Acceleration has 12 years of technical expertise in designing and delivering better and more practical digital marketing solutions faster than anyone in the industry. The company architects digital marketing and publisher solutions, implements and integrates optimal technologies, and orchestrates highly efficient operational delivery to keep companies up to speed with consumer behavior and ahead of the competition. With a breadth of prominent technology, vendor partnerships, and extensive client base featuring many of the world's largest digital marketers and publishers, Acceleration has unrivaled experience in creating solutions with local and global capabilities to serve as a proactive digital solutions provider. Learn more at www.acceleration.biz. 

Ace Metrix™ is the leader in applying technology to the challenge of evaluating creative advertising. Our solutions help companies measure and improve the effectiveness of video advertising, directly improving their bottom line.

At the heart of the Ace Metrix vision is the company's Creative Lifecycle Management™ concept which provides customers with the insight and tools they need to optimize their advertising campaigns from the inception of an idea through to its delivery to consumers - significantly improving the measurability and actionability of their creative.

Adobe's content authoring solutions lead the industry, enabling our customers to more effectively produce, distribute, and monetize digital content. Adobe delivers the most innovative solutions for optimizing marketing campaigns and maximizing return on every marketing dollar.

BearingPoint provides management and technology consulting services in various parts of the world. BearingPoint's history reaches back more than 100 years to Peat Marwick. After completing an initial public offering in 2001, the company changed its name from KPMG Consulting to BearingPoint in 2002.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. They partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. A customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that their clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with 66 offices in 38 countries. For more information, please visit www.bcg.com.

BusinessWeek is a global source of essential business insight that inspires leaders to turn ideas into action. Through content, context, and collaboration, BusinessWeek moderates global conversations and moves business professionals forward. Founded in 1929 and published by the McGraw-Hill Companies, BusinessWeek magazine is the market leader, with more than 4.7 million readers each week in 140 countries. Local language editions include Chinese, Thai, and Bahasa Indonesian. Launched in 1994, BusinessWeek.com is the preeminent provider of daily, essential business news, information, and services to business decision-makers.

Deloitte's Sales and Marketing Effectiveness practice combines strategic and operational capabilities to develop executable strategies that produce sustainable performance improvements across the breadth of customer-facing activities. The Sales and Marketing Effectiveness practice has successfully assisted numerous clients in improving the effectiveness of their Marketing function and providing advisory services in the areas of Sales and Marketing Alignment, Sales Compensation, Channel Management, Customer Experience, Strategy and Segmentation, Marketing ROI and Resource Allocation, Trade Promotion Management, Emerging Marketing Models, Spend Effectiveness and Compliance, and Customer Data Integration. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in over 140 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 150,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas—audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services—and serves more than 80 percent of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva's unrivalled collection of more than 9,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, D&B, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles. Factiva's innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via Factiva's role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions. Executives, information professionals, marketers, salespeople, and other professionals can easily monitor and understand the latest news, market trends, and business challenges relevant to them - directly from the Microsoft Office and job-specific applications they use every day.

HP helps the world's communications service providers (CSPs) transform the way they do business -- and grow in a fast-changing market. CSPs must meet the huge demand for new, personalized services -- while they build high speed networks and streamline internal operations. Facing competition from over-the-top rivals, CSPs must develop new business models and new revenue streams that leverage their core assets, the network and customer information.

HP is unmatched in its ability to help CSPs drive transformation: 30+ years of telecom experience, global IT leadership, expertise in entertainment, and leadership in consumer devices.

HP offers an end-to-end portfolio: core telecom network infrastructure, convergent IT and telecom solutions, software portfolios for OSS and BSS, service delivery platforms, subscriber data management, cloud service enablement, professional services including business consulting, integration, and managed services/outsourcing; joint go-to-market programs;  carrier-grade servers; storage; and wireless printers and notebooks.

IBM has a broad range of business and technology services that deliver real business results. IBM integrates hardware, software, business consulting and IT services into business solutions to meet your goals. IBM also has strong alliances with partners to deliver business solutions.

