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Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by bigiain on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:10PM (#26338484)
I assume Not For Proft.
Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by ggm on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:27PM (#26338603)
yes. my bad. in OZ, we speak about the CBD all the time. Apparently, nobody else does this for the central business district. you must think we're all stoned, all the time.

NFP is used a lot in the not for profit sector, alongside NGO for non-government organisation.

Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by inopinatus on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:31AM (#26341134)
The UK also has Quasi-nongovernmental organisations, referring to a general class of arms-length statutory bodies and regulatory/representative agencies that have some devolved authority but little/no direct ministerial or parliamentary oversight. They’re often still publicly funded, or have appointments by patronage, and therefore have split loyalties; or as the saying goes, it takes two to quango.
Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by nickcox on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:30AM (#26353129)
Quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organisations, in fact.
Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by inopinatus on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:27AM (#26355613)
I believe that is a later backronym, although equally valid, not least since the term is satirical.