher Institute carries the name of a man who once led Planned Parenthood, the obstetrician-gynecologist Alan F. Guttmacher.
  • World Bank GroupThe gold room at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire hosted a conference from July 1 to the 22nd of July 1944. Harry Dexter White and John Maynard…
  • American Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association took its first breath in 1903 inside the Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University.
  • Freedom HouseFreedom House opened its doors on the 22nd of January 1942 at a converted residence located at 32 East 51st Street in New York City.
  • American Association for the Advancement of ScienceOn the 20th of September 1848, seventy-eight men gathered inside the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. They formed a new group called the American…
  • American Geophysical UnionThe American Geophysical Union took its first breath in December 1919. A committee led by Robert S. Woodward of the Carnegie Institution had defined…
  • Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies opened its doors on the 4th of September 1962. This date arrived just days before the Cuban Missile Crisis…
  • National Geographic SocietyOn the 13th of January 1888, thirty-three explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
  • Greenpeace USAGreenpeace USA operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit lobby group with an annual budget of approximately $40 million. The organization employs over 500 people and…
  • Atlantic CouncilChristian Herter and William L. Clayton established the Atlantic Council in 1961 to foster cooperation between North America and Europe after World War II.
  • Center for International PolicyActivists Bill Goodfellow and retired foreign service official Donald Ranard established the Center for International Policy in 1975.
  • National Security ArchiveScott Armstrong stood in Washington, D.C. during 1985 and launched the National Security Archive. He was a former reporter for The Washington Post who had…
  • The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security StudiesThe Arctic Institute opened its doors in Washington, D.C. during 2011. Malte Humpert established the organization as a 501(c)3 think tank focused on…