Karen Kehela Sherwood

Echoing Green, Inc. provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs with ideas for social change. The firm offers a fellowship program that provides seed funding to emerging social entrepreneurs; open society black male achievement fellowship, a program for improving the life outcomes of black men and boys in the United States through social entrepreneurship; and works on purpose, a career training program. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

First Book is a nonprofit organization that provides new books to children from low-income families. The company was founded by Kyle Zimmer, Peter F. Gold and Elizabeth Arky in 1992 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.