Tara Mia Paone

New Visions for Public Schools, Inc. aims to improve the educational opportunities of students through multiple strategies which includes creating new schools, working with communities to support schools, and developing solutions to improve schools. The company was founded by Richard I. Beattie in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey manages and maintains the bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports, PATH and seaport that are critical to the bistate region's trade and transportation capabilities. Through facilities and services, people are able to make vital connections and businesses are able to grow. Providing safe and efficient travel is highest priority, and enhancing the well being of everyone who lives, works and travels here is strongest commitment.

StoryCorps, Inc. is an award-winning organization founded in 2003 that has given nearly 600,000 people across all 50 states the opportunity to record interviews about their lives. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY and was founded by Dave Isay. The organization preserves these recordings in its archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which is the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered. StoryCorps shares select stories with the public through various platforms, including podcasts, broadcasts, animated shorts, digital platforms, and best-selling books. The organization is committed to capturing and amplifying voices that are least heard in the media. The StoryCorps MobileBooth, an Airstream trailer transformed into a traveling recording booth, crisscrosses the country year-round gathering stories from people of all backgrounds and beliefs.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc. provides artistic training services. The private company is based in New York, NY.

The Fund for Public Schools, Inc. serves as a vehicle for public-private partnerships as means of supporting public education reform and building support for New York's public schools. It works to secure critical funding for system-wide education reform initiatives; facilitating strategic public-private partnerships; managing a targeted set of programs to support city schools; and building citywide public awareness. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.