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The Thirst Project
The Thirst Project is a non-profit organization whose aim is to bring safe drinking water to communities around the world where it is not immediately available. The Thirst Project raises money and builds Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene projects in communities that do not have immediate access to safe, clean drinking water. Actors Drake Bell, Ansel Elgort, Dylan O'Brien, Jennifer Lawrence and Chyler Leigh are supporters, as were the late Cameron Boyce and Naya Rivera. Cameron Boyce alone raised over $30,000 for Thirst Project, followed by another $15,000 raised in honor of Boyce in a fundraiser organized by Adam Sandler after Boyce's death by SUDEP. History The organization was founded in 2008 in Los Angeles, by several college students who learned about the international water crisis and wanted to make a difference. In 2012, Thirst Project pledged to bring clean water to the entire Kingdom of eSwatini by 2022; 1 decade to bring the goal to life. While many non-profits have been ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in numerous Hollywood films, those of which cumulatively earned over $2 billion at the box office worldwide. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a further four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. Sandler's comedic roles include ''Billy Madison'' (1995), ''Happy Gilmore'' (1996), ''The Waterboy'' (1998), ''The Wedding Singer'' (1998), '' Big Daddy'' (1999), ''Mr. Deeds'' (2002), ''50 First Dates'' (2004), '' The Longest Yard'' (2005), '' Click'' (2006), '' Grown Ups'' (2010), ''Just Go with It'' (2011), '' Grown Ups 2'' (2013), '' Blended'' (2014), '' Murder Mystery'' (2019) and ''Hubie Halloween'' (2020). He also voiced Davey, Whitey, and Eleanore in ''Eight Crazy Nights'' (2002) and Dracula in the first three films of the ''Hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stance (brand)
Stance is an American sock, underwear and T-Shirt brand founded in December 2009. Stance is headquartered in San Clemente, California. As of March 2015, the company had sold over 36 million pairs of socks and raised over $115 million from investors. In early January 2015, Stance began raising $50 million to fund their expansion into the underwear market. In April 2016, Stance raised an additional $30 million in a funding round that valued Stance at $400 million and was led by Mercato Partners and included August Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Sherpa Capital as returning investors. Stance was named the official sock of the NBA and MLB in April 2015 and May 2016, respectively. The company has 18 US retail stores in Irvine, Las Vegas, Cabazon, Livermore, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Orlando, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Clemente, San Diego, Tulalip, New Jersey, Chicago, and Minnesota. In October 2018, Stance opened their first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
72andSunny
72andSunny is a global creative advertising agency, founded in 2004 by John Boiler, Glenn Cole, Robert Nakata and Greg Perlot, and currently chaired by Boiler, Cole and former CEO Matt Jarvis. with offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, New York City, and Sydney. The agency is known for brand transformations and culturally-led marketing campaigns that "combine entertainment and advertising." 72andSunny won "Agency of the Year" in 2012 by Advertising Age and 2013 by Adweek. It is a subsidiary of Stagwell, formerly MDC Partners. History Founding and early history 72andSunny was founded in 2004 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam by three former leaders of Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam—John Boiler, Glenn Cole and Robert Nakata—and former director of Microsoft Advertising and Corporate Research, Greg Perlot. The company's initial clients included Bugaboo, Microsoft Xbox, Nike, and Quiksilver. Perlot departed to work for Quicksilver in 2008 and entrepreneur Matt Jarvis replaced him as Chie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Hill Productions
Temple Hill Entertainment or Temple Hill Productions is an American film and television production company, established in 2006 by producers Wyck Godfrey Wyck Godfrey is an American producer and executive. He is best known for producing ''The Twilight Saga'' and ''The Maze Runner'' film series. He is a partner of the production company Temple Hill Entertainment with his friend Marty Bowen, whic ... and Marty Bowen. The studio produced the ''Twilight'' film series. Recently, the studio signed a TV deal with Lionsgate. Filmography Films Upcoming films Television TV series References Mass media companies established in 2006 Film production companies of the United States American companies established in 2006 {{US-film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contiki
