Kudzukian is a broadcast media production and distribution company that provides audio and visual content. They produced several livestream events for national entities as well as municipalities.
Legal Defense Fund is a non profit organization dedicated to racial justice. Through the power of law, narrative, research, and people, they defend and advance black people's dignity and citizenship.
Schoolseed Foundation collaborates with individuals, community organizations, and businesses to ensure that children receive a high-quality education.
Justice for Black Girls is a social justice education space dedicated to meeting the needs of black girls for protection, safety, and belonging.
Lawndale Christian Development provides affordable housing while also addressing economic challenges, encouraging homeownership, and assisting with community organising.
Thinkwatts Foundation focuses on grassroots community activation, financial literacy programs, custom container housing solutions, and charitable fundraising through entertainment industry efforts.
Citizens for Juvenile Justice is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to reforming and reimagining the juvenile justice and other youth-serving systems in Massachusetts.
Knowledge Quest is a non-profit organization that provides access to health and creates opportunities for families through extended learning academies.
The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters, and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice.
The HOPE Program tailors its recruitment and training services. With a comprehensive approach, they provide training, adult basic education, industry certifications, work wellness services, internships, and job placement with long-term support. The Hope Center provides training to prepare job seekers for a variety of careers. They also receive on-the-job training, resume development and interview preparation.
Children Striving Together offers enrichment activities, mentoring, and annual events to at-risk youth in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
All Star Code is a new non-profit initiative that seeks to attract, prepare, and place high-potential, qualified young men of color in the tech-career pipeline and help them achieve full-time employment at technology companies early in their careers. We are dedicated to closing the systemic opportunity gap between our All Stars and the tech industry.
Start MMT, founded by renowned producer and Hall of Fame songwriter David Porter, operates as a music startup accelerator based in Memphis, Tennessee. This initiative aims to advance music industry technology and support creative talent and entrepreneurs globally. In collaboration with the venture development organization Start Co., Start MMT attracts innovative entrepreneurs to develop transformative business models for the music sector. The accelerator offers investment capital, access to business and technical partners, and guidance from industry mentors. With a structured program designed to expedite growth, Start MMT enables participants to evolve their ideas into market-ready products within a 100-day timeframe, fostering a new generation of music technology businesses.
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) is a 501©3, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement and voter participation in Black and underserved communities. The National Coalition strives to create an enlightened community by engaging people in all aspects of public life through service/volunteerism, advocacy, leadership development and voting.
Just City’s mission is to transform local criminal justice policy and practice to ensure it is fair for all people regardless of wealth, race, or ethnicity.
Yetunde Price Resource Centerprovides resources and free programmes to help individuals.
Hope Center Harlem offers high-quality therapeutic services to the Harlem community in order to address mental health issues and promote health and wellness.
LA Jets Track Club encourages black elementary students in the Los Angeles area to participate in track and field.
Rosewood Initiative is a community organization that prioritizes people over places. Creating a safe, healthy, and vibrant community in which neighbors can thrive together.
The Sophia Project engages, educates, and empowers young women to make wise decisions, embrace personal awareness, and form healthy relationships.
Grow Greater Englewood is a social enterprise that collaborates with residents and developers to establish sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty in order to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.
The Young Masterminds Initiative is a non-profit organisation that promotes mentoring, leadership, and positive thinking.
STS Enterprise is an organization for leadership development. They provide life skills and tools for secondary or post-graduate opportunities to achieve economic mobility through mentorship, workshops, exposure to careers and experiences, and talent placement.
City Year is a nonprofit organization that engages young adults in community service across 24 cities in the United States, as well as in London and Johannesburg. The organization focuses on improving educational outcomes for students by placing AmeriCorps members in schools to provide support and mentorship. City Year aims to address challenges such as high dropout rates and educational inequities by fostering a culture of service and civic engagement among its members, who work collaboratively with educators and community stakeholders. Through its programs, City Year seeks to create positive change in the lives of students and contribute to stronger communities.
Chicago Scholars is a college access, mentoring, and career support program. They select, train, and mentor academically ambitious students from under-resourced communities to complete college and become the next generation of leaders who will transform their neighborhoods and city. They develop deep collaborations with community-based organizations.
