Our Partners

The Bronzeville Trail Task Force’s mission is to develop the Chicago Transit Authority’s abandoned Kenwood elevated train “L” line embankment—originally named the Stock Yard Line—that is located in the Bronzeville neighborhood into a walking, running, and biking trail (“the Trail”) linear park.

The charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions, the Motorola Solutions Foundation partners with organizations around the globe to create safer cities and equitable, thriving communities. It focuses on giving back through strategic grants, employee volunteerism, and other community investment initiatives. 

Its strategic grants program supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to its values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity, and inclusion. The foundation is one of the many ways in which the company lives out its purpose of helping people be their best in the moments that matter.

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection, and certification services, along with software products and advisory offerings, that support its customers’ product innovation and business growth. 

The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in its customers’ products, and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing its safety mission. UL Solutions helps its customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future.

Verizon Communications Inc. is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services. Headquartered in New York and with a presence around the world, Verizon offers voice, data, and video services and solutions on its award-winning networks and platforms, delivering on customers’ demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security, and control. Verizon was the first company in the world to launch commercial 5G for mobility, fixed wireless, and mobile edge computing. Citizen Verizon is the company’s responsible business plan for economic, environmental, and social advancement. 

Goals under Citizen Verizon include:

• Providing 10 million youth with digital skills training by 2030
• Achieving net zero operational emissions by 2035 (Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions)
• Providing 1 million small businesses with resources to help them thrive in the digital economy by 2030
• Preparing 500,000 individuals for jobs of the future by 2030

Wilson Sporting Goods Co., a subsidiary of Amer Sports Corporation, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-performance sports equipment, apparel, and accessories. Since 1914 Wilson has been on the mission to help athletes everywhere reach their true potential. For more than 100 years, Wilson has studied the powerful and symbiotic relationship that an athlete has with their equipment.

The company’s unwavering commitment to innovation pushes its sports into new territories, including digitally connected, socially shareable, and highly customizable products. This dedication and focus is woven throughout the Wilson global culture, which thrives on collaboration, experimentation, passion, teamwork, persistence, ingenuity, and positivity.

Wintrust is a financial services company based in Rosemont, Illinois, and is proud to be called Chicago’s bank and Wisconsin’s bank.

With a family of more than 170 community bank locations and related companies and divisions, it combines the technology and resources of a large bank with the client-centered, community-driven spirit of a local bank.