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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Ranking: 150
Industry: Technology
Mission: An internal navigation tool that has been optimized for people living with visual impairment. The program delivers real-time navigation information via a smartphone application, removing barriers to mobility. Empowering people with vision impairment to pursue independence, navigate their world, and engage with the community.
Ranking: 148
Industry: Environmental Services
Mission: A commercial, land-based coral farm that grows and transplants species to restore dying reefs. They grow a diverse and resilient array of corals to preserve the ocean’s biodiversity while protecting the health and prosperity of communities, nations, and industries that depend on reefs for coastal protection, food, and income.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Committed, Inclusive, and Fun
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Coral Vita emerged from our lifelong love for coral reefs. Yet these ecosystems aren’t simply inspirational — they’re one of the most important on the planet, sustaining a quarter of marine life and up to one billion people’s livelihoods. They provide habitat for magical biodiversity, feed fisherfolk and their families, shelter coastlines from storms, power nature-based economies, and are a source of life-saving medicinal compounds. But half of reefs are dead and over 90% are on track to die within thirty years. Amidst the climate crisis, Covid19, and global upheaval, we must ask ourselves — what happens when we lose these incredible and valuable ecosystems? And what can we do to protect them?
We’re fighting to regenerate our world’s dying and damaged reefs. While the best possible strategy is for our leaders to stop killing them, until they stop shirking their responsibility transformative adaptation solutions are rapidly needed. By growing diverse, resilient, and affordable corals for large-scale restoration projects, Coral Vita works to preserve the ocean’s biodiversity while protecting the health and prosperity of countless communities, nations, and industries that depend on coral reefs for their well-being, health, safety, and heritage.
Each one of us has an urgent need and a massive opportunity to preserve the ecosystems that sustain us all, and Coral Vita is at the forefront of jumpstarting the Restoration Economy. We need a Coral Moonshot. By investing in ocean health, you’re not just joining a movement for a better world or making a wise business decision – you’re investing in the future of life on Earth. We look forward to planting coral with you one day soon.” — Sam Teicher and Gator Halpern, Founders
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Coral reefs are dying at alarming rates and current restoration models are insufficient to protect them and dependent communities. Degradation’s ecological tragedy, which threatens 25% of all marine life, is also a serious socio-economic catastrophe. Coral reefs directly support 1B people in ~100 nations and conservatively generate $30B annually via tourism, fisheries production, and coastal protection. Many of these people are low-income, indigenous, women, and live in regions at risk to other climate change threats and who have limited mobility or economic opportunities.
Coral Vita’s land-based farms integrate breakthrough methods to accelerate coral growth up to 50x (microfragmenting) while enhancing their resiliency to warming and acidifying oceans (assisted evolution). And our model scales: one land-based farm can potentially supply an entire nation’s reefs with sufficient capital investment.
Alongside this novel form of high-tech coral farming, Coral Vita is deploying an innovative for-profit model to sustain large-scale restoration. Given reefs’ tremendous value, we’re working to transition restoration to a commercial industry. Our unique model facilitates revenue generation and better scalability than any current restoration practitioners. We sell reef restoration as a service to customers that depend on reefs’ benefits. As our farms grow diverse, resilient, and affordable coral for restoration projects, they also function as eco-tourism attractions and education centers. Guests pay to visit the farms, where they learn about the importance of protecting reefs, our work, and how they can help, including by adopting coral or planting them with our teams and local dive shops. Students, fishermen, and community members also visit our farm to build local capacity for future jobs in the blue economy, and we emphasize hiring local as much as possible.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We launched the world’s first commercial land-based coral farm in Freeport, Bahamas in partnership with the Grand Bahama Port Authority and support from the Bahamian government. We’re currently raising funds to expand it into the best coral farm in the world to amplify environmental and economic impact, and ultimately will launch large-scale farms around the Caribbean and globally. Our restoration projects directly benefit communities by sustaining biodiversity, increasing fish stocks, protecting shorelines from storm surges, boosting tourism, and creating jobs (environmental sustainability/workforce development). We ultimately envision a global network of large-scale coral farms in every country with reefs around the world. Through financially sustainable and high-impact restoration, we help preserve reefs for future generations while spurring the blue economy’s growth locally and globally.
