Lilly Endowment views education at all levels as indispensable to personal, civic and economic success. It remains alarmed, therefore, about Indiana's ranking as one of the lowest states in the nation in the percentage of adults over 25 with a bachelor's degree. Accordingly, raising the educational attainment level of Indiana citizens has been the overriding objective of the Endowment's education grantmaking for the last several years. The Endowment has supported research into the factors underlying this low ranking. Although Indiana's rich agricultural and manufacturing heritage served it well for decades, its economy is now in transition and increasingly more affected by global economic forces. More Indiana residents and communities must appreciate that higher educational attainment is now essential to foster the quality of life they desire. The Endowment therefore is encouraged by the groundswell of concern and action in Indiana communities demonstrated through the Endowment's competitive Community Alliances to Promote Education (CAPE) initiative. Communities in 44 of Indiana's 92 counties have assessed their areas' most compelling educational needs and planned strategies that they now are implementing to meet these needs.

Microsoft Research provides many of the brains behind the brawn of the world's leading software provider. The unit employs more than 800 scientists and researchers focused on 55 areas of research ranging from mathematics and computer science to psychology and sociology. Microsoft Research performs both academic and product-focused research in areas such as data management, network security, and hardware development. Headquartered in Redmond, Microsoft Research also operates two labs in California, one in Massachusetts, and international locations in China, India, and the UK. Microsoft founded its research unit in 1991.

BAM is America's oldest continuously operating performing arts center, founded in 1861. BAM is a not-for-profit organization reliant on contributions to fulfill its mission. BAM presents or produces up to 220 stage performances each year, many of international origin. BAM has a four-screen cinema, open 365 days a year, presenting new releases and BAMcinématek repertory films. - During its first century, BAM hosted political events, speeches, and rallies on the pressing issues of the day. Speakers included Henry Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Amelia Earhart. - BAM hosts The Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the largest commemoration event to Dr. King in New York City.

Visa Inc. operates retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. Visa, Inc. owns and operates VisaNet, a global processing platform that provides transaction processing services, primarily authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as related value-added services. It offers a range of branded payments product platforms, which customers use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit, debit, and prepaid payments, as well as cash access programs for cardholders. Visa, Inc. owns a range of payment brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink that are licensed to customers for use in their payment programs. In addition, it provides other value-added processing services, including risk management, debit issuer processing, loyalty, dispute management, and value-added information services. Visa Inc. has a joint venture with Monitise plc.

The McCormick Group was founded in 1974 by Bill McCormick. Today, the firm is one of the top 25 search firms in the country and the largest independent executive search and consulting firm based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

Founded in 1993, Workstream is headquartered in Bicester, Oxfordshire and has a further seven branch offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Swindon. The company's quality of service is underpinned by ISO 9001 certification for recruitment services at its Bicester, London and Sheffield offices. Workstream has also achieved Investors in People accreditation. Regular CITB education for operatives and constant updates to health and safety procedures ensure Workstream's continuous compliance with statutory and industry-mandated regulations. Workstream Construction Services is a specialist provider ofengineering, recruitment and site logistics expertise toall sectors of the construction industry. The company's services encompass site engineering and setting out; topographical and building surveys; provision of temporary and permanent site personnel; survey instrument hire; and logistics packages such as waste management, site security and traffic control.

Sales Result caters to high tech and financial services firms by providing lead and demand generation services, sales consulting and outsourcing, inside software telesales, presentations, and ideas for their sales teams. Doing business as SRi, the global sales consulting firm specializes in providing small to midsized businesses with sales effectiveness, sales productivity, channel enablement, and coaching and mentoring services. Its high tech clients are primarily focused on SaaS, software, and hardware. SRi operates on a fixed price model that also features a performance component. Sales Result Inc. was founded in 2003.

Amway products have to get from factories to salespeople. That's where Access Business Group comes in. Access Business Group, LLC manages supply chains for Amway and online retailer, Quixtar. (Amway, Quixtar, and Access Business Group are units of Alticor.) Access Business Group operates more than half a dozen distribution centers with an overall capacity of more than 1.7 million sq. ft. In addition to distribution, Access Business Group, LLC provides contract manufacturing of cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and personal care products for its affiliates and other clients; it also offers printing and packaging services. More than 500 scientists and engineers work in the company's research and development labs worldwide.

AmeriCares Foundation provides emergency medical aid around the world. The not-for-profit charitable organization helps victims of natural disasters and supports long-term humanitarian programs by collecting medical supplies in the US and overseas and delivering them to places where they are needed. AmeriCares has provided aid in more than 135 countries worldwide. In the US, the organization offers medical assistance, runs a camp for kids with HIV/AIDS, and conducts HomeFront, a program that renovates housing for the needy in parts of Connecticut and New York. Robert C. Macauley founded AmeriCares in 1982. Since its founding, AmeriCares has provided more than $9 Billion of aid to 137 countries. To accomplish these results, AmeriCares assembles product donations from the private sector, determines the most urgent needs and solicits the funding to send the aid via airlift or ocean cargo to health and welfare professionals in the indigent locations.

COSCO International Holdings Limited (“COSCO International” or the “Company”) and its subsidiaries are principally engaged in the provision of shipping services, which include ship trading agency services, marine insurance brokerage services, marine equipment, spare parts and communications and navigation equipment and production and sales of coatings products. Other business operations are general trading and property investment. COSCO and its subsidiaries (“COSCO Group”), a multinational diversified conglomerate,are engaged mainly in the provision of shipping, logistics and shipbuilding and ship repairing businesses with a leading position in the world. COSCO Group is engaged in the provision of quality services in shipping, logistics and shipbuilding and ship repairing, as well as other ship related business.

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