17A is a management consulting firm that focuses on public-serving solutions. The company creates strategies, builds plans, analyzes data, and brings novel delivery capabilities for government agencies and other public-serving organizations. It works across issue areas from healthcare and human services to transit and economic development.

Here at 314 Action and 314 Action Fund, we’re on a mission to elect more scientists to Congress, state legislatures, and local offices. As trained problem-solvers, STEM professionals are ready, willing, and able to find solutions for the significant challenges facing America in the 21st century. With a millions-strong grassroots network of engaged supporters in every part of the country, 314 works to promote the scientific and evidence-based policy communities and has become one of the most impactful organizations in progressive politics. In 2018, we played a pivotal role in flipping the United States House of Representatives by electing nine first-time science candidates such as Dr. Kim Schrier, the first pediatrician elected to Congress, and registered nurse Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to serve in the U.S. House. In November 2020, the only two Democrats who flipped United States Senate seats – Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado – were recruited to run for office by our organization. With staff ranging from an entrepreneurial scientist who stepped into the electoral arena to seasoned political operatives and skilled fundraisers, 314 provides critical resources and expertise to STEM candidates new to politics. We reach out to scientific communities, identifying people with professional STEM backgrounds to run for local, state, and federal offices. Our work includes training and supporting our endorsed candidates, ensuring they have the cutting-edge tools to run successful campaigns.

A Better Wisconsin Together (ABWT) is a state-based research and communications hub for progressives. Working with partner organizations and through ABWT projects like One Wisconsin Now, we hold the right-wing accountable and promote progressive ideas and values. Our messaging is research-driven and targeted for maximum impact using cutting-edge digital, earned, paid, and social media strategies.

ABD Direct provides an integrated set of fundraising services. Their responsibilities include package development, data selection, as well as front-end and back-end analysis. As a result, they spend less time managing their direct marketing fundraising program. It also means that when they require an analysis report or a production status update, they take care of it immediately.

Accelerate Change Network is a nonprofit media lab dedicated to catalyzing new scalable and sustainable digital media models.

The Accountability Lab is an independent, non-profit organization that works to generate sustainable development through making power-holders responsible. The Lab acts as a sounding board, listening to, analyzing, and reflecting upon accountability concerns; as an independent interface, engaging relevant actors across contexts and issues; and as an operational hub, catalyzing innovative accountability tools and communities. Through this approach, the Lab bolsters efforts to address the causes rather than the symptoms of poverty, exclusion, and insecurity. The Lab catalyzes tools for new and innovative approaches to bolster accountability. The team: i) Listens to problems related to accountability and analyzes core concerns within specific contexts through careful outreach. Too often, interventions are supply-driven and do not fit with on-the-ground needs and political-economy dynamics. ii) Recognizes valuable accountability practices and builds partnerships to pilot new tools and validate fresh thinking, with an emphasis on learning from failure. In many cases, knowledge is not shared and experience is not sufficiently internalized. iii) Engages relevant actors and builds communities that can curate and propagate alternative ideas to allow for scale and impact. Collective solutions to shared issues of accountability are hindered when targeted support is not strategic, timely, or durable. The Lab works with partners through three key channels: i) Accountability Change Agency. A framework through which the Lab works with civil society groups to catalyze the development of new and innovative tools at the country level, with a particular focus on youth. ii) @ccountability Initiative. A window through which the Lab supports new ideas at the intersection of accountability and technology through collaboration with ICT experts on the ground. iii) Accountapreneurship Funds. A support mechanism through which the Lab identifies and provides financial, networking, and training support to “accountapreneurs” (individuals, groups, or organizations that demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach to accountability issues). The Lab is registered as a 501(c)(3) status non-profit, tax-exempt organization in the United States, based in the OpenGovHub. It is currently overseen by an independent, unpaid Board of Directors and supported through a voluntary “Brain Trust” of senior advisors around the world and a “Kitchen Cabinet” of close supporters.

We are investigative researchers on a mission to shine a light on corporations and special interests, and balance the scales of power for Americans.

ACM Strategies specializes in working with labor unions, advocacy groups, and candidates that want to get off defense and win uphill battles. We help organizations and leaders win by educating, empowering, and turning community members into activists. ACM is proud to be a woman- and military spouse-owned company.

The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) is a campaign hub for organizations working at the intersection of racial justice and Wall Street accountability. We provide research and communications infrastructure and strategic support for organizations working on campaigns to win structural change by directly taking on the financial elite that are responsible for pillaging communities of color, devastating working-class communities, and harming our environment. We partner with local organizations from across the United States that are working on racial, economic, environmental, and educational justice campaigns and help them connect the dots between their issues and Wall Street so that each of the local efforts feeds into a broad national movement to hold the financial sector accountable. We approach all of our work through an explicit racial lens. We believe that race and class are intrinsically linked and that it is not possible to fix the structural problems in our economy in a race-neutral way. The financial and corporate elite use structural racism, targeting Black and Latino communities in particular, to divide us and pit us against each other while they destroy our livelihoods. We cannot achieve economic, environmental, or educational justice until we confront structural racism and take our demands directly to the financial elite profiting off the crises in our communities. At ACRE, we dedicate ourselves to doing just that.

Active Minds is a bright, popular, and enjoyable student in high school and college. He began experiencing melancholy and psychosis during his freshman year at Columbia University, but hid his symptoms from everyone around him for three months. He went home in the middle of his treatment for what was eventually diagnosed as schizoaffective disorder.

Advanced Energy Economy is an association of businesses working to make energy secure, clean, and affordable. It engages in policy advocacy at the federal, state, and regulatory levels, transforming public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy companies. The association encompasses a broad range of products and services that constitute the best available technologies for meeting energy needs. Among these are energy efficiency, demand response, natural gas electric generation, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, electric vehicles, biofuels, and smart grids. Advanced Energy Economy was founded by Hemant Taneja in 2011.

Operator of a full-spectrum digital services company intended to serve federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. The company specializes in digital transformation, research, product development, Agile coaching, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure, thereby helping clients with Agile digital services transformations.