NPO
Appearance
NPO may refer to:
- Non-Profit Organization
- Nil per os, Latin for "nothing by mouth", a medical instruction to withhold oral intake of food and fluids from a patient
- NP optimization problem, optimization problems that are NP-hard
- North Pacific Oscillation, an atmospheric teleconnection pattern
Education
Great Britain
- National Preservation Office, part of the British Library
- NPO UK Ltd., a company which had stationery and book shops around Northern Ireland, bought by and rebranded Eason & Son N.I. Ltd.
Netherlands
- Netherlands Public Broadcasting (Template:Lang-nl)
- Netherlands Pathfinder Organisation (Template:Lang-nl), one of the organisations that evolved into Scouting Nederland, the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands
Pakistan
- Shehri Ijtamai Taraqiati Council - SHATAC, a Pakistani public organisation
Russia
- Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye (Научно-производственное объединение), Russian for "Scientific and Production Establishment", often found in the names of successors to the Experimental Design Bureaux (OKB) of Communist times