
Grant Recipients
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Mawejje Creations
Dimma M. Mawejje
Mawejje Creations
Mawejje Creations
Dimma is the leader of Mawejje Creations, a social business that empowers banana farmers and inspires youth in the fashion industry in Uganda and across Africa.
Young African Leaders Award Finalist 2019
Visionary Leader Award Nominee 2019
Most Outstanding YALI Network member 2018 Ugandan Chapter
Mawejje Creations is a social enterprise that empowers banana farmers to produce good quality banana fiber and supports youth to revolutionize the fashion industry in Uganda and potentially across Africa.
Our state-of-the-art Banana fiber Center is a one-stop center that empowers the banana fiber production process and supports the banana fiber processing and product marketing processes.
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DirtSat
Christine Tiballi
DirtSat
DirtSat
Currently building DirtSat, a marketplace for commercial property owners to evaluate, finance, and build urban rooftop farms across their portfolios. We provide crop health and microclimate monitoring, ensuring quantitative and actionable feedback on every rooftop, including integration into building decarbonization plans and ESG reporting.
DirtSat looks at ways space resources can have profound impacts on some of our planet's biggest challenges. We are decarbonizing commercial buildings with an IoT-enabled network of urban rooftop farms, reframing urban food production pathways and climate resilience impacts for smart cities.
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ClimateRaise
Hannah Davis
ClimateRaise
ClimateRaise
Hannah's passion and work are at the intersection of climate, community, and supporting women. She is the co-founder of ClimateRaise, a volunteer-led organization that connects active investors with the leading women-led climate tech startups. Previously she was the Program Director for Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with the Nature Conservancy based in CO.
This group of women entrepreneurs and investors finds and promotes great women-led climate startups. Inspiration for ClimateRaise came when investors told them that they “couldn’t find any women entrepreneurs” and the ClimateRaise co-founders immediately came back with an initial list of 80 women. That idea turned into the ClimateRaise newsletter where they provide an ongoing list of vetted women-led companies open to investment opportunities. Now they work to curate their list of women entrepreneurs, promote them, and also to provide introductions that can bring these startups to life.
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Artistic Apothecary
Kuwa Jasiri Indomela
Artistic Apothecary
Artistic Apothecary
Artistic Apothecary are establishing three community gardens as land trusts to be collectively owned and utilized. The land trust model is a means of re-wilding the planet and promoting the health of these spaces, in addition to the heath of the people. Our Zero Waste Community Gardens and remediation programs remedy the root issues in our community creating greenways, pollinator habitat, Nature corridors, fertile soil, clean air, and play space.
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ClimRenew
Naphtali Obed Akudung
ClimRenew
ClimRenew
An entrepreneur, passionate about solving environmental and energy-related challenges, SDG7 (affordable and clean energy) and SDG13 (climate change) through research, consulting and activism.
CrowdSolve Entreprenuer in Residence
Watson Scholar
NUTM Scholar
In a world where there is a constant demand for energy, food security and the need to stay healthy, prioritizing sustainable action becomes inevitable in achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Climrenew creates awareness of climate change and provides consultancy services on renewable energy, plastic waste pollution, and sustainable agriculture while helping small-business owners build sustainable products.
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FrontLine Farming
Fatuma Emmad
FrontLine Farming
FrontLine Farming
Fatuma Emmad is the CO-Founder, Executive Director and Head Farmer of FrontLine Farming. She is a lecturer in the Masters for Environmental Studies Program at CU Boulder. Before becoming a farmer, Fatuma was a political scientist who engaged in issues affecting farming communities such as the push for genetically modified seeds across Southern and Eastern Africa.
This group of leaders is on the front line of saving our planet by mitigating climate change through regenerative agriculture practices. With a focus on leadership and access for women and people of color, Front Line Farming has several key areas of impact including creating community, food access, education, and policy initiatives. All while employing and providing education on regenerative agriculture practices, including carbon sequestration, water conservation, terracing, and cover crops.
