Ranking: 19

Industry: Commercial Real Estate

Mission: A commercial real estate advisor that aims to improve the industry for all stakeholders through cooperation and organized competition. They achieve maximum value for clients through geographical coverage and simplified outreach. Their unique Shared Value Network® consists of more than 1,600 advisors and staff across 200 global offices.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Creating amazing values with our clients, colleagues and communities.”

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

Our company has been leading the industry in seeking more diversity and creating a platform that is inclusive for all. As a result, we are seeing between 20-30% of our new advisors are women or people of color. While those numbers may not seem impressive, it is nearly double that of the industry average.

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Ranking: 15

Industry: Finance

Mission: An infrastructure investor that builds, owns, and operates assets in sustainable energy, mobility, and water, waste, and agriculture sectors. They are working to bring about an Infrastructure Revolution that is democratized, digitized, decentralized, and decarbonized. Serving more than 400 companies, universities, school districts, cities, and nonprofits across North America.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Values & Vision Alignment

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Let’s rebuild the world together.”

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

Generate Capital is an investment and operating platform leading the Infrastructure Transition. We partner with best-in-class project developers and technology companies to deliver reliable, affordable and sustainable resources to customers. Generate is built from the ground up to help our partners succeed and scale by providing them different types of capital and services to grow markets and rebuild the world together. We own, operate and finance community and enterprise solar, microgrids, battery storage, energy efficiency, waste-to-value and clean transportation projects. In our short history, our growing and diversified fleet of sustainable infrastructure assets has replaced nearly 3 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions, diverted over 630,000 metric tons of organic waste from landfills, and supported thousands of jobs. We are just getting started.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Generate Capital is partnering with companies, cities, technology pioneers and developers to drive the Infrastructure Transition toward what we call the 4Ds of modern infrastructure:

DECENTRALIZED: from big/monolithic/inflexible to small/distributed/modular/flexible/resilient

DECARBONIZED: from dirty to clean

DIGITIZED: from analog to digital

DEMOCRATIZED: from regulated monopolies to multiple-choice for customers

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Ranking: 106

Industry: Food Production

Mission: A manufacturer of certified organic, additive free, and allergen friendly snacks for kids. They support small farmers and encourage more sustainable food systems, producing nourishing food while helping to make the world a healthier and happier place for kids. Expanding their influence globally by working towards the goal that no child skips breakfast. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Caring. Friendly. Conscious.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Healthy Products. Healthy People. Healthy Planet.”

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

All our products are developed using only Certified Organic ingredients and meet strict nutritional criteria that is set by our in-house nutritionist in conjunction with Parents and Kids to ensure that we are meeting not only the immediate needs of our customers, but importantly, the taste of their children.

We source certified organic produce from Australia and New Zealand where possible and work with a range of Australian, New Zealand, and global manufacturers to ensure we are producing the highest quality products with as minimal processing as possible.

Our core purpose at Whole Kids is to help parents create happy, healthy lives for their kids. While we are a food manufacturing business, we exist to make an impact beyond the food we make and it is the programs we have put in place to support our core purpose that underpins everything we do at Whole Kids. These programs include:

• Committing 1% of gross revenue regardless of profitability to support kids health and environmental projects both nationally and internationally
• Partnering with an environmental company to fully recycle and upcycle all out packaging waste
• Working with NGOs to distribute food to families in need
• Advocating for tighter regulations around junk food marketing to kids
• Lobbying for a ban of harmful food additives to kids
• Launching Whole Kids UNJUNKIT campaign, to bring awareness to issues that are junking up kids’ lives and creating avenues for parents to advocate for change

We believe passionately in healthy kids and a healthy world and that the actions we take can make a real and significant difference to the future of our children. Demonstrating our commitment to using business as a force for good, Whole Kids is also founding member and the first food company in Australia to have been certified as a B Corporation — an international certification recognizing companies that are using business to effect positive social and environmental change.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

In the future we see Whole Kids firmly positioned as a thought leader in kids’ health, nutrition, and education. We continue to see ourselves as agents for change within our industry and will continue to lobby for greater regulation around issues we care about such as the use of food additives in children’s food and junk food marketing to children. We see ourselves entering new categories and new markets.

