Ranking: 128

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: An impact investing advisory firm serving clients who want their investments to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world. They develop and manage custom investment strategies designed to achieve targeted environmental and social impact without sacrificing financial performance. Helping clients support the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Collegial, Inclusive, Passionate

What quote best exemplifies your company?

Hillel the Elder: “If I am not for me, that who will be? (Capitalism) If I am only for me, then what am I? (Justice) And if not now, then when?” (Urgency/Impact)

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

Cornerstone works with individuals, families and institutions to pursue a shared vision: the realization of a more regenerative and inclusive global economy. Clients come to Cornerstone for investment advice and portfolio design that incorporates both financial and impact goals. Between our advisory client base and shareholders in our recently launched (11/19) mutual fund (ticker CCIIX), we currently facilitate the deployment of ~$2 billion in capital toward investments that generate positive social and environmental impact.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We envision a future where capitalism fully considers all forms of capital — not just financial, but also human and natural capital — in the pursuit of profitable innovation that benefits all stakeholders in the global economy.

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Ranking: 127

Industry: Investment Management

Mission: Serves and collaborates with individuals, families, foundations, and their financial advisors. They increase the effectiveness and alignment of philanthropic grants, impact investments, and mission related investments. Investing with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Teamwork, Equality, Generosity 

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We believe that the world should work for 7.5 billion people and not at the expense of the planet. The way we accomplish that is through transforming how we invest and give away our capital.”

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

By advising wealthy individuals, families, institutions and organizations how to align capital to solve the world’s biggest problems that can really drive the change now and decades from now. In order to do that we need to use all forms of capital so we advise, educate and execute on this mandate for our clients.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

A world works for every single human being, not at the expense of the planet and that in less than a decade we transform the financial services industry and how investments are allocated to bring equality to the ecosystem.

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Ranking: 145

Industry: Health & Wellness

Mission: A social enterprise that produces fish-shaped cast iron ingots which provide dietary iron supplementation to individuals affected by iron deficiency and anemia. They are tackling the world’s largest nutritional challenge by spreading nourishment to solve a preventable health problem that impacts over a third of the world’s population.

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Ranking: 114

Industry: Real Estate

Mission: A full-service brokerage, sustainability, consulting, and project management company dedicated to saving the planet through real estate. They introduce sustainability practices to decrease energy and water usage, helping to reduce the carbon footprint of commercial buildings. Saving over 3 million gallons of water and hundreds of thousands of dollars in green upgrades annually.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“If you are passionate about your community and your planet, if you believe that collaboration is the new competition, if you know that together we can create real change, we can’t wait to work with you!”

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

“We have integrated transparency (clear), sustainability (blue), and the triple bottom line (commercial) into all of our policies.” ~ Carolyn Pistone

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We know that in order to be truly sustainable we need to consistently focus on our clients’ bottom line as well as our own. We have made it our mission to prove that sustainability more than pays for itself. It is the essential building block of our new economy.

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Ranking: 147

Industry: Outsourcing

Mission: A boutique customer service outsourcing company that provides white glove call center and back office services to brand-conscious companies. They were founded to create sustainable and growth jobs in the US, and seek out like-minded companies with a similar commitment to sustainability, those that believe in working together to make the world a better place.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Community, Inclusive, Scrappy

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We founded HigherRing in the wake of the 2016 election to marry our passion for sales-driven customer service to the need we saw to foster great jobs across the U.S. We knew from experience that developing and treating our people as valuable members of our community, could drive incredible performance, while supporting our clients in the areas of e-commerce, activities, grocery delivery, application platforms and alternative energy (hello solar!). We founded ourselves as a B Corp and immediately joined 1% for the Planet to join in the fight against climate change. We love what we do and so do our clients.”

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

HigherRing, an outsourcer of customer service and back-office support, creates sustainable jobs by hiring our people as employees with benefits, and paying a living wage. We strive to create a warm, supportive community and work closely with our employees to offer schedules that enable employees to work around their family obligations. All HigherRing employees work from home to eliminate the stress and carbon load of a commute to an office job and we are proud members of 1% for the Planet, giving 1% of our total revenue to organizations working to solve the critical problem of climate change.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

The customer service outsourcing industry is known for low pay, poor working conditions and a myopic view of the potential of team members on the front lines of a brand’s experience. Too many business leaders who outsource, consider their call center a cost to be minimized, without considering what great recruiting, staffing, training and mentoring can do to turn their team into a potent sales force. Most of these teams, if not offshore already, are paid as contractors and often have to ‘invest’ in their own training and hardware. Profit margins are immense, quality is low and turnover is high. We know, from experience that when we hire our people as employees, pay them a living wage, and coach and mentor them, our investment pays dividends through excellent performance, increased sales, customer retention and lots of brand buzz. HigherRing intends to foster and sell this vision of customer service to business leaders while building great, sustainable jobs across the U.S.

