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Sustainability strategy and corporate partnerships

Turn sustainability intomeasurable growth.

For founder-led companies turning sustainability into business value, and for causes turning impact into corporate partnership revenue.

I am a companyBuilding sustainability into my business
I am a causeSelling impact to companies

Plant the Seed30 minutes, no charge

  • 50M+ pounds of ocean plastic removed through partnerships
  • $18M+ raised for environmental causes
  • 15+ years in sustainable business partnerships
  • Head of Strategic Partnerships at 4ocean
  • United Nations, Geneva and New York
  • Global Citizen Forum
  • EarthX | Sustainable Brands | Concordia | Expo West | Roth Capital
  • Partnerships across CPG, retail, outdoor, wellness, and hospitality
Proof

Partnerships with leading brands, global platforms, and impact organizations.

The Gap

Most sustainability work is real. Very little of it shows up in the business.

Which side of the impact economy are you on?

For companies
The default

Sustainability as a line item.

  • Impact work nobody outside the company can see
  • A sustainability page with no proof behind it
  • Marketing wants a campaign, finance wants a number
  • Cause partners chosen by relationship, not fit
  • Reporting that arrives late and convinces nobody
Leads toCost center
The Sustainable Edge

Sustainability as a growth driver.

  • Impact customers can see, understand, and repeat
  • Claims backed by proof anyone can check
  • One story that works for marketing and the board
  • Partners chosen for strategic fit and measurable return
  • Reporting that funds the next round of work
Leads toBusiness value

EcoBreakthroughs closes the gap from both sides of the impact economy: helping companies turn sustainability into business value, and helping causes turn impact into partnership growth.

Who we work with

For Companies

You are investing in sustainability. It is not showing up in the business.

For companies that want sustainability to become a measurable business advantage, not a disconnected initiative.

  • CPG
  • Wellness and supplements
  • Food and beverage
  • Retail
  • Outdoor and apparel
  • Hospitality
  • Consumer products
  • Mission-aligned growth companies

Best fit$3M to $250M in revenue, consumer-facing or brand-visible, with the founder, CEO, CMO, Head of Sustainability, or Head of Partnerships in the room.

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For Causes

Your impact is real. Your partnership offer is not built for how brands buy.

For environmental causes, nonprofits, conservation organizations, clean-tech solutions, and impact ventures that want to attract corporate sustainability funding.

  • Environmental nonprofits
  • Conservation groups
  • Recycling and circularity
  • Ocean and climate
  • Clean-tech startups
  • Certification and impact platforms
  • Mission-driven ventures

Best fitCredible impact and real growth potential, ready to pursue corporate partners rather than one-off grants.

See the cause path

Not a fit for pre-revenue ventures, regulatory carbon reporting, or organizations looking for the lowest-cost option.

Two pathways. One mission: impact that scales.

Business picture of grant working
01Path 01

Corporate Sustainability ROI

For founder-led companies and brands where the founder is still close to the decision, and where sustainability should be a measurable business advantage rather than a disconnected initiative.

EcoBreakthroughs helps corporate teams clarify their sustainability strategy, identify high-value opportunities, align with credible partners, build customer-facing impact stories, and create reporting systems that support growth.

The outcome: sustainability that drives customer trust, brand differentiation, partnership value, and long-term enterprise value.

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Recovered ocean plastic collected in the field in Guatemala
02Path 02

Cause Partnership Growth

For environmental causes, nonprofits, conservation organizations, clean-tech solutions, and impact ventures that want to attract aligned corporate partners and grow revenue.

EcoBreakthroughs helps mission-driven organizations package their mission, impact, and value proposition into partnership-ready opportunities that brands can understand, fund, promote, and renew.

The outcome: a partnership-ready cause with recurring corporate funding and scalable environmental impact.

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The Method

How impact becomes business value.

Five steps. Five outcomes. Every engagement below is a different depth of the same method.