Albina Vision Trust aims to honor lower Albina's history by facilitating the bold redevelopment of a new, diverse, and purposefully remarkable neighborhood.
PURE Academy is recognized by the State of Tennessee as a non-public, Category IV church-related school. They are a private school with a holistic philosophy that is a college-preparatory in-person, personalized learning environment. PURE aligns state standards with an interdisciplinary project-based curriculum.
Founded in 1988, Roca takes on a unique and pressing challenge: helping to alter the life trajectories of America's most high-risk young people - the young people that are involved in crime, engaged in dangerous behaviors, have rejected help, have dropped out of school, and are simply too difficult for other programs to serve. Their mission is to disrupt the cycle of incarceration and poverty by helping young people transform their lives by providing them with tools they need to find long-term employment.
Year Up is an organization focused on closing the Opportunity Divide for urban young adults by equipping them with essential skills and practical experience. It offers tuition-free, skills-based training programs that prepare participants for professional careers or higher education. Through partnerships with various companies, Year Up provides internships that allow young adults to gain real-world experience while also offering comprehensive job search support. By fostering the development of both hard and soft skills, Year Up empowers its participants to achieve their full potential in the workforce or academic settings.
Black Parent Initiative is a culture-specific, community-centered organization that co-creates and collaborates with our families to create innovative, culturally relevant, and long-term interventions and opportunities to help them thrive.
Read Lead is a literacy and leadership initiative for youth and young adults in Los Angeles County.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis exists to empower African Americans and others throughout the region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality, and civil rights. The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. takes a holistic approach to economic empowerment and self sufficiency. Through community programs in three counties across the bi-state region, it helps its clients to climb out of poverty by helping them to find economic opportunity, providing educational excellence and community empowerment and encouraging civil rights and advocacy. The League’s Community Empowerment Initiative provides clients in need with food, clothing and other life necessities while strengthening families and helping people become self-sufficient. The Education Excellence Initiative encourages and enables participants to apply learning to everyday situations, to embrace technology and to achieve academic excellence. The Economic Opportunity Initiative provides resources to strengthen individuals, families, and communities by improving and climbing the economic “ladder” to a better quality of life.
Brave Space Alliance is the first black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center, dedicated to developing and delivering affirming, culturally competent, for-us-by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ+ people on the city's south and west sides.
Elevate Oregon builds relationships with marginalised youth to promote education, self-reliance, and leadership. They provide a year-round mentoring programme that integrates with the high school curriculum to increase graduation rates and college enrollment as well as career development for students of colour in grades 6–12.
New Ballet Ensemble and School is an arts community school with a small professional teaching and performing ensemble as a professional apprenticeship program. They serve youth from a variety of backgrounds by providing access to training, including a rotating roster of accomplished master teachers. They has produced trailblazing creators and dancers with the vision to bring new innovations to the world of dance.
InnerCity Weightlifting reduces youth violence by connecting proven-risk young people with new networks and opportunities, including meaningful career tracks in and beyond personal fitness. They use the gym to replace segregation and isolation with economic mobility and social inclusion, disrupting the system that leads to urban street violence.
Hustle Mommies aims to raise the voices of urban, inner-city moms by providing them with resources to advocate for their families and communities.
Word is Bond is an opportunity for young black men to gain professional development skills they can use in their lives.
BUILD is a non-profit organization focused on empowering high school students, particularly from underserved communities, through entrepreneurship education. By engaging students in real-world entrepreneurial experiences, BUILD aims to enhance their educational aspirations and leadership skills, ultimately guiding them toward successful careers. The organization offers a four-year curriculum designed to motivate low-income students to pursue higher education and develop entrepreneurial skills that will benefit them in their professional lives. Through this experiential learning approach, BUILD fosters a unique culture of empowerment and community impact, helping students understand the value of entrepreneurship and financial success.
Their communities have a long history of socioeconomic injustices that created generational disparities; making it a challenge to advance in society. Their Own serves as a catalyst for innovation and epicenter to provide resources in untapped communities.
Goalsetter Foundation educates the kids and teaches them how to build their future.
Pensole Lewis College offers the HBCU pipeline for career education and professional development in the product creation business provided by the school of business and design. They provide a wide selection of academic courses.
