The Chicago Community Trust is our region’s community foundation, built by generations of Chicagoans to support a safe, healthy and productive future for every resident. Since 1915, generous donors have invested their charitable dollars with the Trust to be transformed, through careful stewardship and deep community knowledge, into positive local impact. In 2008 the Trust and its donors granted more than $100 million to sustain effective, innovative programs throughout metropolitan Chicago.

Arrow Financial Services LLC is a leading purchaser and servicer of performing and non-performing consumer debt. Arrow was established in 1961 and has grown today into a nationwide company with over 1,000 employees across two outbound call centers: Whitewater, WI and our headquarters in Niles, IL. Our offices in Rockville Centre, NY and Austin, TX, are dedicated to finance, capital market, risk management and portfolio management activities. Arrow currently manages receivables on both debt purchased for our own account, and on behalf of other credit grantors (contingency and first party). This allows us to provide a full array of solutions for our clients to assist them in achieving their portfolio performance and liquidity objectives. Arrow's clients include some of the nation's top originators of credit cards, student loan, automobile, telecommunication and utility receivables. Our team strives for maximum liquidation in all stages of the recovery process, while maintaining personalized customer service and strict adherence to all Federal, State and Local laws and regulations.

Montrose Travel is going places. The fast-growing company operates through more than 10 divisions including business, leisure, romantic, and group/meetings. It also uses a network of about 170 independent contractors and partner companies. Montrose's business division manages the corporate travel for more than 400 firms. It also specializes in honeymoons and anniversary trips. Joe McClure, Sr. and his wife, Leora, bought the business in 1956. It's still a family affair -- in 1990 the McClure's son, Joe, Jr. (CEO), his wife, Julie (president), and their daughter, Andi (CFO) bought Montrose Travel.

Resources Connection, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Resources Connection, Inc. (Resources) is an international professional services firm. Its operating entities provide services under the name Resources Global Professionals (Resources Global). The Company provides finance, accounting, risk management and internal audit, information management, human resources, supply chain management, actuarial and legal services professionals in support of client-led projects and initiatives. On January 16, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Limbus Holding B.V. (Limbus). On December 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Kompetensslussen X-tern Personalfunktion AB (Kompetensslussen). In November 2009, the Company announced the completion of the acquisition of the business of Sitrick And Company, Inc., and Brincko Associates, Inc., a corporate advisory and restructuring firm, and the formation of a corporate advisory and restructuring subsidiary, Sitrick Brincko Group, LLC.

Bonhams 1793 (named for its founding date) is one of the leading auction houses in the world for fine art and antiques. The firm auctions art and antiques in more than 70 categories, including modern art, photography, coins, and musical instruments. In addition to its more than 20 UK offices, Bonhams has operations throughout Europe. Its non-UK European auctions are held primarily in Switzerland, Monaco, and Germany. The auction house also holds more than 50 auctions per year through its US subsidiary Bonhams & Butterfields, which has sales rooms in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Expanding its international reach even farther, the company owns offices in Australia, located at Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney.

The Synergos Institute is a nonprofit organization that focuses on reducing poverty in the developing world by providing technical assistance to grantmaking groups primarily in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each year Synergos helps nearly 200 organizations that work directly with community development, tailors giving programs for wealthy families and individuals to channel their funds into poverty-ending work, and trains local leaders to help people work together to solve conflict. Synergos was founded in 1987 by Peggy Dulany, daughter of bank president David Rockefeller and heir to the Rockefeller Standard Oil fortune.

From the ballot box to the classroom, the dedicated workers, organizers, and leaders who forged this great organization and maintain its status as a champion of social justice, fought long and hard to ensure that the voices of African Americans would be heard. For nearly one hundred years, it has been the talent and tenacity of NAACP members that has saved lives and changed many negative aspects of American society. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) strives to ensure that all people are represented and have equal rights in American society and culture, regardless of race. The nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the group works via advocacy, education, and research, and it publishes the magazine Crisis and a quarterly newsletter The NAACP Advocate.

Indeed, the Ship Canal was built by the merchants of Manchester to establish their own direct route to the open sea and oceans of the world, rather than using the Port of Liverpool. Today, the two are owned by the same organisation, the Peel Ports Group. The port at the mouth of the Mersey and the "big ship" waterway running from the river to the heart of Manchester and the North West Region, are forging a new and exciting synergy that benefits the maritime industry, the makers and movers of imports and exports and the immediate and wider environment. Initiatives have been taken to combine the diversity of the deepsea Port of Liverpool with the bespoke and general port facilities of the Manchester Ship Canal, creating a unique all-water route for international trade. The volumes of cargo handled by both are growing as opportunities are taken to maximise their individual and combined merits.

Classroom Connect is an award-winning provider of professional development programs and online instructional materials for K-12 education. Classroom Connect are devoted to helping teachers become better teachers by engaging them in their own learning and inspiring positive change in the classroom. Since 1994 Classroom Connect has been the leader in helping teachers use technology to improve learning. The company's high quality professional development programs and online instructional materials meet the changing needs of K-12 school districts nationwide. Whether you want to increase the level of technology integration in your district or develop a custom professional development program for your teachers, Classroom Connect has the perfect solution for you. Classroom Connect is a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a global education provider serving students and teachers in PreK through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages.

Lane Powell has helped emerging and established businesses navigate the Pacific Northwest and beyond for more than 135 years. Respected clients -- from individuals to small businesses to Fortune 500 companies -- turn to us for trusted legal counsel. In fact, Fortune 500 companies including Home Depot, Nike, Tesoro, Wells Fargo and Nordstrom have named Lane Powell as one of the prestigious "Go-To Law Firms of Top U.S. Companies®." In addition, Lane Powell was recently named one of Washington's “Best Workplaces” by the Puget Sound Business Journal and one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon” by Oregon Business magazine. With 180 attorneys in offices located in Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore.; Olympia, Wash.; Tacoma, Wash.; Anchorage, Alaska; and London, England, we're thoroughly versed in the industries of the Pacific Northwest as well as the legal issues that face our clients on a regional, national and international level.

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