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Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

HBR Group is a division of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. With over 600 employees located in Boston (HQ), New York City, Australia, France, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, we serve as a bridge between academia and enterprises around the globe.

🇺🇸 Brighton, MA

A-SOL's mission is to empower underserved youth through an after-school and summer program, introducing them to an array of vocations, entrepreneurial concepts, and life skills that can change the course of their lives. Partnering with various local businesses, students will engage in projects that will enhance their education and benefit our partnerships.

A-SOL was founded when two like-minded servants came together to turn their vision and passion into reality. In January 2022, Lorna Reddicks and Austin Bowyer formed a partnership to make a long-term impact on students' lives in the South Dallas community. They aim to foster a future where every child has the tools and knowledge to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness through early education in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, teamwork, and project management. 

🇺🇸 Dallas, TX

WonderDads is a company dedicated to helping Dads embrace their kid's childhood years. Our product is the first-ever "All-In-One Dad Dashboard" that provides Dads with an account to find, plan and save everything as a Dad (registered trademark No. 5,324,977).

Over the last 10 years, we've also pioneered over 200 Dad Hacks (otherwise known as resources), that provide Dads with innovative ways to be a legendary Dad. They include Creating an Annual Dad Plan, Dad Visioning, Birthday Letters, Before-They-Grow-Up Lists, Annual Dad-Kids Trips, Daddy Day and so many more.

When you join WonderDads, it guarantees you don't let the years slip by, and helps you be intentional about making the most of each and every year until they reach age 18. You'll also look back someday and know you embraced the childhood years.

It's about time there was something for Dads!

🇺🇸 San Rafael, CA

To be founded later in 2024, Education Robinhood will be a 501(c)(3) based out of Silicon Valley, California. We are on a mission to provide subsidized or free technical education to economically disadvantaged individuals, thereby empowering them with vital skills, fostering job creation, and facilitating personal and economic advancement.

🇺🇸 San Jose, CA

Founded in 2022 in Austin, TX, BGiving is ignited by a three-decade long passion for philanthropy, inspired by first-hand experiences with NY educational nonprofits and various faith-based ministries.

Acknowledging the challenges faced in the modern digital age, we’ve invested thousands of hours researching the pitfalls and potentials of the philanthropic landscape. Determined to “Replace the Social Dilemma with Social Impact,” we’ve pioneered a transformative social impact marketplace platform, aligning the aspirations of Millennials, GenZs, and the upcoming Alpha generation with the needs of community nonprofits.   

Recognizing the power of collaboration, our platform is designed to foster efficiency, transparency, and a sense of true investment in the community. With a vision to Engage, Educate, and Empower, we’re set to revolutionize the community philanthropic social services sector on a global scale.

🇺🇸 Austin, TX

A creative marketing company dedicated to ending poverty and homelessness in America. Founded in 2022, Choose Charities is a nonprofit creative agency dedicated to ending homelessness and hunger in the United States. We work with corporations and charitable organizations to develop programming that raises funds for worthy causes.  

Choose Charities Corp began as a concept to put an end to poverty and homelessness in America. A herculean task for sure but one we believe that many of the resources are right in front of us. Case in point: We as a nation can find the expertise, resources, and billions to explore inner and outer space, research and cure rare diseases, and create and fund the world's finest military.  Yet, we can't find the expertise, resources, and billions to end poverty and homelessness in America? Why? Don't get us wrong, these things are good for our country, and create jobs, etc.  But so would ending poverty and homelessness in America.  

It's matter of priorities, and a nationwide collective change of heart, mind, and soul. This is where Choose Charities comes in, in the design, development, and marketing of our dynamic, marketing programs that not only create awareness of our poverty stricken Americans, but enhance our client's stature while generating millions in donations and revenue.  

We knew when we started Choose Charities Corp, we needed to build a consensus on social media to gain support, and a following. Now that we have thousands upon thousands of people from all walks of our society agreeing with us, we need to petition the leaders of our country to find the expertise, resources, and billions to end poverty and homelessness in America, once and for all.

We believe that once the American marketplace and the world understand the financial and philanthropic juggernaut that our firm will be, it's just a matter of time before Choose Charities Corp becomes a household name.

🇺🇸 Leesburg, FL

Empowering today’s youth to pursue their dreams in STEM. Founded in 2021, NEVE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to empower first-generation college students from disadvantaged communities by providing access and needed funds to further their academic careers in STEM.  

