Recognising the Best
Let’s look at analogous awards, organisations or initiatives that are focused on searching for and recognising the best: how can they inspire our efforts?
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Exchange ideas thru media
Involve media in targeting and showcasing the practices of business organisations


Criterias and Selection
The identication of acknowledgment-worthy businesses is one difficult task. If the intention is to celebrate those who are worthy of it, then proper standards should be imposed and met.


CNN Heroes - Everyday Heroes Changing the World
Every year CNN devotes an evening to celebrate individuals around the world who make a difference in their communities. Causes gain serious publicity, and the general public gets involved through voting and donations. Inspiring stories are uncovered.

21 Century Enlightenment
RSA Projects put enlightened thinking to work in practical ways. By researching, designing and testing new social models, we encourage a more inventive, resourceful and fulfilled society.


Kudos!
Natural tendency, what gets rewarded gets done.


The Great Recovery: Redesigning the future towards a circular economy
Bringing together several disciplines and experts to think about products and the materials they are made of in a fundamentally different way.


Team Sponsorship as in the Tour de France
What if companies sponsored social causes instead of sports teams? Large organizations sponsor biking teams in the Tour de France. They benefit with advertising, raised brand image, and increased employee engagement. Can we recreate sports passion?


Who Made A Difference?
Who Made a Difference is a world book of record aims to recognize and celebrate the action made by those companies that made net improvements to business, people and nature.


Esthetica celebrates the eco-sustainable Fashion at LFW
Founded six years ago Estethica to showcase the growing movement of cutting edge designers committed to working eco sustainably. Estethica has evolved to become the hub of London's ethical fashion industry.


The " Noble Prize" of Business
Like model it to the " Nobel Prize " award. Since we need a gigantic inspiration for business organization to come to sense on giving time, effort and much more, to come up to innovate for world benefit. It is the highest tribute to business.


The Sustainability Top 100
Every year, on the Dutch Sustainability Day, newspaper Trouw releases a Top 100 of sustainable Dutch influencers. Chosen by 14 experts based on who acted and was most influential in promoting sustainability.


Going green? Check the allowances available
Through the Enhanced Capital Allowances regime, the government has been keen to encourage businesses to take advantage of green technology for some time
Incentivizing Sustainable Design & Thinking!
EPA's P3 – People, Prosperity, and the Planet—Program is a unique college competition for designing solutions for a sustainable future.


The arbiter of real facts or real impact a la politifact
Politifact is a non-partisan group that assesses what politicians and political organizations say. Often quoted in the news, it's become an important, visible, and frequent arbiter of information. We need an arbiter focused on true world benefit.


Webby Awards
Online awards show for all things Internet-related. We can learn from them how to create the buzz online for an awards show.


MBA Admissions: Invitation to a class of future sustainability leaders!
Trying to identify a group of leaders with all-around accomplishments and potential in creating sustainable value? Learn from the MBA admissions process. Show accomplishments to enter the pool, and motivation and storytelling will get you in.


Katerva Awards
“If the Nobel Society had an award for sustainability, it would resemble the Katerva Awards, a new international prize for the most promising ideas and efforts to advance the planet toward sustainability.” http://katerva.org/the-katerva-awards/


Feed the Ego
Business isn't just about furthering itself. Decision makers at the top are always looking to further themselves, to stand out from their peers and competitors. Used to be captains of industry coveted the covers of Businessweek or Fortune.


The X Prize
The X Prize foundation creates competitions aimed to "spur innovation" to achieve goals previously thought impossible. Started in 2004 with a Prize for sub-orbital space flight, the X Prize has now expanded to include other areas of innovation.


SKOLL FOUNDATION'S VISION - "Our vision is to live in a sustainable world of peace and prosperity."
The Skoll Foundation has been in the forefront of recognizing, rewarding and investing in social entrepreneurs that addresses the worlds most pressing problems. (http://www.skollfoundation.org/)


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