Management team

• Marsha Willard (executive director)
• Darcy Hitchcock (education director)
• Michelle Hippler (marketing director)
• Dorothy Atwood (webinars)
• Jessica Vreeswijk (learning events manager)

Co-founders

The following people hatched the idea of ISSP around 2005-6 and volunteered untold hours to incubate it:

• Marsha Willard (AXIS Performance Advisors)
• Darcy Hitchcock (AXIS Performance Advisors
• Larry Chalfan (Zero Waste Alliance)
• Dorothy Atwood (Zero Waste Alliance)

Learn more about the founders under the About ISSP tab. Please also see below the distinguished list of Founding Members whose support and contributions (both content and financial) who helped make ISSP a reality.

Incubators

While ISSP is now its own 501C3, we will be forever grateful to the International Sustainable Development Foundation and the Zero Waste Alliance for their initial support during our start up years.  ISDF and ZWA provided the organizational shell within which we gestated along with administrative, technical and moral support.

Corporate sponsors

We are so grateful to the following corporations and individuals for their financial support to get ISSP up and running!

—Zanthus, Platinum Sponsor

Zanthus is a leading provider of technology-related market research & business consulting. They help their clients cut through the complexity to the insights they need to make critical business decisions confidently.

www.zanthus.com

 —Hansa GCR, Platinum Sponsor

Hansa|GCR is a full service marketing research and advisory firm built on a legacy of over three decades of experience and part of the R K Swamy|Hansa Group of India. Our practice includes a specialization in green customer experience research. Using a framework of psycho-economics we measure, analyze, and advise clients on the dimensions of environmental sustainability and their impact on 1) brand equity and customer relationships, 2) product innovation, 3) marketing strategy and communications, and 4) market opportunity. We understand that sustainability is much more than a tag line or a check list, and that greener products and positioning are but one step on the pathway to a true, sustained global commons. For more information about our services and capabilities, please visit www.hansagcr.com.

www.hansagcr.com

—Hewlett Packard, Platinum Sponsor

As a global leader in information technology, HP applies new thinking and ideas to deliver simpler, more valuable experiences with technology. Our goal is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work. HP integrates sophisticated technology into products and services that are easy to use and manage, offering functionalities to meet virtually any need of our customers from individual consumers to the largest enterprises. For decades HP has worked to manage its environmental impact by adopting environmentally responsible practices in product development, operations and supply chain. The company strives to be a global leader in reducing its carbon footprint, limiting waste and recycling responsibly. More information about the company’s work in relation to the environment is available at www.hp.com/environment.

—Business Week, Silver Sponsor

—Garvey Schubert Barer, Bronze Sponsor

—Trilibrium, Bronze Sponsor

Individual Donors

-Rick Woodward

-Bob Willard

Founding members

The following people were invited as Founding Members to help get the organization going. We are very grateful for them sharing their resources and their insights.

-Allen Lee, Xenergy
-Annie Landfield Grieg, Four Elements Consulting
-Bob Doppelt, Institute for a Sustainable Environment
-Bob Pojasek, SAI Global
-Bob Willard, author
-Cate Gable, author, Bainbridge Graduate Institute Faculty
-Cheryl Welch, Tualatin Valley Water District
-Doug Freeman, Arnoldcreek
-Ester Mathews, Austin Energy
-Fabio Vancini, Fichtner Economics + Environment
-Joel Makower, Green Business Network
-Karl Ostrum, NBIS
-Kathy Brewer, Hewlett-Packard
-Katie Sullivan, ICF International
-Katy Ansardi, Sustainable North Carolina
-Linda Lovett, City of Corvallis
-Lucie Drummond, DLA Philips Fox
-Lucy Brehm, Shorebank Pacific
-Madeline Snow
-Michele Crim, City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development
-Molly Chidsey, Multnomah County
-Nik Blosser, Celilo Group & Sustainable Industries Journal
-Pamela Brody-Heine, Eco Stewardship Strategies
-Peter Clark, ICF International
-Rick Woodward, Coastwide Laboratories
-Roberta Anderson, Food Alliance
-Susan Bragdon, Oregon State University
-Susan Milhauser, City of Lake Oswego
-Susan Sakaki, Sustainable Earth Initiative
-Susan Sokol Blosser, Sokol-Blosser Winery
-Terry Moore, Sustainable Dallas
-Todd Rawlings, Washington Mutual Bank
-Tom Badrick, Legacy Health Systems
-Tom Crawford, Praxis Northwest
-Wayne Rifer, Rifer Environmental and Green Electronics Council