Ranking: 70
Industry: Facilities Services
Mission: A janitorial service that partners with community-based organizations to support programs for clean environments, personal health and welfare, and neighborhood development. They operate through an employee-centered approach, offering team members professional training and a chance to grow inside and outside the work space.
Ranking: 51
Industry: Education Management
Mission: A global learning community connecting teachers and students through comprehensive programs to foster human understanding and create peace around the world. They partner with schools and districts to develop cultural competency that empowers students for the global marketplace. Serving 22,000 students and 4,000 educators in more than 400 schools across the country.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Passionate, Supportive, Fun
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Participate Learning unites our world through global education programs. We connect teachers and students to foster human understanding and create peace throughout our global community. We work with schools, educators and administrators to integrate global content and language learning into existing curriculum, classroom instruction and school-wide planning. We support teachers, school leaders and districts in developing open-minded, curious citizens.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our vision is to develop global citizenship among today’s students and tomorrow’s leaders.
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.
Ranking: 110
Industry: Food & Beverage
Mission: An Oregon-based winery with a commitment to biodynamic farming and locally sourced ingredients. They produce quality and affordable wine, while also focusing on the health of the land and community. Boosting biodiversity in their region while bottling 50 different wines, they produce more Riesling than any winery in America.
Ranking: 105
Industry: Food & Beverages
Mission: The world’s first FairChain coffee supplier that aims to restore the supply chain to a 50/50 balance between coffee producers and coffee drinkers. Their model is helping countries to become less dependent on development aid. They collaborate directly with 658 coffee farmers, helping them to work towards a living income.
Ranking: 11
Industry: Consumer Goods
Mission: A multinational consumer goods company that meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal care. Using responaible sourcing and manufacturing, they aim to make sustainable living commonplace by appealing to more consumers with sustainable, purpose-led brands. Reaching 2.5 billion people each day with more than 400 brands bought in 190 countries.
Ranking: 44
Industry: Renewable Energy
Mission: A Vermont-based solar provider aiming to make clean, renewable energy simple and affordable. They offer numerous options for residential, commercial, and community solar, and have an ultimate goal to power the entire state with clean energy. Have thus far helped over 8,000 homes, businesses and schools go solar.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Caring, Intentional, Joyful
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“SunCommon is a market-solution to climate change — organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as B Corp to use the power of our business for good.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
SunCommon is the market-leading provider of residential, community and commercial solar in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley. We delight our customers with clean energy solutions to their power, heating and transportation needs while saving them money as we together address the climate crisis.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our human existence on Earth is powered by clean, safe, renewable energy from infrastructure built in our communities by local workers from diverse backgrounds who earn good wages and great benefits, employed by businesses that care.
Ranking: 16
Industry: Food & Beverage
Mission: A purveyor of wines and spirits that strives for the perfect relationship between land, climate and grape. Through sustainable farming practices, they have eliminated the need for synthetic, fossil fuel-based chemicals in their vineyards and divert 98.21% of all their waste from landfills. Wines are available in more than 50 countries.
Ranking: 81
Industry: Environmental Technology
Mission: Globally offering sustainability as a service with patent-protected programs that deliver environmental impact and bottom-line results. They help companies meet sustainability goals while increasing brand value and customer loyalty, making it easy for businesses to do well by doing good. On pace to offset over 30 million metric tons of carbon by 2025.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Driven, Collaborative, Positive
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Our purpose is to make sustainability truly convenient, so it’s easy for people and businesses to do the right thing.” — Pete Davis, CEO of GreenPrint
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Purpose sits at the center of our business. In our mission to intertwine business value with positive environmental impact, we naturally empower individuals in the stakeholder groups we serve to create larger change. Our four areas of focus (climate change, climate justice, circular economy, diversity & inclusion) recognize the crucial connection between the planet and people, and the power of small actions to cause meaningful impact.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We believe in preserving our planet by empowering its people. Our purpose is to create positive change through innovative thinking and solutions so businesses can do well by doing good. Small actions can have a great impact, and we’re here to ensure that every business can be a part of a brighter future.
Ranking: 7
Industry: Food Production
Mission: An ice cream manufacturer that uses high-quality ingredients from family farmers who do not treat their cows with synthetic hormones. They have additionally established a foundation that supports grassroots businesses that help their communities. Seeking to meet human needs and eliminate injustices while producing nearly 1 million pints of ice cream per day.