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Planet Green
Cat Jones
Planet Green
Planet Green
Planet Green, creates a resource that allows individuals to work toward more food sovereignty and adapt their land use to become more sustainable. This innovation is a digital app platform that provides free & accessible resources related to local community gardening & urban farming to low-income families and community members who want to expand their options for food security. Planet Green Provides a digital platform for communities to share resources and learn about their options with food access or learning to grow their own food.
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ReKaivery
Audrey Welsh
ReKaivery
ReKaivery
Audrey is an impact-driven entrepreneur with a passion for the triple bottom line - People, Planet, Profit. As an individual, she is a rethinker and can be found always questioning systems around me and seeing if there could be another solution in place.
ReKaivery is creating carbon-neutral food hubs inside renovated, solar powered shipping containers. The food hubs bring the benefits of farmers markets' with the convenience of a grocery store. ReKaivery's kickstarter was a smashing success. 137 backers and $21,217 raised in 38 days. That money will allow them to build their first food hub in Fort Collins. Our team was impressed with their well-researched, community-informed, systems approach to supporting local food systems. Sign up for their newsletter to stay involved.
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Mars Materials
Aaron Fitzgerald
Mars Materials
Mars Materials
Aaron led commercialization and productization efforts at Kairos Aerospace, a fast-growing climate change combating startup that leverages proprietary remote sensing technologies. He has also written national policy to help improve the financial lives of our senior citizens, and helps organize a 70,000 person annual event.
Mars Materials (Mars) aims to sequester captured carbon dioxide into everyday products such as affordable carbon fiber, an advanced material used in hundreds of products — from textiles to electronics. Changing how humanity creates and uses these advanced materials can turn carbon-intensive materials into carbon sinks. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we’re guided by our mission to use market-driven approaches to commercialize technologies capable of removing and sequestering greenhouse gases.
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Perennial
Mike Myhrom
Perennial
Perennial
Mike generates new customers and revenue for businesses and NGOs working for a more beautiful and sustainable world. He acheives this by helping them identify, understand, and connect with their highest-potential markets. Currently he helps a national bipartisan climate NGO get new supporters and donations, and help several sustainable investment groups grow their client-bases.
Perennial helps build audiences for sustainability based organizations. Many climate organizations do not have the capacity to do targeted advertisements to help grow their following, enter Perennial. Each new person that joins the climate change movement through the work of Perennial brings us one step closer to a "tipping point" where there are enough people engaged to truly make a planet saving impact.
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Clean Earth Rovers
Michael Arens
Clean Earth Rovers
Clean Earth Rovers
Michael Arens started Clean Earth Rovers in 2019 after two years of work and development on The Plastics Piranha to pursue his dreams of building a cleaner, more sustainable, tomorrow for himself and for generations to come. Ocean Plastic is one of the biggest issues we face as a society and Micahel believes that using sustainable and autonomous technology will be the key to fighting the ocean plastic crisis.
At Clean Earth Rovers we have this call to action of "creating a better future for generations to come" I think at a large scale this means creating cleaner healthier waterways that can continue to be powerhouse sources of Carbon absorbers. With marine debris and Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) much of the ocean's ability to house healthy ecosystems is at stake. With our technology we envision clean water free of human waste, both litter and runoff. We also envision booming ecosystems restored to their health benefiting fisheries, biodiversity, and the oceans ability to help us in carbon caption.
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Ribbit Network
Keenan Johnson
Ribbit Network
Ribbit Network
Keenan started his career building rockets in aerospace (SpaceX) but pivoted to climate through founding the climate non-profit Ribbit Network. See my story at https://bio.link/klj
Ribbit Network is a non-profit organization creating the world's largest dataset of real-time greenhouse gas (GHG) observations. Our open-source, low-cost, CO2 sensors upload their observation data to the cloud in real-time. Anyone can access that data and make informed decisions on their climate actions. These observations will allow people everywhere to monitor CO2 concentrations, locate emission sources, and hold corporate, government, and individuals accountable for their efforts to reduce GHG emissions.
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