Sustain Illinois: Illinois' Green Busness Competition
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Eligibility

Companies applying for Sustain Illinois must be located/headquartered in the State of Illinois and in the greater Chicago region for eligibility. For the purpose of this competition, Sustainability is referred to as triple bottom line (3BL), or "people, planet, profit", or those companies that capture an expanded spectrum of blended values and criteria for measuring organizational (and societal) success: economic, ecological and social.

Sustainable Product or Service ($10,000 cash prize)
The company must have generated less than $2.5 million in revenue during their last fiscal year.

The company must feature a sustainably based (Green/3BL) product or service that will have a lasting economic impact on the state of Illinois.

Sustainable Process ($10,000 cash prize)
The company must have generated less than $5 million in revenue during their last fiscal year.

The company must have adopted or be in the process of adopting a significant internal sustainable processes to its business structure (3BL or ISO 14001 certification) that is having/will have a lasting economic impact on the state of Illinois