Youth Guidance is a non-profit organization that offers community and after-school programs for the youth in schools.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America provides children with assistance to reach their full potential. It is a non-governmental organization providing volunteer supported mentoring through a network that provides children with assistance to achieve measurable outcomes such as educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships. It provides its network of mentors through its partnership with schools, parents, guardians, corporations, and communities. It pairs children with screened volunteer mentors and monitors and supports these one-to-one mentoring matches throughout their course. BBBS primarily provides professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships to children who face adversity and single or low-income households or families where a parent is incarcerated or serving in the military. It currently has nearly 340 agencies across the country. BBBS serves approximately 200,000 children, their families and 200,000 volunteer mentors. It was established in 1904 and it is based in New York.
Harlem Grown is an organization that inspires youth to lead healthy and ambitious lives. Harlem youth were served by garden-based development programs. They offer to provide and distribute food; our model seeks to positively impact the entire community through mentorship, education, and partnerships to create sustainable change.
The Sheriff’s & Police Activities League of Memphis & Shelby County , TN (Memphis Shelby PAL) is a non-profit youth mentoring organization devoted to preventing crime, building character and promoting success for children 5-18. They are an affiliate of the National Police Activities League (NPAL) working in partnership with Shelby County Schools, the City of Memphis and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department.
ArchCity defenders is a multi faceted legal advocacy company that helps to reduce the criminalization of poverty and state brutality, particularly in minority communities. ACD's civil and criminal legal representation, social services, impact litigation, policy and media advocacy, and community collaboration create and inspire justice and equitable outcomes for people in the region and beyond. d defenders imagines a society free of systems of oppression, where justice and candidates belonging are noticed; communities where public safety takes priority investment in well being, health, and transformation rather than criminalization and incarceration and people living freely in their societies, flourishing regardless of race or income.
Pensole Lewis College offers the HBCU pipeline for career education and professional development in the product creation business provided by the school of business and design. They provide a wide selection of academic courses.
WNBA Enterprises is a privately held company that owns and operates women’s basketball teams in the United States. It assists basketball coaches at all levels in teaching the fundamentals of the game. WNBA Enterprises was founded in 1996 and is based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It operates as a subsidiary of National Basketball Association, Inc.
RTFKT is a developer of custom sneakers designed for video game enthusiasts. The company offers limited edition custom sneakers along with a unique virtual versions for users to try on and unlock special effects.
All Star Code is a new non-profit initiative that seeks to attract, prepare, and place high-potential, qualified young men of color in the tech-career pipeline and help them achieve full-time employment at technology companies early in their careers. We are dedicated to closing the systemic opportunity gap between our All Stars and the tech industry.
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The SpringHill Company LLC, based in Los Angeles, California, was established in 2020 and specializes in brand development and management services. It operates through three main divisions: SpringHill Entertainment, Uninterrupted, and The Robot Company. The company focuses on producing a variety of media content, including feature films, television series, web series, and short films. In addition to content creation, The SpringHill Company offers consultancy services to media partners, helping them craft compelling stories for various platforms including television and digital networks. The company also engages in event management services, enhancing its portfolio in the media and entertainment industry.
Datalogue is a technology company focused on simplifying the data preparation process for data scientists, developers, and researchers. Leveraging artificial intelligence, Datalogue has developed a data mining platform that automates the tasks of finding, cleaning, and normalizing data. This innovation allows users to save significant time on data formatting and wrangling, thereby enhancing productivity and streamlining the workflow for data projects. The company's team comprises computer scientists, business leaders, and designers who share a commitment to improving the experience of working with data.
HandsFree Labs is a footwear company focused on innovating footwear technologies that allow users to put on and remove shoes without using their hands. The company specializes in patented hands-free footwear technology, which it applies across a diverse range of styles for men, women, and children. By collaborating closely with top footwear brands, HandsFree Labs provides design and development services to enhance existing footwear with its innovative features, thereby improving user convenience and accessibility.
TraceMe Inc. is a technology company based in Seattle, Washington, that operates a content-driven social platform designed to connect elite athletes, artists, and celebrities with their audiences. The platform enables users to engage with these figures through unique content and interactions, fostering a community around shared interests. As of October 2019, TraceMe operates as a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.
