The Idea Village

Bayou Brew: Renee Brown
www.drinkbayoubrew.com

Bayou Brew Wellness Tea offers a refreshing ready-to-drink tea alternative to consumers who are interested in health and wellness oriented foods and beverages.  Bayou Brew features real fruit juice and real tea!  Each product is 100% natural with no artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors or preservatives.  The product line includes...

Body Evolution: Tom Fischmann
bodyimageproject.com

Body Evolution is a health media company that develops measurable, motivating tools that foster physiological and emotional well being and guide 200+ million Americans through their lifetime Body Image Journey. The group is currently working to develop an innovative, technological way to help improve body image.

The Building Block: Prisca Weems and Forest Bradley Wright
www.thebuildingblock.com

The New Orleans Eco Design, Resource and Industry Park (EcoPark) was conceived in the post-Katrina environment of New Orleans to seize the opportunity in rebuilding to create a new, permanent base of green/sustainable building and renewable energy businesses and resources. EcoPark is developing the Building Block to create a hub of...

Big Easy Blends: Craig Cordes, Sal LaMartina, Antonio LaMartina
www.bigeasyblends.com

Big Easy Blends produces pre-mixed alcoholic beverages packaged in a stand-up flexible pouch that allows the consumer to enjoy frozen cocktails without the hassles of mixing or blending. This unique packaging provides the “go green” solution over the traditional aluminum can or glass bottle that are currently the norm in the...

Don Kelly Productions: Don Kelly
www.donkellyproductions.com/donkelly_home.html

Don Kelly Productions, IVEC 2010 class member, launched in summer 2009 Louisiana’s first ever major music festival with a full eco-friendly mission and purpose. The festival features national performers and stages driven by solar and wind power, the use of renewable energy credits by both producer and attendees, green ticketing,...

Feelgoodz: Kyle Berner
www.feelgoodz.com

Feelgoodz is a lifestyle brand built upon a unique triple bottom line business model of ‘People, Planet, Phitsanulok.’ Feelgoodz uses sales of eco-friendly products as a pathway to creating positive social change in Thailand and, one day, beyond. The Feelgoodz eco-friendly flip-flop is marketed as the most comfortable rubber...

Jack and Jake’s: John Burns
www.jackandjakes.com/Default.asp

Organic Farms is launching the “Makin’ Groceries” project, a “beyond organic” Community Supported Agricultural Market group that specializes in local/seasonal items sourced from a network of Louisiana family farms within a 100 mile radius of New Orleans. They are currently in the process of planning the opening of their...

Kickboard: Jen Medbery
www.kickboardforteachers.com

Drop the Chalk is developing innovative data tracking and management tools for use in charter schools. As a former teacher and computer scientist, Jen is currently developing customized products for a number of schools in New Orleans.

Music Shed: Chris Bailey
www.musicshed.net

The Music Shed is a music business industry incubator serving musicians, composers, songwriters, producers, music supervisors, and music production companies across the nation. The facility features a highly-trained technical staff, as well as a recording studio, mixing suite, multi-purpose rooms and practice rooms.

Neighborhood Investment Strategies: Ian Riekes Trivers and Sarah Todd Olivier

Neighborhood Investment Strategies creates, promotes and supports alternative housing models as a way to repair urban neighborhoods. Neighborhood Investment Strategies’s focus is on expanding the pool of small, affordable rental properties through a small rental landlord program.

NOLA Couture: Cecile Hardy
www.nolacouture.com

NOLA Couture is a New Orleans-based clothing line that is known for its vibrant, unique prints that are inspired by New Orleans and the south. The most successful product to date is their series of men’s ties, gaining popularity across the south and in other national markets as well.

NuMe Health: Dale Pfost and Justin Peno
www.numehealth.com

NuMe Health is a biotechnology company focused on medical foods for the special dietary requirements associated with major chronic diseases including: cancer, obesity and diabetes. The first lead product will address the special nutritional requirements for breast cancer patients, particularly the growing population of breast cancer...

playNOLA: Lavonzell Nicholson
www.playnola.com

playNOLA provides year-round sports and specialized entertainment opportunities for individuals between the ages of 23-35 in the metro New Orleans area. Through organized team sports in a social atmosphere and focused social outings, playNOLA is becoming the premier gathering for young professionals to meet and compete in New...

Repax: Sammie Bohn, Margaret Moss, Valerie Fischer
www.repaxbags.com

Repax designs, manufactures and distributes reusable shopping bags that are fashionable, durable, washable, compact and so easy to use. Their goal is to make joining the ever-growing green movement simple.

REpurposingNOLA Piece by Peace: Traci Claussen
repurposingnola-piece-by-peace.com

A truly unique piece of New Orleans, REpurposingNOLA utilizes fabrics of the community like PJs burlap coffee sacks, leftover bolts of material from local hotel renovations, salvaged wood from the Green Project, promotional banners from New Orleans’ special events, along with ties and belts found at local non-profit shops like the...

Schedulist: Chris Laibe
www.schedulist.com

Schedulist is the world’s first workforce scheduling program designed specifically to improve workforce retention. The product is designed to accommodate healthcare facilities and home health providers, but it can be modified to solve the scheduling needs of other industries.

Senica: Bernardette Jno-Finn
www.senicanaturals.com

Natural. Beautiful. You. Our motto is simple. The Sénica (SAY-NEEKA) story is the story of your authentic, radiant self. Unpretentious. Unapologetic. Unique. Sénica is more than a brand; it’s a lifestyle. The Sénica lifestyle seeks to promote a holistic approach to health, wellness, beauty and restoration – giving equal...

Spark Insite(s): Amber Seely and Jessica Venegas
sparkinsites.com

Spark Insite(s)’s provides a supplement to traditional market studies, informing the site selection, program and design decisions of real estate developers, and provides independent verification of housing demand for banks, lenders and funders being solicited to invest in New Orleans.

Sustainable Environmental Enterprises: Stacey Danner, Lea Keal, David Lessinger, Rosalind Ross
www.seethemovement.com

Sustainable Environmental Enterprises will bring renewable energy to the affordable housing industry, providing long-term affordability to low- and moderate-income residents and environmental sustainability to New Orleans communities. SEE sells and install solar energy systems without the large upfront costs by harnessing innovative...

Tutti Dynamics: Darren Hoffman
tuttidynamics.com

Tutti Dynamics music software combines digital media technologies with proven teaching methods and renowned New Orleans musicians allowing students to learn musical skill sets and apply them in virtual jam sessions, at a fraction of the cost of traditional music lessons.

Tru Colors Apparel: Amy Chenevert
www.trucolorsapparel.com

Tru Colors designs and sells a line of game day apparel for the fashion savvy female sports fan. The line offers non logo’d contemporary silhouettes in team color combinations, options that are a step up from traditional game day attire found in most fan shops, yet still affordable.