Jonathon Jacobson

Highfields Capital Management LP (Highfields Capital) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Highfields Capital was founded in 1998 by Jonathon S. Jacobson to manage investment funds for public and private charitable foundations, school endowments and other institutional and private investors.

Harvard Management Co., Inc. (HMC) is the investment arm of President & Fellows of Harvard College, which is owned by Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. HMC manages Harvard’s endowment, a dedicated and permanent source of funding that maintains the teaching and research mission of the University. HMC invests these funds as a single entity, the revenue from which contributes more than one-third of the University's annual operating budget.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Birthright Israel Foundation raises funds to provide trips to Israel for jewish young adults. The company was founded by Charles R. Bronfman and Michael H. Steinhardt in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

For more than 30 years, Facing History and itself has believed that education is the key to combating bigotry and nurturing democracy. The firm works with educators throughout their careers to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, as well as their students' academic performance and civic learning. Through a rigorous investigation of the events that led to the Holocaust, as well as other recent examples of genocide and mass violence, students in a Facing History class learn to combat prejudice with compassion, indifference with participation, and myth and misinformation with knowledge. Facing History's impact in supporting teachers' effectiveness and promoting students' academic development and civic learning has been demonstrated in more than one hundred studies by independent researchers and Facing History evaluators. Since it was founded in 1976 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Facing History and itself has grown from an innovative course taught in a single school district to an international organization with more than 150 staff members in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Memphis, New England, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Toronto, and partnerships in Northern Ireland, Israel, Rwanda, China and South Africa. These offices and partnerships, as well as projects throughout North America and around the world, support a network of more than 29,000 trained educators who reach nearly two million young people annually.