Ranking: 38

Industry: Environmental Services

Mission: An environmental charity focused on reforestation with the model one dollar plants one tree. They are dedicated to helping individuals and businesses give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, and protect biodiversity. To date have planted 11 million trees, which will mature to sequester 528 million pounds of carbon each year.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Innovative, Passionate, Hardworking

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Get your hands in the dirt!”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Our projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to rebuild forests after fires and floods, provides jobs for social impact, and restores biodiversity. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. At the end of the day, it’s all about restoring nature to give us all a healthy and thriving future.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We aim to create a sustainable world full of healthy and biodiverse forests.

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Ranking: 69

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: A financial services company that connects money with values, empowering people with the possibility of their finances. They help clients pursue sustainable investing and shift capital towards the most environmentally responsible corporations. Additionally strive to support micro-entrepreneurs by helping millions of people fund businesses that help alleviate poverty.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Innovative, Collaborative, Quirky

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Expanding what’s possible with money.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Values-aligned investing is not an “opt-in” at Abacus. We believe that every investment has an impact and that it’s a violation of fiduciary duty to not consider impact risks and opportunities. As a B-Corp, Abacus is committed to using business as a force for good. We strive to be a positive force in the world, and are committed to continual social and environmental justice work.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

At Abacus, we expand what’s possible with money. To fully realize what’s possible with money, we connect money with values. We serve people from diverse backgrounds and with differing financial means. Our culture of humanity and caring creates truly impactful connections. By empowering people with the possibilities for their money, we enhance our client’s experience in the here and now, not just in the future.

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Ranking: 108

Industry: Professional Training & Coaching

Mission: A global network and essential resource for professional women who create, inspire, and lead. They are committed to helping each other succeed, and aim to close the gender achievement gap in business by providing women with a community to lean on and learn from. Connecting over 150,000 women across the globe. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Intersectional, Grateful, Authentic

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Ellevate is the largest community for women+ at work. A powerful coalition of ambitious and supportive women+ who believe there is strength in numbers. We show up for each other, helping everyone — no matter their background or aspirations — build a career they love. And, more importantly, we mobilize our collective power to change the culture of business.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

At Ellevate Network, we’re redefining networking. Although our community is the largest of its kind, we know that navigating a sea of faceless connections is a waste of time. That’s why, at Ellevate, we prioritize the real, authentic relationships that can change your situation, can make a difference in your future.

We help women build meaningful local and digital relationships that can offer insights and open doors. Our community has reach, power and influence, while still remaining warm, welcoming and supportive.

Through collective action, Ellevate is shaping business to be more inclusive. Our goal is full and equal access to power, for everyone. Ellevate is where change makers cultivate their voice, build bridges to understand and mobilize for impact. We work with leading companies to help them hire, retain and improve diversity, equity and inclusion within their organizations.

We also approach our work through a B Corp lens. We want to have a positive impact on our community, our environment, and our team, so we’re always looking to do business the right way, not the easy way. After the pandemic began, we introduced the EllevateHER Forward fellowship, a program for women financially impacted by the pandemic to help them get their careers stabilized and back on track. We launched several new online event series to keep our community connected during these challenging times, and delivered peer mentoring through a 12-week Squads program focused on leading through uncertainty.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Equality. We believe that when ambitious professional women get more opportunity, it ultimately benefits everyone, and leads to a more equal world. We’re committed to giving these ambitious professional women the community they need to take the next step in their careers — whatever that means to each of them.

