Meet Our New December Members!
BUILD.Org
BUILD is a nonprofit organization that ignites the power of youth in under-resourced communities to build Career success, Entrepreneurial mindsets, and Opportunity. By partnering with local educators and school districts, BUILD helps students become the CEO of their own lives by learning transferable skills and gaining the social capital to follow their chosen post-secondary path to college, career, or entrepreneurship. BUILD's innovative curriculum empowers youth nationwide, helping them stay engaged in school and unlocking their full potential through the transformative power of entrepreneurship education. Using project-based learning and social emotional learning, students collaborate to create and launch their own businesses, pitch their ideas in a shark-tank style format, and manufacture and sell their original products.
Choose Clarity
Choose Clarity is a Pittsburgh-based AI-forward strategy and intelligence firm focused on designing human-centered intelligence systems for complex, high-stakes environments. The company specializes in connecting organizational needs, operational realities, and decision constraints with where AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics can meaningfully support human judgment, readiness, and performance. Choose Clarity has built Field IQ, a modular intelligence and readiness framework for defense-adjacent and operational environments, designed to assess training performance, monitor readiness over time, and surface early indicators of risk or operational degradation before failure occurs. The firm is also developing HelloPGH, an AI-powered civic intelligence concept exploring adaptive, human-centered local experiences. Through proprietary system design and selective advisory work, Choose Clarity helps organizations move from experimentation to execution without losing context, trust, or human judgment.
Coherent Inc.
Coherent is the global photonics leader. We harness photons to drive innovation. Industry leaders in the datacenter, communications, and industrial markets rely on Coherent's world-leading technology to fuel their own innovation and growth. Founded in 1971 and operating in more than 20 countries, Coherent brings the industry's broadest, deepest technology stack; unmatched supply chain resilience; and global scale to help its customers solve their toughest technology challenges.
Donald Legacy Defined
Donald Legacy Defined offers the DLD app (DLD®), a performance training and accountability platform designed to give athletes, trainers, and coaches access to elite-level development typically reserved for the highest levels of sport. Founded by former Division I athlete Elliot Donald, DLD® was built from firsthand experience training alongside professional and collegiate athletes, including former Cleveland Browns linebacker Archie Donald and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Aaron Donald. The platform delivers structured strength and conditioning programs, speed and agility programs, up-to-date NIL and recruiting resources, and a unique reward system that keeps athletes motivated and accountable. By combining expert-led programming, digital accessibility, and real-world athlete insight, DLD® helps users train with purpose, consistency, and confidence--bridging the gap between potential and performance.
Echo Scientific
Echo Scientific creates sustainable solutions for a microbial world. They utilize our experience in product development, manufacturing scale-up, regulatory, testing, and business development to launch novel products for green eco-friendly microbial control.
HDR Inc.
At HDR, we've partnered with our clients to shape communities and push boundaries of what's possible since 1917. With more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 locations around the world, we think globally and act locally. We are an engineering, architectural, planning, and consulting firm that excels at helping clients manage projects and make sound decisions. Our staff of professionals represents hundreds of disciplines and partners on blended teams nationwide to provide solutions beyond the scope of traditional A/E/C firms.
Homewood Children's Village
Homewood Children’s Village (HCV), formally established in 2010, is a 501c3 that serves children, families, and the community by breaking down the social and economic barriers to success. Through collaboration, engagement, advocacy, and research, HCV offers a continuum of direct services and learning support for children and their families from cradle to career, working diligently to address the complex challenges facing Homewood’s youth.
Protiviti
Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Our consulting solutions span critical business problems in technology, business process, analytics, risk, compliance, transactions and internal audit.
We have served more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000® and 35 percent of Fortune Global 500® companies. We also work with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. Ranked 57 on the 2016 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index.
Saul Ewing LLP
Attorneys in the firm’s Pittsburgh office provide legal services to businesses, nonprofit entities and public institutions, including general corporate counseling and commercial litigation. The attorneys also provide legal counsel in matters concerning corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; labor and ERISA law; intellectual property; environmental and energies law; construction; tax and securities matters. Saul Ewing opened its downtown Pittsburgh office in May 2012.
St. Margaret Foundation
St. Margaret Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization that is further classified as a public charity, independent of UPMC. The reason we exist is because when you're sick it's difficult enough without having to worry if you have a ride to chemotherapy or treatment, or if you can pay for the expensive medicine, hearing aids, walkers, insulin, and other items you need that aren't covered by insurance and that most of us take for granted. Your gift fills in those heartbreaking gaps of suffering with hope, healing and independence for patients of St. Margaret. We thank you on their behalf.
Turbine Workforce
Turbine Workforce is a modern platform built to transform how organizations operationalize knowledge and grow talent through work-based learning. It accelerates team-based expertise transfer with no-code AI Assistants, dynamic course creation, and an LMS powered by micro knowledge bases--bringing real-time intelligence into the flow of work. Employees can capture, curate, and collaborate on real tasks while receiving context-aware guidance that turns daily work into measurable progress. TurbineLMS and Course Builder launch SCORM/xAPI-compliant pathways in minutes, while Apprentage runs end-to-end apprenticeship programs--automating agreements, logging OJT from the field, and delivering audit-ready outcomes without paperwork.
YourClassroom.ai
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YourClassroom.ai is an education technology company focused on helping educators integrate AI into real teaching and learning in practical, ethical, and human-centered ways. Built by experienced teachers, the platform emphasizes usefulness over hype and classroom impact over theory. The company currently offers three complementary applications. The first is a creator-driven professional learning platform where educators share short, practical videos and resources showing how AI can support lesson design, feedback, accessibility, and student engagement. The second is Nemorize, a low-cost, easy-to-use learning and study app that helps students build personalized learning processes using AI-supported review, practice, and reflection. The third application supports short-term learning, test preparation, and skill reinforcement for adult learners, GED programs, workforce training, and vocational education. Looking ahead, YourClassroom.ai is developing an ambitious, AI-integrated ecosystem for teaching and learning. Future offerings include skills and knowledge tracking dashboards, AI-supported advising and coaching, adaptive curriculum design, and institution-wide systems that help schools move beyond seat time toward mastery, retention, and meaningful learning outcomes.
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