Tag: Innovation Award Winner60
Impact Companies Tag: Innovation Award Winner 17
Sort by:
- < Back to All Tags
Company
Design that Matters
United States of America
Design that Matters (DtM) a nonprofit based in Salem Massachusetts creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. DtM has built a collaborative design process through which hundreds of volunteers in academia and industry donate their skills and expertise to the creation of breakthrough products for communities in need. Our goal is to deliver a better quality of service and a better quality of life to millions of beneficiaries through products designed for our clients.
| Other |
Company
Earthcycle Packaging
Canada
Earthcycle Packaging uses the design brilliance of nature to turn palm fiber a natural renewable resource into certified home compostable food packaging that is safe durable and environmentally responsible and decomposes within 90 days making a healthy contribution to the earth.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
Company
Green For All
United States of America
Green For All works in collaboration with the business, government, labor, and grassroots communities to create and implement programs that increase quality jobs and opportunities in green industry - all while holding the most vulnerable people at the center of the agenda.
| Other Access to Basic Services |
Company
Hot Bread Kitchen
United States of America
Hot Bread Kitchen is a nonprofit social enterprise that creates better lives for low income women and their families by paying women while they learn the skills necessary to launch food businesses and achieve management track positions in bakeries. To help offset costs Hot Bread Kitchen sells delicious multi ethnic breads inspired by the bakers and the many countries that they come from using local and organic ingredients when possible.
Company
KOMAZA
Kenya
KOMAZA is a US based social enterprise mission driven forestry company founded in 2006 with afforestation operations currently focused in coastal Kenya. They partner with local smallholder farmers to grow trees as a cash crop. KOMAZA provides farmers with the inputs and training they need to grow fast growing trees on their unused land to generate life changing income for their families and create a sustainable wood supply for growing local markets.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
MASS Design Group
United States of America
MASS Design Group is a nonprofit architecture firm. Their first project the Butaro Hospital (Rwanda 2011) employed architectural solutions to mitigate the transmission of airborne disease and spurred local markets by hiring and training over 4000 community members. Today the team works across Rwanda Uganda Liberia Haiti and the US conducting immersive research in communities not only to build context appropriate safer and healthier facilities but also to leverage local material markets lead training workshops spur craft development and foster economic empowerment. MASS believes that this inclusive process is the key to healthier and more resilient communities and so invests in people to drive positive change.
| Real estate, design & building |
Company
Michelle Kaufmann Designs
United States of America
In the United States buildings account for a greater percentage of carbon emissions than transportation and consume the most energy of any sector. Based in Oakland California Michelle Kaufmann Designs' mission is to make sustainably designed homes accessible and affordable thus making it easier for more people to live green. To achieve the goal they mass produce thoughtfully designed homes using prefabricated modular building technology. Each home incorporates five EcoPrinciples smart design eco materials energy efficiency water conservation and healthy environment.
| Other |
Company
Native American Natural Foods
United States of America
Native American Natural Foods LLC is focused on creating a family of nationally branded buffalo based food products that are delicious and that promote a Native American way of wellness that feeds mind body and spirit.Beginning with its first product line which features Tanka Bar Tanka Bites Tanka Dogs and Tanka Sticks Native .
Company
Nau
United States of America
Nau (pronounced now) is a clothing company based in Portland Oregon. They make sustainable urban outdoor apparel integrated designs for the modern mobile life.They do this by making sustainability and philanthropy inherent in everything they do by blending the tailored and the technical to craft urban and outdoor performance apparel by pioneering premium eco friendly fabrics and crafting clean intuitive silhouettes that arebuilt to move.
| Other |
Company
No Sweat Apparel
United States of America
No Sweat is a pioneer of fair trade fashion and footwear setting an empowered unionized workforce as the gold standard for fair trade clothing. The Company's products are produced by independent trade union members in the US Canada and the developing world. Inspired by the belief that more good jobs for Palestinians in Palestine can help the peace process No Sweat Apparel's latest product line is organic cotton t shirts produced at a Palestinian owned unionized sweatshop free factory in Bethlehem on the West Bank.
| Other |
Company
Recycleforce
United States of America
Recycleforce launched its first recycling enterprise in late 2005 with 2 employees. It has grown to 56 employees and processed 5 million pounds of electronic waste. Recycleforce has served more than 190 formerly incarcerated individuals with a recidivism rate of 11%, a dramatic improvement over the national norm of 70%.
| Media, Technology, Digital Access |
Company
Sseko Designs
United States of America
Sseko Designs is an ethical fashion brand that hires high potential women in Uganda to make sandals to enable them to earn money through dignified employment that will go directly towards their college educations and ensure they will continue pursuing their dreams. To date they've enabled 47 women to continue on to university. They currently employ 50 women in Uganda from all walks of life. They believe that every woman has a dream. When she is given the opportunity to pursue those dreams they are collectively walking towards a brighter and more just and beautiful world.
| Other |
Company
Sustainable Health Enterprises
United States of America
SHE is a social venture that invests in people and ideas that are typically overlooked (and often taboo) as vehicles of socio economic change. Their first initiative SHE28 addresses girls' and women's lack of access to affordable menstrual pads resulting in significant costs to their reproductive health educational achievements work productivity and dignity. Coupling these new businesses with public health and hygiene education and advocacy will have a significant social and economic impact on these communities.
| Other |
Company
Sweet Beginnings
United States of America
Sweet Beginnings LLC makes the family of beelove products an all natural line of raw honey and honey infused body care products. Their honey is known for its complex flavor a result of the varied flora of our urban environment. Their beelove skin care products are of exceptional quality and are all unique in their use of the natural gift of honey as a moisturizer. Not only do they respect the earth in the production of their products but they're also provide important transitional job opportunities for area residents who struggle with barriers to employment.
| Other |
Company
TerraCycle
United States of America
TerraCycle manufactures affordable organic fertilizer that is not only made from garbage organic waste composted naturally by worms but also packaged entirely in garbage reused soda bottles. Szaky dropped out of Princeton to pursue this idea. TerraCycle started selling its fertilizer through Home Depot in 2004 and collected more than 2 million plastic bottles in its first 18 months through a recycling program called the Bottle Brigade which generates enthusiasm for recycling among children by allowing them to fundraise for special projects.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
Company
The Mission Continues
United States of America
The Mission Continues is a national nonprofit organization working to build a nation where every veteran can serve again as a citizen leader. The organization challenges post 9/11 veterans to continue their lifelong missions of service by being leaders in our communities enabling them to combat a loss of purpose in their lives that often occurs when they leave the military. The Mission Continues aims to reshape the way we welcome home our veterans by showing that these men and women are tremendous assets not charity cases whose strengths and leadership can be used to improve communities here at home.
Company
Tri-State Biodiesel
United States of America
Tri State Biodiesel is a social enterprise dedicated to creating a more just and sustainable world by providing a carbon neutral alternative to petroleum diesel. Founded by environmentalists and entrepreneurs Tri State Biodiesel provides clean renewable Biodiesel fuel made from recycled cooking oil to the entire Tri State region including New York New Jersey and Connecticut.
| Energy |