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: 107

Industry: Supplements

Mission: A wellness company committed to helping people overcome chronic health challenges through the use of physician-formulated natural supplements, guided online wellness courses, and personalized coaching and support. They seek to improve the lives of everyone, from the global farmers and foragers who source ingredients, to their customers on the path to wellness.

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Ranking: 45

Industry: Food & Beverages

Mission: An herbal tea and supplement producer that aims to nurture healthier, happier lives through powerful organic plants. By maintaining mutually benevolent relationships with farmers and workers, they strive to build a sustainable future for all. Connecting people to the beauty and power of nature through their products available in over 40 countries. 

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Ranking: 30

Industry: Food

Mission: A school meal provider solving America’s food crisis with a wide range of nutritious, chef-crafted, culturally relevant school and community meals. Their kid and nutritionist-approved meals empower students to make smart food and lifestyle choices. Design, produce, and deliver 2 million meals per week to 2,500 school and community sites nationwide. 

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“It is more critical than ever to ensure all students, regardless of their income status, have access to high quality nutritious meals at school. Many of the schools we partner with are serving the students and families at highest risk of obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases. Proper nutrition and healthy food can drive positive academic outcomes and can be the ultimate tool of empowerment and a key ingredient to helping children achieve their true potential.”  — from our CEO & CIO

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

At Revolution Foods, we are on a mission to create lifelong healthy eaters by making kid-inspired, chef-crafted food accessible to all. We believe everyone deserves access to real, high-quality food made with carefully considered ingredients, and we are committed to transforming citywide wellness by making healthy food accessible to all. We believe proper nutrition and healthy food can drive positive academic outcomes and can be the ultimate tool of empowerment and a key ingredient to helping children achieve their true potential. A recent impact assessment conducted by KKS Advisors on behalf of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation found schools that serve Revolution Foods saw an improvement of 13.1% in English Language Arts (ELA) test results. We work alongside best-in-class partners as an FoodCorps and Stephen & Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play Foundation to engage students in nutrition education and other integrative food activities beyond the cafeteria.

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Ranking: 95

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: A national provider of accounting back office support for charter schools. They manage the financial responsibilities of public charter schools and nonprofits, or teach them how to do it themselves, so their leaders can focus on achieving their respective missions. Support the right of every child to a quality education, and have positively impacted nearly 70,000 students.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

KARMA, Equity, and Responsibility

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“The market for something to believe in is infinite.” — Hugh MacLeod

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

Due to our services and educational workshops, charter schools and nonprofits view and value responsible financial management as vital to the longevity of their organizations. They LOVE our approach of managing these duties for them, teaching them our Fiscal Responsibility Method (FRM) or a combination of the two. Financial mismanagement is the #1 reason for the closure of charter schools and and nonprofits. Zero charter schools and nonprofits that work with CSBM/FOREsight have closed due to financial mismanagement because we have implemented our Fiscal Responsibility Method at their organizations.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our company’s vision is to exponentially increase the number of charter schools and nonprofits that implement our Fiscal Responsibility Method to protect their 69,000 students/constituents served and 6,500 staff members we ensure are compensated for their efforts. We also currently account for $1.5 Billion of public funds. We envision all of these statistics quadrupling over the next 10 years based on the demand for our services and professional development workshops we share regarding our financial best practices.

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Ranking: 68

Industry: Natural Products

Mission: A manufacturer of organic and fair trade lip care products. They search the globe for the purest, highest quality certified organic ingredients available, and promote organic farming and sustainable business practices. Supporting Fair Trade to help empower more than 950,000 farmers and workers in 45 countries. 

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Ranking: 26

Industry: Creative Agency

Mission: Offers social marketing services to government, non-profit and corporate organizations, to promote healthy living. They help to create campaigns that focus on tobacco, obesity, violence, and alcohol prevention and drive health behavior change. Currently develop, implement, and evaluate over 100 campaigns in 20 states and provinces across North America. 

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Rescue is best exemplified by our mission statement: We make healthy behaviors easier and more appealing.”

We serve over 22 states, federal agencies and non-profits by developing health communication campaigns that address issues like reducing tobacco use among youth and adults, promoting fresh foods, physical activity and after-school programs within at-risk communities, and creating programs to curb binge drinking and prevent opioid use disorder.

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

Rescue is a behavior change marketing agency that focuses exclusively on marketing to cause positive social change. Our campaign efforts use progressive behavior change strategies that change health knowledge, policy and norms across tobacco, nutrition, and substance use issues in communities across North America. And as a B Corp & Benefit Corporation we practice triple bottom line principles.

For example, since 2017, Rescue has led a statewide campaign in CA to improve healthy eating & physical activity among Low SES, multicultural families. After 3 years of leading a 24/7 youth engagement effort, the Comprehensive Tobacco-Free Schools bill became law in March 2019, protecting over 958,250 students from tobacco & e-cigarettes. And, in 2018 Rescue launched the People’s Opioid Project offering evidenced based creative assets to county, state & federal health agencies as well as health care systems to proactively address the opioid epidemic by educating patients, doctors & parents.

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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: 24

Industry: Food & Beverage

Mission: A botanical herbal wellness company embracing sustainability, ingredient purity, and social and environmental activism. They have pioneered a new ethical sourcing model by promoting organic agriculture, developing long-term equitable and fair trading relationships, and investing in sourcing communities. Sustainably sourcing more than 100 botanicals from over 30 countries.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We connect people to the power of plants to change lives – the lives of those who drink our healthy teas and the lives of those that grow our herbs in 40 different countries.”

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

We are reinventing the entire business of herbal medicine literally from the ground up.

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Ranking: 2

Industry: Cosmetics

Mission: A global personal care cosmetics group aiming to create products that promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others, and with nature. Through responsible sourcing, ecological packaging, and fair-trade ingredients in their 2,000 products, they are committed to combining growth with respect for and preservation of the planet.

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