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Association for Democracy and Social Well-Being of Macau The Association for Democracy and Social Well-Being of Macau (Associação Pela Democracia e Bem-estar Social de Macau) （）is a political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau, a former Portuguese possession. Macau is a state in which political parties don't play a role.
Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe The Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (short: eCAADe) is a non-profit organisation active in the area of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD). Its main goal is to provide a platform for CAAD-related academics and professionals to share experiences, best practices, and results in education and research in Europe and beyond.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a major international membership organization for academics in the field, offering regional and national conferences and refereed publications. It has numerous membership divisions, interest groups, publications and websites.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology The Association for Educational Communications and Technology is an academic and professional association dedicated to the effective use of technology in education. Members provide leadership in the field by promoting scholarship and best practices in instructional technology.
Association for Helping the Community and Engagement with the People The Association for Helping the Community and Engagement with the People (Associação de Apoio à Comunidade e Proximidade do Povo) (Traditional Chinese: 親民愛群協會, Simplified Chinese: 亲民爱群协会) is a political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau, a former Portuguese possession. Macau is a state in which political parties don't play a role.
Association for India's Development The Association for India's Development, Inc. (AID) is a voluntary non-profit organization, founded in 1991, committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India, by working with grassroots organizations in India.
Association for Industrial Archaeology The Association for Industrial Archaeology is a body supporting the excavation, reporting and preservation of the physical remains of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom. The AIA has its offices at the University of Leicester and is currently chaired by Prof.
Association for Information and Image Management The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM (pronounced aim) is an international industry association focused on enterprise content management (ECM). AIIM defines ECM as "Enterprise Content Management is the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver content and documents related to organizational processes.
Association for Information Systems The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international professional organization serving as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems. Its mission is to progress knowledge in the use of IT to improve organizational performance and individual quality of work life.
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships. It evolved out of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (founded in 1967).
Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an association which represents over 350 non-profit publishers, such as university presses and professional associations, in more than 30 countries. Founded in 1972, its mission is "to serve, represent and strengthen the community of not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them to disseminate academic and professional information.
Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) (jp: 財団法人　海外技術者研修協会) was established in 1959 with the support of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (which is the present Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry: METI) as the first technical cooperation organization on a private basis in Japan. Its main purpose is to promote international economic cooperation and enhance mutual economic development and friendly relations between those countries and Japan.
Association for Progressive Communications The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of organizations that was founded in 1990 to provide communication infrastructure, including internet-based applications, to groups and individuals who work for peace, human rights, protection of the environment, and sustainability. Pioneering the use of ICTs for civil society, especially in developing countries, APC were often the first providers of Internet in their member countries.
Association for Promoting the Economy of Macau The Association for Promoting the Economy of Macau (Associação Promotora para a Economia de Macau) is a political party in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, a former Portuguese possession. Macau is an entity in which political parties don't play a role.
Association for Protection of Landowners' Rights The Association for Protection of Landowners' Rights (APLR) (Georgian: მიწის მესაკუთრეთა უფლებების დაცვის ასოციაცია) is Georgian non-governmental, not-for-profit organization. The mandate of the organization is to facilitate the development, regulation and transparency of Georgian land (real estate) markets.
Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), formerly the American Psychological Society, is a society for scientific psychology, whose mission is to "promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare." As a nonprofit organization, it is "dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national level.
Association for Reformational Philosophy The Association for Reformational Philosophy was once called the Association for Calvinist Philosophy. Incorporated in the Netherlands where the majority of its members are still located, the official Dutch names involved in the change went from Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte to Vereniging voor Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte (VRW).
Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) (; often abbreviated 海协会 / 海協會) is an organization set up by the People's Republic of China for handling technical or business matters with the Republic of China.
Association for Renaissance Martial Arts The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA), is an international educational non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the study and practice of historical fencing and the exploration and promotion of the martial heritage of Europe. Its efforts are directed toward resurrecting and recreating a legitimate craft of European fighting skills in a manner that is historically valid and martially sound.
Association for Social Advancement Association for Social Advancement (ASA) is the largest and fastest growing fully financially self-sufficient microfinance institution in the world. The experiences of ASA's managerial dynamism and replication of its simple model have much to offer the diverse microfinance sector as it accommodates demand for quality financial services by the poor masses.