Island Data Corporation, is the innovator in on-demand software tools for real-time business performance measurement. The Company’s core competency is helping global enterprises listen to and better understand their customers’ needs through True Customer Insights™. The Company’s Insight RT™ turnkey system delivers highly relevant business intelligence that raises the level of customer communication from the help desk to the executive suite. Using Insight RT’s True Customer Insights, CMOs, CEOs and their profit center operating managers can track key performance indicators and optimize the customer experience at every touch point. Internet industry leaders eHarmony, Microsoft, ProFlowers, and Yahoo have deployed Insight RT to support continuous improvement of their product management/quality, market/online presence, brand loyalty, customer retention, and customer service/satisfaction programs. As a result, these companies report making superior business decisions and significantly increasing their marketing ROI.

Lionbridge is a market leader in the globalization services industry. Through offices in 26 countries and more than 90,000 in-market experts, we help companies manage and improve their digital presence around the world with our suite of global marketing solutions. For more information, visit http://en-us.lionbridge.com/Default.aspx

We help great companies build brand nations for their most engaged customers. With Lithium, clients such as Best Buy, AT&T, Research In Motion Limited (RIM), Univision, and PayPal turn their customers' passion into marketing, product development, sales, and customer service assets. For more information, visit http://www.lithium.com, or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and our own nation – the Lithosphere. Lithium is privately held with headquarters in Emeryville, California.

NVISION is a leading Marketing Supply Chain Specialist. NVISION works with companies to simplify and organize tangled web of agencies, vendors and distributors – creating a customized Marketing Supply Chain Solution. Over the past five years, NVISION has saved over $42,000,000, an average of 17% in Marketing Supply Chain costs, for leading fortune 500 corporations

Openet is the most innovative provider of Subscriber Optimization Software (SOS) to tier one communications and media service providers. To succeed, today’s operators must know their subscribers, deploy innovative business models and control the allocation of network resources. Openet's offerings are engineered to attract subscribers and provide an optimal experience, minimize the cost to serve them and maximize revenue—making the most of every subscriber. With customers across the globe, Openet is meeting the needs of operators worldwide such as Vodafone, Orange, AT&T and Verizon.

Palm, Inc., a leader in mobile computing, strives to put the power of computing in people's hands so they can access and share their most important information. The company's products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Palm Treo smartphones and Palm handheld computers, as well as software, services and accessories.

Pandora (NYSE: P) gives people music they love anytime, anywhere, through connected devices. (OK, we've added comedy as well so we're also up for playing some jokes you'll love.) Personalized stations launch instantly with the input of a single "seed" - a favorite artist, song or genre. The Music Genome Project®, a deeply detailed hand-built musical taxonomy, powers the personalization of Pandora® internet radio by using musicological "DNA" and constant listener feedback to craft personalized stations from a growing collection of hundreds of thousands of recordings. Tens of millions of people in the U.S. turn on Pandora to hear music they love.  

Pitney  Bowes  Software,  a  wholly owned  subsidiary  of  Pitney  Bowes  Inc.,  is  a  software  &  services  company  that  enables  communications providers  to  acquire,  serve  and  grow  lifetime  relationships  with  their  customers. 

For a long time, the only people with access to Qualtrics survey software were our closest friends and a bunch of Scott’s MBA students. It was our research clients who pushed us to open up the system…and gave us the feedback needed to make it both the easiest to use and most sophisticated research suite on the market.

Ricoh Production Print Solutions, LLC (RPPS, henceforth referred to as "Ricoh") is a strategic business unit within the Ricoh Family Group of Companies. Ricoh delivers greater customer value by bringing together internal resources to develop, market and support industry-leading, end-to-end offerings for production print customers such as the InfoPrint 5000, InfoPrint Automated Document Factory (ADF) and InfoPrint Precision Marketing solutions. The unit’s reach spans across a wide range of printing environments, including light production, wide-format and production print solutions. It offers many hardware, software and professional services solutions targeted to service bureaus, direct mailers, multichannel marketers, data centers, commercial and in-plant printers.

SAS helps organizations anticipate and optimize business opportunities. We do this through advanced analytics that turn data about customers, performance, financials and more into meaningful information. The result? Fact-based decisions for undeniable bottom line impact – this is how we transform the way our customers do business.

Satmetrix is the leading global provider of on-demand software applications and consulting services to measurably improve customer loyalty and link these results to financial benefits. As the co-developer of Net Promoter©, the company’s solutions enable companies to gather trustworthy data on customer experience, derive actionable insights, integrate this information into the daily work flow of employees and establish an ongoing dialogue through online customer communities. The company has deployed more than 700 enterprise solutions in 40 languages. www.satmetrix.com.

SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) is a leading global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions. The company's Predictive Analytics technology improves business processes by giving organizations forward visibility for decisions made every day. By incorporating Predictive Analytics into their daily operations, organizations become Predictive Enterprises able to direct and automate decisions to meet business goals and achieve a measurable competitive advantage. More than 250,000 public sector, academic and commercial customers rely on SPSS technology to help increase revenue, reduce costs and detect and prevent fraud. Founded in 1968, SPSS is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

True North is a fully integrated media company, providing branded content programs across multiple marketing and communication platforms. From 100-percent custom publications and annual reports to dynamic websites, e-newsletters, video solutions, mobile applications, and other marketing and communication resources, we deliver relevant, engaging content that connects financial institutions to their clients, communities, and other target audiences. Learn more at www.truenorthcustom.com.

Webtrends is the global leader in mobile and social analytics. We help marketers create, measure and improve campaigns for more than 7,000 leading brands including: The New York Times, Microsoft, BMW, RIM, China Telecom, China Mobile, CCTV, Tencent QQ, Hitachi, The Associated Press, HSBC, Barclays, Vivo Cellular and Petrobras. Our leadership extends beyond the web analytics industry we founded to the measurement, optimization and integration of all digital content and customer intelligence, including web sites, social media, mobile and paid-search advertising. More information on Webtrends is available at www.webtrends.com

Bizcommunity.com is Africa's leading B2B website and news source of choice for the advertising, marketing, media, medical and retail sectors of the continent. Up-to-the-minute news, durable content comprising research and opinion pieces, and an extensive white paper directory, ensure it remains the leading site of its kind in Africa.

Chief Executive is the only magazine written strictly for CEOs and their peers. As the leading source of intelligence for and about CEOs, it provides ideas, strategies and tactics for top executive leaders seeking to build more effective organizations. Chief Executive conveys the full range of the CEO experience: the corporate challenges, as well as the personal pressures and satisfactions that come with the most demanding job in business. The readers of Chief Executive include the world's most influential leaders - the CEOs of major corporations around the globe. They are not only shaping new economies around the world, but new societies as well. Chief Executive offers clear-eyed reporting of their successes - and their failures - in ways that illuminate, educate, entertain, and inspire other CEOs. Chief Executive is published ten times a year and delivered to a controlled circulation of 42,000 CEOs, Chairmen, Vice Chairmen, Presidents, COOs and other top executives. Total readership exceeds 170,000. www.chiefexecutive.net

CMO.com offers digital marketing insight for chief marketing officers. It has four major sections, shown on the top navigation bar: News-Headlines about digital marketing news, trends, announcements, marketing analytics, marketing resources, marketing Web sites, blog marketing, and other information about digital marketing and key players in the digital marketing space; Insight--Articles, reports, surveys, statistics, commentary from industry experts, and other digital marketing resources that have a relatively long "shelf life"; Blogs--Select posts about blog marketing from influential bloggers, other CMOs, and industry publications; CMO Perspectives--Interviews with leading CMOs, findings from surveys of marketing executives, and a listing of industry events for CMOs and their staff. Read more at cmo.com.

Corporate Board Member is a leading information resource for senior officers and directors of publicly traded corporations, large private companies, and Global 1000 firms. The bimonthly publication provides readers with decision-making tools to deal with the corporate governance challenges confronting their boards. Corporate Board Member further extends its governance leadership through conferences, director training programs, an online resource center, and timely research. The magazine maintains the most comprehensive, up-to-date database of directors and officers serving on boards of publicly traded companies listed with the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Market, and American Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, with editorial offices in New York, Corporate Board Member is published by Board Member Inc. and is the sister publication of Bank Director magazine, a leading information resource for officers and directors of financial institutions

Established in 1967, Emerald Group Publishing Limited is the world’s leading publisher of management research. Emerald celebrates 40 years of publishing excellence in 2007 and has consistently ranked at 98 per cent in customer satisfaction surveys. Emerald is COUNTER-compliant, meeting the international code of practice for reports that allow clients to measure usage of online information products and services in a consistent manner. Emerald publishes over 180 titles, 93 per cent of which are peer-reviewed. Titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Library Hi Tech, Journal of Knowledge Management, Industrial Management & Data Systems and The TQM Magazine are published by Emerald, along with a core collection of library and information science journals.

