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The Convergent Research team helps incubate and launch Focused Research Organizations, a new model to fill gaps in the R&D ecosystem to tackle global challenges as Schmidt Futures Network`s first initiative. At Convergent Research we launch large-scale, high-impact science projects. We aim to help fill a structural gap in today`s R&D system. We enable fundamental research that requires unusual levels of scale and coordination yet is not rapidly monetizable by industry.
Lyn-CAG is an anti-poverty agency providing emergency assistance, training, and education to help low-income clients to become self-sufficient. Lyn-CAG employs 106 people and operates 20 programs. Its operating budget for 2001 was $6 million.
Founded in 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the largest and most experienced youth mentoring organization in the United States. The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Big Brothers Big Sisters` evidence-based approach is designed to create positive youth outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and improved relationships. Big Brothers Big Sisters has over 230 local agencies serving more than 5,000 communities across all 50 states.
Michigan Family Resources is a Grand Rapids, MI-based company in the Non-profit sector.
Justine PETERSEN`s mission is to give people the tools they need to access safe and affordable credit so they can fully realize their personal goals and dreams. Our products and services, such as the secured credit card and our financial education classes, are designed to ensure that the unbanked and underbanked are able to create a better life through establishing the strong credit profiles needed to graduate to mainstream financial services. Justine PETERSEN works closely with individuals to create a personal Credit Action Plan that teaches them how to take control of their financial future, regardless of income or credit history.