Step01

DiagnoseOpportunity

What happens

We find where sustainability or mission can create the most business value, and we cut everything that cannot.

What you get

A prioritized opportunity map and a strategic direction leadership can act on immediately.

Step02

PositionOffer

What happens

We turn the work into a clear offer and the language around it, built for how customers, partners, retailers, and corporate buyers actually decide.

What you get

A messaging framework and a program or partnership offer with pricing logic behind it.

Step03

MatchPartners

What happens

We identify the right partners, align the incentives on both sides, and connect the offer to the people who can approve it.

What you get

A best-fit target list and a relationship strategy built on shared value rather than goodwill.

Step04

MeasureProof

What happens

We build the evidence layer, so every claim has something behind it and nothing depends on trust alone.

What you get

Defined KPIs, a reporting rhythm, and proof you can put in front of customers, partners, retailers, and investors.

Step05

ScaleGrowth

What happens

We build the systems, assets, and cadence that let the work repeat without us in the room.

What you get

The pipeline, sales assets, and operating rhythm your team runs on, plus a quarterly review cycle that keeps it honest.

  • 50M+poundsOcean plastic removed through partnerships
  • $18M+Raised for environmental causes
  • 15+yearsIn sustainable business partnerships
  • 8Industries served
Stages and platforms
  • United Nations, Geneva
  • United Nations, New York
  • Global Citizen Forum
  • EarthX
  • Sustainable Brands
  • Concordia
  • Expo West
  • Roth Capital
Why EcoBreakthroughs

Built by someone who has actually created income and impact.

EcoBreakthroughs is built from real-world experience, not theory. Across 15+ years, Grant Kendzior has helped generate tens of millions of dollars in sustainable business partnerships and corporate impact programs that connect revenue growth with measurable environmental action.

  • He is doing the work right now, not describing it.

    Head of Strategic Partnerships at 4ocean, in the market every week, closing the same kind of partnerships we help clients build.

  • He has sat on both sides of the table.

    He knows what a company needs to justify sustainability spend, and what a cause needs to attract it. Almost nobody in this category can say that.

  • The results are commercial, not just environmental.

    Partnerships that funded the removal of 50M+ pounds of ocean plastic, and $18M+ raised for environmental causes.

  • He has worked across the categories that matter.

    CPG, wellness and supplements, food and beverage, retail, outdoor and apparel, hospitality, and consumer products.

  • He is trusted on the stages where this gets decided.

    United Nations in Geneva and New York, Global Citizen Forum, EarthX, Sustainable Brands, Concordia, Expo West, and Roth Capital.

  • The strategy is grounded in formal training, not just instinct.

    Master's in Entrepreneurship, University of Florida. Sustainable Business Strategy, Harvard Business School Online.

“I believe business can be a force for good for the ecosystems we depend on. I also believe that only lasts if it makes commercial sense, which is the part most people skip.”

Grant Kendzior
What we stand for

The parts most advisories leave unsaid.

We only build sustainability work that survives a customer asking “prove it.”

Diagnose first. Position second. Match third. Measure fourth. Scale last. In that order, every time.

Most programs fail because someone started at the campaign.

  • No claim we cannot back with evidence.
  • No cause partner chosen for optics over fit.
  • No report that nobody outside the company will read.
  • No campaign that outruns the impact behind it.

Pre-revenue ventures, regulatory carbon reporting, and organizations shopping for the lowest bid.

We would rather tell you that now.

Engagement Pathways

Premium strategy and advisory engagements, designed to turn impact into measurable growth.

A corporate partnership meeting
Engagement010330 days

Sustainability ROI Diagnostic

Find the highest-leverage sustainability opportunities and turn them into a prioritized ROI roadmap.

Method stepDiagnose

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Start the Conversation

Whether you are building sustainability into a company or selling impact to companies, start with a 30-minute strategy call.

No deck. No pitch. A working conversation.