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BellSouth Telecommunications LLC provides wireless telecommunications services. It also offers wireless telecommunications and U-verse services for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The company was founded on December 19, 1983 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

John S. & James L. Knight Foundation (Knight Foundation) is a private non-profit foundation headquartered in Miami, Florida. Knight Foundation was founded in 1950 to promote excellence in journalism and the success of the communities in which they worked. The Foundation is independent of the Knight brothers' newspaper enterprises.

Audible, Inc. provides audio information and entertainment services on the internet. It offers digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, television, and radio programs. The firm sells downloadable audio versions of books, speeches, and spoken word performances. The company was founded by Donald R. Katz in 1995 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.

Accel Partners LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson. The firm is headquartered in California, the US.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Creative Artists Agency LLC operates as an entertainment and sports agency. The firm offers brand management, entertainment property selling, communications, market research, trend forecasting, strategic marketing, and counsel and philanthropy consulting services. The company was founded by J. Rowland Perkins II, Ronald Meyer, Bill Haber, Michael S. Rosenfeld, and Michael Ovitz in 1975 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. produces movies and television shows. It engages in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of creative content and its related businesses across multiple current and emerging media and platforms. The company was founded on April 4, 1923 and is headquartered in Burbank, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Greylock Management Corp (Greylock Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 by Charlie P. Waite and Daniel S. Gregory. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

The Paley Center for Media is a non-profit organization that leads discussions about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms. The non-profit company is based in Beverly Hills, CA. The center draws upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the media community to provide respected programming. The Paley Archive, containing over 160,000 television and radio programs and advertisements, is accessible to the public. The center also serves as a neutral setting for media professionals to engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Maureen J. Reidy has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

Windsor Media, Inc. engages in private equity, venture capital and fixed income investments. The firm invests in private equity fund focused on media platforms, scalable service offerings and brands; venture capital fund such as technology platforms, early stage media companies and new business concepts and fixed income management covering corporate and municipal bonds, equities and special situations. The company was founded by Terry S. Semel on August 19, 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

iMentor is a private company that builds mentoring relationships to empower first-generation students to graduate high school, succeed in college and career, and achieve their ambitions. The company is based in New York, NY. iMentor has served nearly 40,000 students since its founding in 1999 through direct-service programs in several states and through partnerships with local non-profit organizations that implement the iMentor model in communities across the country. iMentor matches every student in their partner high schools with a college-educated mentor to help them on their college journey. The company was founded in 1999 by John A. Griffin, Richard R. Buery, and Matt Klein.

Part of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula provides low-income youth with opportunities for schooling. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. Peter Fortenbaugh has been the CEO of the company since 2002.

GuideStar USA, Inc. operates as a not for profit organization that gathers, organizes, and distributes information about United States nonprofits. The company was founded by Buzz Schmidt on September 06, 1994 and is headquartered in Williamsburg, VA.

Coalition for The Homeless, Inc. engages in the provision of advocacy services to homeless men, women, and children. Its programs include food and crisis services, housing, job training, and youth programs. The company was founded in June 1981 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GlobalGiving Foundation operates as an online marketplace that connects individual and institutional donors to community-based projects. It addresses health, education, economic development and other themes around the world. The firm’s innovative platform offers tools that help people search for, support, and publicize projects online and get detailed feedback on progress. The company was founded by Mari Kuraishi and Dennis Whittle in 2000 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

EverFi, Inc. provides educational technology services. It offers financial capability, heath and wellness program, STEM readiness, diversity and inclusion, career leadership & success, employee wellness, and summer learning services. The firm serves the financial institutions colleges and universities corporations, non-profits, sports and entertainment industries. The company was founded by Tom Davidson, Jon Chapman and Ray Martinez in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Malaria No More engages in raising awareness and mobilizing public support to end malaria. It provides life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in Africa. The company was founded by Peter Chernin and Raymond G. Chambers in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Bing.com operates as a web search engine. It provides web, video, image and map search products. The firm offers digital marketing services. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

GlobalGiving UK is a platform that enables individuals to safely and easily support over 766 non-profit organizations that focus on food security. GlobalGiving UK is based in London, UK. The British company provides a vetted and verified list of projects by country, allowing users to make a positive impact. Alix Guerrier has been the CEO of the private company since 2018.

Venture For America, Inc. operates as a fellowship program that places recent graduates at startups in cities with emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems, forging a community of entrepreneurs committed to building companies. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bme Community is a network of leaders and allies who work towards supporting the highest aspirations of black people. The private company is based in Miami. The American company's initiatives, such as the Bme Vanguard Awards and asset-framing, aim to reduce stigma and build more equity by focusing on fulfilling people's worthy aspirations. The company was founded by Trabian Shorters and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

OPAQ Networks, Inc. provides cloud-based security solutions. It offers distributed branch enablement and optimization, security product displacement, securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, on demand security deployment, threat management, and backhaul offload. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Next Play Ventures LLC (Next Play Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Jeffrey Weiner. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Westbound Equity, LLC (Westbound Equity) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Sean Mendy, Ian Beadle, and Jason Norman. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.