Our Capstone Partners play a leadership role within the NLC Corporate Partner Leadership Council, bring a deeper level of investment to supporting local leaders, and work across NLC with different programs and centers to provide private-sector perspectives to issues facing cities. Select the tabs on the left to learn more about each of NLC’s valued Capstone Partners.
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AARP’s mission is to empower people to choose how they live as they age.
While comprised of different legal entities, AARP speaks with one voice — all united by a common motto: “To serve, not be served.” AARP develops public policy recommendations that serve the interests of Americans aged 50 and over. They also serve as an advocate in the marketplace and provide services such as health insurance plans, financial products, and travel packages specifically created for older Americans.
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking.
Amazon strives to have a positive impact on customers, employees, small businesses, the economy, and communities. Through the Amazon store, devices and services, Amazon Web Services, and entertainment, Amazon provides its customers with lower prices, better selection, and convenient services.
AT&T helps more than 100 million U.S. families, friends and neighbors, plus nearly 2.5 million businesses, connect to greater possibility. From the first phone call 140+ years ago to 5G wireless and multi-gig internet offerings today, AT&T innovates to improve lives. AT&T is also proud to operate FirstNet, America’s first and only purpose-built public safety network.
BRINC Drones was founded in response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. BRINC is focused on solving the hard issues in public safety. Today, that means developing flown and thrown de-escalation tools that establish two-way communications in tense situations. BRINC is working on American safety for tomorrow and developing a network of drone systems to respond to 911 calls quickly and effectively. BRINC is moving response time from minutes or hours into seconds. All BRINC products are fully designed, made, and assembled in our Las Vegas and Seattle facilities – an investment in local sourcing and production.
Chick-fil-A, Inc. is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States, known for its freshly-prepared food, signature hospitality and unique franchise model. More than 200,000 Team Members are employed by independent owner-operators in more than 3,000 restaurants across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In 2023, the company shared plans to expand by 2030 into Europe and Asia.
Chick-fil-A owner-operators live and work in the communities their restaurants serve, each supporting local efforts to address hunger, education, and making a positive impact. The family-owned and privately held company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy.
The CityHealth Dashboard is a free online resource that provides city and neighborhood-level data on over 35 measures of health outcomes, health drivers, and health equity for 750+ U.S. cities (all cities over 50,000 population). Designed for a broad audience, the Dashboard’s easy-to-use website displays measures through interactive maps, tables, and charts, pulled together from multiple national sources. The Dashboard helps city leaders, government officials, residents, and everyone who cares about advancing their communities target their efforts to improve the health and well-being of residents, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Enterprise Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of mobility solutions, owning and operating the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands through a network of more than 9,500 fully staffed neighborhood and airport rental locations in nearly 100 countries and territories. Enterprise Holdings and its affiliates offers extensive car rental, carsharing, truck rental, fleet management, retail car sales, as well as travel management and other transportation services to make travel easier and more convenient for customers.
Ersi is the global market leader in GIS, helping customers get results since 1969.
Esri was founded to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. They do so by supporting their users’ important work with a commitment to science, sustainability, community, education, research, and positive change.
With 49 offices worldwide and employees from 73 countries, Esri is a global company. Locally-owned software companies across the world have decades of regional experience and deep expertise in local issues. 11 dedicated research centers are at the leading edge of global innovation.
GoFundMe is a community-powered fundraising platform dedicated to helping people help each other. Founded in 2010, GoFundMe combines storytelling and fundraising to make it easy for people to ask for help, connect with supporters, and reach their goals. GoFundMe gives people a way to make a meaningful difference for the causes and communities that are most important, urgent, and relevant to them and society. Earlier this year, GoFundMe reached a milestone of having raised and safely delivered more than $30 billion to communities around the world.
Google is a technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google provides cloud-based software solutions for local government, improving operational effectiveness and service delivery, delivering big data insights at scale with machine learning and AI, and enabling their workforce with collaboration tools.
