American Bible Society/ ABS

Summary

The American Bible Society ("ABS") is a nondenominational bible society whose purpose is to provide the Holy Scriptures to every man, woman and child in a language and form that each can readily understand, and at a price each can easily afford. ABS carries out its mission through programs that address Scripture needs in the United States and around the world. ABS serves a number of Christian churches, denominations, and agencies in part by providing translations and publications that do not contain doctrinal notes or comments. ABS leaves teaching and explaining the Scriptures to its partner groups. ABS is one of more than 135 national organizations that have joined in the global fellowship of the United Bible Societies. It works with them in hundreds of translation, literacy, Scriptures distribution, and other projects. In addition to the multi-media translations and the expanding content of the ABS site on the World Wide Web, ABS continues to support translation projects around the world. The ABS Good News for New Readers series of Scripture texts helps the functionally illiterate improve their reading skills

This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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The American Bible Society ("ABS") is a nondenominational bible society whose purpose is to provide the Holy Scriptures to every man, woman and child in a language and form that each can readily understand, and at a price each can easily afford. ABS carries out its mission through programs that address Scripture needs in the United States and around the world. ABS serves a number of Christian churches, denominations, and agencies in part by providing translations and publications that do not contain doctrinal notes or comments. ABS leaves teaching and explaining the Scriptures to its partner groups. ABS is one of more than 135 national organizations that have joined in the global fellowship of the United Bible Societies. It works with them in hundreds of translation, literacy, Scriptures distribution, and other projects. ABS has helped to provide hundreds of millions of Bibles and Portions of the Scriptures world-wide since its founding in 1816.

In addition to the multi-media translations and the expanding content of the ABS site on the World Wide Web (a site that includes a multi-translation Daily Bible Reading Guide, a growing amount of material from its archives and library, and interactive pages for kids), ABS continues to support translation projects around the world. The ABS Good News for New Readers series of Scripture texts helps the functionally illiterate improve their reading skills. ABS also is working in partnership with local institutions and churches in urban areas to strengthen families, improve health care, and deal with problems ranging from AIDS to homeless, poverty, and violence.

This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Mission Statement [ Back to top ]

The mission of the American Bible Society is to make the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people my experience its life-changing message.

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The American Bible Society was founded in 1816 by a group of national leaders - clergy, politicians, businessmen, and educators - who sought to motivate people to commit to providing and sharing the Holy Scriptures with everyone and who wanted to make the Bible available, affordable, and understandable. The American Bible Society was conceived as a provider of the Word - as a resource of Scripture for all of God's Children.

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Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Publishing Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		339 of 347	8 of 8
Fund Acquisition Decision		344 of 347	8 of 8
Resource Allocation Decision		309 of 347	7 of 8
Asset Utilization Decision		267 of 347	8 of 8