1.   And it would make it easier for Blue Cross to eventually sell its more lucrative businesses or convert the currently nonprofit company into separate for-profit ventures.

2.   And two education divisions of Teach for America have left to become nonprofit companies.

3.   As a nonprofit company, CareFirst received tax breaks from the states and that money must be repaid when it converts to for-profit status.

4.   At Mitre Corp., a nonprofit company that provides federal agencies with technology expertise, officials recently banned unauthorized wireless networks created by employees.

5.   Beyond the standard, other industry groups, like Etrust Inc., a nonprofit company, are being set up to verify and enforce privacy standards.

6.   Blue Cross executives typically argue that in creating for-profit subsidiaries, they are preserving their nonprofit Blue Cross companies, which retain whatever public or charitable assets exist.

7.   A separate nonprofit company, the Dallas Supporters of Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, was formed to raise the money needed to present the company in Dallas.

8.   But he disputed that officials of the company had violated any laws restricting political activity by nonprofit companies in forwarding campaign donations from its doctors to state candidates.

9.   But often conflicts occur long before a nonprofit company reaches the ceiling, particularly when an organization goes in head-to-head competition with private businesses.

10.   But the nonprofit company has recently emerged from a long decline.