JustServe.org is a website where the volunteer needs of organizations may be posted and volunteers may search for places to serve in the community, providing opportunities to help those in need and enhance the quality of life in the community. By serving with each other in our local communities, we’re paving the way for much broader changes. Our individual efforts don’t need to be huge—a little bit of change here, a few hours there—because even small efforts quickly add up to make a real difference. As we work side-by-side and learn from each other, mutual understanding increases, misconceptions can be corrected, and new friendships are built.
IKE Smart City and Orange Barrel Media (OBM) pioneer smart city technology and landmark media to improve lives in cities. OBM has been committed to a community-oriented model of media development since its founding in 2004 and is nationally recognized by cities and real estate owners seeking to implement unique media programs that add to the character of urban places. The company’s ongoing innovations and public benefit contributions have differentiated OBM as a leader in the Out of Home industry. OBM leveraged that expertise in 2015 to develop sister company, IKE Smart City, which is blazing the way in smart city initiatives with its interactive digital kiosk, IKE. IKE Smart City + OBM are currently operating premier displays in 28 of the top markets nationwide.
Pallet is a social purpose company working to end unsheltered homelessness and give people a second chance at employment. Their transitional shelter villages help bridge the gap from living on the street to finding permanent housing. They are designed to rapidly address unsheltered populations and help people transition to permanent housing with a resource net of on-site social services, food, showers, laundry, and more. The majority of the Pallet team have experienced homelessness themselves, so their designs account for exactly what’s needed in this moment of transition.
PayPal is a fast, safe way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account. As a leader in Financial Technology, they believe in providing simple, affordable, secure and reliable financial services and digital payments that enable the hopes, dreams and ambitions of millions of people around the world.
PayPal believes that now is the time to reimagine money, to democratize financial services, so that managing and moving money is a right for all citizens, not just the affluent. Every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy, and PayPal is working to empower people to exercise this right and improve financial health.
Supernal is a smart mobility service provider on a mission to redefine how people move, connect and live. Housed within Hyundai Motor Group, their aim is to connect communities and enable passengers to save time by offering seamlessly integrated intermodal mobility solutions. To bring this vision to life, they are building the electric air vehicles and supporting ground infrastructure.
Supernal is developing a family of electric air vehicles to connect more people to more places. Through a network of connected ground hubs called vertiports, passengers will board eVTOLs and be flown to their next destination. Leveraging the scale of Hyundai Motor Group’s technology and manufacturing capabilities, they expect entry into service in 2028.
Tyler Technologies is the largest software company in North America focused exclusively on the public sector, with more than 26,000 successful installations across 10,000 sites. Tyler’s client base includes public sector entities and K-12 schools throughout the U.S. and its territories, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, and other international locations.
Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector — cities, counties, schools and other government entities — to become more efficient, more accessible, and more responsive to the needs of citizens.
At UKG, our purpose is people. We are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through HCM technology built for all. Powered by AI and the world’s largest collection of people, workforce, and culture data, our HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions drive great workplace experiences and better business outcomes for more than 80,000 organizations across all sizes, industries, and geographies. Empower your people and promote a culture of trust to serve your citizens.
UKG for State and Local Government helps you build a culture of trust and belonging that drives better outcomes for your community. Our human capital management (HCM) solutions provide the tools needed to support the entire employee lifecycle — from recruiting and onboarding to time, schedules, and pay. Through technology built for all, your organization can enhance the employee experience and become a great place to work.
VC3 is a managed IT and cybersecurity services provider serving municipalities, financial services organizations, and businesses throughout North America. Organizations come to us for technology solutions that build bridges, not barriers, and to get the expertise they need to manage cyber risks and IT infrastructure. Over 1,100 municipalities and 700 businesses rely on VC3’s cybersecurity expertise, sector-specific focus, ability to grow with our clients, and relentless automation to manage, protect, and accelerate their organization’s technology.
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified, community-based financial services company. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy their customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Wells Fargo helps create solutions for stronger communities through:
- Diversity & Inclusion: Ensure all people feel respected and have equal access to resources and opportunities to succeed.
- Economic empowerment: Strengthen financial self-sufficiency and economic opportunities in underserved communities.
- Environmental sustainability: Accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon economy to help reduce climate change impacts.