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Jomboy Media covers sports and culture through a series of podcast, livestream, and YouTube properties.

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THIS JANUARY® is an independent creative agency built for next year. We create culturally relevant stories that resonate with real people across modern mediums — from OOH to TikTok. +++ We grew up in the world of big, holding-company-owned advertising agencies. Places with offices in most time zones. Shops where a twenty-five-person meeting was most meetings. From the outside, there was a lot to admire about those agencies. The offices looked like you would imagine. There were grand, imposing conference rooms. There were encouraging murals on every floor. On the inside, though, the toll of the last three decades was unmistakable. By the time we arrived, every big three or four letter agency was owned by something still bigger — something far, far away. CPAs wandered the halls with grim expressions. Those holding-company-owned agencies were a fascinating paradox: they were enormous and always under resourced. They were obscenely expensive and forever broke. They were supposed to be shapers of culture and yet they felt fixed in amber in 1990-something. We saw what we did not want to be. This January is a modern advertising agency. We were founded on a simple conviction, firmly held: an independent, senior team makes better work. At our agency, the creative partners that founded the company work on projects — not pitches. We are obsessed with craft. It animates us, inspires us and keeps us up at night. We’re equally fixated on delivering the highest level of execution without outsourcing every frame to a London-based VFX shop or a Hollywood director between movies. We can do more with modest budgets. The world is full of the bland, boring and shoddily produced. We’re certain that interesting has better ROI. And we want to make it together.

Media Cause is a digital marketing and communications agency for nonprofits, educators, and good causes. We build, engage and activate communities to help nonprofits and the public sector increase their impact.

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ExTrac specializes in analyzing and forecasting risk by leveraging artificial intelligence to process and interpret high-relevance, hard-to-reach data streams. The company focuses on tracking violence, mapping narratives, and providing insights into emerging threats, supporting organizations in real-time decision-making. ExTrac's technology is designed to handle large-scale data, making sense of complex information to aid in evacuation efforts and risk assessment. The platform is currently developing compatibility for mobile and tablet devices to enhance accessibility.

DataKind™ harnesses the power of data science in the service of humanity. We engage data science and social sector experts on projects addressing critical humanitarian problems and lead the conversation about how data science can be applied to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Launched in 2011, DataKind is headquartered in New York City and has Chapters in Bangalore, Dublin, San Francisco, Singapore, the UK and Washington DC. More information on DataKind, our programs and our partners can be found on our website: datakind.org