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The 2010 SVN Innovation Award Winners will be honored at a ceremony at SVN's Fall Invitational in Long Branch, New Jersey, from October 21 - 24th.
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 BTTR Ventures
Berkeley, California
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BTTR Ventures grows delicious specialty mushrooms in coffee grounds waste collected from local cafes. Once harvested, the mushrooms are rushed to stores just hours after picking. BBTR Venture's closed-loop agricultural model has already turned 50,000 pounds of coffee grounds into 7,500 pounds of gourmet mushrooms and even more compost. |
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 Green For All
Oakland, California
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Green For All is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through a clean energy economy. 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. |
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 Hot Bread Kitchen
Brooklyn, New York
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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. |
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 KOMAZA
San Francsico, California and Kenya
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KOMAZA is a non-profit social enterprise committed to reducing rural poverty in Africa by connecting smallholder farmers with high-value markets. KOMAZA offers high-value trees with financial, training and marketing services to enable poor farmers to incorporate sustainable forestry business into their regular farming cycle. Working in areas affected by desertification, the forestry projects also have measurable environmental impacts. |
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Sungevity
Oakland, California
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Sungevity is a residential solar panel installer and leaser that is dedicated to bringing easy and affordable solar electricity to mainstream America and beyond. The startup offers free online "iQuotes" by using satellite and aerial photography to estimate the size and cost of a solar installation. Sungevity's leasing program means customers can pay no money down and receive proactive monitoring, maintenance, cleaning, and insurance of their home solar system. |
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Utne Reader Presents the 2010 SVN Innovation Awards
For more than 23 years, SVN members have been transforming the way the world does business. From the organic revolution to fair trade to socially responsible investing and so much more, our members pioneered a movement that has proven that business can truly be used as a tool for making the world a better place.
As SVN looks to the future, we're committed to inspiring and supporting the next generation of innovative, socially responsible business and nonprofit entrepreneurs. That's why we created the Innovation Awards. The goal of the Awards program is to recognize the leaders of emerging enterprises, bring them into the SVN community, and give them access to a network of 500 successful socially responsible business and nonprofit leaders, investors, and other resources and connections that can help them achieve success with their own enterprise.
Questions? Email Awards@svn.org or call 415-561-6501 and ask for Lars Olson.
2010 SVN Innovation Award recipients will each receive:
- 2011 SVN Membership: A one-year complimentary 2011 SVN basic membership, giving each Innovation Award winner access to an inspiring community of socially responsible business leaders who can provide advice, introductions and resources.
- 2010 Fall Conference: Complimentary registration, travel and hotel, and special recognition during a Friday evening Awards Ceremony at SVN's 2009 Fall Conference to be held again at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch, New Jersey, October 21-24.
- Promotion: Prominent recognition on SVN's website for a full year, and recognition in our 2009 Stakeholder Report
- Press: Winners will be featured in a 6-page spread in the November/December 2010 issue of Utne Reader, as well as promoted on Care2.com and GreenBiz.com
Official Rules
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Special thanks to our Innovation Awards sponsors:
  
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