Empowering today’s youth to pursue their dreams in STEM helps provide them with the skills, resources, and capacity to thrive and build their own paths toward a sustainable future.  

NEVE (Nascimento Education, Vision & Empowerment) is the philanthropic arm of Gerson Nascimento’s enterprises with a focus on his family values, education, vision, and empowerment of underprivileged youth.

🇺🇸 Coral Gables, FL

Customized AI for empowering and upskilling employees and enhancing customer communication. Founded in 2023, hiddenMind is an AI company offering a B2B SaaS that empowers employees and enhances customer understanding for more effective marketing and customer satisfaction.   

Our hiddenPersona product allows companies to gain deeper insights into their core user segments and communicate more effectively with each of them. While many companies have reasonable concerns over using public LLMs, ours is private and secure.  

🇺🇸 Raleigh, NC

Founded in 2023, DreamLoad Ventures is a 501(c)(3) with 5 subsidiary projects that all serve to bridge the funding gap between underserved communities and their respective States.   

Our mission is to empower and elevate underrepresented entrepreneurs by providing them with access to critical resources, investment opportunities, and networks through our innovative business incubator. We are dedicated to fostering the growth and success of female, veteran, and minority-owned SMBs and startups, ensuring equitable access to support and opportunities in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Through tailored mentorship, strategic partnerships, and inclusive programming, we aim to catalyze economic empowerment, drive innovation, and build a more diverse and vibrant business community.  

Our vision is to cultivate a dynamic and inclusive business ecosystem that transcends borders, welcoming both domestic and international entrepreneurs to thrive and succeed. However, we recognize that basic human needs are fundamental to individual and collective prosperity. Therefore, we are committed to addressing challenges related to water, electricity, WiFi access, hunger, education, and other essential services within our ecosystem. By ensuring that these fundamental needs are met, we lay the foundation for sustainable growth and empowerment. Furthermore, we aspire to extend our support and resources to underrepresented founders globally, fostering diversity, equity, and inclusivity in entrepreneurship on a global scale.

🇺🇸 Irvine, CA

Founded in 2016, International Business Consulting (IBC)’s goal is to provide targeted training classes, individual coaching, and enterprise guidance, delivered by successful trainers, so that companies can reduce rework, and improve time to market for their software products and services. We specialize in project management, including Agile Management and Scrum Master training.  We also provide professional services for implementing Artificial Intelligence.  

We are dedicated to revolutionizing global work and productivity by providing cutting-edge AI and management training, aimed at empowering industries and individuals towards progress and prosperity, while ensuring innovation, efficiency, and a collaborative future between AI and human ingenuity. We aspire to be the catalyst in a new era of productivity, addressing challenges and paving the way for a sustainable and thriving tomorrow.  

Based out of California, we are looking for advisors who can help us with educational technology and curriculum design, marketing and business development, strategic partnerships, and global expansion strategies.

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At Bane Digital we're reshaping the digital landscape for B2B enterprises. Founded in 2018 and based out of Boston, MA, our mission is to enhance sales, marketing, and customer experiences, to push businesses forward with a digital-first approach. More than just consulting, we work as a partner to relieve pain points and fuel growth with foundational transformation, strategy, and execution. Our expertise lies in solving intricate challenges, building a robust foundation, and implementing strategies that not only increase revenue but also cultivate trust within the digital realm. 

The Bane Digital executive team comes from the top-performing digital marketing agencies in the United States. Our expertise in demand generation, sales enablement, strategy, ABM, RevOps, and creative solutions are forged by years of transformative marketing success in modern B2B environments. Even the elite agencies we worked for tended to silo efforts across their sales, marketing, design, content creation, and CX, so we saw an opportunity to not only deliver incredibly effective strategic services but create a foundation where our clients’ teams could harness the sheer revenue potential of streamlined, integrated strategies across multiple channels. We chose to start an agency that didn’t just help clients increase brand visibility and maximize their marketing ROI but paved the roads that made sales, marketing, and CX deployment strategies ultra-successful.  

We believe in what we do and are in service to scalable, long-lasting partnerships. We’re carving a place for ourselves as the premier facilitator of all things B2B growth. This means being at the forefront of technology, trends, and innovation while over-delivering on our promise to change the fate of our partners and clients. It’s a bold statement, sure, but it’s one we believe in.

