Nora Trask with Cloudberry Forest School: an outdoor school that offers children regular and repeated access to natural woodlands with the support of highly qualified teachers.

• In the Gazette:
• ‘Educational beacon’
• ‘Launch forth’

Wendy Reid-Fairhurst with CohousingNL: developing a new model for modern housing: shared housing communities for increased social connections, downsized living and environmental sustainability.

• In the Gazette:
• ‘Launch forth’
• ‘First graduate’

Evan Burry with Stormy Shore: aims to preserve culture and history with engaging forms of digital media. The first focus is on the development of a video game based on the Newfoundland Regiment during the Second World War.

• In the Gazette:
• ‘Launch forth’
• ‘A place for the outliers’

Mandy Penney with #RisingYouthPreneur: aims to reduce unemployment and poverty rates among youth with disabilities while increasing the number of young entrepreneurs with disabilities and the number of accessible businesses.

• In the Gazette: ‘Change-agents’
• In the Gazette: ‘Empowering communities’

Mariana Jimenez Ojeda and Garrett Melee with Howby: aims to provide a safe and long-lasting home to dogs through value-added training while positively influencing the well-being of people with mental health conditions.

Jessica Spooner with ReWild Wellness: fighting climate change through nature-based programs that help people reconnect to the natural world. It focuses on women, particularly those in vulnerable situations, and offers hiking, life coaching, forest therapy, mood walks and all-inclusive backpacking adventures.

Trevor Bessette with Recycle on the Rock: fighting to decrease plastic pollution in Newfoundland and to educate citizens in the process. The goal is to establish a large network of community drop-off points that enable Newfoundlanders to easily recycle common waste plastics that are currently overlooked by waste management systems

Taejha Young with Renewabli Waste Solutions: aims to create consumer-based waste disposal solutions that are both zero-waste and climate-neutral to up-cycle household food waste into energy.

Lillian Saul with Roots and Wings Fish Co: aims to enhance the viability of Newfoundland small-scale fisheries by expanding local market capacity for cod, an under-utilized fish species–yet quintessential to this province’s history and character.

• Featured story: 'Supporting small-scale fisheries'

Hillary King and Wendy Reid-Fairhurst with ReClaim Community CDO: aims to support non-profits, social enterprises, community-led groups, and individuals with great ideas to realize their visions towards enacting change at a local, place-based level.

Chanel Rolle with Museful Teaching Resources: aims to help increase the representation of BIPOC musicians and multicultural classical music by making it more accessible to broader audiences.

Jessie Donaldson with Jesse Dolandson Art: an art farm that provides locals and tourists a place to slow down for general well-being.