Friends, Previous Event Co-Hosts, and Network Partners:

Acumen Fund's Jaclyn Novogratz - 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

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

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 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

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

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

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