catalog | types of groups
November 11, 2000
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— contents —
section | no. 1 — types of groups
section | no. 2 — catalog of groups printed on this website + with abbreviations
types of groups:
plus standardized short-hand labels
— FOR-PROFIT —
group = grp.
company = co.
corporation = co.
incorporated = co.
bank = co.
bank = grp.
— FIRM —
firm = firm
agency = firm
partnership = firm
— STUDIO —
design studio = studio
design space = studio
design lab = studio
art studio = studio
art space = studio
art lab = studio
performing arts studio = studio
— LAB —
example
— UTILITIES —
example
— PROJECTS belonging to another GROUP —
project = under umbrella of
studio = under umbrella of
space = under umbrella of
lab = under umbrella of
performing arts entity = under the umbrella
— not FOR-PROFIT —
organization = org.
foundation = org.
institution = org.
institute = org.
— ASSOCIATIONS —
alliance =
association = assoc.
society = assoc.
league = assoc.
— GOVERNMENT —
administration = gov.
agency = gov.
bureau = gov.
department = gov.
system = gov.
service = gov.
military = gov.
armed forces = gov.
— accredited ACADEMIC —
university = edu.
college = edu.
—note —
Groups in the category of non-accredited ACADEMIC:
— for-profit
— not for-profit
— are labeled with a best-fit type
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• the CATALOG •
— FOR-PROFIT —
example
— not FOR-PROFIT —
NPR = National Public Radio
the Catholic Church
— ASSOCIATIONS —
AAAI = American Association for Artificial Intelligence
IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
NBA = National Basketball Association
NCAA = National Collegiate Athletic Association
= Optical Society
YMCA = Young Men’s Christian Association
— accredited ACADEMIC —
CALTECH = California Institute of Technology
CMU = Carnegie Mellon University
NU = NorthWestern University
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
UC = University of California
Stanford University
University of Oxford
— GOVERNMENT —
ATF = Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms of the United States
NSF = National Science Foundation of the United States
NIH = National Institutes of Health of the United States
— for-profit UMBRELLA —
Alphabet
— Google
— Wing
Gannett
— USA Today
Walt Disney
— Pixar
— ESPN = Empire + Sports Programming Network
Viacom
— BET = Black Entertainment Network
— MTV = Music Television