{"id":4806,"date":"2016-05-04T21:43:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2016-08-18T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T22:16:25","slug":"b2p-receives-prestigious-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/news\/b2p-receives-prestigious-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"B2P Receives Prestigious Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges to Prosperity received two awards for their commitment to positive social impact and sustainability. Flatiron has had a long-standing partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgestoprosperity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denver, Colorado-based nonprofit<\/a>, working together to build footbridges in poor communities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) was the recipient of the 2016 Classy Awards: designated as one of the world\u2019s 10 most innovative social impact enterprises, selected from 1,300 applicants and 100 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes organizations that address the \u201cincredibly complex and equally severe problems we face today,\u201d including global poverty, hunger, disease, and disaster response and preparedness. B2P, which works with isolated communities to build footbridges over impassable rivers, constructed its 200th footbridge with a Flatiron team in the La Dalia region of Nicaragua this year.<\/p>\n<p>A list of winners and finalists \u2014 \u201cthe most innovative nonprofits and social enterprises of 2016\u201d\u2014 can be reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classy.org\/collaborative\/awards-finalists-2016\" target=\"_blank\">at this link<\/a>. A video about B2P\u2019s mission can be <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/172657774\" target=\"_blank\">seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>B2P was also the recipient of the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashden.org\/blog\/2016-ashden-award-winners-announced\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Ashden Award<\/a>. The award recognizes organizations that support sustainability, especially community sustainability solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Flatiron is a key supporter of B2P. Our workers have provided their time and expertise to build several bridges for the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges to Prosperity received two awards for their commitment to positive social impact and sustainability. Flatiron has had a long-standing partnership with the Denver, Colorado-based nonprofit, working&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[63,86,497,280],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-community","tag-b2p","tag-bridges-to-prosperity","tag-community-service","tag-nicaragua"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}