GO [Promo] is South Africa’s premier online resource for below-the-line marketing and promotion. The site provides relevant tools, news and insight for industry suppliers, marketing practitioners and business owners. GO [Promo] also includes a comprehensive sourcing directory and a community element that offers blogging and online networking

- InfoTrends, a Questex company, is the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. We provide research, analysis, forecasts, and advice to help clients understand market trends, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to grow their businesses. Additional information about InfoTrends is available on the Web at www.infotrends.com .

Founded in 1980 by Robert Cohen, Integrated mar.com Corporation (mar.com) offers two primary services. The development and implementation of strategic channel marketing and communications programs for IT companies and has worked, globally, with more than 300 vendors, distributors and large resellers. As a strong believer in the channel, mar.com founded and administers the North American chapters of the ChannelLine Advisory Council (CLAC). Publishers of eChannelLine Daily News, ConnectIT, and Channel Advisor, along with a host of other electronic products. mar.com currently partners with close to 100 IT companies worldwide.

Marketing Mix advises professional corporate marketers and senior agency executives about measurable marketing best practices in South Africa. They offer advertisers and sponsors an integrated media solution to reach and influence middle to senior marketing management. Marketing Mix holds about 10 workshops per annum, attracting over 2000 highly responsive senior marketers, and prints 6 issues per annum, offering unique analysis and reference information on all components of the measurable marketing mix. Marketing Mix online focuses on the top end of the marketing spectrum. Marketing Mix stresses their focus on measurable marketing and their primary interests in direct marketing (traditional & new media, experiential, CRM) and retail and shopper insights (relating to the retail catchments areas). Marketing Mix works closely with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the Online Publishers Association (OPA), the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), POPAI SA (point of purchase), and the Southern African Market Research Association (SAMRA).

MarketingSherpa is a research firm that specializes in following what works and what does not work in all facets of marketing. The firm’s mission is to give marketers throughout the world the stats, inspiration and instructions to improve their results. Their research activities include case study interviews with brand-side marketing executives, readership surveys, surveys of prospects and customers, lab tests and partnered research studies and collection and analysis of “best” of research data published by other research firms, labs, and service providers to the marketing industry.

The only fully integrated North America-based global newswire, Marketwire Inc. is a full-service partner to IR, PR, and MarCom professionals seeking premier distribution, media management, multimedia and monitoring solutions. Marketwire's customer-centric corporate philosophy focuses on being the best by infusing every aspect of its business with the following core attributes: precision, adaptability, innovation, and simplicity. Marketwire delivers its clients' news to the world's media and financial communities. With a reputation for technological leadership, Marketwire offers innovative products and services -- including Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Dashboard Mobile Financial, News Dashboard coverage reports, exclusive access to networks such as the Canadian Press Wire Network, Easy IR and Easy PR workflow solutions, and more -- that help communication professionals maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices. Having merged companies (Market Wire and CCNMatthews) in April 2006, and enjoying a combined history of 25-years of service, Marketwire is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada's largest pension funds.

MediaBUZZ aims to make an impact in the Asia Pacific region through its online publication Asian e-Marketing, which is designed to empower marketers in the vibrant, ever-changing, electronic marketing environment. Asian e-Marketing is a pioneer in the region, covering the digital age and zooming in on the increasingly valuable and indispensable tools of today's marketers - the Internet and mobile devices. Circulated every month twice to more than 20,000 top management and marketing decision-makers in Asia Pacific, the informative guide supports and advices e-marketers in finding a sound marketing strategy, which is vital for further success.

MobileGroove — named a top 50 influential technology site by Konector – is the source of analysis and commentary on mobile search, mobile advertising, and social media. Peggy Anne Salz, the Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove (MSG), produces and markets thought leadership for the mobile industry. Her report, Mobile Search & Content Discovery, was regarded as the first in-depth study of its kind, establishing Peggy as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies. Her most recent series of practical how-to white papers covers the basics of mobile advertising and mobile analytics, earning her a reputation as a leading mobile advertising expert and speaker. Her published work, which includes more than 300 articles on the mobile industry, has appeared in magazines and online destinations such as The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Mobile Entertainment, New Media Age, and in the Agile Minds column in EContent magazine, among many more.

The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a private, nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to be the nation's leader in helping people keep themselves, their families, and their communities safe from crime. NCPC manages public service advertising under the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign-symbolized by McGruff the Crime Dog® and his "Take A Bite Out Of Crime" slogan-and acts as secretariat for the Crime Prevention Coalition of America, more than 400 national, federal, state, and local organizations representing thousands of constituents who are committed to preventing crime. NCPC is funded through a variety of government agencies, corporate and private foundations, and donations from private individuals.

