Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

OLC is the leading professional organization devoted to advancing quality online learning by providing professional development, instruction, best practice publications and guidance to educators, online learning professionals and organizations around the world.

Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, later became Spelman College in 1924. Now a global leader in the education of women of African descent, Spelman College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and they are proud members of the Atlanta University Center Consortium. Today Spelman's student body comprises more than 2,100 students from 41 states and 15 foreign countries. Spelman empowers women to engage the many cultures of the world and inspires a commitment to positive social change through service. Spelman is dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and the intellectual, creative, ethical and leadership development of our students. Spelman is proud of its 76 percent graduation rate (average over six years), one of the best in the nation, but their support doesn’t stop once student step on stage to take their diploma. Spelman's global alumnae network is strong, providing connections and helping hands to graduates as they begin on their path of global engagement. Spelman College is a prestigious, highly selective, liberal arts college that prepares women to change the world. Spelman College, a historically Black college (HBCU) and a global leader in the education of women of African descent, is dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and the intellectual, creative, ethical, and leadership development of its students. Spelman empowers the whole person to engage the many cultures of the world and inspires a commitment to positive social change.

rOpenSci is a transforming science through open data and softwarer. OpenSci fosters a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software.

hackNY is a nonprofit organization founded in February 2010. The mission statement of hackNY is to federate (as in create a federation of) the next generation of hackers for New York City's innovation community.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit company focused on empowering and engaging people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free content license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation's most prestigious project is Wikipedia, however, they are involved in others such as Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiversity.

Hypothes.is thinks simple tools can help us all improve the quality of information on the Internet and in the greater world around us. They are building an open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge. It leverages sentence-level critique to enable discussion or note-taking on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation, regulations and more. They build software, push for standards and interoperability and foster community. They are a non-profit organization, funded through the generosity of the Knight, Mellon, Shuttleworth, Sloan and Helmsley Foundations– and through the support of hundreds of individuals like yourself that want to see this idea come to fruition. Their efforts are based on the Annotator project, which they are principal contributors to, and annotation standards for digital documents being developed by the W3C Web Annotation Working Group. They are partnering broadly with developers, publishers, academic institutions, researchers, and individuals to develop a platform for the next generation of read-write Web applications. If you’d like to participate, download their extension and create an account. Please consider donating to support their effort.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit organization building free tools for open scientific practices, including its flagship infrastructure Open Science Framework (osf.io).

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit organization building free tools for open scientific practices, including its flagship infrastructure Open Science Framework (osf.io).

Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a global research collaboration and networking platform. Their apps help scientists organise, share, and discover new research. Since their launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown to more than 3 million users in 180 countries and institutional customers including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Their users collaborate in hundreds of thousands of groups and have collectively uploaded more than 500 million documents - creating one of the largest research databases in the world. This data, available via the Mendeley API (http://dev.mendeley.com), powers more than 200 exciting new third-party applications that are making science more social and open.