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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in every contiguous U.S. state except for Wyoming and South Dakota as well as in three Canadian provinces. Amtrak is a portmanteau of the words America and track.
Scouting America
American nonprofit organization
Tennessee Valley Authority
federally-owned electric utility corporation in the United States
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
US government agency providing deposit insurance
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
scientific national academy for the United States
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting
Bank of North America
first chartered bank in the United States (established in 1781), and served as the country's first de facto central bank
Conrail
Conrail , formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its operations during its acquisition by CSX Corporation and the Norfolk Southern Railway.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps ( ; officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work programs in many sectors. These programs include AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps NCCC, AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps Seniors, the Volunteer Generation Fund, and other national service initiatives. It was created by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. In September 2020, the agency rebranded itself as AmeriCorps, although its o
United States International Development Finance Corporation
an executive agency of the US federal government responsible for providing foreign aid
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
government-sponsored corporation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
American foundation for the support of students
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
government agency of the United States of America
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
former American independent agency
Commodity Credit Corporation
U.S. government-owned corporation