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Ranking: 118

Industry: Networking

Mission: An online social university for entrepreneurs, creatives, and innovative professionals who are passionate about making a lasting positive impact. Members learn how to best lead their teams, scale their organizations, navigate global trends, and bolster their personal well-being. Their community stretches across 50 global cities, with 10,000 hand-selected members in each location.

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Ranking: 129

Industry: Communications

Mission: A strategic communications firm that guides purpose-driven organizations in realizing their greatest social impact. They help ensure growth, stability, and differentiation in often crowded markets, and pledge to foster a radically inclusive and richly regenerative economy. Have partnered in their own community with 28 social impact projects.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Supportive, Kind

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” — Nelson Mandela

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

From our 2019 Social Impact Report:

When we launched Mission Partners in 2017, it was with a vision to build a business that was inextricably linked to our core values; a business that could be a force for good, and that could help scale the impact of organizations like yours through a special blend of strategic visioning, planning, and communications services.

In the 2019 year alone:

• We supported more than 30 nonprofit organizations, foundations, associations, and social enterprises who are advancing breakthroughs in children’s health, housing, education, journalism, technology, and workforce development.
• We created communications tools designed for social impact professionals to lead systems change efforts through an antiracist framework — tools that we are now developing into on-demand programming for social impact leaders.
• We partnered with Slack, The Last Mile, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation who trusted us to document the findings from their inaugural cohort of Next Chapter, a bold and transformative initiative to help formerly incarcerated individuals secure wealth-building careers in the tech sector.
• We launched an application-based Social Impact Fellows program at Loyola University Maryland.
• We hosted a powerful community conversation on the soaring maternal mortality rates among Black women in the United States — led by and featuring the experiences of Black women.
• We cemented our commitment to build a more just and inclusive society by joining as a founding signatory of #WeTheChange, 400+ women leaders of Certified B Corporations and other purpose-driven enterprises who share our belief that capitalism should work for everyone, and for the long-term.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Related to the impact of our work: Our vision is a to build a network of courageous mission-driven leaders, who are informed, effective, and connected to one another, and deeply to their communities; leaders who act through a lens of equity and who understand that when we design for the edges, we all benefit.

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Ranking: 46

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: An African neobank that seeks to address the Finance Gap across the continent. They support micro-enterprises in Africa and provide financial literacy training with working capital loans to help small businesses grow sustainably. Their credit is countering debt-dependency and poverty, and has positively impacted over one million people. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Client Centric Service

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We succeed when our clients succeed.”

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

Every day we help thousands of businesses grow by providing working capital and enterprise knowledge. Our clients grow their revenues by an average of 82% annually. We have served over 130,000 businesses since 2013, with 81% female clients reporting an average net promoter score of 82.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We are building the Neobank for Africa, to be the first choice for micro enterprise finance.

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Ranking: 133

Industry: Construction & Design

Mission: A designer and builder of a unique variety of custom and eco-friendly Aerial Adventures. They use sustainably and locally harvested lumber solely selected for rot resistant species and sourced locally whenever possible. Combining eco-tourism and an experience to thrill, giving people the opportunity to reconnect with nature and foster an appreciation for the environment. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Collaborative, Engaging, Innovative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

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

We enable people to have a deeper and more profound connection with themselves and nature. Our attractions are nature-centric and cause a more compassionate and heightened awareness to conserve and preserve natural environment.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

To become the leading Adventure provider designing, building and operating attractions in nature in the country.

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Ranking: 141

Industry: Public Relations & Communications

Mission: Championing social innovation by sharing stories that matter. They partner with socially innovative organizations, redefining entire industries with the fundamental idea that environmental and social responsibility are the cornerstones of holistic success. Leading a revolution of creativity, commerce and social consciousness.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Thinking big; Collaborative; Freedom & Responsibility

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Do great by doing good.”

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

Yulu is an award-winning PR & impact relations agency that champions social innovation by sharing stories that matter. We are a proud B Corporation communications agency whose motto is simple: do great by doing good. We partner with socially innovative organizations that see beyond the bottom line and think beyond the status quo. Our clients, whether they’re finance, lifestyle, healthcare or social enterprise, are redefining entire industries with the fundamental idea that environmental and social responsibility aren’t just buzzwords, but the cornerstones of a truly holistic kind of success. A revolution is happening at the junction of creativity, commerce and social consciousness. Yulu isn’t watching it happen from the sidelines — together with our client partners, we’re leading it.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our vision is to be known as the agency that challenges thinking, solves problems, and transforms businesses through impactful campaigns and resonant storytelling.

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