Association for Software Testing The Association for Software Testing, commonly referred to as the AST, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. AST's membership is comprised of scholars, students and practitioners who are interested in the advancement of the field of software testing.
Association for Somogy The Association for Somogy (Hungarian: Somogyért, officially: Somogyért Egyesület) is a local political party representing the county of Somogy in Hungary. At the last legislative elections, April 9 and 23, 2006, the party won 1 constituency seat.
Association for Symbolic Logic The Association for Symbolic Logic ("ASL") is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic—the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1936.
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), founded in 1957 by the Medical Advisory committee to the Sports Car Club of America, is an organization dedicated to prevention and control of injuries from motor vehicle crashes.
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a non-profit organization, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and composer Phil Cohran.
Association for the Development of Education in Africa The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, previously known as "Donors to African Education", is a "network and partnership" established by a World Bank initiative in 1988. It groups Ministries of Education, international Development Agencies, NGOs and education specialists.
Association for the Development of Pakistan The Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) is a non-profit organization with a mission to enhance the lives of the poor, neglected and underprivileged of Pakistan by providing support for carefully selected social development projects in a range of sectors including infrastructure, environment, healthcare, education, gender equality, labor and food rights.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia-based Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities was the United States' first statewide historic preservation group. In 2003 the organization adopted the new name APVA Preservation Virginia to reflect a broader focus on statewide Preservation.
Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH in its Spanish initials) is a Spanish organization that collects the oral and written testimonies about the victims of the regime of Francisco Franco and excavates and identifies their bodies that were often dumped to mass graves.
Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) is a United Kingdom-based organization whose mission is to investigate, scientifically, paranormal and anomalous phenomena. The ASSAP was founded on June 10, 1981; its current president is the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe and total membership is currently about 300 people.
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Founded in 1994, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. In 2006 the executive committee of the association was composed as follows: Daniel Dennett (President), Stanislas Dehaene, Michael Gazzaniga, Geraint Rees, Axel Cleeremans, Alva Noë, Thomas Metzinger, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Patrick Wilken (executive director).
Association for the Study of African American Life and History The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a non-profit organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1915 as The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E.
Association for the Study of Nationalities The Association for the Study of Nationalities is an academic association dedicated to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, based at New York's Columbia University. It publishes the journal Nationalities Papers.
Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, or ASPO, is a network of scientists, affiliated with a wide array of global institutions and universities, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world’s production of oil and gas, due to resource constraints.
Association for Women Geoscientists The Association for Women Geoscientists is a professional organization which promotes the professional development of its members, provides geoscience outreach to girls, and encourages women to become geoscientists. Membership is open to all who support AWG's goals.
Association Flipper Association Flipper is a game invented by Ned Kelly and others of Mansfield Road Football Club at the International Tournament in 2006. The basic technique of the game involves flipping a football over a high net with the foot from a standing position.
Association For Free Software The Association for Free Software (or AFFS) is a member organization, based in the United Kingdom, for the advancement in free software (also called "open-source software"). It is an associate organization of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
Association Forum of Chicagoland The Association Forum of Chicagoland was founded in 1916 to serve professionals engaged in association management in the greater Chicago, Illinois area. The mission of the "Forum" is to advance the professional practice of association management.
Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted or AIDWYC, is a Toronto based non-profit organization founded in 1993 that is dedicated to the prevention of wrongful convictions and the reversal of cases that have already occurred. It is the direct successor to the Justice for Guy Paul Morin Committee, a grass-roots, community-based organization that supported Guy Paul Morin following his wrongful conviction.
Association Internationale Africaine The Association Internationale Africaine (French) was an organization created by King LĂ©opold II of Belgium for supposedly furthering humanitarian projects in the area of Central Africa that was to become the Congo Free State and subsequently today's Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organization was created at the 1876 Brussels Geographic Conference to which Leopold invited nearly forty well-known experts, mainly they were schooled in the geographic sciences or were wealthy philanthropists.
Association Internationale du Congo Association Internationale du Congo (acronym AIC; French, International Congo Society) was an association created 17 November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to replace the Comité d'études du Haut-Congo (Study committee of High-Congo), which in turn had originally been Association Internationale Africaine (AIA). The AIC was dissolved in 1885 and its structures acquired by the Congo Free State.