We are National Media, leaders in the creation, production and marketing of world-renowned business exhibitions and conferences. It’s what we do, and do well. Our events play a vital role in supporting and enriching the markets we serve. They are marketplaces that drive innovation, build business communities, and facilitate education and professional learning.

Each year, we bring hundreds of exhibitors face to face with thousands of business professionals – and in doing so, help forge new partnerships and generate millions of dollars in new business opportunities. Brilliance is what we strive for. Uncompromising quality, entrepreneurial spirit, passion and above all, trust and integrity are some of the values we embrace.

Established in London in 2003, Noozz.com is focused upon individual emerging markets and offers decision makers a powerful blend of news, commentary, analysis, research and business services "under one roof." Our team of journalists, researchers and editors work closely with both local sources, and the world's most respected business information brands to bring the key events, developments and opportunities from the emerging markets direct to your desktop. We bring business closer.

Sales & Marketing Management is the leading authority for executives in the sales and marketing field. In every issue of the magazine, and on the Web site, readers have easy access to the most relevant trends, strategies, exclusive research, expert voices, and cutting-edge case studies designed to help them sell more, manage better, and market smarter. SalesandMarketing.com is a VNU Business Publications and VNU eMedia production. Read more at salesandmarketing.com.

The Journal, in association with MASA, DMA, CMO Council and Services SETA, provides cutting-edge reporting on all issues pertaining to the marketing professional. In the four years since media and marketing commentator, Jeremy Maggs, has edited the publication, it has become an indispensible read for marketers and brand managers. Kerryn Le Cordeur took over as Editor in 2012, with Maggs remaining on as Editor-in-Chief. Published six times a year and distributed to a targeted database of 4 000 professionals, The Journal of Marketing identifies those issues concerning the marketing fraternity. We unpack them and offer real solutions.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (www.smps.org) represents a dynamic network of more than 6,000 marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty construction firms located throughout the United States and Canada. The Society and its 50+ chapters benefit from the support of 3,700 design and building firms, encompassing 80% of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors. SMPS’s mission is to advocate for, educate, and connect leaders in the building industry. SMPS is the only organization dedicated to creating business opportunities in the A/E/C industry.

USA TODAY is the largest paper in the country, with a circulation of over 2 million, and a total readership of approximately 5 million and growing. USATODAY.com was recently ranked #1 in visits in the print category by Hitwise News & Reports, with over 11 million unique monthly visits.

Visibility Magazine, founded in 2007, has become the guide to latest trends in internet marketing. Visibility conducts interviews with CEOs, shares opinions, reviews products, and provides a wealth of information about the movements in the industry. Visibility embodies high-quality content, good sense, superior taste, and the character of conscientious journalism

The Business Marketing Association, which specializes in business-to-business marketing and communication, aims to help businesses meet their customers's needs on a consistent basis. There mission is three-fold: To be the primary repository of crucial B2B marketing information and resources; attract the best practitioners; promote the best practices in the industry.

Children’s Health Fund, founded in 1987 by pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, and singer/songwriter Paul Simon, is committed to providing comprehensive health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children through the development and support of innovative primary care medical programs and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children. Children’s Health Fund realizes this mission through the energy and talent of our dedicated team of doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, and other clinical and support staff and our partnerships with esteemed academic medical centers and concerned corporate and individual sponsors.

DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here's how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that makes your eye twinkle. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school. You'll get photos of your project taking place, a thank-you letter from the teacher, and a cost report showing how each dollar was spent. If you give over $100, you'll also receive hand-written thank-you letters from the students.

Emory University's Zyman Institute of Brand Science (ZIBS), an innovation research group based at Emory University's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, fosters rich collaboration between business managers and leading scholars worldwide. The institute supports advanced research in brand management with the goal of developing useful knowledge that drives superior business performance. The Goizeuta Business School is consistently ranked amongst the top 20 business programs. www.zibs.com

Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster. During their 30-year history, Feed The Children has grown into one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to helping hungry and hurting people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 32 foreign countries, supplementing almost 800,000 meals a day worldwide.

The Freeplay Foundation is an internationally acclaimed humanitarian organisation. We've helped more than 8 million poor and vulnerable people improve the quality of their daily lives through the distribution of sustainable, self-powered and environmentally friendly technologies.

