Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is a labor union founded in 1933 in response to long hours and workweeks in Hollywood. Currently SAG represents over 120,000 actors in the film and television industry. The guild ensures safe working conditions and fair pay for members on union productions.

Cavegirl Productions began as a theater production company in 2001 and has since developed into a theater and film production company. Cavegirl Productions’ short films Felt: Tearing the Fabric of America and Hatch won top film distinctions for the National Film Challenge and The 48 Hour Film Project, respectively.

Children International (CI) is a child sponsorship organization whose mission is to help children living in dire poverty and whose vision is that these children grow into healthy, educated and self-reliant adults. Founded in 1936, the organization originally focused on healing crippled children and aiding widows and orphans. In 1980, CI's mission expanded to helping the world's poorest children through sponsorship, and the first projects began in India, the Philippines and Guatemala. Currently CI reaches over 300,000 children through 18 sponsorship projects in 11 different countries in Central and South America, Asia, Africa and the United States.

The International Children’s Digital Library started as a University of Maryland research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Microsoft Research. It’s mission is to “provide free access to children’s books from around the world…to ensur[e] access to books from many cultures and in diverse languages…foster a love of reading, a readiness to learn, and a response to the challenges of world illiteracy.” Currently, the ICDL is managed by the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation, a non-profit corporation.