Association management company An association management company (AMC) is a group of skilled professionals who provides management, specialized administrative services to trade associations and professional societies in an efficient, cost-effective manner. AMCs take a for-profit approach to not-for-profit management and run associations like a business.
Association Management System An Association Management System, often referred to as an AMS, is a computerized system which provides a non-profit organization basic database features to run its operations. Functions such as member management, dues, committee participation, meeting registration, publication fulfillment, and certification are often included along with other features.
Association Nationale des Guides de Centrafrique The Association Nationale des Guides de Centrafrique (ANGC, National Guide Asociation of the Central African Republic) is the national Guiding organization of the Central African Republic. It serves 19,497 members (as of 2003).
Association of Accounting Technicians The Association of Accounting Technicians, or AAT, is a UK accountancy organisation with over 100,000 members. The AAT is a technician level qualification which entitles those who have completed the exams and obtained relevant supervised work experience to call themselves associate accounting technicians.
Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools The Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools (AARTS) is a non-profit accreditation association for Rabbinical and Talmudic schools. It is based in New York, NY and received recognition by Council for Higher Education Accreditation and United States Department of Education in 2001.
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is the trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. AAN provides services to a large number of generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada.
Association of American Colleges and Universities The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is a national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantage of a liberal education to all students, regardless of their academic specialization or intended career.
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is a professional association concerned with promoting the interests of staff, freelance and student editorial cartoonists in the United States, Canada and Mexico. With nearly 300 members, it is the world's largest organization of political cartoonists.
Association of American Law Schools The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is a non-profit organization of 166 law schools in the United States. Another 23 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues.
Association of American Medical Colleges The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a non-profit organization established in 1876 involved in the accreditation of medical schools and teaching hospitals in Canada and the United States. It is also the principal administrator of the Medical College Admission Test, also known as the MCAT.
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is an association of physicians founded in 1943. According to the AAPS's website the organization is "dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine.
Association of American Railroads The Association of American Railroads is an industry trade group representing the freight railroads of North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States). Amtrak and some regional commuter railroads are also members.
Association of American Universities The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.
Association of American Weather Observers The Association of American Weather Observers is a group of amateur weather observers from around the United States. Their aim is to educate the public on weather awareness and to simply share stories among themselves on recent extreme weather that they viewed at their location.
Association of Bay Area Governments The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is a regional planning agency incorporating various local governments in California. It deals with land use, housing, environmental quality, and economic development.
Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) is dedicated to advancing core and research biotechnology laboratories through research, communication, and education. ABRF members include over 700 scientists representing 267 different core laboratories, including those in industry, government, academic and research institutions.
Association of Black Photographers The Association of Black Photographers (also known as Autograph ABP) is a British based, international, non-profit-making, photographic arts agency. The group's primary role is to develop, exhibit and publish the work of photographers and artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and to act as an advocate for their inclusion in mainstream areas of exhibition, publishing, training, education and commerce.
Association of British Counties The Association of British Counties (ABC) is one of a small number of non-party-political outsider pressure groups in the United Kingdom. They promote what they assert to be the traditional counties of Great Britain.
Association of British Drivers The Association of British Drivers (ABD), founded in 1992, is a British motorists' advocacy group. "The Association of British Drivers" is the sole operating name of "Pro-Motor", a company limited by guarantee and registered in the United Kingdom.
Association of British Lourdes Pilgrimage Hospitalités The Association of British Lourdes Pilgrimage Hospitalités (ABLPH) is an association of many groups and Hospitalités that go to Lourdes from Britain. It was formed to share good practice, experience and fellowship between pilgrimage Hospitalités.
Association of British Scrabble Players The Association of British Scrabble Players oversees competitive Scrabble in the UK. It was formed in 1987 by agreement with J W Spear & Sons, the game's trademark owner, who were subsequently bought out by Mattel in 1993.
Association of C and C++ Users The Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU) is a worldwide organisation of people interested in programming languages. Originally, the association was primarily for C programmers (it was then called the CUG), but it has since added C++, C#, Java, Perl, and Python programmers to its membership.
Association of Canadian Mountain Guides The Association of Canadian Mountain Guides is Canada's only internationally recognized guide association. The Association has over 600 members, and coordinates internationally recognized training and certification programmes.
