Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871. The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to a magazine editorial written by Church. After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was also the former governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. Senator, became the fledgling NRA's first president.

The New York Academy of Medicine schools the world on urban health issues. The not-for-profit institution focuses on epidemiologic, health policy, and public health studies with an emphasis on disadvantaged urban populations. The Academy hosts educational conferences and symposia on issues like HIV/AIDS, asthma, substance abuse, and mental health, as well as offering continuing medical education for professionals. The Academy also supports one of the largest privately-owned medical libraries in the world with 800,000 books, some 400 journal subscriptions, and more than 50,000 rare books and manuscripts. The Academy was founded in 1847 by a group of NYC doctors to reform the medical profession and public health.

The Nobel Foundation manages assets left by the will of Alfred Nobel. The foundation, established in 1900, awards the prestigious Nobel Prize each year for achievements in areas that were of interest to Nobel: physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and peace. The field of economics was added in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden. The Nobel Foundation also arranges activities associated with the presentation of the prize and administers Nobel symposia in the prize areas. Born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, Nobel invented dynamite in 1866. Before his death in 1896, he had established companies and laboratories in countries worldwide.

The Notte Agency can help disentangle your credit woes. A credit collection firm based in New Jersey, The Notte Agency collects on delinquent accounts for corporate clients. Services include online account placement, demand letter generation, and skip-tracing. Established in 1964 by founder D.J. Notte, then bought 30 years later by president Sandra Kuzma, The Notte Agency is a certified Women Owned Business, and employs bilingual staff members who help facilitate recoveries in foreign countries.

The Ohio State University Research Foundation was established in 1936 to function as a central agency for supporting research and development through grants, management, and information technology for Ohio State University, one of the largest public universities in the US. The not-for-profit corporation provides administrative services for research programs, including submitting support requests, managing equipment, and governmental and university compliance oversight. Ohio State University's total awards reached more than $37 million by July 2007, with some 330 awards.

To enhance the economy of the five boroughs of New York City and maintain the city's position as the center of world commerce, finance and innovation. The Partnership is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of a select group of two hundred CEOs (“Partners”) from New York City’s top corporate, investment and entrepreneurial firms. Partners are committed to working closely with government, labor and the nonprofit sector to enhance the economy and maintain New York City’s position as the global center of commerce, culture and innovation. The Partnership focuses on research, policy formulation and issue advocacy at the city, state and federal levels. By leveraging its network of Partners, the Partnership has the unique ability to go beyond advocacy to action. Through its affiliate, the New York City Investment Fund, the Partnership directly invests in economic development projects in all five boroughs of the city.

The Pasha Group is a diversified transportation and logistics company, providing innovative global logistics solutions for a wide range of clients worldwide. To better define its offerings, the company is structured into five main operating units, Automotive, Maritime, Relocation, Transportation Services, and Logistics. Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines, a joint venture of The Pasha Group and Hawaii Ship Management LLC, owns a Roll-on/Roll-off vessel serving Mainland/Hawaii trade lanes and provides transportation services to all operating units. Seamless automotive transportation solutions with a network of state-of-the-art port, distribution and service facilities worldwide. Logistics Services and commercial freight forwarding, including the movement of automobiles, general commodities, and project cargo.

The Council's primary mission is to identify the workforce needs of Peninsula-based employers. Our workforce innovations provide solutions to ensure that we have a highly skilled workforce to meet these needs and build economic wealth in our region. Economists say that human capital contributes to 70 percent of all wealth creation. Education and training are the most important investments in human capital and contribute to developing workplace skills.

PRS for Music is home to the world's best music writers, composers and publishers. Formed as The MCPS-PRS Alliance in 1997 with the PRS for Music brand adopted in 2009, the organisation brings together two royalty collection societies; MCPS and PRS. We exist to collect and pay royalties to our members when their music is exploited in one of a number of ways – when it is recorded onto any format and distributed to the public, performed or played in public, broadcast or made publicly available online. PRS for Music is one of the world’s most efficient combined rights collecting operations. Offering its members more money, more often, at less cost and its customers the most efficient means by which they can use music.

New Orleans has been a center for international trade since 1718 when it was founded by the French. Today, the Port of New Orleans is at the center of the world’s busiest port complex — Louisiana’s Lower Mississippi River. Its proximity to the American Midwest via a 14,500-mile inland waterway system makes New Orleans the port of choice for the movement of cargoes. The Port of New Orleans is the only deepwater port in the United States served by six class one railroads. This gives port users direct and economical rail service to or from anywhere in the country.

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