APPA's Effective & Innovative Practices Award continues to highlight the best of the most creative and practical programs and processes that enhance and transform service delivery, lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, generate revenue, or otherwise benefit an educational institution. This article features five 2010 award-winning programs that focus on student design teams; building services sustainability; fast-acting energy improvement teams; recycling; and a reengineered maintenance parts and materials process. The five successful schools this year received special recognition and a check at the APPA 2010 conference in Boston. These include: (1) California State University, Northridge; (2) Purdue University; (3) University of Iowa; (4) University of North Carolina-Charlotte; and (5) University of Southern California.