Thank you for applying to the 2022 Real Leaders Impact Awards!

The final step to complete your application is to verify your revenues. Please have your CPA submit the Revenue Verification Form by September 30, 2021. All financial information collected will be used for internal awards evaluation only. 

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Ranking: 132

Industry: Publishing

Mission: A publishing company that specializes in children’s literature, publishing stories that take the imagination on a journey, help care for our planet, respect differences, and promote peace. They are committed to preserving the environment through the integration of sustainable materials in their books. Aiming to inspire the next generation to serve, educate and create positive change.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Imagination, Planet, Peace

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Stories that take the imagination on a journey, help care for our planet, respect differences and promote peace.”

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

Books are printed on Stone Paper, a Cradle to Cradle Silver certified paper that uses no tree, no water, and no bleach in its production.

Cuento de Luz believes that stories can change or plant a glimmer of hope in the lives of children who need our help to develop and survive, children living very different realities in conflict or famine. Some of our stories are intended for small foundations, led by enterprising and courageous people, who invest all of their contributions to school projects, nutrition, environmental conservation, or help promote peace. See our projects here.

The company is a B Corp since 2015.

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Ranking: 136

Industry: Impact Investing

Mission: A financial services firm that specializes in fossil-fuel-free responsible investments and financial planning. They offer sustainable, responsible, and impact investment portfolios to help clients align investments with their values and support solutions that have a positive impact on the world. Portfolios support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. 

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Ranking: 134

Industry: Marketing & Advertising

Mission: A marketing and advertising firm that builds impact brands with language and design. They help brands address challenges as opportunities to rethink, rewire, and refresh, and their strategy-driven process is adaptive, accommodating organizations regardless of project scope or industry vertical. Generating the momentum necessary to realize a vision.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Empathetic, Dissatisfied, Creative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Branding is ethically neutral. We are not.”

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

During the COVID crisis, we have been less busy than normal. We focused that extra time on providing pro bono branding to an organization that provides basic services to at-risk immigrant families, to an organization that provides free legal services, and to a non-profit that connects refugees to schools in their country of origin. After Breonna Taylor’s murder, we have pivoted our pro bono program to focus on supporting entrepreneurs of color. We are midway through our second project.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our vision is rosy. We want to model the regenerative company of the future. That means we are making money, building strong leaders, contributing to our community, putting energy back on the grid. We are doing work that is meaningful. We are using our skills to empower like-minded companies.

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Ranking: 122

Industry: Information Technology & Services

Mission: Offers a service triad of Management Consulting, Enterprise Application Development, and Technical Operations. They use the Metis Methodology to build thoughtful technology solutions and deliver a seamless and transparent user experience. Going beyond business to foster community with social impact-oriented organizational development. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Curious, Collaborative, Conscientious

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“The time is always right to do what is right. ” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

See our 2019 New York public benefit corporation filing.

Metis continues its social mission in 2020 with a deep commitment to professional development and community-based learning and train-to-hire opportunities, with a particular eye toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. Beyond acting as sponsors and advertisers for regional programs like Hack Upstate and Careers in Code, we also guest lecture on social entrepreneurship at universities such as SU Newhouse and Menlo College, advise on technical major programs at local colleges such as SUNY Morrisville and LeMoyne, and have designed and implemented communications training in conflict management, negotiation, and meeting/mentoring facilitation in collaboration with Habitus Inc., the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and MIT Learning Lab.

In 2019, 44% of our 16 permanent employees were from chronically underemployed populations, and all employees participate in our workforce development program. In the past year, our team has dedicated more than 3,000 hours to in-house and community-based training and mentoring, volunteerism, and DEI advocacy, and we will be welcoming a local non-profit with a mission of supporting caregivers and their families to our office space for the next year, allowing them to eliminate their rent obligation and meet their in-person obligations while our staff works remotely.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Metis’ vision for the future is to expand our social impact-oriented client services and community impact with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a recently-certified Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE) and woman-owned, Best-for-the-World B Corp, Metis is committed to the continuous evolution of its own policies and practices, client service offerings, and community programs in service of this goal.

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Ranking: 126

Industry: Marketing & Advertizing

Mission: A creative consultancy providing purpose-driven strategy and training to help companies grow through social good. They ensure companies know how to define, frame and share the story of the good work they do internally and externally, thereby positioning brands to lead business, shape culture, and better our world.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Fun, Caring, Passionate

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“The best hope for business is the business of hope.”

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

At We First, our core services are threefold. First, we define the strategy that allows companies to position themselves for impact at a local, national or global level. We help them define what to say and how to say it. Second, we build their culture to ensure their stated claims are effective inside the company. All the way from their supply chain through to their impact initiatives. Third, we create their impact storytelling in ways that are both meaningful and measurable to ensure that companies are walking their talk at a time when their impact is needed most. We do this for three types of companies:

• First, Venture backed or private equity backed startups that will be the leaders of the future.
• Second, purpose leaders like TOMS, Timberland and Virgin that are shifting the narrative around the role of business.
• Third, Corporate global enterprises with wide brand portfolios and global footprints that hold huge sway over their industry.

By addressing companies of all sizes in these different ways, we accelerate and scale business as a force for good.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Within the next ten years, business will fundamentally reengineer itself to become a force for regeneration. It will address issues as diverse as climate disaster, economic inequality and unsustainable agriculture in order to attract the employees it needs, sell to consumers that want to buy from purposeful brands and solve for the confounding crises we face in order to be relevant to the future. This will happen not just because it’s the right thing to do but because a business must do it as issues like climate and more effect their supply chains, their ability to win the talent wars and their connection to increasingly conscious consumers. This process has been given catalytic urgency due to COVID-19 and the global BLM protests. There is no turning back. Our very survival depends on it.

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Ranking: 125

Industry: Tech/Investing

Mission: An impact investment platform whose partners are on the front line of the economic response helping to fund small businesses and increase the economic resilience of communities across America. They are confronting, combatting, and redesigning the financial infrastructure to create a more intentional, inclusive economy – one where every individual can thrive.

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Ranking: 123

Industry: Telehealth

Mission: A health care team that provides palliative care support, offering pain, symptom, and stress management for those who face serious illness. Rural-focused and technology-enabled, they work with patients’ existing medical teams and caregivers to provide an extra layer of human-centered support. Have cared for nearly 1,000 people and families living with serious illness. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Integrity, Respect, & Innovation

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Bringing capable and compassionate care to everyone everywhere in the face of serious illness.”

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

Through innovative use of communications technology we have provided care to more than fifteen hundred people and their families as they navigate serious illness and a challenging healthcare system. Our pioneering use of modern communications technology has allowed us to save tens of thousands of driving miles to provide care. In addition, during the coronavirus pandemic we have delivered uninterrupted and impeccably safe care and support for people in the toughest circumstances.

ResolutionCare Network has also contributed to supporting colleagues nationwide in the ultra-rapid adoption of tele-health technologies to serve palliative care patients through education and training.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Through partnering with health plans, health systems, and digital health technology organizations we intend to set the tone for rapid increased capacity and access for the highest quality and most soulful supportive palliative care across the country. Perhaps beyond.

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