Benenson Strategy Group

Benenson Strategy Group, LLC is a premier consulting and strategic research firm based in New York, NY, known for their cutting-edge approach to elevating people's voices through innovative research to develop messaging strategies that resonate with consumers. Their team of strategists, writers, thinkers, and activists collaborates with clients to uncover underlying values and emotions that drive decisions, turning data into actionable insights for a wide range of services including messaging and communications, brand development, issue and crisis management, and audience targeting. Generated from the website

Global Strategy Group specializes as a market research and analysis firm. Based in New York, N.Y., it offers an array of services, such as research, strategic communications, grassroots and grasstops organizing, branding and marketing, new media and interactive solutions. In branding and marketing it provides brand strategy and positioning, print and direct marketing creative, consumer research, name, logo and tagline development. The company caters to a list of clients, which includes American Express, Aon Corporation, Burger King, Bank of New Haven, Vantage Properties, Northeast Utilities System, to name a few.

MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization. The organization is dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people. Through its research and the active communication of its findings, MDRC seeks to enhance the effectiveness of public policies and programs. In a little more than a decade, MDRC has built a strong reputation as a respected, trustworthy source of information about what works to improve students prospects for academic success in elementary, middle and high school and about what it takes to put effective interventions into place. Since 1991, MDRC has managed 17 major demonstrations and evaluations in education, involving more than 80 communities in 36 states and Washington, D.C. In addition, MDRC has projects focused on helping adult low-income workers overcome barriers to literacy and other academic shortcomings or gain credentials to help them advance in their careers. MDRC is located in New York.