The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind helps people get around with the help of a four-footed friend. The not-for-profit organization offers guide dogs to the blind or visually impaired for free. Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. cost of raising and training a guide dog (Labradors, Golden Retrievers, and mixes of the two) is $30,000. Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. also provides instruction to the blind to handle their skilled guide dogs through a month-long training program. Classes, as well as dog breeding and training, are held at the Guide Dog Foundation's eight-acre facility in New York. Founded in 1946, Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. is supported solely by private donations.

ECG Consulting Group Inc., founded in 1978, is a "boutique" management consulting firm that provides its U.S. and international clients with business strategy & development, strategic market planning and technology commercialization services to help them achieve their objectives and accelerate the growth and development of their businesses. ECG's clients range from Fortune 100 firms to emerging technology growth companies in the advanced materials, energy, environmental, information technology, instrumentation, services, utility and related industries. Today, business leaders face very challenging market environments because of rapid technological innovation, globalization, new channels of distribution and changing regulations in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. These challenges not only present firms with business issues that must be aggressively managed but, more importantly, provide these firms with exciting opportunities to develop and commercialize new products and services, meet "unmet" customer needs, expand in new geographic and adjacent markets, leverage disruptive technologies and redefine how you should best market to and serve your customers.

Avantium is a leading technology company specialized in advanced high-throughput R&D for applications in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The company's headquarters and laboratories are located in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.Avantium's proprietary high-throughput technology enables a faster and more cost-effective development of new and improved products and production processes. Using its unique rational approach towards the design of experiments and data analysis, Avantium is capable of accomplishing innovations with superior success rate. Avantium has demonstrated the validity and commercial viability of its technology by successfully providing research services and systems to more than 70 companies worldwide, including many industry leaders. The company's mission is to increase the success rate and economics of product and process development.

Metro Litho Inc. was founded in 1964 to provide color separations, retouching and film preparation services. Metro Packaging and Imaging, Inc. specialized in packaging and early on we attracted clients such as Nabisco, Union Carbide and Scott Paper, whom we still do work for today. Metro Packaging and Imaging, Inc. proud of out clientele and industry associations. We encourage you to view them. Metro Packaging and Imaging offers the full range of service from production artwork (keylining) through pre-press, all the way to finishing production. For more information on these services please click on Digital Imaging or Packaging.

ABM Security Services keeps its eagle eyes on guard. The company provides uniformed security officers, security systems monitoring, and consulting services through a variety of subsidiaries and brand names, such as American Commercial Security Services (ACSS), Security Services of America (SSA), Silverhawk Security, and Elite Protection. All total, the company maintains about 70 branch offices in more than 30 states. Its guards protect high-rise buildings, high-tech computer facilities, financial institutions, data centers, and other commercial and industrial locations. ABM Security is a subsidiary of ABM Industries. The parent company also provides parking, janitorial, and engineering services.

Dixon Hughes combine deep industry experience, comprehensive accounting and advisory services and a strong commitment to personal service. Dixon Hughes have over 1200 people located throughout the region—and local members who direct these resources to your best advantage. Dixon Hughes passion for our clients’ success has fueled the development of dedicated practice groups, each immersed in a specific industry and offering comprehensive solutions that go far beyond traditional accounting services.

Decision Resources company provides research reports, consulting services, and other resources to assist drugmakers, biotech firms, health care businesses, industry journalists, and investment firms get informed. Its flagship business is Pharmacor which provides analysis of the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Its other businesses include HealthLeaders-Inter Study which analyzes health plans and managed care providers and Millennium Research Group which offers insight and analysis of the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries.

IAP serves a broad array of federal customers. Our customer base ranges from the U.S. Department of Defense to a variety of federal agencies, including NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Internal Revenue Service. IAP has a track record of achieving success for our customers. We respond quickly, get the job done right, and take pride in serving our customers reliably and ethically.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner has its domain well staked out in the legal landscape. Specializing in intellectual property law, Finnegan has more than 375 lawyers that practice from five US and four international offices. The firm covers all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law providing counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation services. 80% of its work is patent-related. Clients have included drug maker Eli Lilly, hair care products maker Conair, and construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar. The firm traces its roots to when law firm Finnegan & Henderson.

The General Council of the Assemblies of God oversees the US activities of one of the world's largest Pentecostal churches. In the US, the Assemblies of God includes more than 12,300 churches that have about 3 million constituents. In addition, the group has some 60 million constituents around the world. Its US-based Gospel Publishing House arm prints, sells, and distributes Bibles and other religious resources. (Every day the unit prints more than 12 tons of literature.) The Assemblies of God traces its roots to a religious revival that swept across the world during the late 1900s. The General Council of the Assemblies of God was founded in Hot Springs.

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