Gifts In Kind International links donor resources to enhance, empower, and restore communities and people in need. It is the twelfth largest charity in America according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and it generated and placed nearly $750 million in urgently needed new product donations last year. Gifts In Kind receives donations from thousands of large and small companies, including half of the Fortune 100 technology, retail, and consumer corporations. It distributes these donations to more than 150,000 community charities across the United States and throughout the world.

Hand in Hand is a Public Charitable Trust registered in the year 2002 with an initial focus on child labour elimination, education, and the empowerment of women. The organisation has been in operation since 1988 in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. With time, our activities have expanded as per the demands from the rural communities in which we are working, and have come to include poverty reduction interventions among rural, poor families in a big way. We envisage an integrated strategy to address the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment. It aims at building self-reliance of disadvantaged groups by alleviating poverty through sustained income generating programmes.

Health People is unique in the United States as a groundbreaking peer organization which helps people from low-income communities become leaders to effectively fight chronic ill health. Started in 1990 as a women's AIDS prevention and support program, Health People has grown to provide a full range of AIDS services for men, women and families, as well as to start a large community asthma program, New York's first diabetes peer educators program and a community smoking cessation program.

Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) was founded in 1983 and is currently a leading Academic Center in Business-to-Business Marketing. The Mission of ISBM is to expand research and teaching in business-to-business marketing and sales in academia and to improve the practice of business-to-business marketing and sales in industry. We accomplish our mission through three agendas: Research, education, networking and interchange. ISBM is committed to a leadership role in bringing more talent into our discipline, accelerating high-quality practical research, and spearheading new ways to create more profitable B-to-B marketing and sales practice. www.smeal.psu.edu/isbm/

Malaria No More is determined to end malaria deaths. A non-profit, non-governmental organization, Malaria No More makes high-yield investments of time and capital to speed progress, unlock resources, mobilize new assets and spur the world toward reaching this goal. Malaria No More was born of a simple, startling insight: that ending malaria's death grip on Africa is the best humanitarian investment we can make in the world today. Nothing else can have the same impact on as many people's lives and livelihoods as quickly or cheaply.

MarketingNPV is a highly specialized consulting firm that builds marketing measurement processes, tools, and skills to determine the financial return from marketing investments. The company designs and implements marketing dashboards, marketing ROI and analytical frameworks, and brand scorecards that measure the creation of economic and strategic value for both the short and long term. MarketingNPV maintains an online archive of articles and resources and publishes a quarterly journal, all to help marketers make smarter decisions and stronger cases to secure, allocate, or defend resources.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is the premier global association established to lead in the growth of mobile marketing and its associated technologies. The MMA is an action-oriented organization designed to clear obstacles to sustainable market development, establish mobile media guidelines and best practices for sustainable growth, and evangelize the mobile channel for use by brands and content providers. The 400+ global member companies include agencies, advertisers, hand held device manufacturers, wireless operators, aggregators, infrastructure providers, retailers, technology enablers, market research firms and all companies focused on marketing via the mobile channel. The Mobile Marketing Association’s global headquarters are located in the United States.

The rapid evolution and increasing use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets is creating unprecedented opportunities for the marketing research industry. This fast developing and complex industry needs a unifying body, a single voice, and a place to exchange the best and most innovative of ideas.

Mobile Marketing Research Association (MMRA) exists to unite and serve the industry in developing best practices, professional standards and ethics regarding the use of mobile devices for marketing research. MMRA is building a foundation for education, conducting studies and creating communications to foster this growing industry. For more information on how you can shape future of the mobile marketing research, please visit: http://www.mmra-global.org

MOVIEGUIDE™ is affiliated with the Christian Film & Television Commission ministry, also founded by Dr. Baehr, which is a non-profit ministry of Good News Communications, Inc. Both MOVIEGUIDE and CFTVC are dedicated to redeeming the values of the entertainment industry, according to biblical principles, by influencing industry executives and artists and by informing and educating the public about the influence of the entertainment media and about how to train their families to become media-wise, so they can choose the good and reject the bad. Thus, all of MOVIEGUIDE™’s activities have led to a significant increase in the number of family-friendly and Christian-friendly movies over the past 21 years. Support from those concerned about objectionable content in the media remains absolutely vital to the ongoing work of this organization.

Established in San Francisco in 1938, the Northern California chapter of the Business Marketing Association (Norcal BMA) is the leading business to business marketing organization in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Norcal BMA offers a robust set of programs to members and the marketing community at large, including a series of regular roundtables on various marketing topics, as well as monthly educational and social events, networking, resources and B2B job listings.

