Maydm, Artisan Dental and Soaring Independent Cooperative all won Force for Positive Change awards during a ceremony held last week at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.

Seven total winners, each of which earns $10,000, use social entrepreneurship as a model for solving social or environmental challenges in a way that is sustainable, just and generates impactful change in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Marquette University hosted the program, now in its third year.

“This year’s applicants took the competition to a new level,” Marquette Associated Director of Social Innovation Kelsey Otero said in a statement. “We are thrilled that such high-caliber social enterprises, both for-profit and nonprofit, throughout Wisconsin are creating so much impact to benefit our state.”

According to a release, the winners were selected by a panel of judges from industry, academia and the nonprofit sector from more than 115 initial applications.