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Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner (1923–1991), American broadcast journalist, CBS and ABC evening news anchor and founding 60 Minutes correspondent; with Barbara Walters formed network TV's first male-female anchor team.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a New York City nonprofit founded in 1893 by nurse Lillian Wald on the Lower East Side, headquartered at 265 Henry Street, known for public health nursing, the 1972 Urban Family Center shelter model, and the Abrons Arts Center.
Hierarchical organization
Hierarchical organization: ranked levels of authority in firms, states, and societies, contrasted with decentralized and network forms; evidence on performance, red tape, and history.
Hookah lounge
Hookah lounge (shisha lounge, hookah bar): a hospitality venue where customers smoke flavored waterpipe tobacco for a fee. Known for group sessions, heavy indoor PM2.5 and CO levels, and smoke-free-law exemptions in many US states.
Hossam Shabat
Hossam Shabat (حسام شبات), Palestinian journalist, 23, Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in northern Gaza and Drop Site News contributor, killed March 24, 2025 in an Israeli strike on his car in Beit Lahia; IDF called him a Hamas sniper, which he denied.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), fraternal order founded by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore on April 26, 1819; independent of England's Manchester Unity in 1843; motto Friendship, Love, and Truth; peak of 1,898,567 members in 1921.
Institutional analysis and development framework
The institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework is a method for analyzing institutions, developed at Indiana University, that takes the action situation as its unit of analysis.
International non-governmental organization
International non-governmental organization (INGO): cross-border nonprofit active in humanitarian, development, and rights work; term coined 1945; ECOSOC consultative status since 1946; distinct from local NGOs by transnational scope and donor funding.
International Order of the Rainbow for Girls
International Order of the Rainbow for Girls (IORG, Rainbow Girls), Masonic-linked fraternal youth order for girls founded April 6, 1922 in McAlester, Oklahoma by Rev. W. Mark Sexson; 850+ assemblies, seven rainbow-color lessons, headquarters in McAlester since 1951.
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: global humanitarian network founded in Geneva in 1863 by Henry Dunant after Solferino; comprises the ICRC, the IFRC, and 191 National Societies, origin of the Geneva Conventions.
Japanese Red Cross Society
The Japanese Red Cross Society (日本赤十字社) is Japan's national Red Cross society, founded in 1877 as the Philanthropic Society during the Satsuma Rebellion and renamed in 1887.
Job (role)
Job (role): the set of tasks, duties, and expectations directing one person's work for an employer, distinct from an occupation. Covers job design, the Hackman-Oldham Job Characteristics Model, and AI-driven boundary changes.
Job's Daughters International
Job's Daughters International is a Masonic-affiliated leadership organization for girls ages 10-20, founded 1920 in Omaha by Ethel T. Wead Mick, named for Job 42:15, with Bethels in five countries and the HIKE Fund charity.
John Carreyrou
John Carreyrou is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer winner who exposed the Theranos fraud in The Wall Street Journal starting October 2015 and recounted it in his 2018 book Bad Blood.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of gathering, verifying, and distributing news about current events through an editorial process. Also called the press or fourth estate, it spans print, broadcast, and digital forms since the 1605 first newspaper.
Julia Boorstin
Julia Boorstin (born 1978) is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent in Los Angeles, creator of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and author of When Women Lead (2022), based on interviews with more than 100 women leaders.
Julie Noegel Hardaway
Julie Noegel Hardaway, American clubwoman from Augusta, Georgia, living in Aiken, South Carolina; UDC President General 2024-2026 after serving as Vice President General, DAR regent, Jamestowne Society member, and public defender of Confederate monuments and tax exemptions.
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927), called Daisy, founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in Savannah on March 12, 1912, after meeting Robert Baden-Powell; membership reached 168,000 by her death.
Kat Abughazaleh
Kat Abughazaleh (Katherine Marie Abughazaleh, born 1999), also known as Kat Abu, is a Palestinian American journalist and former Media Matters video producer who ran for Congress in Illinois's 9th District, raised over $3 million, was indicted over ICE protests, and lost the 2026 Democratic primary to Daniel Biss.
Kathryn Murdoch
Kathryn Murdoch (née Hufschmid), American philanthropist, co-founder and president of the Quadrivium Foundation; wife of James Murdoch; funds climate, journalism, and electoral reform, co-chairs Unite America.
Kennel club
Kennel club: national dog registry organization (e.g., The Kennel Club UK, 1873; American Kennel Club, 1884; FCI federation) that maintains pedigree stud books, publishes breed standards, governs dog shows, and manages breeding health rules.
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (1960-1994), South African photojournalist of the Bang Bang Club, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 Sudan photograph of a starving child with a vulture, published by the New York Times, and died by suicide months later.
Kiwanis
Kiwanis is a global volunteer service organization founded in Detroit in 1915, focused on serving children, with clubs in about 85 countries, 49 districts, and youth programs including Key Club, Circle K, Builders Club, K-Kids, and Aktion Club.
Kizuna-kai (絆會)
Kizuna-kai (絆會), also known as the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, is a Hyogo-based yakuza group formed in April 2017 as a splinter from the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi; a designated boryokudan and confrontation-designated group distinct from the religious corporation Kizunakai.
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven in 1882 and chartered March 29, 1882, is a Catholic fraternal benefit society with over 2 million members, offering life insurance and performing extensive charitable work.
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias, fraternal order founded by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864; first US fraternal order chartered by Act of Congress; ritual based on Damon and Pythias; principles Friendship, Charity, Benevolence.
Knights Templar (Freemasonry)
Knights Templar (Freemasonry): Christian chivalric appendant order, top York Rite body in the US, meeting in Commanderies under Grand Commanderies and the Grand Encampment; not descended from the medieval Templars.
Korean Democratic Women's Union
The Korean Democratic Women's Union (조선민주여성동맹) is North Korea's mass organization for women, founded in 1945 and renamed the Socialist Women's Union of Korea in 2016.
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary: the invented ranks and Kl- terms of the KKK, from Grand Wizard and Kloran to Imperial Wizard, Exalted Cyclops, and klavern, across the Reconstruction, 1920s, and modern Klans.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Lambda Chi Alpha (ΛΧΑ), founded 1909 at Boston University by Warren A. Cole, is an international social college fraternity with about 185 chapters and 300,000 members, known for abolishing pledging in 1972 and for its Theta Kappa Nu merger.