The Buckminster Fuller Institute is honored to partner with these distinguished organizations who work with us to discover the strongest design science practitioners in the world. They provide essential support, expertise and outreach; building a growing community that is working to solve some of the most entrenched global problems through whole systems approaches and integrated strategies.

By being a partner, you will help ensure that the best projects across the globe enter the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, "Socially Responsible Design's Highest Award," for a chance to win $100,000 and build awareness around their efforts to garner additional outside support for their initiatives.

If you are passionate about tackling global challenges and would like to work together, sponsor us, share our story, or get involved, please do not hesitate to contact us!

For details on becoming a Partner, click here.

Sponsor

BFI is proud to partner with Interface, Inc, a worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally-responsible modular carpet for the commercial, institutional, and residential markets. Founded by legendary sustainability pioneer Ray Anderson, Interface is now the world's largest carpet tile manufacturer and a leader in sustainability thinking.

Professional Services Support

Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world's leading provider of news and information, is committed to empowering people in need around the world with trusted information and free legal assistance. Buckminster Fuller Institute is an official referral partner of TrustLaw Connect, an innovative programme of the Foundation that links social enterprises and NGOs with top law firms from around the world offering their legal assistance pro bono. As such, all semi-finalists, finalists, and winners of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge are eligible for fast-track access to TrustLaw Connect in order to access free legal assistance around the world.

Educational Partners

Our Educational Partners not only help us attract the best possible entrants to the Challenge by sharing our Call for Proposals and the criteria behind the Challenge, but also develop educational programming and help us recruit candidates for our Buckminster Fuller Challenge Fellowship Program.

The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design seeks to provide the greater Cooper Union community—architects, engineers and artists—with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills that are necessary to create a sustainable society. CUISD defines a “sustainable society” as one that prospers because its economy, social practices, physical infrastructure and engineering systems all work in harmony with the ecological dynamics and resource limitations of the earth..

Presidio Graduate School educates and inspires a new generation of skilled, visionary and enterprising leaders to transform business and public policy and create a more just, prosperous and sustainable world. Through innovative MBA, MPA, Dual Degree and Executive Certificate programs in Sustainable Management, Presidio activates students and professionals across a range of disciplines, industries and sectors to bridge the gap between commerce and the common good.

Media Partners

Our Media Partners help spread the word about the mission and function of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and our programs. In sharing our call, the criteria behind the Challenge, and the work of individual participants in the Challenge, Media Partners play a role in educating and accelerating a community of world problem solvers.

	Boom and Leisure is a global Architecture and Design announcements platform partnering with leading museums, galleries, publications, festivals, foundations and universities to announce their shows, launches and associated events.
	Compostmodern is a conference assembling a global array of leading visionary designers, artists and social entrepreneurs who are leading the charge in creating a more resilient and regenerative world that works better for individuals, communities, society and the planet.

Outreach Partners

Our outreach partners help us attract the best possible entrants to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge by sharing our news and information in their marketing materials and through their networks.

	Bioneers is a non-profit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with nature-inspired approaches for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. We connect people with solutions and each other.
	dMASS encourages business leaders, policymakers, and citizens to face the global challenge of creating wealth at an unprecedented scale on a sustainable basis with a shrinking material resource base by shifting toward exciting technologies, business opportunities, and policies that will help us all succeed.
	Evolver is creating a platform for content, learning, and commerce serving a global community of cultural creatives seeking optimal states of well being in mind, body, and spirit. We intend to become a leading trust-agent for individuals and groups participating in our transformative culture, one of wisdom, beauty, and fun.
	Envisioning, designing, and deploying innovative experiences since 1997, Hot Studio is an award-winning experience design company with offices in San Francisco and New York City. Dedicated to creating elegant solutions for complex design challenges, Hot Studio collaborates with business leaders, innovative organizations, and emerging companies to create breakthrough products and services that have global reach and local impact.
	The HUB is designed to facilitate the creation of sustainable impact through collaboration. Whether you are already working on a concrete project, have the first sparks of an innovative idea or just the intention to contribute your time, energy and talent to make a positive difference, the HUB provides a carefully curated experience to help take your initiative to the next level.
	Katerva’s mission is to create the first truly open worldwide platform for change. Katerva is focused on inspiring action and scaling innovation - to create, find, replicate, and implement sustainability innovations to positively impact billions of people. Katerva has designed and activated four unique and powerful platforms to create and leverage these networks. Individually, these platforms are powerful tools for change. Together, they constitute an essential meta-network capable of creating a better tomorrow.
	SOCAP is the largest interdisciplinary gathering of people working at the intersection of money and meaning. Investors, social entrepreneurs, social ventures, government leaders, academics and other innovators worldwide come to SOCAP conferences to collaborate and evolve a market that moves money towards impact.
	SXSW (South By Southwest) Eco is a three-day conference addressing the need for a concerted, cross sector approach to solving the recognized challenges facing the economy, the environment and civil society. In its third year, SXSW Eco will be held October 7th-9th, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
	Unreasonable Institute gets world-changing entrepreneurs what they need to scale their impact. Each year, they unite 10-30 entrepreneurs to live under the same roof for six weeks in Boulder, Colorado. These entrepreneurs receive training from 50 world-class mentors, forming relationships with 25 investment funds, receive legal advice & design consulting, and pitch to hundreds of potential investors at the end of the Institute.

Leading Supporters

This Program is made possible by the generous support of our institutional, foundation and organizational partners:

Other Supporting Partners

Our other supporting partners have included funds, foundations, educational institutions and organizations that assist us in many ways. Whether it is raising capital, event support, educational programming, or consulting services. We welcome all additional support.

Further Acknowledgements

We would also like to extend a special thanks to the following people:

Joshua Arnow and Elyse Arnow Brill
Robert Kenner
Jaime Snyder

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