Association of Caribbean States The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) (Also called the Asociacion de Estados del Caribe or Association des Etats de la Caraibe) was formed with the aim of promoting consultation, cooperation, and concerted action among all the countries of the Caribbean, comprising of 25 member states and three associate members. The Convention Establishing the ACS was signed on July 24 1994 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Association of Catholic Clergy Pacem in Terris Association of Catholic Clergy Pacem in Terris (Czech: Sdružení katolických duchovních Pacem in terris, Slovak: Združenie katolíckych duchovných Pacem in terris), abbreviated SKD PiT or simply PiT was a regime-sponsored organisation of Catholic clergy in the communist Czechoslovakia between 1971 and 1989. Its name was leaned from the well-known encyclical Pacem in Terris of the reform Pope John XXIII.
Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts of Italy The Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI, Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts of Italy), founded in 1974, is a Catholic Guiding and Scouting association in Italy. AGESCI is coeducational and has more than 170,000 members.
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Established in 1988 the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is the professional organization that governs professional fraud examiners. It's activities include producing fraud information, tools and training.
Association of Classical and Christian Schools The Association of Classical & Christian Schools (ACCS) was founded in 1994 to encourage the formation of Christian schools using a model of classical education. The classical Christian education movement was launched by the publication in 1991 of a book entitled Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Doug Wilson.
Association of College Honor Societies The Association of College Honor Societies ("ACHS"), founded in 1925, is a predominantly American organization that serves a number of functions with respect to national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies. In particular, it is a certifying body for such organizations, facilitates communications between them, and provides both scholarships and an outlet for publication for outstanding members.
Association of College Unions International Association of College Unions International (ACUI) is an organization of approximately 700 college students' unions. It serves student centers with programs in Administration, Finance, and Management; Campus Life and Programming Management; Auxiliary Services; and Facilities and Operations.
Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs The Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs was founded in 1988 to create an organization and an accreditation process designed to fit the needs of business programs focused on teaching and learning.
Association of Comics Magazine Publishers The Association of Comics Magazine Publishers (ACMP) was an industry trade group formed July 1, 1948 to regulate the content of comic books in the face of increasing public criticism. Founding members included publishers Leverett Gleason of Lev Gleason Publications, Bill Gaines of EC Comics, Harold Moore (publisher of Famous Funnies) and Rae Herman of Orbit Publications.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a community organization. ACORN has a membership of over 200,000, organized into more than 1200 neighborhood chapters in over 110 cities across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru.
Association of Confederate Soldiers The Association of Confederate Soldiers (Tennessee Division) was an organization formed by veterans of the American Civil War in 1887 as an offshoot of the United Confederate Veterans. Its goals included funding the construction of a monument to Confederate valor, caring for Confederate graves, encouraging accounts of the Civil War that would honor and defend the Confederate cause, and bringing living veterans closer through programs designed to benefit ailing Confederate veterans and needy widows and orphans.
Association of Corporate Travel Executives The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is a not-for-profit professional association of business travel stakeholders throughout the world. The ACTE purpose is to advance the interests of the business travel industry, to promote industry networking opportunities and to educate members on emerging issues.
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians The role of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) is to promote and encourage research into the statistical and historical aspects of cricket throughout the world (at all levels) and to publish the findings. The Association is based in Cardiff at the Glamorgan CCC cricket ground at Sophia Gardens and the membership is worldwide and open to anyone who is interested in the history of cricket and/or in Cricket statistics.
Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers The Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers (commonly known as the ACU&S) was set by the umpire Tom Smith as the Association of Cricket Umpires (the scorers were only included in membership several years later), in order to provide training and advice to cricket officials. It now has a membership of over 3000, in countries all over the world.
Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools The Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools (ADVIS) is a voluntary, non-profit consortium of independent schools in the Delaware Valley area. With headquarters in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the Association currently has 134 members located throughout eastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware, and central and southern New Jersey.
Association of Electricity Producers The Association of Electricity Producers is a trade association for the United Kingdom electricity market. It has approximately 90 members, including electricity generation companies and those offering support services.
Association of Environmental Professionals The Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) is a non-profit organization of interdisciplinary professionals including environmental science, resource management, environmental planning and other professions contributing to this field. AEP is the first organization of its kind in the USA, and its influence and model have spawned numerous other regional organizations throughout the United States.
