FAST COMPANY ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2020 WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS
GOVCITY RECOGNIZED IN ‘POLITICS & POLICY’ CATEGORY
New York, April 28, 2020 — The winners of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice, or economic inequality.
GovCity, after only a year in operation, has been honorably recognized in the Category of Politics and Policy.
At its core, is an innovation experiment. GovCity’s mission is to serve as an ever-changing, always familiar, home for those who are intolerant of the status quo and cultures that prevent positive forward movement on initiatives that matter. Part culture cohort, upcoming disruptive institute and think tank for mavericks, GovCity serves a demographic that refuses to be labeled beyond a “collective” of believers that yes, we can change the world. And we CAN fix that which deserves to be better.
Now in its fourth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 26 winners, more than 200 finalists, and more than 500 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and AI and Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent judges selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 3,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. The 2020 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Vancouver to Singapore to Tel Aviv.
“I’m obsessed with the idea that we can create a self-critiquing, sustainably evolving ecosystem that is genuinely collaborative, creates abundance (and jobs) for not only the civic-minded innovators that participate in our initiatives but the corporations and government entities that partner with us,” says GovCity Founder, Molly Cain. “We’re building something that has never been done, on a path that’s never been cleared before, with great humans who feel jointly passioned the minute they meet under our proverbial ‘roof’ each time we gather. Thank you, Fast Company and judges for recognizing our mission that if we don’t do it, who will. This award acknowledges the hard work of so many within our collective and proves that others see what we see — we can, and we ARE, changing the world.”
Illustrating how some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies are addressing grave global challenges, Fast Company’s May/June issue celebrates, among others, an electric engine for airplanes that eliminates emissions from flights—and expensive fuel from the tricky financial calculus of the airline industry; a solar-powered refrigerator that finally frees people in remote villages from daily treks to distant markets, transforming the economics of those households; an online marketplace that connects food companies with farms to buy ugly and surplus produce to fight waste; and an initiative to offset all of the carbon costs of shipping, creating a new model for e-commerce sustainability.
“There seems no better time to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, resources, and, in some cases, their scale to tackle society’s biggest problems,” says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have uncovered some of the smartest and most inspiring projects of the year.”
About the World Changing Ideas Awards: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With a goal of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.
About GovCity: GovCity is the nation’s first “culture accelerator” and think tank for cross-industry innovators focused on improving local, state and federal government ecosystems. Part think tank, part collective, part movement — all purpose.