The United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF), a nonprofit organization based in Milwaukee, has raised over $217 million in support of the performing arts. In 2010, UPAF's annual community-wide fundraising campaign is allocating over $7.1 million to 34 Member and Affiliate performing arts organizations throughout Southeastern Wisconsin. The United Performing Arts Fund's Member and Affiliate Groups produce high quality performances that have the power to amaze and astound us, strengthen our sense of community, provoke our tears and make us laugh out loud. The performing arts express human virtue and enrich our lives. UPAF Member Groups provide over 2,000 local performances of live theater, music, dance, and opera each year. These performances allow us to find solace, entertainment and diversion. They give us the means to collectively share the joy and pain of the human experience, help us develop new perspectives and enrich our lives.

Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW) is a $4.3 billion freight transportation and logistics services company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. Con-way is an industry leader in the transportation and logistics industry and delivers industry-leading services through its primary operating companies of Con-way Freight, Con-way Truckload, and Menlo Worldwide Logistics. These operating units provide high-performance, day-definite less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload and intermodal freight transportation; logistics, warehousing and supply chain management services; and trailer manufacturing. Con-way Inc. and its subsidiaries operate from more than 440 operating locations across North America and in 18 countries across five continents.

Fairfield University is a comprehensive Jesuit institution that prepares students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Founded in 1942 after the purchase of the adjoining estates of Jennings and Lashar off North Benson Road in Fairfield, the University has grown from an initial class of 303 undergraduate male students admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences in 1947 into a coeducational university of more than 5,000 undergraduate, graduate, and continuing studies students enrolled in six distinct schools. Along the way, the University has awarded more than 45,000 degrees since 1951, and has developed a reputation for educational excellence both regionally and nationally. By integrating living and learning, Fairfield free students to realize their potential, giving each the confidence, the tools, and the boldness of vision to put their gifts to work in the world. A Fairfield education is an inspiring education, and the foundation for an inspired life.

Raymond International, Inc. provides engineering and construction services. The company offers various services, including installation of foundations, marine, industrial, and heavy construction; fabrication, and installation and maintenance of pipelines for water, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries; and pipeline rehabilitation, and lining and coating of pipe work. It also provides blast/brush cleaning of pipe work, hydro jetting, rack feed boring, hydraulic cleaning/pigging, cement mortar lining; and epoxy resin lining, PE sliplining, grouting, CCTV inspection surveys, and special coatings. In addition, the company offers conceptual studies, economic evaluations, design engineering, definitive cost estimates, procurement and scheduling, construction, start-up, operator training, and plant maintenance services. Further, its pipeline services include pipe bursting, coating, pipeline cleaning, automatic welding, and pipe supply. The company was formerly known as Raymond Concrete Pile Company and changed its name in 1958. Raymond International, Inc. was founded in 1897 and is based in Corona, California.

First Advantage Recruiting Solutions (formerly TruStar Solutions) provides Web-based recruiting and talent management services and has served such big names as Kraft Foods, Eli Lilly, Procter & Gamble, and Hallmark Cards. The company helps select vendors that supply job boards, background checks, and testing and assessment services. First Advantage Recruiting is an operating segment of First Advantage Corporation, a provider of risk management services. The online recruiting consultant was initially founded in 1997 as IIRC (International Internet Recruiting Consultants).

Founded in 1966, Interim HealthCare is the nation's oldest proprietary national organization providing health care personnel at all skill levels in all settings. There are more than 300 independently owned franchise locations nationwide. Interim's independent franchisees employ more than 75,000 health care workers and provide nurses, therapists, aides and other health care personnel to approximately 50,000 people each day.

Creighton is a Jesuit university, rooted in the Catholic tradition. Creighton approach education with a passion for learning and a zeal for making a difference in their world. In the Catholic intellectual tradition, the university celebrate diversity and learn through dialogue, and they pursue the truth in all its forms. As a Jesuit university they are continually bringing the richness of a 450 year old educational tradition to bear on the most contemporary issues of world.

Freedom from Hunger wants to give everybody just that. The not-for-profit organization strives to solve the problem of chronic hunger and poverty in 16 countries worldwide. Freedom from Hunger provides self-help programs and training for more than 650,000 poor women to learn to better feed and tend the health of their families and turn a small enterprise into a sustaining business. Freedom from Hunger main program, Credit With Education, is a microcredit program that provides loans to small groups of women who attend classes on nutrition, health, family planning, and sound business practices. Freedom From Hunger was founded in 1946 as Meals for Millions. Freedom from Hunger bring poor women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America a powerful combination of microfinance, education, and health protection to help them achieve a sustainable, self-help end to hunger.

Mercy Ships brings floating medical care to areas of the world that need it most. The Christian-based not-for-profit serves more than 50 developing nations around the world from its ship Africa Mercy, which has six operating rooms and nearly 500 berths, and a land-based clinic in Sierra Leone. Staff and volunteers perform cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries, cataract and tumor removals, and other medical procedures. Mercy Ships also distributes water purification kits, prescription eyeglasses, and prescriptions, and offers a variety of training and education programs for local workers. Mercy Ships was founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens (who still serve as president and company VP, respectively).

PA Consulting Group operates in more than 30 countries, mainly in Europe but also in the Asia/Pacific region and North America. The firm offers a wide range of management consulting services aimed at improving the efficiency and operational effectiveness of businesses and government agencies. Its Zanzibar database allows easy access for users in the public sector to contact suppliers and sort through contractual and expenditure data. Focus areas include corporate strategy, human resources, and marketing, as well as technology and systems integration. PA has counted Citibank, Akzo Nobel, and the BBC among its clients. Owned by its employees, PA was founded in 1943.

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