SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION FOUNDATION
www.siforg.org
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Sustainable
Innovation – Finding Ways to Fix our Planet.
“We designed our way into this mess. We should surely
be able to design our way out of it.”
What We Do
We
work with individuals, companies, non-profits and commercial organizations
to design and further innovative solutions that can really make a positive
difference to our environment.
As
a huge tree grows from a tiny seed so does every sustainable improvement to
humanity grow from the kernel of a good idea into a game-changing solution. We help
find and fund these ideas. We promote sustainable change through ChangeContests. We offer Innovator Grants to individuals
and entities who can demonstrate that their solution will make a sustainable
difference and we invest in early stage companies that will directly further
our philanthropic goals. SIF is an incentive based philanthropic foundation. We help educate
and inform future innovators in K-12 and college with our SIFMedia
collection of over 2000 programs, to raise awareness and knowledge of our world
and how it works.
ChangeContests
What
drives innovation? We believe incentive has a large part to play. A ChangeContest is an incentive based competition
designed to find the best solutions to specific problems. Become a Changemaker. Enter a competition and win a cash prize that that
will help you make a positive difference to our world and your pocket.
Innovator
Grants
Got
a good idea that can save the world? Working on a game changing
solution to a problem? Apply for a grant to further your work.
SIF
Investment Fund
We
offer capital through Impact Investing to enable entities that further our
philanthropic goals to bring their environmental solutions to market. Tell us
what you need and where you and your company are going.
The
SIF Innovation Award
A Biennial prize for the best of
the best from our winning solutions.
SIFMedia
We
nurture future innovators with our library of general science and environmental
video programs for free viewing in schools, libraries, universities and the
general public available as both DVD and streaming media.
Who We Are
The Sustainable Innovation Foundation (SIF) is a grant
making and social investment non-profit that works in environmental and related
fields to help solve pressing problems of humanity. We assist Changemakers by funding sustainable solutions that can
scale up through their own efforts or through public/private partnerships so they
can achieve our goals.
The Sustainable Innovation Foundation rewards
innovative and sustainable designs and projects that solve environmental
problems beneficially and sustainably. Think about it, the environment is not
just trees and plants, nature, oceans and atmosphere but all the tools of
daily life - such as architecture, transportation, consumer
products, work environments, health systems, commerce, education, entertainment
and technology, the way we’ve modified our natural environment to serve
us such as land use, waste disposal, power grids, urban planning, agriculture,
forestry, ocean use, raw material extraction and the human systems we’ve
developed that underlie our use of the planet - government, legal codes,
regulatory protocols and social programs. It’s all the product of human input
and output- intentional or otherwise. And while much is good, much is
broken. We always need new ideas and new solutions. Simply put, if we help support
innovative designs and projects that help create
sustainable, beneficial and effective social, cultural, economic and technical
changes we can go far in solving the many problems that beset our planet
SIF is based in Los Angeles, California. Please contact us to become one of our donors and project
funders.
Our Philosophy
Find
and further innovative solutions that have environmentally beneficial goals
while simultaneously being financially viable, i.e. sustainable. We believe that solutions must be economically
viable as well as environmentally successful. If we can help Changemakers generate more wealth through their solutions
then more resources will be poured into solving the problems that beset our
planet. We require our solutions both do good
and do well, or they will not be sustainable.
Our Goals
Our
goals range from world-wide issues in transport, health, the built environment,
food supply and urban society down to personal and neighborhood issues
that can promote better individual living conditions and standards. SIF
seeks to generate innovation in both material solutions (products that achieve
a desirable goal) and programmatic or conceptual solutions (better governance).
We primarily work and fund within the United States even though the solutions
we help nurture may be global as problems generally have no boundaries. We
accept proposals from anywhere and anybody with a game-changing idea or
project. We are a funding foundation only. We do not directly involve
ourselves in what we fund.
Team
Our
Team encompasses a broad range of expertise in non-profit administration,
design, innovation, IT, IP, law, business, finance, education, government,
science, medicine, construction, recreation, technology and social issues.
Contact Us
Please
contact Michael Bennett, SIF’s Program Director: send email
or by telephone: 310 710 9199 to discuss how you can be involved in creating new
innovative strategies for a better world.
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