Visionaries of Transformational Impact

The Inclusive Economy Consortium, Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity, and their partners are launching the Texas Impact Enterprise Awards to recognize the progress that entities across sectors are making toward climate-smart inclusive economic development. Using a decentralized and transparent process, Ecosystem Partners nominate and select impact enterprises with the greatest potential for scaled impact. Awardees will be announced in May 2024 at a celebratory event.

The term Impact Enterprise captures a multitude of organizations, from social enterprises to small businesses, corporations, nonprofits, and even government entities, that strategically utilize business strategies and leverage market forces to create positive environmental or societal impact aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

Ecosystem Partners are themselves impact enterprises that play an instrumental role as leaders in their respective ecosystems. 

Ecosystem Partners nominate impact enterprises based on their potential. This is based on an enterprise's:

• Track record of positive environmental and/or societal impact
• Likelihood of impacting at least 1 million lives within the next 3 years
• Importance of the field of work for Texas

Ecosystem Partners have deep familiarity with Texas impact enterprises in their field of work and possess insights into their potential to achieve scalable impact. Each Ecosystem Partner nominates up to 10 impact enterprises for the award and evaluates a random set of nominees that they did not nominate. Ecosystem Partners are also eligible to be nominated for the award, but they cannot self-nominate nor evaluate their own nomination.