Celect is a cloud-based predictive analytics SaaS platform that helps retailers optimize their overall inventory portfolios in stores and across the supply chain, resulting in double-digit percentage revenue increases. The company specializes in the fields of assortment optimization, predictive personalization, and markdown optimization. Celect was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Invertex Ltd specializes in online fitting and mass product customization through its innovative mobile application, which utilizes advanced 3D scanning technology to capture and analyze a person's anatomy in detail. This platform enables users to accurately select, measure, modify, and purchase fitting products, enhancing the online shopping experience for footwear, eyewear, and apparel. Additionally, Invertex offers ScanMat, a solution that creates personalized shopping experiences for consumers in both online and physical retail environments. By leveraging deep learning technologies, Invertex empowers retailers to tailor their product offerings to meet individual customer needs, thus improving sales capabilities. Founded in 2014 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Invertex operates as a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.
Zodiac Inc. specializes in predictive analytics solutions that forecast individualized customer lifetime value by leveraging real-time sales data. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company aims to transform businesses into customer-centric organizations by providing insights into customer behavior. Zodiac’s cloud-based platform employs advanced data models and customer analytics to predict future behaviors, enabling marketers to make informed decisions about campaign optimization and sales forecasting. By focusing on individual customer metrics, Zodiac helps organizations acquire and retain high-value customers while minimizing ineffective spending. The company operates as a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.
Virgin Mega USA operates as a virtual community focused on the purchase and experience of music products. The company has developed an application that serves as a pop culture social platform, offering limited edition releases that attract fans. By fostering a mobile community, Virgin Mega allows users to engage with one another and participate in competitions while waiting in a digital line for exclusive products. This innovative approach not only enhances the user experience but also cultivates a dedicated fan base around music and pop culture.
Reflektion, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven customer engagement platform aimed at enhancing e-commerce experiences. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Reflektion's platform utilizes AI to analyze individual shopper behaviors, preferences, and intent, allowing businesses to deliver personalized content and product recommendations in real-time across various digital channels. The company offers solutions such as personalized site search, predictive product recommendations, and tailored email marketing. By integrating these features, Reflektion helps retailers optimize customer engagement and create relevant shopping experiences. The company also provides analytic tools, including a personalization dashboard and customer insights, enabling businesses to track performance and improve their marketing strategies. Reflektion has established strategic alliances and partnerships with other technology firms to enhance its offerings.
Grabit, Inc. specializes in electroadhesion-based gripping solutions for robotics and material handling applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers innovative products designed to enhance efficiency in various industries, including manufacturing, footwear, automotive, aerospace, and logistics. Notable products include Stackit, an auto-layering robot that utilizes electroadhesive grippers for stacking materials; Meterit, a gravity-fed conveyor system equipped with an electroadhesive film for intelligent load management; and Conveyit, which employs an electroadhesive belt to securely hold items for sorting and delayering. Grabit serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 500 companies, and aims to improve productivity while minimizing power consumption through its advanced technology. In December 2019, Grabit filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Umbro is an English sportswear and football equipment supplier.
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Rip Curl is a prominent designer, manufacturer, and retailer of surfing sportswear and related products. The company specializes in creating innovative items aimed at enhancing surfers' performance, including wetsuits, jackets, vests, and various casual apparel such as tees and tanks. Their wetsuits feature advanced technologies, such as neoprene materials and zip-free entry systems, which aim to provide optimal comfort and functionality. Additionally, Rip Curl offers a unique GPS watch that allows surfers to track their sessions, ensuring they have the best equipment to navigate uncharted waves and reefs. As a key player in the surfing industry, Rip Curl supports athletes and promotes the surfing lifestyle.
Cole Haan LLC is a retailer based in Greenland, New Hampshire, specializing in the manufacture and marketing of footwear and accessories, including shoes, handbags, wallets, and other related products for men, women, and children. Founded in 1928, the company emphasizes American craftsmanship and innovation, blending traditional methods with modern design to create a diverse range of products. Its offerings include sandals, sneakers, and loafers, all designed to provide comfort and style. Cole Haan also provides various customer services such as order tracking, global shipping, returns and exchanges, and gift cards, catering to its clientele through both physical stores and an online platform. The company has a global presence, serving customers worldwide.