Impact Awards
The 2025 Edition
In 2025, we were pleased to host another Impact Awards edition, recognizing the extraordinary impact achieved by nine former fellows. The Impact Awardees were selected across three categories, Preserving the Planet, Improving Lives, and Creating Opportunities, each aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and collectively addressing the full spectrum of the 17 goals. Chosen through a rigorous evaluation and jury process, the nine awardees embody the spirit of visionary leadership and scalable innovation.
The 2025 Impact Awardees for
Preserving the Planet
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Kristin Kagetsu
Saathi creates natural, biodegradable sanitary pads offering positive impacts on health, the environment and society.
Tracy O'Rourke
Vivid Edge provides energy efficiency as a service to large and medium organisations, making it easier and more affordable for them to meet their climate goals.
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Kresse Wesling
Elvis & Kresse rescues and transforms industrial and commercial waste, including fire hoses and scrap leather, into luxury goods and accessories.
Improving Lives
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Namita Banka
Banka Bioloo provides sustainable water and sanitation solutions across India, including biotoilets, biodigesters and sewage treatment plants.
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Caitlin Dolkart
Flare connects Kenyans to life-saving services via its subscription-based emergency-response product, rescue.co.
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Yvette Ishimwe
IRIBA Water Group makes clean water available, accessible and affordable for low-income communities across Africa.
Creating Opportunities
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Rama Kayyali
Little Thinking Minds is an edtech company dedicated to creating digital Arabic language learning and reading platforms to enhance literacy outcomes for K-12 students.
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Jackie Stenson
Essmart distributes livelihood-generating, life-improving products in rural India.
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Mariam Torosyan
Safe YOU is a mobile application and AI platform that provides women suffering gender-based violence with emergency support, relevant resources and an online community.
What are the Impact Awards?
The Impact Awards are dedicated to former Cartier Women's Initiative Fellows who have achieved extraordinary impact over the years.
In 2025, nine Impact Awardees were selected across three categories, covering all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Preserving the Planet, Improving Lives and Creating Opportunities.
These awardees, representing the top three businesses from each of the above categories, received a $100,000 grant each in addition to human capital support and media visibility.
The three categories
Preserving the Planet
SDGs 7, 12, 13, 14, 15
Improving Lives
SDGs 2, 3, 6, 11
Creating Opportunities
SDGs 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 16
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Learn more about the first Impact Awards held in Dubai in 2022.
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15 Years of Impact
We celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Cartier Women's Initiative with our community. Together, we looked back on 15 years of collective impact, honored our groundbreaking Impact Awardees and highlighted the extraordinary achievements of women leveraging business as a force for good.