Artisan Dental among winners of 2019 Force for Positive Change
Marquette University and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have announced the winners of the 2019 Force for Positive Change awards. This year’s awards were the third time this statewide competition recognized social entrepreneurship as a model for solving social or environmental challenges in a way that is sustainable, just and generates impactful change in Wisconsin.
This year’s seven winners are:
- Artisan Dental, LLC
- Rebel Green, LLC (Mequon)
- Maydm, Inc.
- Soaring Independent Cooperative (Madison)
- The Community Warehouse (Milwaukee)
- Nelson and Pade, Inc. (Montello)
- 7 Rivers Recycling, LLC (Onalaska)
In addition, there was a new category of honorable mentions:
- Acme Nerd Games (Barneveld)
- Earthbound Environmental Solutions (Eau Claire)
- Little John’s Restaurant (Fitchburg)
- Roots4Change Cooperative (Madison)
- Islands of Brilliance (Milwaukee)
- Compost Crusader (St. Francis)
The winners were selected from more than 115 initial applications that were then narrowed to 20 finalists by an expert panel of judges from industry, academia and the nonprofit sector.
For more information visit warf.org/PositiveChange.
