The National Institute for Lobbying & Ethics (NILE) is the premier trade association for the lobbying and government affairs profession. Our mission is to promote professionalism, competence, and high ethical standards through education. NILE prescribes a strong Code of Ethics for its members to follow, as well as, a rigorous Public Policy Certificate Program that assures lobbyists and government affairs professionals have a complete knowledge of the legislative and regulatory processes. We provide opportunities for personal and professional development to help maximize the potential of industry professionals. Our Public Policy Certificate (PPC) program is designed to provide lobbyists, government affairs, grassroots, social media, public relations, and corporate/association professionals at all levels, the necessary professional education they need to keep pace with an ever-changing environment.

The Institute of Navigation (ION) is a not-for-profit organization advancing Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT). ION’s international membership is drawn from many sources including professional navigators, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, cartographers, photogrammetrists, meteorologists, educators, geodesists, surveyors, general aviation and airline pilots, mariners and anyone interested in position-determining systems. Corporate members include corporations, civil and military government agencies, private scientific and technical institutions, universities and training academies, and consulting firms. The ION sponsors an International Technical Meeting Co-Located with the Precise Time and Time interval Systems Applications Meeting (PTTI) (January), IEEE/ION PLANS (Spring - Even Years), ION Pacific PNT (Spring - Odd Years), ION Military Division's Joint Navigation Conference (JNC) (Spring), and ION GNSS+ Meeting (September). These conferences provide a chance to present technical papers and discuss new findings with industry peers. The ION is well known for is its prestigious peer-reviewed and indexed quarterly journal, NAVIGATION. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on all areas related to the science and technology of air, sea, land and space navigation, including estimation of position, velocity, attitude, and time, and the technologies that support the determination of these quantities. Supporting technologies include navigation aids and instrumentation, algorithms and methods, error and integrity analysis, signal processing, biological navigation systems, surveying and geodesy. Editorial services for the journal are provided by professionals in government, industry, and academia.

Seton Home Study School is an accredited Catholic home schooling apostolate under the Roman Catholic bishop of Arlington, Virginia. We provide curricula, materials, grading, counseling, recordkeeping, online testing, standardized testing, and other services, including personalized online assignment management.

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) is a global medical society, which provides its members with a variety of continuing medical education programs related to nuclear cardiology and multimodality imaging, promotes accreditation and certification in nuclear cardiology, and is the principal advocacy voice for the profession. For more information about ASNC, go to: http://www.asnc.org.

Founded in 1921, the Decorative Hardwoods Association (formerly the Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association or HPVA®) represents the interests of the hardwood plywood, hardwood veneer, and engineered hardwood flooring industries. Our member companies produce 90% of the hardwood plywood stock panels and hardwood veneer manufactured in North America. From our headquarters in Sterling, VA, near Washington, DC, the Decorative Hardwoods Association offers a wide variety of valuable information and resources on hardwood plywood, veneer, and engineered flooring. To receive our biweekly emails with industry updates, events, and breaking news, sign up here: eepurl.com/xn_2P.

Our mission is to advance higher education and improve the lives of community and public service-minded and intellectually gifted African Americans and accelerate their progress into impactful leadership roles and opportunities. Our vision is to cultivate the next generation of transformational leaders who positively impact their communities and blaze new paths in their chosen careers and professions. RBSP Quick Facts: Program founded in December 1996 by Mr. Anthony Pilaro Ron Brown Scholar Fund is a public 501c3 charity RBSP is governed by a Board of Trustees First class of Scholars selected in March 1997 113,000+ applications received over the past 17 years 6,000 applications received on average annually 340 young people have been named Ron Brown Scholars Ninety-nine percent (99%) graduation rate RBS Areas of Interest: 33% STEM, 41% - Humanities, 19% - Business, 7% - Law

AFPE's mission is to advance and support pharmaceutical sciences education at U.S. schools and colleges of pharmacy. With the support of individual and corporate contributors, AFPE: Supports graduate education, training and research in such disciplines as clinical pharmaceutical science, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology/toxicology, pharmaceutics, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics/metabolism, pharmacotherapy and experimental therapeutics, and social and administrative pharmacy. Encourages exceptional students to pursue careers in the pharmaceutical sciences by funding awards to first year graduate school and pre-doctoral fellowships in the pharmaceutical sciences, pre-doctoral fellowships in the clinical pharmaceutical sciences, and pharmacy faculty development research grants. Enables full-time PharmD and PhD pharmacy college faculty members to undertake a minimum 6-month intensive project including coursework, training, and/or research on a cutting-edge topic that benefits industry, pharmacy & pharmaceutical science education, and the national health. This nurturing of outstanding pharmacy faculty researchers advances pharmaceutical science knowledge, advances drug discovery and development, and advances the development of state-of-the-science pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences curricula.

Society for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts.

The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, a U.S.-based non-profit organization supported by the world’s leading truck and automakers to promote vehicle safety.The ACTS team is currently laser focused on DADSS. The Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS.org) is a new technology being developed through a partnership between ACTS and the U.S. DOT's NHTSA that has the potential to make the biggest impact on improving roadway safety in our lifetimes.

Special Love, Inc. is a nonprofit providing a strong, nurturing environment for children with cancer and their families; through free camps and adventure programs, emergency financial relief, educational scholarships and virtual programs. Each year, Special Love serves hundreds of children and families around the country through in-person camps and programs, and virtual programs that reach them in their homes, or the hospital. Wherever they are, we are there for them. Special Love's camps and adventure programs host pediatric cancer patients ages 7 to 17, who are currently in treatment, and those up to 3 years off of treatment. Programs for young adult, long-term survivors ages 18 to 25, accommodate the effects cancer, and its treatment make have taken on them, as well as community of individuals who become life-long friends. Cancer can strain a families finances, so Special Love offers emergency financial aid to help keep the lights on, roofs over heads, cars running and sadly, in some cases, funeral assistance. No parent should have the added burden of how to make ends meet, or lay their child to rest. For young adults who have come to the end of their cancer journey, educational scholarships to help them pursue post-secondary education or training to move on with their lives, and plans. Special Love also provides a weekend retreat for parents whose children are in active treatment, as well as for bereaved parents. The weekend is designed by parents, for parents, to provide a safe place to share and support one another, help deal with the facts of cancer individually, and ultimately regain a sense of control. All Special Love programs and services are free. Special Love is dependent on private donations. We receive no state or government funding. Donations are tax-deductible, and 79 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to programming. For more information please visit www.specialove.org, or call us at 888-930-1707.

Developed statewide campaign plans for and evaluated successes in constituent engagement and activism.Incorporated strategic plan goals and objectives that advance the mission of Clean Virginia.Built and managed a statewide coalition of community organizations and other statewide partners to broaden support for issues of concern to Clean Virginia.Identified specific target areas for field and grassroots organizing efforts to maximize electoral, legislative, and other policy initiative success and serve as the Clean Virginia data lead in the management of voter and activist lists.

Third Option Foundation provides support to surviving children and families of the CIA Special Activities Center (SAC) and offers medical services for active-duty operators, family resiliency and behavioral health services for operators and their families, and transition support for separating operators. Founded during WWII as part of the Office of Strategic Services, SAC has shouldered an unprecedented burden in the advancement of our nation’s security including a nearly unprecedented casualty rate in the war on terror. The majority of the stars displayed on the Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters honor lives lost within the ranks of SAC. The enormity of this responsibility has never been more evident than today given the wide-ranging and complex threats facing our country and the world.