Contiki is an operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Extant uses for Contiki include systems for street lighting, sound monitoring for smart cities, radiation monitoring, and alarms.. It is open-source software released under the BSD-3-Clause license. Contiki was created by Adam Dunkels in 2002 and has been further developed by a worldwide team of developers from Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cisco, ENEA, ETH Zurich, Redwire, RWTH Aachen University, Oxford University, SAP, Sensinode, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, ST Microelectronics, Zolertia, and many others. Contiki gained popularity because of its built in TCP/IP stack and lightweight preemptive scheduling over event-driven kernel which is a very motivating feature for IoT. The name ''Contiki'' comes from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft. Contiki provides multitasking and a built-in Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP stack), yet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Follett Corporation
Follett Corporation is a Westchester, Illinois-based company that provides a variety of educational products to schools, colleges, and public libraries through its subsidiaries. History Follett Corporation was founded in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a used book store in his Wheaton, Illinois home. Three years later, Barnes moved his business, now named C. M. Barnes & Company, to Chicago where he opened a store at 23 LaSalle Street. Here, he sold new and used textbooks, stationery and school supplies. Charles Wolcott Follett (1883–1952) joined the company in 1901 as a stock clerk. The following year, Charles Barnes retired and his son, William, became president. The company had now evolved into a wholesaler, selling used books throughout the Midwest and as far away as the Oklahoma Territory. In 1908, the company was reorganized as C. M. Barnes–Wilcox Company when John Wilcox, William Barnes' father-in-law, became the company's primary shareholder. Four years later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionsgate
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company. It was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States. In addition to its flagship Lionsgate Films division, the company contains other divisions such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. It owns a variety of subsidiaries such as Summit Entertainment, Debmar-Mercury, and Starz Inc. History Early history Lionsgate was formed in 1997 by Frank Giustra with a $16 million investment including another $40 million from other investors which included Keyur Patel and Yorkton Securities' executives such as G. Scott Paterson. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, and Paterson was then president. Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. (founded in 1986) to take the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Salt
Morton Salt is an American food company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago, the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. It is a subsidiary of holding company Stone Canyon Industries Holdings, Inc. History The company began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1848 as a small sales agency, Richmond & Company, started by Alonzo Richmond as agents for Onondaga salt companies to sell their salt to the Midwest. In 1910, the business, which had by that time become both a manufacturer and a merchant of salt, was incorporated as the Morton Salt Company. In 1889, it was renamed after the owner, Joy Morton, the son of J. Sterling Morton who founded Arbor Day. Joy Morton started working for E. I. Wheeler in 1880, buying into the company for $10,000, with which he bought a fleet of lake boats to move salt west. In 1969, the name "Morton-Norwich" came into use. In 1896, Alfred Bevis founded the Bevis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiwanis
Kiwanis International ( ) is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. Since 1987, the organization has also accepted women as members. Membership in Kiwanis and its family of clubs is more than 600,000 members. Each year, Kiwanis clubs raise more than US$100 million and report more than 18.5 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve children. Kiwanis International is a volunteer-led organization headed by a Board of Trustees consisting of 19 members: 15 trustees, four elected officers, and an executive director. The trustees serve three-year terms, with five trustees elected each year. As set out in the bylaws, nine trustees are elected from the United States and Pacific Canada Region, one trustee is elected from the Canada and Caribbean Region, two trustees are elected from the European Region, two trustees are elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key Club
Key Club International, also called Key Club, is an international service organization for high school students. As a student-led organization, Key Club's goal is to encourage leadership through serving others. Key Club International is the high school branch of the Kiwanis International family, classifying as a Service Leadership Program and more specifically as a Kiwanis Youth Program. Many Key Clubs are sponsored by a local Kiwanis club. The organization was started by California State Commissioner of Schools Albert C. Olney and vocational education teacher Frank C. Vincent who work together to establish the first Key Club at Sacramento High School in California on May 7, 1925. Female students were first admitted in 1977, ten years before women were admitted to the sponsoring organization, Kiwanis International. History Origin In California, during the 1920s, adults were concerned with the pernicious side of high school fraternities and sought some means of replacing them w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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