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The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of two organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts, the other being the British Psychoanalytic Association. The society has been home to a number of psychoanalysts, including Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott ...
The Buckinghamshire Building Society is a British building society. As of 2022, the Society has 11,400 Members and assets of £355m. [3] It was founded in 1907 in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, by a group of local businessmen. The original name was the Chalfont & District Permanent Building Society, and in 1961 the Society was renamed to ...
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies ( FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. [4] [5] [6] Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has chapters at more than 200 law schools and features student, lawyer, and ...
The Kansas Historical Society is the official state historical society of Kansas . Headquartered in Topeka, it operates as "the trustee of the state" for the purpose of maintaining the state's history and operates the Kansas Museum of History, Kansas State Archives and Library, Kansas State Capitol Tour Center, and 16 state-owned sites.
The Prayer Book Society is a charity in England which states that it aims to see "people of all ages finding life in Christ through a growing Prayer Book service in every benefice". [1] Its legal constitution states that it is established "for the advancement of the Christian religion as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer; and, in ...
The Soaring Society of America (SSA) was founded at the instigation of Warren E. Eaton to promote the sport of soaring in the USA and internationally. The first meeting was held in New York City in the McGraw–Hill Building on February 20, 1932. Its first objective was to hold a national soaring competition every year, but other roles were ...
The National Honor Society (NHS) is one of the oldest, largest, and most widely recognized cocurricular student organizations in American high schools, with 1.4 million members. [1] [2] The purpose of the NHS is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to recognize outstanding students, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote ...
The Benevolent Society, founded by Edward Smith Hall in 1813, is Australia's first and oldest charity. [1] The society is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose main goals include helping families, older Australians and people with disabilities. The Benevolent Society centers around the advancement of society and positive change.