Friends, Event Co-Hosts, and Network Partners:  

 

Acumen Fund's Jaclyn Novogratz (above) - Creating a world beyond poverty

All Day Buffet & The Feast - Changing the world through creativity and business

Billie Jean King's GreenTernship Program - Green collar job program with Harlem Renaissance High School and Green Spaces

Blueseed - Named the “Googleplex of the Sea”, this ship for innovation will attract top entrepreneurial and technology talent globally to Silicon Valley, where they can create companies and jobs, and innovate.

Brooklyn Bridge Forest - Preserve a landmark, protect a rainforest, cultivate a global partnership

Build it Green NYC - New York City's non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials

BusinessClimate - Accelerating returns through sustainability

CarbonOutreach - Marketing & digital advertising agency for social enterprises, not-for-profits and corporate philanthropy programs

CleanEdison - Building Green Professionals

Cleaver Company - Gourmet catering and events planning using the freshest local, organic, sustainable fare

Columbia University's M.S. in Sustainable Management - address the pressing and complex issues of environmental and sustainability management

Core Industries - Creates award-winning, interactive experiences - Communicate clearly and grow sustainably

Data Without Borders - Using data in the service of humanity

Envirolution - Providing the tools and opportunities to help entities develop and implement sustainable solutions

Film Biz Recycling - Takes props and sets from the Film industry and finds new happy homes for them

Fred Wilson - Union Square Ventures

Global Green - The US affiliate of Green Cross International fosters a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure world

GOOD - Collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Since 2006 we've been making a magazine, videos, and events for people who give a damn.

GoodCompany Ventures - Where purpose meets profit

Graham Hill - Founder, Treehugger.com, LifeEdited, Weekday Vegetarian

Great Divide Brewery -  Delicious, acclaimed microbrewery (CO)

Green Drinks - Social networking for global change

Green Festival - A project of Green America and Global Exchange celebrating what's working in our communities and globally - for people, business and the environment.

Green Leaders Global – Unites change makers to forward the sustainability movement worldwide

Green Map System - With unique global icons and adaptable tools, Green Map System has engaged communities worldwide in mapping green living, nature and cultural resources since 1995 

The Green Route - Highlights top green businesses in the front range (CO) and provides discounts and invitations to its members

GreenEdge Collaborative - Community for a sustainable future

Inhabitat - weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future

I-Squared Advisors - Investor outreach and consulting, market intelligence, and corporate events

Joel Makower - Prelude to GreenBiz Forum on how big business sustainability decisions affect social entrepreneurs

Majora Carter Group - Green infrastructure jumpstarts local economies

MSI Computers - Innovation with Style - Energy-star rated computers - Sponsor of Green Spaces

National Wildlife Federation - inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future

Net Impact - New generation of leaders who use our careers to tackle the world’s toughest problems

New York Academy of Sciences - World's nexus of scientific innovation in the service of humanity

NYC's Green Business Competition

NYC SeedStart - 12-week program designed to provide seed funding to technology companies to build a product and launch their company

NYC Wildflower Week - Free events to showcase 53,000 acres of open space and 778 native plants in NYC's 5 boroughs

New York Entrepreneur Week - Make connections across industries, from young innovators to hundred million dollar revenue generators, and join them together in a unifying movement that propels inspired business

NYU Stern Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship - Designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service. 

New York Venture Summit - Where Innovation Meets Capital

New York Women Social Entrepreneurs - Bring women to the highest positions of leadership in business, government, and social and environmental work

Nurture Nature Foundation - To help in resolving the intensifying conflict between the indispensable goals of environmental protection and economic development

Open Space Institute - Protects scenic, natural, and historic landscapes to ensure public enjoyment, conserve habitats, and sustain community character

Pure Project - Platform to support the sustainable creative economy

Purpose - creates 21st century movements, working with organizations and progressive companies to help them mobilize large-scale, purposeful action

Rainforest Alliance - An international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests

Raise Cache - Celebration of New York Tech in true New York fashion

Roger Ehrenberg - IA Ventures - Investing in companies that create positive change through data

Scott Edward Anderson - The Green Skeptic - Blogging the new green economy

Seedco - Improving lives & growing communities

TED Breaker - Redefining Education. Creating Entrepreneurs. Designing Change.

The Sierra Club - Explore, enjoy & protect the planet

Skillshare - Learn new skills & share your skills

Social Innovators Collective - Dynamic, energetic network of founders, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders who work in the social enterprise and nonprofit sectors

Social Media Week - Global platform, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world on emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries

Social Venture Network - Green Spaces is an affiliate of SVN and hosted a NYC local gathering in celebration of its 25th anniversary. SVN connects, supports and inspires business leaders and social entrepreneurs in expanding practices that build a just and sustainable economy.

StartingBloc - Educates, inspires and connects emerging leaders to drive social innovation across sectors

Sustainability Practice Network - NY community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines

Susty Party -  Provides ideas, products and best practices for creating environmentally and socially responsible events from ‘dinner for three’ to an olympic jamboree, and everything in between 

Unreasonable Institute - Giving high-impact entrepreneurs wings

Women's Earth and Climate Caucus - Solution-based alliance that works to foster resilient communities, reduce carbon emissions, promote a post-carbon economy and energy future, while encouraging societal transformation