The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network announced Monday that BRING Recycling of Eugene won the non-profit category of the OEN Tom Holce Awards for Entrepreneurship and that Bonneville Environmental Foundation of Portland and Verde of Portland were finalists.

BRING Recycling will be honored at the 15th Annual OEN Tom Holce Awards for Entrepreneurship dinner at the Oregon Convention Center on September 18.

BRING Recycling collects and resells low-cost used building materials as well as provides deconstruction and recycling services. Revenues fund conservation and education programs on the best way to reuse and recycle. BRING Recycling collaborates with schools, agencies and businesses and serves more than 70,000 people a year in Lane County.

The OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship non-profit award is given annually to an organization that has shown entrepreneurship and creativity in addressing business and operational issues, achieving strategic goals, and/or creating jobs. The award is based on the entrepreneurial nature of how the organization approaches its management and activities, including sustainability, management and successful implementation towards a stated mission.

Judges were Kandis Brewer Nunn, principal of Strategic Resources; Jay Bloom, president and chief executive of Bloom Anew; Mark Holloway, executive director of Social Venture Partners; Isaac Regenstreif, principal of IHR Consulting; Paul Reich, program officer of Meyer Memorial Trust; and Joyce White, executive director of Grantmakers of Oregon & SW Washington.

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing opportunities for Oregon entrepreneurs and improving the business climate for emerging, growth-oriented companies statewide.

--Jonathan Brinckman