The Kola Nut Collaborative (KNC) is a mutual support network of people engaged in reciprocal exchange of services, skills, and goods through a timebank where the currency is an hour of time for everyone. The Kola Nut Collaborative is an initiative of Kola Community Solutions LLC, a social enterprise formed to develop and pilot innovative solutions to issues impacting Chicago communities employing Just Transition strategies to strengthen the citywide solidarity economy.

City Tech an urban solutions accelerator that tackles problems too big for any single sector or organization to solve alone.

Their work uses IoT sensing networks, advanced analytics, and urban design to create scalable, market ready solutions.

Their focus is on industries that shape urban life.

Equiticity is a racial equity movement. They move through time and space, programming and advocating for racial equity, increased mobility and racial justice to make lives better for Black, Brown and Indigenous people of color across the United States.

WECAN worked very hard to get buildings on the southside energy efficient; Also is associated with EAN (Energy Action Network) an organization comprise of churches, community organizers, and membersof WECAN who try to conserve energy such as LIHEAP, CEDA, and Weatherization

Peterman has used recycled materials to produce starkly minimal works that function as elegant sculpture, functional objects, and critiques of environmental waste and neglect.

Utilizing local talent, new growing technologies, and a progressive entrepreneurial approach, UrbanPonics produces wholesome, fresh foods year round, right in the neighborhoods that need them.

Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition is an organization dedicated to protecting the environment and conserving natural resources by helping the Chicago foodservice industry reduce its collective environmental footprint.