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

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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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Ranking: 146

Industry: Environmental Consulting Services

Mission: Advises for impact, born from the recognition that sustainability is multi-faceted and requires a diversity of perspectives to create enduring solutions. They have influenced more than $2.8 billion in sustainably-oriented financing, which have safe-guarded millions of hectares of land and oceans, secured 4Gt of forest carbon, and improved over 1.5 million livelihoods.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Flexible, Impact-Driven, Optimistic

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Having seen firsthand the magnitude of the sustainability challenge we see incentive alignment and collaboration as the best approach to grow the amount and effectiveness of capital flowing to environmental impact.”

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

Since our founding in 2012, EcoAdvisors has been developing and communicating the business value of sustainability. As a network of senior professionals – with expertise in transactional conservation tools, climate change mitigation and adaptation, community-based conservation, land-use planning processes, business planning, finance and legal support – we work with public-, private-, and voluntary-sector clients on sustainability issues across global geographies and ecological systems.

We have influenced over $2.8B in sustainability-oriented financing, leading to the long-term viability of 25 protected areas covering over 15M hectares, securing 4Gt of forest carbon; supporting 100s of sustainable business models; and, benefiting 1.5M people through livelihood generation and community programs. Together, with our clients, we are helping protect threatened species, forests, oceans and the people who depend upon them throughout the world.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Help create a world where economic, social and environmental sustainability can co-exist such that people and nature all thrive.

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Ranking: 140

Industry: Professional Training

Mission: A coworking space and laboratory of entrepreneurship providing workspace sharing for start-up founders to encourage their ideas into scalable and triple impact companies. They conduct events, training, and workshops to facilitate connections and collaboration among those seeking a positive impact in social, cultural, and environmental areas.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Audacious, Adaptable, Diverse

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“The next Mohammed Yunus could be found in Cuenca, Ecuador; but if she doesn’t have an ecosystem to help her flourish, the entire world will miss out on her solution. IMPAQTO is the answer to the need of change agents who feel alone in their path in emerging cities Latin America.”

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

Change agents are audacious leaders that envision a new, more sustainable and just reality, but too often, their initiatives fail to achieve their potential because — by accident of geography — they are alone: their contexts provide little encouragement, mentorship, collaboration and resources.

IMPAQTO is a B Corp that weaves the social fabric on which an impact ecosystem flourishes and therefore enables social entrepreneurs, change agents, and thought leaders to change their local realities in Latin America. We do this by offering inspiring coworking spaces in Ecuador that reflect the community’s values (from recycling to universal washrooms), an impact business accelerator, a corporate and non-profit venturing consulting firm and very soon, an impact investment fund.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

IMPAQTO envisions a network of impact ecosystems across Latin America that are inter-connected through a back-end of collaboration that reaches every change agent, regardless of their geographical location. We plan to expand our model of coworking spaces+acceleration programs+ ecosystem events in emerging cities (under 3 million pop.) in the whole region.

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Ranking: 130

Industry: Technology

Mission: A custom software development team that works with social-good organizations to create web and mobile technologies that enhance and accelerate impact in underserved communities. They empower great causes to move successfully from idea to execution. 100% carbon neutral, and supporting projects that align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Ranking: 139

Industry: Law Practice

Mission: Building Today’s Companies for Tomorrow’s Economies. They uniquely address two modern profit drivers: innovation (uptake and development), and corporate social responsibility, considering profits alongside promoting positive environmental and social impact and transparency. The Appalachian Innovation Corridor representing clients and interests globally. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Accessible, Energetic, Innovative

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

We’re the first B Corp law firm in Tennessee, and we’re also a 1% For The Planet member. Last year we launched B Tennessee, an initiative to foster events and workshops around corporate social responsibility. We serve as pro bono counsel to B Academics and regularly dedicate time to panels and research intended to advance CSR/social enterprise.

We also intentionally operate offices in economically depressed regions including Cookeville and Jackson, Tennessee, where the local population does not have access to intellectual property and entrepreneurship counsel. We sponsor a large list of economic and social impact nonprofits, including the Biz Foundry, IMPACT Cookeville, Mustard Seed Ranch, Mayhem Mission, Green Spaces, Urban Green Lab, B Academics, Living Lands and Waters, Highlands Economic Partnership, Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, and the American Alpine Club. We’re the only IP attorneys that regularly hop on kayaks to clean up local waterways.

Principle and founder Kevin Christopher is the son of an immigrant mother and father who suffered from PTSD resulting in homelessness. Kevin’s successes are built on the backs of mentors and supporters, and so Rockridge is imprinted with a spirit of giving back and lifting up the marginalized in its community.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We look to become the preeminent venture law group across the southeast, and one particularly that marries expertise in intellectual property, privacy and technology law with a missional mindset.

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Ranking: 120

Industry: Recycling

Mission: A recycling center across three facilities that provides ethical electronics recycling as a way to create local jobs for people with developmental disabilities. The jobs they create reduce dependence upon government benefits and create new taxpayers and consumers who can contribute to local economies. Have created 50 jobs and recycled over 21 million pounds of electronics.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Fun Meaningful Work

What quote best exemplifies your company?

This is a quote from a mother of one of our first four employees at Blue Star Recyclers in 2009: “My son has been dependent on other people his entire life — for food, shelter, clothing, the works. When he comes to work at Blue Star you depend on HIM.”

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

We produce a significant impact in both areas:

• Social: 50 permanent, meaningful, and competitive jobs to date for people with disabilities.
• Environmental: Over 23 million pounds of electronics ethically recycled to date, which has directly reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32 million pounds, and diverted over 2 million pounds of hazardous/toxic materials from landfills and open space.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

In 2017 we set a long-term goal to expand our mission so that one day any person with a disability could find an opportunity for meaningful employment with their nearest recycler. At that time we had three recycling centers in Colorado. Today we have four in Colorado and one in Illinois, and our employment model is being replicated at 15 recyclers and organizations in the US and abroad. We plan to keep expanding until we reach our goal.

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