🇺🇸 Boston, MA

Co-creating cornerstone credibility content for TV audiences and beyond. Founded in 2019, PSI TV is revolutionizing the television and media landscape with its subscription-based Smart TV Channels as a Service. Our platform targets creators of video content eager to reach a TV audience, as well as CEOs and spokespeople of luxury brands seeking to enhance their public relations and marketing strategies. As the "Netflix" of biz brands, PSI TV provides cornerstone credibility content, shared with a TV audience and beyond, on major platforms including Roku, Amazon Fire, and VIDAA TV.

🇺🇸 Tampa, FL

Advancing opportunities for every child to experience the life-enriching power of sports. Founded in 2019, ShareWaves is a 501c3 that strives to provide children in under-resourced communities with high-quality sports experiences. Sports participation positively impacts children and adolescents' physical, mental, and emotional well-being. For five years, we’ve worked to identify and remove the barriers that deprive under-resourced households of the opportunities to participate in sports. The gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" is growing as low-income households struggle to find outlets to keep their children safe, occupied, and active.  

Our mission is to advance the opportunity for every child to experience the life-enriching "power of sports.” We envision a community where every child has equitable access to physical activity, exercise, and high-quality sports engagement.  

STRATEGIES TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM: 

• Remove cost as a barrier to play equity by providing front-line targeted micro-grants to children who cannot afford sports. 

• Support programs that deliver high-quality, group-based physical education and sports training to children in disparaged communities. 

• Equip coaches, teachers, and parents with social/emotional skill sets that support a child’s holistic development.  

OUR TARGETS: ShareWaves targets children deprived of equitable access by focusing on play equity as an overarching goal. We provide opportunities for underserved youth to enjoy high-quality sports experiences, increase funding to enhance those experiences, and promote the lifelong mental and physical health benefits of play, sports participation, and physical activity. We equip key caregivers with skills to provide support and positive direction. We apply innovative, collaborative, cross-sector solutions and offer "waves of support" to remove the multi-layered barriers to sports participation. 

🇺🇸 Overland Park, KS

Building a social API that will enable AI to help empower people to create positive change.

.scene - a social paradigm, an evolution, a singularity.  

What if we controlled all the data on our social graph? 

What if we could trust all the information in our feed? 

What if there was no SPAM email, no wrong numbers?  

What if we all lived and worked together to make the world healthier, happier, and smarter?  

.scene is building a social API that will enable AI to help people focus on what we believe is most important, and empower us to create positive change.  We start by supporting creative economies and local communities. We'll build reliable processes to make doing business easy for small businesses and gig workers and make it even easier for their supporters to engage.  

.scene will provide enterprise grade technical and social education. We will democratize digital transformation for social media, and extend functionality to manage our data and devices transparently, while promoting and enriching our local communities.  

.scene will be a global business cooperative with all stakeholders considered. Member subscribers and creators will get dividends as a function of their socio-economic condition, and their contributions to their communities. 

Members will participate in polls to help influence the direction of the platform.  

.scene will be a social platform to help us live and work better, make us more resilient as individuals and communities.

🇺🇸 Seattle, WA

Parentfile is an online account to save everything important, digital and meaningful you want your children to have someday.

It’s about time there was an easier, more meaningful, and more uplifting way to save and share things with our children as we all get older.

🇺🇸 San Rafael, CA

This peer advisory board is a private place to connect with fellow founders & CEOs to network and discuss trends and share ideas and suggestions to help each other grow. You’ll be able to ask questions and get advice from your peers as well as share your advice with others seeking guidance.

🇺🇸 San Rafael, CA

Permit Pros is a modern Software as Service business license management solution engineered and built by the coming-together of industry veterans from compliance and IT worlds. It is built for executives to have instant insights into their licensing department and for licensing professionals to intuitively manage their work with ease and productivity.  

We provide our clients a safe and proactive way to manage their business licenses and compliance needs. Our business services division provides license management services such as license applications, renewals, and negotiation services. We also offer business services, including license compliance research, transferability and feasibility analysis, license valuations, liquor licenses, and brokerage and training services.  

With over 40 years of combined experience, our team is geared to handle high volume, high transaction, and high touch work. We make sure our clients are permitted correctly, filed on time, properly posted, and well-maintained. Our offices are located in Dallas, Texas, and Santa Monica, California, and we offer coast-to-coast services.  

🇺🇸 Dallas, TX | 🇺🇸 Santa Monica, CA

Combining technology, info sharing, and trust to scale word-of-mouth referrals. FreeSyle, LLC, was founded in 2018 in Washington, DC, to utilize technology for scaling word-of-mouth referrals. Since then, we’ve created an app for that, and also established an academy for supporting others in creating apps to realize their dreams.  

