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Precious One Foundation was founded and established by Ratnawati Sutedjo in 2004. She embraced the hearing impaired in support of giving them hope and a way to support their own lives through small home industries. People with hearing disabilities find it difficult to obtain regular jobs. Through this foundation, Ratnawati creates jobs for them so they can be independent and self-supporting. Through Precious One Foundation, the hearing impaired create clothes and handcrafts. The products include handcrafts such as bags, kitchen clothes, napkin holders, simple blouses for women, paper handcrafts for souvenirs, etc.
When Barb Brown and Margie Flynn decided to start BrownFlynn in 1996 (then a marketing and communications consulting firm), it was under the principle that their firm must make a positive impact on our world. Together, they shared a common understanding that in order to invest the time into their business, and in turn, away from their families, their business would be centered on their vision of creating "a world where all companies operate in a manner that enables current and future generations to thrive."
Since then, BrownFlynn has evolved into a corporate sustainability and governance consulting firm, and continues to make made a positive impact for its valued clients and the community. Clients seek consulting services from BrownFlynn for their deep expertise in materiality assessments, benchmarking, goal setting, reporting, and responses to leading international standards and reporting bodies such as GRI, CDP, RobecoSAM, and EcoVadis. BrownFlynn became the first US certified trainer for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in 2009, and has since trained more than 1,000 individuals on the GRI reporting framework.
BrownFlynn has earned tremendous respect as a thought leader in sustainability. Each day employees at BrownFlynn live out their company's mission by partnering with their clients to "achieve positive and tangible social, environmental and economic impact - leading to sustained value." Principal and co-founder Margie Flynn shared that BrownFlynn "has a heart and soul." The firm is dedicated to serving employees and clients with a pathway to do good in the world.
Internally, BrownFlynn leadership operates with empathy by recognizing that employees of BrownFlynn make sacrifices each day to be at work to provide innovative, excellent results for their clients. BrownFlynn embodies a workplace culture where employees feel cared for and appreciated. The firm believes in the importance of flexibility to allow employees to individually find the right work-life balance to thrive and contribute their best work each and every day.
One conversation with a team member from The Sheridan Group (TSG) can leave you feeling capable of becoming a social change superhero who can make this world a better place. The feeling is not fleeting, either. TSG inspires people to recognize that bold, innovative ideas have greater possibility to transform our world when the idea is partnered with an authentic conviction for a cause, the courage to advocate for systemic social change and having rigorous, steadfast discipline in fulfilling a strategy to achieve this change.
TSG was founded in 1991 by Tom Sheridan with the mission that the "world will be a more livable place when the interests of the common good get the representation they deserve in the halls of government." Clients partner with TSG for their innovative expertise in policy development and legislative strategy, political engagement, advocacy training, strategic planning, coalition building and management, budget and appropriations. Some of the key client partners of TSG include the ONE Campaign, Save the Children, Benetech and National Multiply Sclerosis foundation.
TSG’s partnerships and dedication to transform actions that are “done for a good cause” into “helping the good do better” are innovative trademarks of the firm. TSG works together with their clients to imagine bold possibilities to improve equality and quality of life for communities worldwide. While they are thought leaders in inspiring solution-based possibilities, they are also resourceful, deliberate and disciplined in formulating strategies to achieve these bold dreams. Another key trademark of TSG is the humility it displays in being a part of these exciting initiatives with its clients. Team members at TSG consider it a great honor to work with the minds and hearts of their client partners. TSG is humbled by the trust their clients demonstrate in inviting the company to join the effort to address deep rooted systemic issues, transforming communities toward more equality and increased opportunities.
PNC Financial Services empowers employees to help children grow up great
Vigor Industrial is a shipbuilding and repair company located in Portland, Oregon.
The sustainability office operates within the university of Guelph and works alongside the Physical Resources department. They focus on waste management, diverting organics from the waste system and composting to create soil. With initiatives such as recycling, composting, and reusing, the department hopes to prevent 60% of waste accumulated at the University from ending up in Landfills.
They firmly believe that humans have a responsibility to speak for our landscapes, and protect them.
Pristine Plant Healthcare uses the most innovative and Earth-friendly products to control increasing plant and tree pest issues.
Today, the Presidio is a new kind of national park offering authentic experiences of nature, history, and community. After several years under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, Congress created the Presidio Trust, an innovative federal agency created to save the Presidio and transform it into a new kind of national park. The Trust Act mandated that the Presidio Trust become financially self-sufficient and act in a manner that is innovative of both the public and private sector, which has been successfully achieved. Building on the Presidio’s legacy of service, the Presidio Institute provides transformational experiences that inspire, encourage, and empower leaders to make a positive impact in their communities through a fellowship program.
Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI) is an innovation incubator that commercializes medical devices, therapeutics and diagnostics, health information technology, and Delivery Solutions. CCI first began in 2000, when Cleveland Clinic noticed that a considerable number of valuable ideas were leaving the institution. This led to the decision to bring consulting firm Battelle to study the organization to find a way to retain this intellectual capital. The answer was creating an Innovations center to gather and foster ideas, inventions, and enterprise.
CCI is the birthplace of many innovative processes such as spinal cord injury recovery using nano particles and a potential prophylactic vaccine for breast cancer. The work done here has serious potential to change lives across the world.
One of CCI’s innovations currently being commercialized, through Centerline Biomedical, is IOPS. IOPS is groundbreaking technology that helps guide health practitioners through the vascular system, creating a 3D road map through the body during endovascular procedures. The idea was conceived after Dr. Roy K. Greenberg addressed the limitations of fluoroscopy, which included radiation and limited visualization of 2D images.
Organic and healthy products are not necessarily costly. This is what O-Rice Beras Organik has aimed to prove this since 2008 through its innovative business model and strong research and development program. The combination does not only deliver affordable organic rice to its consumers, but also improve farmers' welfare and empower conventional farmers to practice sustainable organic farming technique.
The idea of the effort pioneered by Konstinopel is to harness natural fibers from plants to produce shoes, bags, and other fashions products. This idea merges the creation of natural eco-fashions with their concern for the environment.
Based on their educational understanding of the science of textiles, Konstinopel tries to explore the use of natural fibers that grow in Indonesia as a main material in the manufacture of footwear.
Companies have choices to make regarding their decision-making. Companies can decide to maximize their strengths, resources, and human talent to improve the world. The Community Health Roundtable has been consciously created to serve community health centers pro-bono. The Community Impact program is an extension of the companies decision to commit to creating an ethically operated, diverse, environmentally sustainable and service-oriented company.
Park Place Technologies is part of an industry that engages in e-waste disposal. Park Place is making a conscious effort to help eliminate waste by using recycled computer parts wherever possible.
Fairmount Santrol has reduced its solid waste from large scale shipping all the way down to the candy wrappers employees may throw away. A concerted effort to nearly eliminate packing materials in its rail and truck shipments has trickled down to a program of recycling and composting at its employee-based facilities that significantly reduces all solid waste. What cannot be recycled or composted is sent to a waste-to-energy plant.
Fairmount Santrol’s employees, called Family Members, are encouraged to constantly think up ways to improve what they do and lessen their footprint on the environment. Through a culture that thrives on continuous improvement and appreciative inquiry, one employee came up with a simple, zero cost solution to reduce the amount of water used in company toilets by placing large objects in the tanks to displace water.
The concept of giving employees a full week off work to volunteer to improve their communities is truly innovative. While many companies offer some penalty-free time off from work to volunteer, Fairmount Santrol actually promotes a volunteer culture by providing 40 hours of paid time. The company has embedded itself in its communities and ingrained in its employees that care and stewardship of its environs is crucial to business success.
Safe drinking water for everyone, everywhere
Nazava Water Filters sells cheap and affordable water filters to the poor and urban people. The customer can use any source of water (tap water, rainwater, river water etc). After the water has been filtered, the water has no bacteria and it is safe to drink. The filtering process does not need any energy or electricity. It is mobile and handy, so it is easy to bring everywhere.
Optimus Technologies, founded in 2010 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designs and builds fuel systems for home-based fleets of heavy duty commercial engines to enable them to run on a wide range of sustainable biofuels to offset petroleum usage. This innovation reduces particulate matter, reduces fossil fuel emissions by up to 80%, and reduces fuel costs by 25% for customers like the City of Pittsburgh.
SEED Aquaponics fosters international collaborations between students and community leaders, supports communities abroad by providing secure and healthy food sources, and provides income opportunities through custom-made aquaponic systems.
Advanced materials and processes can create solutions to technological problems, which produce superior results without increasing cost or environmental impact. LumiShield was founded to develop these improved solutions in the area of corrosion-resistant metal products. Existing coatings, such as chromium and cadmium, are both expensive and environmentally harmful. LumiShield technology uses a relatively harmless metal, aluminum, and a process that can be conducted in open vessels at ambient conditions without creating toxic vapors. These qualities allow LumiShield products to be produced less expensively without the historic environmental impacts of metal plating.