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Ranking: 75

Industry: E-Commerce Fulfillment

Mission: A fulfillment business focusing on internet retailers who chose to outsource their shipping. They offer dedicated client support and innovative solutions with carbon neutral shipping for dry goods and frozen and refrigerated foods. Operating from four 100% carbon neutral facilities across the U.S. and helping to make e-commerce sustainable.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Solve, Improve, Grow

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Crystal Creek specializes in frozen fulfillment, logistics, and shipping services for e-commerce companies. We offer dedicated client support, sustainable operations, and innovative solutions. As a certified B-Corp, we are committed to socially responsible business practices.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

All product leaves our facility as individual packages and are delivered to the home of the customer in full trucks making the best use of ground transportation possible, we deliver frozen foods to your doorstep via ground transportation in eco-friendly packaging designed to have the least impact on our planet. We operate in a BeSmart environment and are a certified B Corp with a 92 point ranking.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We focus on lifting others up, instead of just doing the job, we try to do it in such a way that we build a stronger community and make an example for others to follow. Because we are pioneers in our space, we know that the way we do our work will set precedent and we take this responsibility seriously.

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Ranking: 89

Industry: Textiles

Mission: A clothing collection and recycling company with a mission to keep clothes out of landfills. They collect textiles and clothes for reuse, recycling and upcycling to help local communities, nonprofits, and the planet. In the past year, they collected 25 million pounds of clothes, diverting 320 million pounds of carbon emissions.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Clothes Aren’t Trash.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Keeping more than 20 million pounds of clothing out of the trash each year. Supporting hundreds of small businesses and charities along the way!

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We look forward to a future where used clothing is the first place people shop.

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Ranking: 22

Industry: Environmental Services

Mission: Offers specialist grounds maintenance and commercial landscape services. They reduce the impact of human habitation while enhancing the human experience through designing, developing and maintaining beautiful, sustainable landscapes and environments for people, communities and wildlife to safely enjoy. Servicing over 45,000 commercial sites across the UK.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Family, Entrepreneurial, Inclusive

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Caring for Our Environment.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Our service maintains the environment in which we live, and we try to do this in the most sustainable way possible; using battery tools and electric vehicles, using renewable energy, composting or reusing waste and maintaining rather than removing vegetation. We train our staff to educate and work with our landowning customers to create habitats which create a positive environmental impact.

We also contribute through the Evergreen Fund. Financed by five percent of Ground Control’s annual profits, the Evergreen Fund is an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives that will specialize in providing seed and growth capital to early stage companies and social enterprises that are focused on delivering measurable, beneficial and sustainable environmental impact. Over the next five years, the fund will:

• Invest £5m in early stage environmental ventures
• Become a perpetual investment facility with profits reinvested into new sustainable ventures
• Dedicate £100,000 annually to finance the planning of one million new native trees to create protected areas of biodiversity

We also believe our field team model has a positive societal benefit, supporting micro-entrepreneurs around the UK to run and grow their businesses.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We create and maintain external spaces that are safe and enjoyable for all. By growing in our core maintenance led markets, our aim is to continue on our ambitious growth trajectory by doubling in size over the next five years. As we grow in our core markets, we become stronger and more stable as a business, providing stability to all whom depend on Ground Control for their livelihoods. The sustainability this provides allows us to pursue our work in Caring for our Environment. Imagine that by 2025 our technology platforms support a happy workforce of more than 10,000 people. We will have planted over 1,000,000 trees, installed more than 10,000 EV chargers and, through our environmental initiatives and Evergreen Fund, we will have significantly contributed to helping the UK become a carbon neutral country by 2050.

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Ranking: 72

Industry: Medical/Tech

Mission: A women‘s health medical device company focused on minimally invasive applications. They develop and market differentiated surgical implants specifically for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse. On a mission to alleviate 1 million women in underserved communities suffering from pelvic floor disorders by 2025. 

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Caldera Medical is a unique company where the key to success is a Culture where the employees share an unwavering passion for the Mission to Improve the Quality of Life for Women over profit or individualistic gain.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Caldera Medical’s Mission is to Improve the Quality of Life for Women and everything we do is in support of this. Caldera launched a humanitarian effort in 2016 aptly named Women’s Health Initiative with a goal of ending the incapacitation and suffering of one million women with pelvic floor disorders in underserved populations around the world by 2025. Women in these developing countries have more advanced conditions due to decreased access to healthcare and are often ostracized from their communities because of these issues. In just the past couple of years Caldera has sponsored over 60 humanitarian trips globally to train local physicians in developing countries how to perform pelvic floor surgery that allows women to return to a normal life.