At FreeStyle, it is our Mission to educate, empower, and uplift communities by using technology to connect us to the people and information we need and love! Our Vision is to use technology to expand the ways that people are able to connect to the information and services they need to feel more confident, so we can all Live our BEST LIVES! We believe that when communities connect and share information as "social currency," it creates a Win-Win for us all. So we've set out to combine technology, information sharing, trust, and relationships in order to create products and services that empower.  

We're excited to have our brand, The FreeStyle App, featured at events such as SXSW, and to have had sponsorships and collaborations with organizations and brands such as Howard University, Dark and Lovely, Inclusive Innovation Incubator, 202 Creates, and Aunt Jackie's, to name a few! We take pride in all of our previous and current sponsors, partnerships, and collaborations, whether small or large.

🇺🇸 Washington, DC

The end-to-end supply chain solution for small and midsize businesses. Founded in 2016 and based out of Pasadena, CA, GlobalityNet LLC is a full-stack supply chain outsourcing and consulting company built to help start-ups and small and midsize businesses compete in a global marketplace.   

Our company owner worked for Fortune 500 companies, such as Macy’s, Samsung, and Sony, and realized there was a huge disparity in supply chain capabilities and resources between small and big businesses. He started GlobalityNet to help fill the gap and provide guidance where possible.  

Our 3 core business units are:  

- Supply chain outsourcing 

- Fulfillment and distribution 

- Supply chain systems sales and implementation

🇺🇸 Pasadena, CA

Enhancing the management and leadership capabilities of those in IT roles. Founded in 2009, the Information Technology Management and Leadership (ITML) Institute is the governing body for two IT leadership certifications.   

 - Information Technology Management and Leadership Professional (ITMLP)   

- Information Technology Management and Leadership Executive (ITMLE)  

To enhance your professional career and help your company become more competitive, innovative, and profitable, technologists are often asked to step out of their technological comfort zone and become savvy business managers and leaders.  The ITML Institute is dedicated to helping IT professionals make this transition and then further their career growth from IT manager to IT executive.  

We want current and future IT supervisors, managers, and leaders to be as successful in the management ranks as they were as hands-on IT professionals!

🇺🇸 Ashland, MA

Founded on the sole principle of commitment to integrity and truth in media. DBUNK is a mobile application that is revolutionizing the way people receive and understand information. Our mission is to provide a platform that delivers fast and accurate evaluations of news articles and other content, so that users can make informed decisions based on the facts.  

At the heart of DBUNK is a proprietary fact-checking technology that combines artificial intelligence with human expertise. Our AI algorithms are designed to quickly and efficiently analyze news articles, while our team of human fact-checkers provides the necessary judgment and oversight to ensure that our evaluations are accurate and comprehensive.  

We believe that in today's world, it's more important than ever for people to have access to reliable information. With the rise of fake news and misinformation, it's easy to be misled and make decisions based on false information. That's why we're committed to providing a platform that helps people make informed decisions based on the facts.

🇺🇸 Jacksonville, FL

The All-In-One & Done™ Solution for growing a business on autopilot. We help professionals get back to their profession. We do that by eliminating the tedious work of finding and managing customers. We believe that professionals should focus on the services they provide - the things they do better than everyone else - and that software and specialists can manage the rest.

🇺🇸 Charleston, SC

Applying innovation to IT in Government and Fortune 1000 organizations. COGENT InfoTech (Latin for powerful, compelling, and pertinent) is a Global, Turnkey Information Technology (IT) Consulting firm that has consistently delivered innovative IT and Business solutions to both Commercial and Public Sector clients. The award-winning firm specializes in providing Digital Transformation Solutions, Top 3% Digital Talent and Social Listening solutions to Global Brands, Startups, and the Public Sector.

🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, PA

Providing technology training and employment support for underserved communities. Founded in 2022, Diversity Cyber Council is a 501c3 Nonprofit whose mission is to provide technology training to residents of underserved communities and fortify an equitable path towards employment in the tech workforce.   

We are developing our product, Spotlight, a web-based application that proactively matches social impact services like childcare, housing, training, etc, with people in need within the community.   

We have launched our Tech is the New Trap Campaign, which leverages music, art, and entertainment to reinforce pathways to tech entrepreneurship and tech careers for people of color and the historically under-represented.

🇺🇸 Atlanta, GA