Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

OLC is the leading professional organization devoted to advancing quality online learning by providing professional development, instruction, best practice publications and guidance to educators, online learning professionals and organizations around the world.

Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that works side by side with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world. For 80 years, Consumer Reports has provided evidence-based product testing and ratings, rigorous research, hard-hitting investigative journalism, public education, and steadfast policy action on behalf of consumers' interests. Unconstrained by advertising or other commercial influences, Consumer Reports has exposed landmark public health and safety issues and have strived to be a catalyst for pro-consumer changes in the marketplace. From championing responsible auto safety standards, to winning food and water protections, to enhancing healthcare quality, to fighting back against predatory lenders in the financial markets, Consumer Reports has always been on the front lines, raising the voices of consumers.

hackNY is a nonprofit organization founded in February 2010. The mission statement of hackNY is to federate (as in create a federation of) the next generation of hackers for New York City's innovation community.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting free educational content worldwide. It empowers individuals to collect, develop, and share knowledge under free content licenses or in the public domain. The foundation's most notable project is Wikipedia, an extensive online encyclopedia that relies on contributions from volunteers. In addition to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation manages several other initiatives, including Wikimedia Commons, which hosts media files; Wiktionary, a collaborative dictionary; Wikisource, a repository of free texts; Wikiquote, a collection of quotations; Wikibooks, an open-content textbook platform; Wikinews, a citizen journalism site; and Wikiversity, an educational platform. Through these projects, the foundation aims to make knowledge freely accessible to everyone, fostering a global community of learners and contributors.

Hypothes.is is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. It offers an open-source platform designed for collaborative evaluation of information, allowing users to engage in sentence-level critique, discussion, and note-taking across a variety of content, including news articles, scientific papers, and legislation. The platform aims to enhance the quality of information available on the Internet by fostering community interaction and promoting interoperability through software development and adherence to annotation standards set by the W3C Web Annotation Working Group. Hypothes.is is funded by various foundations, including the Knight, Mellon, Shuttleworth, Sloan, and Helmsley Foundations, as well as individual contributions. By partnering with developers, publishers, academic institutions, and researchers, Hypothes.is seeks to advance the next generation of read-write web applications, encouraging participation through its tools and community initiatives.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit startup building free tools for open scientific practices, including its flagship infrastructure The Open Science Framework (osf.io).

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit startup building free tools for open scientific practices, including its flagship infrastructure The Open Science Framework (osf.io).