Rhodes University is an outstanding internationally-respected academic institution which proudly affirms its African identity and which is committed to democratic ideals, academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, sound moral values and social responsibility. In pursuit of its vision, the University strives to produce outstanding internationally-accredited graduates who are innovative, analytical, articulate, balanced and adaptable, with a life-long love of learning; and strives, through teaching, research and community service, to contribute to the advancement of international scholarship and the development of the Eastern Cape and Southern Africa.

Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI) is the worldwide organization dedicated to ethical standards, continuing professional development, knowledge sharing, mentoring students and advancing free enterprise. Since no other worldwide executive sales and marketing associations exist, SMEI fills a void by providing a personal and professional community devoted to providing knowledge, growth, leadership and connections between peers in both sales and marketing. With over 10,000 members around the world, members benefit from both the strength of an international organization and the resources that a local chapter provides through ongoing seminars, lectures and networking opportunities.

SIFE brings together a diverse network of university students, academic professionals and industry leaders around the shared mission of creating a better, more sustainable world through the positive power of business. By contributing their talents to projects that improve the lives of people worldwide, SIFE participants are demonstrating that individuals with a knowledge and passion for business can be a powerful force for change.

Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI) is the worldwide organization professional association dedicated to ethical standards, continuing professional development, knowledge sharing, mentoring students and advancing free enterprise. SMEI offers the only professional certification programs is sales management, marketing management and sales that are recognized worldwide. Developed by academic and business leaders, these certification programs offer designations to individuals who meet established prerequisites and pass an exam. SMEI offers self study preparatory programs as well as articulated courses at leading universities for exam preparation.

Soaringwords works to empower communities to embrace ill children and families and inspire them to ‘never give up’. Each year, it is estimated that 18% of all children in the U.S. suffer from chronic illness. Soaringwords provides in-person and online support that boosts self-esteem and helps reduce isolation. While doctors and hospitals support chronically and catastrophically ill children with essential medical care, Soaringwords focuses on the psycho-social factors that are essential for patients and families to heal.

Special Olympics is made up of passionate, committed individuals from every walk of life, who recognize the value and unique gifts of people with intellectual disabilities. And who, together, share the common belief in dignity, equality and opportunity for ALL people. Special Olympics is a global nonprofit organization targeting the nearly 200 million people round the world who have intellectual disabilities. With a presence in nearly 200 countries worldwide and seven world-region offices, we are constantly expanding. We can say with all truth that “the sun never sets on the Special Olympics movement.

The American Kidney Fund fights kidney disease through direct financial support to patients in need; health education; and prevention efforts. Thanks to the generosity of many Americans who care about their friends and neighbors with kidney disease, in 2008 the American Kidney Fund was able to provide $119.5 million in treatment-related financial assistance to more than 75,000 kidney patients nationwide.

The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) was launched by the International Chamber of Commerce to 1) Connect and mobilize businesses across industries, sectors and national borders in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy; 2) Pool resources and expertise -- creating greater critical mass than any single company or sector could do alone; 3) Amplify the voice and views of business to governments, public and media -- increasing both awareness and understanding of counterfeiting and piracy activities and the associated economic and social harm; 4) Compel government action and the allocation of resources towards strengthened intellectual property rights enforcement; and 5) Create a culture change to ensure intellectual property is respected and protected.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (www.smps.org ) represents a dynamic network of more than 6,000 marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty construction firms located throughout the United States and Canada. The Society and its 50+ chapters benefit from the support of 3,700 design and building firms, encompassing 80% of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors. SMPS’s mission is to advocate for, educate, and connect leaders in the building industry. SMPS is the only organization dedicated to creating business opportunities in the A/E/C industry.

Ubuntu Education Fund is dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa.

United Way is a national network of nearly 1,300 local organizations that work to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

World Serve International is a non-sectarian, non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian relief and economic development. WorldServe exists to alleviate poverty by giving poor people help for today and hope for tomorrow. Providing sustainable growth opportunities and strategically investing in entrepreneurial communities, WorldServe seeks to restore dignity to people's lives. Recent innovative projects include launching water well drilling operations, strategic medical missions, and micro-finance loans to create job opportunities. WorldServe is a non-political, international organization that partners with a diverse array of businesses, organizations and communities.