1,300+ Reasons to Hope: New Partnerships With Leading Alliances
On September 15, we hosted an intimate event during a UN General Assembly side event to formally launch our DaVinci intelligence engine, and to celebrate the vibrant community of changemakers who have now begun to operationalize SustainChain as a public service platform and action hub for rapid innovation, investment, and impact.
Our community has now grown to 1,300+ users thanks to new partnerships with Design for Freedom by Grace Farms, the State University of New York, United Cities, XPRIZE, and more. From building net zero cities, developing breakthrough tech innovations, to moving entire industries to adopt sustainable practices, these organizations are bringing their networks into SustainChain to get there faster.
Amina Mohammad, Deputy Secretary-General for the UN, recognized SustainChain's ability to bring together organizations that are committed to leading the change. "In this room today, solidarity is well and truly present,” she said.
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, President of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, shared what it takes to move the needle on the SDGs. “That is what SustainChain is all about: making actual business work, figuring out what are the new business models - they’re within reach,” he said.
"It's literally the foundation of a digital public good of a digital utility, which has the opportunity to fundamentally transform this great challenge of our time," said Chris Murphy, CEO of Thoughtworks North America.
Find out who else has plugged into the chain and watch a video highlighting some of our new partners!
The time has come to rapidly expand our global network of changemakers – and we invite you to find out what they’re up to by joining the chain!
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Design for Freedom by Grace Farms is a movement dedicated to eliminating forced labor in building supply chains. It offers a comprehensive toolkit for architectural, engineering, and construction professionals to help implement ethical sourcing strategies into their own practices.
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Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet focuses on identifying champions, incubating ideas with system-scale potential, leveraging private finance for public good, garnering lessons learned, and replicating success on a planetary scale. Its goal is to help achieve the climate goals and the SDGs by 2030.
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Global Fashion Agenda is a nonprofit organization that fosters industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion to accelerate impact. With the vision of a net positive fashion industry, it drives action by mobilizing, inspiring, influencing and educating all stakeholders. The organization is behind the renowned international forum on sustainability in fashion, Global Fashion Summit.
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Global Goals Week is a shared commitment between 170+ partners across civil society, business, academia, and the UN system to accelerate action on the SDGs, especially during the UN General Assembly High-level Week.
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Green America is a nonprofit membership organization that harnesses the power of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. It focuses on four areas of transformation: climate and clean energy, sustainable food and agriculture, responsible investing, and fair labor.
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Knowledge Impact Network unlocks human capital by activating purpose-driven leaders to offer their counsel, connections, knowledge, and insights with promising social enterprises through 90-minute workshops or 3-month deep dive engagements, with the goal of accelerating progress on the SDGs.
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MADE SAFE is a program of Nontoxic Certified, a nonprofit organization that provides America’s first comprehensive human health and ecosystem-focused certification for nontoxic products across store aisles, from baby to personal care to household and beyond.
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New Zero World is a global campaign designed to communicate our collective journey to creating a resilient, new zero world. It is an initiative of the Global Brain Foundation, which is focused on achieving the SDGs with a special focus on climate change.
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The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States representing 64 institutions including research universities, academic medical centers, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, colleges of technology, and an online learning community.
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The Stimson Center’s Alliance for a Climate Resilient Earth is comprised of 150+ organizations across all sectors dedicated to reducing the risk and impact of climate driven events. Its initiatives focus on infrastructure and supply chains, insurance and reinsurance, natural infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and more.
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United Cities is a global program formed in partnership with several UN agencies and other international organizations, committed to supporting SDG 11 by creating sustainable and net zero (smart) cities and communities around the world.
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United Leaders provides whole-person leadership development specifically in the city context. Delivered through learning programs and immersive experiences, United Leaders equips city leaders to accelerate futures inspired by the SDGs.
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World Benchmarking Alliance has developed a series of benchmarks assessing 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies on their contributions to the SDGs. Together with their 320+ global Alliance, they are building a movement that enables transparent dialogue and action towards a more inclusive and sustainable world.
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Women’s Business Development Council is a nonprofit organization that supports economic prosperity for women and strengthens communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services that create sustainable jobs and businesses across Connecticut.
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XPRIZE is a global future-positive movement delivering truly radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. XPRIZE inspires and empowers a global community of problem-solvers to positively impact our world by crowdsourcing solutions through large-scale competitions, tackling the world’s grandest challenges in exploration, environment and human equity.