Association of European Journalists The Association of European Journalists (founded 1961, San Remo) is an organisation promoting interests of journalists involved in European affairs. It is an NGO in operational relations with UNESCO and enjoys consultative status in the Council of Europe.
Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals The Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP) is a non-profit organisation created in December, 1999, through the initiative of a multinational group of technology transfer professionals. It is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
Association of European Schools of Planning Association of European Schools of Planning AESOP is a network of European universities, their departments and affiliated schools that are engaged in teaching and research in the fields of urban and regional planning.
Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners The Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE), is a "not for profit" international organization dedicated to the advancement of firearm and tool mark identification, one of the forensic sciences.
Association of Flight Attendants The Association of Flight Attendants (commonly known as the AFA) is a union representing most flight attendants in the United States. They represent 55,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines in their membership and are currently led by Patricia Friend, a United Airlines flight attendant since 1966.
Association of Free Democrats The Association of Free Democrats (German: Bund Freier Demokraten) was a liberal coalition formed in East Germany on 12 February, 1990. It originally consisted of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Free Democratic Party (GDR) and the German Forum Party.
Association of Gospel Rescue Missions The Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (AGRM) represents 300 rescue missions and other ministries that minister to homeless and poor people in the inner cities of the United States and Canada. It is part of the City Mission movement.
Association of Greater Manchester Local Authorities The Association of Greater Manchester Local Authorities (AGMLA) is an association which represents the ten local authorities of Greater Manchester. It was created in 1986 after the former Greater Manchester County Council was abolished.
Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS), was established in 1916 as The Association of Head Mistresses of New South Wales. Today the Association enables friendly competition between 30 of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory's most exclusive independent and Catholic girls' schools, in areas such as sport (The Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association or IGSSA), debating and public speaking.
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers or AHAM represents the manufacturers of household appliances and products/services associated with household appliances sold in the United States. AHAM also develops and maintains technical standards for various appliances to provide uniform, repeatable procedures for measuring specific product characteristics and performance features.
Association of Hungarian Orchestras The Association of Hungarian Symphonic Orchestras was founded by 13 orchestras in 1993 with the purpose of ensuring the proper representation of symphonic orchestras, both within the country and abroad. The Association fulfils the further task of coordination between orchestras and the cultural government as well as facilitating the flow of information between orchestras, communicating the news and events of musical life via various channels, for instance, by publishing its own periodical under the title "Orchestra".
Association of Christian College Athletics The Association of Christian College Athletics ( ACCA ) is an organization of collegiate athletics. It was incorporated to provide an opportunity for smaller Christian College members to compete on an equal level of competition with schools of like size.
Association of Christian Colleges and Theological Schools Association of Christian Colleges and Theological Schools, ACCTS, is an unlicensed Christian theological "approval" board that has no status with the United States Department of Education (USDE) or government. They hold no government license or official recognition whatsoever.
Association of Christian Schools International The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is an association of Protestant Christian schools in the United States. The group offers support for various evangelical Christian schools, including accreditation services for primary and secondary schools.
Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia The Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia (ACUCA) is an organization of Christian universities and colleges in Asia, dedicated to Christian witness and service in the field of education. It consists of forty-eight institutions: three in Hong Kong, eight in Indonesia, ten in Japan, ten in Korea, seven in the Philippines, six in Taiwan and four in Thailand.
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) is a non-profit consortium of thirty-six of the leading degree-granting art colleges in the United States. All AICAD member institutions have a curriculum with full liberal arts and sciences requirements complimenting studio work, and are accredited to grant the BFA and/or MFA degrees.
Association of Independent Competitive Eaters The Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE) is a competitive eating organization in the United States. It is run by competitive eaters for the benefit and profit of the sport of competitive eating and its participants.
Association of Independent Creative Editors The Association of Independent Creative Editors is an international organization containing 130 editorial companies representing over 600 editors throughout the United States and Toronto. AICE has chapters in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Association of Independent Information Progressionals The Association of Independent Information Professionals or (AIIP), seeks to explain the role of independent information professionals and to provide a forum for information professionals to meet and exchange views. Information brokers are generally independent individuals who have mastered specific aspects of the process of Discover, disciminate, distill, and disseminate and they are available for tasking on an hourly or project basis.

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