But Jacob J. Genovay, first assistant secretary of the New Jersey Fire Association, a nonprofit group that administers a state firefighters' benefit fund, said firefighters deserve extra protection because of the toxic fumes they often inhale during their duties.
"Science fairs develop skills that reach down to everybody's lives, whether you want to be a scientist or not," said Michele Glidden, a director at Society for Science & the Public, a nonprofit group that administers 350 regional fairs whose winners attend Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest high school competition.
Take CareSource, a nonprofit group that administers Medicaid for close to four hundred thousand patients in Ohio and Michigan.
The program at Mount Nimham, to be administered by the Watershed Agricultural Council, a private group that administers the model forests and based in Walton, N.Y., is designed to be a demonstration project, its planners say.
Last year, the 550,000 foreign students in the United States constituted 3.9percentt of the total college enrollment, up from 2.8percentt 10 years ago, according to the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit group that administers the Fulbright scholars and other foreign-exchange programs.
According to a February 2010 report from the Institute of International Education, a private nonprofit group that administers the Fulbright program for the United States government, the number of American students studying in Arabic-speaking countries increased sixfold to 3,399 in 2007 from 562 in 2002.
Behind the Numbers To determine the cities with the best gas prices in America, we used data provided by GasBuddy Organization, a Brooklyn Park, Minn.-based group that administers a collection of local websites that post recent retail gasoline prices.
At a meeting Monday, a committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade group that administers the credit-default swap, was unable to decide whether a "credit event" had taken place.
Scot Horst, the senior vice president for LEED at the U.S. Green Building Council, the Washington-based group that administers the certification program, cited a "dramatic uptick" in international interest.
The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges.
