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It began the inaugural Australian Make It Awards in recognition of the successes in Australian entrepreneurs, creatives, as well as small-scale businesses. The Make It Awards come from 's roots: In 2003 the president Anthony Casalena founded the company with a loan of $30,000 . He used it to purchase 's first servers.

Through the Make It Awards, we're providing a gift to our Australian business community by providing three new businesses an amount of $30,000 to help further their goals. The three winners were picked from more than 2,500 applications which were evaluated according to their business's strategies as well as their innovation and contribution for the community and their branding and appearance. Meet Reef Design Lab, Lousy Ink, and The Difference three firms who have a purpose that is dedicated to sustainability and social involvement.

Reef Design Lab

Reef Design Lab is a multidisciplinary design company that develops marine habitats. The structures they design aid in research on how to restore and protect the biodiversity of marine and coastal ecosystems. Reef Design Lab works with the builders, architects, government, and research institutions, along with marine scientists in a wide range of issues, like ecological engineering and coastal protection, marine infrastructure, and coral farming.

Reef Design Lab plans to apply its grant funding to upgrade the in-house tech and accelerate product process development.

Lousy Ink

The company was founded by two artists. Lousy Ink recycles printer cartridge ink, resulting in a wide range of art materials that are sustainable, which includes recycled ink and pens. It works with Australian partners to collect the supplies, then recycle them and recycle old and old cartridges for inkjet. Lousy Ink's aim is to transform trash into an art resource, and support both the natural environment as well as the creative community through encouraging more sustainable creative practices.

Lousy Ink plans to use its grant to design various shades of color inks. This includes magenta, yellow, cyan along with black.

The distinction

The Different is the initial mobile application available in Australia that allows users to create virtual money from transactions, and then donate it to charities they are passionate about. The Difference makes use of technology that allows anyone to be a part of sustainability by their daily actions and microdonations.

The Difference plans to use it to broaden the technical services it offers as well as to support the Make Change campaign.

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