21.   Almost everyone who receives assistance is required to work at community service jobs such as sweeping schools or answering telephones at nonprofit agencies.

22.   Both places, run by nonprofit agencies, are filled with ugly two-and-a-half-inch-thick mats over a hard floor.

23.   But beauty, quality of life, lower cost of living and state tax incentives for nonprofit agencies are also part of the appeal.

24.   But city officials say they believe that it will be far easier to expand the workfare program if it can place workers in nonprofit agencies.

25.   But he said many nonprofit agencies that provide health care and education in the Mideast have ties to other groups that the Clinton administration might put on the list.

26.   But he was impressed by Consumer Credit Counseling Service, a nonprofit agency.

27.   But in time, she helped Kazaks establish a nonprofit agency run by the parents of diabetic children to educate the public about the disease and its treatment.

28.   But his nonprofit agency, which has had some big-money dealings with City Hall, has never been registered as a nonprofit agency.

29.   But officials from the nonprofit agencies said they knew of cases in which little or no work had been done with children and families.

30.   But nonprofit agencies hope to lay the groundwork this year for an expanded presence of the much-hyped program in future years.