Our Earth Day 2012 Competition:  Partnerships for Good: Creating a Healthy Sustainable Workforce

I Need Websites and I Need Qualified Sales Leads launched this online competition to find the world’s most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and provide safe drinking water or renewable energy for disadvantaged populations.

In our increasingly interdependent world, a healthy, agile and sustainable global workforce has never been more essential, or more possible.

With billions living with marginal access to water and energy there is an urgent need to create profitable economic opportunity and generate employment in the delivery of sustainable off-grid fresh water and clean energy around the world.

We need creative, collaborative approaches and technologies that advance broad-reaching skills and job development strategies; disseminate and leverage employment information; and open access to new markets and jobs, to ensure today’s workers are prepared to meet the rapidly changing needs of the world’s economy.

Unexpected and creative innovations are emerging across all geographies, from every corner of the world. Changemakers are rising to the challenge of building lasting architectures for employment, and working together to create tomorrow’s job markets today.

We invite you to participate in our international competition: Partnerships for Good: Creating a Healthy Sustainable Workforce.

This competition seeks market-based innovations that are developing employment opportunities for vulnerable populations. The best entries will be those that have demonstrated impact, are prepared to scale-up, and have sought partners to expand their reach.

Each month we will select a winner from one of our solution categories: Fresh Water, Solar, Wind and Biofuels. The winner will be invited to present their entry in a live webinar that we will promote to our global audience of water and clean energy professionals. In addition, the winning entries for 2012 will all be invited to participate in a live panel discussion to promote their efforts to create a more sustainable environment for global growth.

Join us in collaborating to power the marketplaces of the future by overcoming barriers to create economic opportunity and generate employment. Winning solutions may include those that create:

• Increased access to fresh water or clean energy among marginal populations;
• Innovations in creating a profitable mechanism for delivering water or clean energy to marginal populations;
• Connections between local entrepreneurs and global markets;
• Systems to promote awareness of affordable fresh water and clean energy solutions.

Have you launched an organization that expanded the horizons of underserved citizens? Do you know someone who has?

Make a difference! Submit your solutions or nominate a project today using our Contact Us form!

John Malone
President
I Need, Inc.

http://www.ineedrenewableenergy.com

http://www.ineedfreshwater.com

http://www.ineedqualifiedsalesleads.com

http://www.ineedwebsites.com

Our Mission:

To facilitate the development of energy solutions by creating a forum within which specific energy needs may be addressed by a community of governmental, non-governmental, grass-roots, entrepreneurial, and corporate stake-holders.

We Believe:

• All stake-holders have a responsibility to add value in the pursuit of solutions.
• Solutions to big and small issues, global and local needs, will require dialogue among all stake-holders.
• This forum will remove significant barriers to participation by stake-holders and especially to innovators and entrepreneurial thinkers.
• Broad-based participation in the development of solutions will benefit all.