Awards

Awards and Accolades

• Environmental Finance Awards 2012: Best Carbon Finance Transaction of the Year for Carbon For Water
  
• Social Innovations Awards 2012: Best Social Investment Strategy for Carbon For Water
  
• Global Business Coalition 2012 Award: Health & Beyond: Eradicating Root Causes for Carbon For Water
  
• FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism 2011: Special Dahrendorf Award for Social Enterprise for Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen's leadership
  
• Women Deliver 100: The Most Inspiring People Delivering for Girls and Women for Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen's leadership
  
• Global Action Forum "2011 Global Action Entrepreneur Award" for Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen's leadership
  
• Justmeans.com/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Award for Most Innovative Small For-Profit for Vestergaard Frandsen's product and social innovation
• Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen Selected by World Economic Forum to be 2010 Young Global Leader for Vestergaard Frandsen's product and social innovation
• Global Business Council's Community Investment Award Commended 2009 for CarePack^® Campaign
• The Economist's Social and Economic Innovation Award 2009: Social and Economic for CarePack^® Campaign
• Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas 2008 for LifeStraw^®
• ‘Well-Tech 2006’ Innovation Technology Award for LifeStraw^®
• INDEX: Award in Body Category 2005 for LifeStraw^®
• ‘Best Invention of 2005’ Time (November 2005)
• ‘Europe’s Best Invention’ Reader’s Digest (July 2006)
• ‘Innovation of the Year’ Esquire (December 2005)
• ‘Invention of the Century’ Gizmag (December 2005)
• ‘A Water Purifier for the Masses’ Popular Science (December 2005)
• 'A Water Purifier That Could Save Lives’ New York Times (October 2006)
• ‘Gadget Produces Safe Drinking Water’ Newsweek (June 2007)
• One of the ‘Ten Things That Will Change The Way We Live’ Forbes (February 2006)
• ‘Tools for Better Living’ Fortune (December 2006)
• ‘Design for the Rest of the World: LifeStraw®’ The New York Sun (May 2007)

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Accolades for LifeStraw^®

Good design should have a positive effect on the user and if possible on society. LifeStraw® meets these basic criteria, truly an excellent design solution. LifeStraw® offers a simple, elegant solution to a large and complicated problem that profoundly affects many people’s lives around the world. By addressing this problem the designers are opening possibilities of limiting the number of people without clean water – and thereby reducing deaths resulting from this lack, especially in the developing world.

- Jury of INDEX: 2005 International Design Award (September 2005)

LifeStraw® is a very simple and elegant solution to a problem that kills millions of people. Let's get it out there.

- Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas Judge Peter Gabriel (February 2008)