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Rippleworks Foundation brings the practical support social ventures need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks Projects: Rippleworks leads short-term, high-impact projects where social ventures tackle their top operational challenges by working closely alongside leading startup executives from top Silicon Valley companies (including Airbnb, Netflix, Google).
The U.S. Green Building Council is committed to a sustainable, prosperous future through LEED, the leading program for green buildings and communities worldwide. Our vision is that buildings and communities will regenerate and sustain the health and vitality of all life within a generation. Our mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life. We are a diverse group of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofits, teachers and students, lawmakers and citizens. Today we are represented by thousands of member organizations and more than 200,000 LEED professionals that share the vision of a sustainable built environment for all within the next generation.
The Tumbleweed Program is a non-profit, community-based agency, founded in 1976, which provides services to runaway, homeless, and vulnerable youth and their families. Tumbleweed`s crisis counseling and youth services are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Tumbleweed`s vision is to end youth homelessness in our community. We do this through building and sustaining a top notch team and providing youth focused programming that evokes lasting life change.
Creative Associates International provides outstanding, on-the-ground development services and forges partnerships to deliver sustainable solutions to global challenges. Founded in 1977 by four enterprising women, Creative`s experts focus on education, economic growth, youth, workforce development, governance and elections, among other key areas. Creative is recognized for its ability to quickly adapt and excel in conflict and post-conflict environments. Thanks to the support of international clients, multilateral donors and the private sector, Creative has active programs in more than 20 countries—from Honduras to Tanzania and Yemen to Cambodia. Since its founding, Creative has undertaken projects in more than 85 countries. Today, the company counts on a professional staff of nearly 1,000 people around the world who are committed to working with officials, non-governmental organizations and community members to realize the positive change they seek.
The Bridgeport Housing Authority is committed to advancing the progress and well-being of the City of Bridgeport by developing, owning, funding, managing, subsidizing, and otherwise providing low income and affordable housing for persons of low and moderate income who reside in the City of Bridgeport. Not just a provider of shelter BHA shall seek, through programs and coalitions with others, to move residents from more deeply subsidized low-income public housing units to less deeply subsidized affordable rental or homeownership units - from dependency to independence. BHA will work with the State of Connecticut and with surrounding communities to ensure that those communities provide affordable housing resources to their own residents, so that BHA can focus on the needs of Bridgeport residents. The housing units that BHA develops, owns, funds, manages, or subsidizes shall be attractive, well managed, and provide safe and secure living environments to residents of these properties and their neighbors. BHA shall conduct all of its activities with professionalism and high standards of ethical behavior, upholding the principles of A.C.T. - accountability, communication and transparency - in its policies, rules and operating procedures.