Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and technology consulting firm with 19,000 employees serving clients on six continents. Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government and commercial clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology.

For nearly 30 years, the Building Trades Academy (The Academy) of Tidewater Builders Association has been simultaneously providing economically disadvantaged men and women with promising careers while building affordable homes for low-income families. Our mission is to deliver employment training in residential construction trades to economically disadvantaged residents of South Hampton Roads through programs that enhance the community and promote affordable homeownership.

Canon ITS, is the customer contact center for Canon's USA business. Headquartered in Chesapeake VA, the organization provides support services for all small office and consumer products, including digital cameras, camcorders, printers, fax machines, copiers, calculators, and binoculars. Our location operates within an 80,000 square foot facility and staffs in excess of 500 employees.

Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, Cintas Corporation provides highly-diversifed, outsourced services to businesses of all types throughout North America. Specializing in Image Apparel Programs, Facility Services, Document Management, First Aid and Safety, and Fire Protection Services, Cintas-"The Service Professionals" has a principle objective of Exceeding Customers Expectations to Maximize the Long-Term Value of Cintas for its Shareholders and Working Partners.

Since 1990, the Community Mediation Center of Southeastern Virginia (CMC) has provided quality education and services that enable youth, families, individuals, organizations, businesses, and communities to effectively resolve, reduce and prevent conflict. The Center is a non-profit, a United Way Community Partner, a member of the Virginia Association for Community Conflict Resolution (VACCR), and the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM).

CRT/tanaka is an award-winning public relations and marketing firm, known for creative solutions and workplace culture. The agency was formed in 2005, when Carter Ryley Thomas acquired New York consumer PR agency Patrice Tanaka & Company, Inc. to form one of the top independent agencies in the country. CRT/tanaka is successful because we deliver breakthrough public relations and marketing programs with world-class service for our clients. We tell their stories with great imagination, relevance, strategic intent and a keen understanding of their business

The Hampton Roads Partnership is a public-private organization that was formed on May 15, 1996. The Partnership represents ten cities, six counties, and one town, equaling nearly 1.6 million citizens of Virginia. Comprised of the chief elected official of all seventeen communities, private sector, education, military, and labor representation from both south Hampton Roads and the Virginia Peninsula, the Hampton Roads Partnership is the only organization in Hampton Roads that focuses on the region's strategic issues for the purpose of enhancing our competitiveness in the global economy with resulting income and job growth for our citizens.

The mission of Lead Hampton Roads (LHR) is to build and strengthen regional leadership through education, partnerships and networking across traditional boundaries for the purpose of improving the quality of life in greater Hampton Roads. LHR takes an honest look at the social, economic, political and educational needs within the community and then puts our leaders to work. Our participants are provided the opportunity to gain hands on community development experience and are encouraged to take constructive action where it is needed most.

SEVAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts and culture of African-Americans in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region. The organization focuses on five disciplines: visual arts, dance, music, literary arts and theatre. SEVAA sponsors activities that promote and assist artists and cultural organizations; encourages increased participation in the arts by African-American artists and arts organizations; serves as a channel of communication for its membership, and works to generate increased support for the arts.

The Planning Council’s mission is to plan, develop and manage human services to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve. The Planning Council is a member of the National Association of Planning Councils and the United Way of South Hampton Roads. Every year we touch thousands of lives: preventing homelessness; licensing and training child care providers; offering crisis intervention and connections to resources; helping parents balance work and family; and working with communities to solve human service problems.

The Virginia Ship Repair Association (VSRA) is a regional trade association representing companies engaged in, or supporting, the ship repair industry in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. Its mission is to focus and coordinate member resources on issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the ship repair industry in Virginia and across the nation.

The Virginia Beach Police Department has long been a leader in progressive policing. We are well known for our use of technology, our effectiveness in training and our innovation in approaching crime and quality of life issues in our community. The Virginia Beach Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit offers many programs with the goal of making our city a safer place to live, work and play. Through education and awareness, and through these programs, citizens can take an active role in helping to, "Take a Bite out of Crime."