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Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Miki & Nat are 2 trailblazers influencing change in their community. Help launch them to Greenbuild!

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Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Launch 3 Social Entrepreneurs to GreenBuild 2014!

Miki & Nat are 2 trailblazers influencing change in their community. Help launch them to Greenbuild!

Miki & Nat are 2 trailblazers influencing change in their community. Help launch them to Greenbuild!

Miki & Nat are 2 trailblazers influencing change in their community. Help launch them to Greenbuild!

Miki & Nat are 2 trailblazers influencing change in their community. Help launch them to Greenbuild!

Miki Sankary
Miki Sankary
Miki Sankary
Miki Sankary
1 Campaign |
Chicago, United States
$150 USD 3 backers
3% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Dhruti, Miki and Nat met through the U.S Green Building Council IL Chapter’s Emerging Professionals Committee. They realized their passion for sustainability and bonded over their vision for green community development. These social entrepreneurs want to go to GreenBuild 2014! GreenBuild, hosted in New Orleans this year, is an annual celebration to share innovation, initiatives, and fuel the green revolution. Emerging Professionals have the opportunity to network, learn and grow by attending various workshops, lectures and case study panels. GreenBuild is the ultimate sustainability conference designed to inspire the green revolutionists.

GreenBuild is happening in New Orleans from October 22nd - 24th. Check out more about the conference here: http://www.greenbuildexpo.com/

Dhruti has received the GreenBuild Scholarship and hopes to support her partners in sustainability!  In addition, Miki, Nat and Dhruti are opening up a competition for their the fourth person to join them at GreenBuilding 2014!  

More about us:


Dhruti Patel, LEED AP BD+C, EIT

  • Energy Center Manager at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

  • Advisor for energy related student research, she supervises student project and manages events.

  • Born in London, UK, grew up in Mumbai, India, adoptive Chicagoan pushing for social change and energy efficiency

  • Started her professional career as a structural engineer designing power plants

  • Co-founded The Generation Green Project with Miki

    • The project strives for social impact, action and innovation by mobilizing the young talent within Chicago.

    • The project is part of Chicago Community Trust’s and Chicago Ideas Week’s “collarboratories”

    • https://www.chicagoideas.com/press_clippings/157

  • Graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with her BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, working toward an MS in Energy Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago


Miki Sankary, LEED AP O+M

  • Green building consultant, Associate Project Manager at Goby,LLC

    • Helping buildings perform more efficiently and achieving their sustainability goals

  • Born and raised in California & Japan

  • Early start: grassroots movement towards sustainability from launching a recycling program in high schools across San Diego County, campaigned for revitalizing her college campus at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Co-founded The Generation Green (GenG) Project, a community initiative to connect youth to sustainability experts, and ultimately provide opportunities for youth to influence change within their communities.

  • Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with her Bachelors of Arts in Political Economy and Conservation Resources


Nathaniel Zorach, LEED GA, BPI & RESNET Certified

  • Urban development professional committed to building stronger, more resilient local economies and advancing sustainable strategies for investment, finance, renovation, and building design in urban development and affordable housing

  • Assistant Project Manager at UP Development, a leader Chicago-based developer of affordable housing, as well as partner, blogger, and periodic carpenter with The Handbuilt City http://handbuiltcity.org/
  • Working to develop sustainable strategies for investment, finance, renovation, and design in the development of inner city real estate and affordable housing.

  • Graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in German Language and Literature

  • Currently working on independent consulting projects to advance community revitalization projects in Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago based on participatory finance through the development of community partnerships

Help us get to GreenBuild 2014! Every contribution counts towards our success. And the best part is that YOU can come along-- we're hosting a competition to bring a fourth (or fifth!) person along!

Steps to "apply":

One. Share the indegogo campaign and help us fund the campaign

Two. Introduce yourself to us via video, email or social media! Be creative!

Three. Tell us about your vision of sustainability!

Three easy steps can get you to New Orleans this October!  

Please note that all applicants must submit their competition package by September 30th 2014.


Cost breakdown:

$2,100 ($2,800) Conference pass for three (four) people
$1,200 Round trip travel costs
$680 Accommodations, if we can't get creative
$400 Food and other expenses during the trip

Total funding requested for Miki, Nat and the competition winner is $5000! Invest in our ambitions for social impact!


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Vintage Social Media Fan

$10 USD
We will give you a shoutout via a handwritten postcard to you (or a recipient of your choice) anywhere in the United States from New Orleans.
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Activate!

$25 USD
Recognition for a $25 contribution will be shout out on Facebook and Twitter!
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Engage!

$50 USD
For $50, we will provide you with ten hand-printed notecards from Fifth Star Studios featuring a linocut print of the state outline of your choice (Fifth Star, a collaborative endeavor involving a colleague who arts when she is not building green, also produces some sick prints of the Chicago star and a Great Lakes-- see gallery). Dhruti, Miki and Nat will also bake you a tin of chocolate chip cookies, and we will add a social media shoutout and a New Orleans-originating postcard.
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Midwest Pride

$75 USD
Fifth Star will produce for you twenty-five notecards featuring handmade linocuts of assorted Midwestern state-shapes. That plus the aforementioned perks of social and postal media recognition!
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October 2014
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Energy Efficient Homeowner

$125 USD
Backed by the full faith and wisdom of the Building Performance Institute, Nat will come to your home and provide a basic energy audit, walking you through the process of retrofitting an existing house to improve insulation and airtightness as well as covering cost-benefit analysis of different improvements. NOTE: Only available in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Presentation Package

$250 USD
For $250, you will receive a 25-pack of Fifth Star notecards, a postcard from New Orleans, endless love from all over our Tweet-book-ogosphere, plus, 4) Nat will come to your organization, company, or other venue to give a presentation on a sustainability topic of your choice (e.g. sustainable/community finance, green construction, sustainable building standards, etc.).
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Patron Grand Tour

$500 USD
Recognition for a $500 contribution will include 25 Fifth Star cards, recognition on social media, a postcard sent to you from New Orleans, a GenG Project t-shirt, an order of cuppycakes or cookies (your choice), and Nat will personally take you on a sightseeing tour (in a hybrid car, don't worry) of the Calumet Region, touring Miller Beach, Marquette Park, current and former steel of the Indiana Harbor. Lunch included (up to four guests) at Calumet Fisheries or Carmella's Beach Café.
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