Celebrating five years of successful implementation of the program for Green Ideas, Trag Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Erste Bank awarded three most innovative environmentally oriented business projects in 2017, with 5,000 USD each.

Agricultural holding Miroslav Garić from Kragujevac, Slavica Orelj from Slanac and Jasmina Grbović Novaković from Gornja Trešnjevica are the winners of this year's donations for innovative business ideas based on the principles of sustainable development within the National Forum for Green Ideas.

With the support of the Church World Service (CWS) humanitarian organization, special award in the same amount was granted to the Lužničke rukotvorine Association - Women's Educational Center Babušnica for the establishment and launch of a production line for the processing of organic fruit and vegetables in the traditional manner and the employment of women from the rural and border villages of the Babušnica municipality.

During the all-day event organized in Nova Iskra in Belgrade, 12 finalists of the Forum for Green Ideas presented their projects, of which jury selected the best three of them. The holders of these projects will be able to present their ideas and win additional 10,000 USD at the regional forum Philanthropy for Green Ideas, which will be organized by Rockefeller Brothers Fund at the end of July.