Hoag Hospital Foundation reminds people not to hog their money but to share it. Hoag Hospital Foundation supports the Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian by raising money for the hospital's operations, medical research, education, and community outreach activities through more than 1,400 volunteers organized into groups like the 552 Club and Circle 1000. Hoag Hospital Foundation host events like the Christmas Carol Ball and the Toshiba Senior Classic and encourage donors to make annual gifts, raising about $14 million annually. Under the direction of a volunteer Board of Directors, the foundation conducts programs and campaigns that generate about $20 million per year in new gifts and pledges. Funds are earmarked for capital projects, equipment purchases, innovative program development and clinical research. The Hoag Hospital Foundation was formed in 1948.

Caturano and Company is New England’s largest regional full service CPA, consulting, and wealth management firm, serving emerging and mid-market companies for 30 years. Clients with complex requirements in a wide array of industries turn to us for our expertise, innovative thinking and client-first service approach. We offer a comprehensive array of services—including technology consulting and personal wealth management—that are tailored to unique industry requirements. In addition, our public company audit practice serves more than 30 companies with an aggregate market capitalization of over $2.6B. Caturano and Company combines the breadth of resources and deep industry expertise you would expect from a large national firm, with the responsiveness and client focus of a regional service culture. We collaborate closely with clients to help them anticipate and respond to business challenges as they pursue new opportunities. The lasting client relationships we foster are sustained by our ongoing commitment to attracting and retaining top industry talent who understand and embrace our clients’ vision—and deliver consistent results.

CrossCheck, Inc. is the third largest check approval and guarantee company in the nation. CrossCheck provides payment solutions to thousands of merchant outlets and auto dealerships across the country.In addition to check approval and guarantee services, the company has developed patent-pending technology for electronic check conversion and wireless transaction processing. CrossCheck’s payment services benefit both merchants and consumers. Guarantee services enable merchants to increase sales by safely accepting checks from more than 180,000,000 individuals who have checking accounts. Merchants are protected against losses on checks approved by our authorization center because CrossCheck agrees to reimburse, at face value, checks which have been approved, up to the maximum approval limit. Consumers benefit through easier and faster check acceptance.

Ambassadors International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a cruise, marine, and travel and events company. Ambassadors International, Inc. operates in three segments: Cruise, Marine, and Travel and Events. The Cruise segment provides overnight passenger cruises that sail along the inland rivers and coastal waterways of North America under Majestic America Line and Windstar Cruises brands; and international-flagged ships that sail to destinations in the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas, and the Greek Isles. The Marine segment includes marina design, management, and development; and shipyard operations, marina consulting, and marina construction services. The Travel and Events segment develops, markets, and manages meetings and incentive programs utilizing incentive travel, merchandise award programs, and corporate meeting services under the Ambassadors, LLC brand. Ambassadors International, Inc. serves corporations, trade show companies, large associations, government agencies, and private individuals. Ambassadors International, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Founded in 1949 as a simple patrol company along the St. Louis riverfront, Whelan Security has enjoyed a rich heritage of service excellence rivaled by few in the contract security industry. While other security companies have merged, consolidated, downsized, or sold, Whelan Security is still owned by the same family and guided by the same business principles more than a half of century after our inception. We rank as the largest regional security company in the Midwest and Central United States and offer coast to coast (national) capabilities as an original founding member of TransNational Security. Highlighted by our Warranty and Heritage service delivery programs and our industry leading, quality assurance performance measurement tool, The Truth Report, we provide some of the boldest and most innovative programs available in the contract security field. Unlike other companies, who promise and fail to deliver, we are willing to “put our money where our mouth is.” Instead of having to rely on the empty sales claim of great service programs, we offer real quality assurance and true peace of mind. We offer “The Value of Performance.”

TEKsystems, a subsidiary of staffing giant Allegis, provides IT consulting and staffing services from locations in North America and Europe. Considered one of the nation's largest IT staffing firms, the company places more than 20,000 technical professionals each week, who work in a variety of fields including biotechnology, telecommunications, and construction and engineering. TEKsystems has some 90 offices serving more than 5,500 clients. In addition, the company runs the thingamajob.com Web site, which is an online job board for technical staff. Spinning off of fellow Allegis unit Aerotek, TEKsystems was formed in 1994 to focus on the IT needs of clients.

At Custom Direct our job is to help you find effective new ways to communicate with your customer. We’ll work hard to learn your business as if it was our own‚ and we’ll work even harder to keep an open‚ fresh creative perspective. Custom Direct offers a variety of marketing design and production services for digital and print media. The company provides graphic design, prepress, and photography services in addition to brand development and interactive marketing services. It also specializes in catalog design and production, as well as web and interactive design. Custom Direct, which has counted the Chicago Bulls, Discover Financial Services, and The Swiss Colony as clients, does much of its business (the design and proof process, for example) online.

Monitor Group aims to do its work, then keep watch as its clients' businesses grow. Through its operating units, Monitor provides a variety of management consulting and advisory services related to issues such as strategy, marketing and pricing, innovation, and organization and leadership. In addition, the firm offers financial advisory services and software and services designed to help clients develop their capabilities. Monitor operates from about 30 offices in more than 20 countries worldwide. Chairman Mark Fuller helped found Monitor, which began operations in 1983.

Angel City Designs specializes in making events simply divine. The company designs and produces corporate events, trade shows, parties, and conventions. Angel City Designs work includes custom theme creation, staging concepts, set design and construction, providing unique entertainment concepts, as well as multimedia production services and venue selection. Other services include mobile marketing planning, implementing unique catering concepts, and custom trade show booth design. Clients have included such companies as Fox Broadcasting and Weber Shandwick, as well as such brands as Jose Cuervo and Oakley.

Peter Pan Bus Lines provides scheduled service to more than 100 cities in about 10 states along the Boston-to-Washington, DC, corridor. It transports packages as well as passengers on its scheduled routes; in addition, the company offers charter and tour bus services in the US and Canada. Overall the company and its subsidiaries, which include Arrow Line and Bonanza Bus Lines, operate a fleet of about 300 buses. Peter Pan Bus Lines was founded in 1933 by Peter C. Picknelly, grandfather of company president Peter A. Picknelly. The Picknelly family owns Peter Pan Bus Lines company.

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