Caldera Medical and its employees also give back to our local communities in Los Angeles every quarter by donating our time and money to a local charity. Most recently we have worked with Habitat for Humanity and Manna Food Bank.

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Ranking: 62

Industry: Accounting

Mission: A public accounting firm offering holistic financial strategies to address clients’ financial goals and circumstances. They offer global expertise with a regional focus, helping people reach their goals and rest better knowing that they have someone on their side. Work with 20 partners and support global business needs in over 88 countries.  

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Innovative, Inclusive, Supportive

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“At Sensiba San Filippo we believe that we should never lose focus on what is important in life. That’s why we believe in Family, Community, and Firm… in that order.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

A good example of a positive social impact was our firm’s ability to quickly pivot to help small and medium size businesses navigate the Paycheck Protect Program. We provided our clients, and anyone who called for help, free consultations to help understand the PPP and if it was the right choice for the business to apply. We helped hundreds of business apply for the loan and are now helping hundreds more figure out if they should apply for forgiveness or not, based on their tax situation. This has helped many business be able to stay in business and pay their employees.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We are very optimistic. We recently launched the beginnings of our Sensiba Center for Sustainability to help companies move to a purpose-driven, sustainable business model that includes social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. It is unlike any other accounting firm’s sustainability practice and offers services that are not just financial or compliance-driven and provide options of different ESG frameworks to find what best suits an organization.

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Ranking: 25

Industry: Beds/Consumer Goods

Mission: A sleep products manufacturer that produces eco-friendly mattresses to provide deeper rest for every body. Their products are made from natural and recycled materials, and meet the needs of almost everyone. For every ten mattresses sold, they donate one to a family in need, positively impacting over 37,000 families so far.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“At Leesa, we make products for good-good sleep and more good mornings. Every Leesa purchase has a purpose. Not only do you get good, quality sleep, but every mattress purchase helps us donate another mattress to a child in need.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Since Day One, we set out to create a company for good. Every mattress purchase helps us donate another mattress to a child in need, with 36,000 mattresses donated to date. As a certified B Corporation, we also strive to meet the highest environmental standards through our business. Our products are shipped in boxes made from recycled cardboard, our pocket springs are made from recycled steel and we have a natural cover on our newest mattress, the Leesa Legend, made from organic cotton, merino wool and fiber made from recycled water bottles.

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Ranking: 41

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: A community development lender that finances impactful projects to benefit underserved communities in the American Southwest. They are helping to bridge the gap between conventional lending standards and the needs of low-income and distressed communities. Have financed over 1,800 community projects that retain more than 16,500 jobs and benefit over 1.9 million individuals.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Family-Oriented, Purpose-Driven, Innovative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“At Clearinghouse CDFI, we believe in people. We are bound by the core value that individuals in low-income, distressed communities deserve access to affordable capital. The resulting economic opportunity provides both a greater quality of life and hope for future generations.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Clearinghouse CDFI finances projects that create jobs and services to help people work, live, dream, grow, and thrive in healthy communities. We are also a Benefit Corporation (B Corp)—a company that meets rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability, and uses business as a force for good. Since inception in 1996, we have funded $1.9 billion in total loans for over 1,900 projects promoting community and economic development. These projects have created or retained 21,500 jobs and benefit over 1.9 million individuals.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Since inception, the belief that making a difference is equally as important as making a profit has defined Clearinghouse CDFI as a company. This core value has cemented our reputation as a unique and caring financial institution and continues to help us raise equity capital from investors at a rate that is unprecedented in this industry. Today, with two decades of profitability and over $590 million in total assets, we remain one of the strongest and fasting growing CDFIs in the nation. Through all of our growth and geographic expansion, we hold strongly to the notion that the most important asset we have is our reputation.

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