Ian Shrank

Breaking Ground provides supportive housing services. It offers housing and community development services. It buys dilapidated or abandoned resident hotels and converts them into housing for homeless and low-income adults. The firm subsists on rents and management fees, government contracts and donations. The company was founded in 1990 by Rosanne Haggerty and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Per Scholas, Inc. has been providing rigorous training for careers in tech for over 25 years. The non-profit company is based in Bronx, NY. The company partner with various employer partners to builds sustainable and diverse talent pipelines, offering tuition-free training in the most in-demand tech skills. With national remote training and campuses in 20+ cities, they have trained over 20,000 individuals to launch high-growth tech careers, earning three times their pre-training wage. 85% of their learners are people of color, two in five are women, and more than half have a high school diploma as their highest education credential. The company was founded by John Hoyt Stookey and the CEOs are Geoff Stack and Plinio Ayala.