Key strategies for future growth include increasing our market penetration locally and internationally, continuing to grow our brand awareness and engagement with our customers, continuing to innovate in product development and to expand our share of the existing category as well as disrupt other children’s categories to help achieve our mission of creating a happier, healthier world for kids.

Alongside this, we will continue to advocate for kids and to strengthen and grow our community partnerships to show that there is a better way to do business that is based on principles of strong values, conscious leadership, ethics and transparency in business and that considers all stakeholders and the future of the environment and our impact on future generations.

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Ranking: 53

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: Creating partnerships to invest in community transformation projects. They bring high-quality grocery stores, affordable housing, schools, and health centers to areas that need better access, making health, wellbeing, and financial security accessible to families, regardless of income or zip code. Partnerships with 830 investors have positively impacted over 2 million lives. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Data-driven, Entrepreneurial, Collaborative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Great impact and meaningful social change are possible when organized data and capital is put into the hands of organized people and capacity. That belief has been fundamental to Reinvestment Fund’s work to build equitable communities.”

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

Reinvestment Fund is a mission-driven financial institution committed to making communities work for all people. We are dedicated to ensuring that people in all communities have the opportunities they strive for: affordable places to live, access to nutritious food, schools where their children can succeed, and strong, local businesses that support quality jobs. Together with our partners and investors, we spark and sustain local, equitable, and green economic growth in communities across the United States.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

A nation where all people are healthy, safe, and joyful; where all neighborhoods are strong, vibrant and inclusive, with expanded opportunities for all people who live there.

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Ranking: 96

Industry: Food Production

Mission: An organic and gluten free pasta manufacturer making it easier for people to lead healthier lives and support sustainable farming practices. Their plant-based products are reducing emissions and conserving biodiversity, and their donations are helping to make healthy food accessible to all. Products are available in over 3,500 stores across North America. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Supportive, Aligned, Enthusiastic

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Good with every bite.”

It’s a sound business practice to be sure; however, for us, it’s more than that. It helps to cement our commitment that with every move we make navigating the ups and downs of business, we remain true to our core values.

Chickapea was created to provide not just a better version of the food we love, but a GOOD one. And we take this very seriously. Our goal is to use our powers for good… good taste, good ingredients, and good care of our team, our community and our planet!

We want our customers to always trust that with every single bite they take of our delicious pastas they are doing themselves, their community, and their home good!

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

Chickapea’s social responsibility efforts are growing right alongside our company’s growth. At our core, Chickapea is a force for good. Chickapea is not just benefiting those that consume our products, but those in the greatest need around the world, including our farmers, suppliers and employees.

WE CHARITY: Chickapea donates 3 cents from every box of pasta sold to WE Charity’s School Nutrition Program. We’re currently supporting a program in Los Rios, Ecuador that provides students with nutritious meals each day and education on proper nutrition. Our donations also fund a school garden and the construction of a kitchen and dining hall for the students and the wider community to come together to learn about agriculture and nutrition.

FOOD BANKS: Chickapea believes that everyone should have access to healthy food. Food banks across Canada and the US are feeding our most vulnerable populations, which are often in great need of nourishment, and unfortunately, the majority of food being donated to food banks is not very nutritious and doesn’t consider dietary restrictions. Chickapea provides a nutrient-dense, allergen-free option that’s familiar and simple to prepare. Each year, Chickapea donates several hundred pounds of pasta to food banks across North America.

CERTIFIED B CORPORATION: In 2019, Chickapea was recognized as a Best for the World B Corporation — ranking in the top 10% of all B Corps worldwide. This prestigious designation is given to organizations that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, legal accountability, and aspire to use the power of business to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Chickapea is proud of this certification and always strives to do better.

CHOOSING ORGANIC & PLANT-BASED: All Chickapea products are, and will continue to be, organic. By only choosing organic we are helping to eliminate soil and water contamination, preserve local wildlife — including honeybees — and conserve biodiversity. It also means keeping artificial food additives, irradiation, GMOs, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers out of our bodies.

OUR PLANET: We’re proud to offer our products in recyclable boxes using recycled materials.

PLANT-BASED PROTEIN: By focusing on plant-based proteins we are minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing freshwater consumption and using less landmass for more crop yield. In comparison, the emissions of beef are 250 times higher than chickpeas and lentils.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

A world where the foods we love most, love our bodies and our planet back.

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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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