Ranking: 144
Industry: Renewable Energy
Mission: A solar energy EPC that presents cost-effective renewable energy solutions for the residential, commercial, municipal, governmental, and utility sectors. They aim to expand the use of renewable energy for the benefit of the Environment, Economy, and Earth. Pioneering projects such as the first Net-Zero Elementary School and Library in the U.S.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ranking: 55
Industry: Marketing
Mission: A marketing agency that through marketing, printing, websites, and strategic guidance helps businesses and nonprofits all over the world to intentionally develop their brand and identify their purpose. They work with companies to understand their current culture and how they’d like it to evolve. Supporting more than 3,000 nonprofits and small to mid-sized businesses across 5 continents.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Authentic, Relationship-Focused, Fun
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” — Stephen Grellet
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Firespring understands the unique challenges and responsibilities nonprofits and businesses face and commits to being a great steward in our community through our Power of 3 program. As Nebraska’s first Certified B Corporation, we create an abundance of positive social impact by leveraging our people, products and profit to do more good. We give:
Total Power of 3 Financial Impact in 2019: $2,893,947
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Firespring exists for the purpose of accelerating client prosperity so we collectively do more good. Pair that with our belief that there’s more to success in business than profitability — organizational success is also about creating a healthy company culture that nurtures and attracts employees and clients, and ultimately affects our communities.
Firespring is pioneering the Do More Good Movement — one in which we are aligning our beliefs and operations with a global evolution that elevates businesses beyond their bottom line. Our mission is to inspire other companies to evolve on their path to purpose by helping them form and execute on their strategy to make a positive mark in their industries, their communities, and the world.
Ranking: 106
Industry: Food Production
Mission: A manufacturer of certified organic, additive free, and allergen friendly snacks for kids. They support small farmers and encourage more sustainable food systems, producing nourishing food while helping to make the world a healthier and happier place for kids. Expanding their influence globally by working towards the goal that no child skips breakfast.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Caring. Friendly. Conscious.
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Healthy Products. Healthy People. Healthy Planet.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
All our products are developed using only Certified Organic ingredients and meet strict nutritional criteria that is set by our in-house nutritionist in conjunction with Parents and Kids to ensure that we are meeting not only the immediate needs of our customers, but importantly, the taste of their children.
We source certified organic produce from Australia and New Zealand where possible and work with a range of Australian, New Zealand, and global manufacturers to ensure we are producing the highest quality products with as minimal processing as possible.
Our core purpose at Whole Kids is to help parents create happy, healthy lives for their kids. While we are a food manufacturing business, we exist to make an impact beyond the food we make and it is the programs we have put in place to support our core purpose that underpins everything we do at Whole Kids. These programs include:
We believe passionately in healthy kids and a healthy world and that the actions we take can make a real and significant difference to the future of our children. Demonstrating our commitment to using business as a force for good, Whole Kids is also founding member and the first food company in Australia to have been certified as a B Corporation — an international certification recognizing companies that are using business to effect positive social and environmental change.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
In the future we see Whole Kids firmly positioned as a thought leader in kids’ health, nutrition, and education. We continue to see ourselves as agents for change within our industry and will continue to lobby for greater regulation around issues we care about such as the use of food additives in children’s food and junk food marketing to children. We see ourselves entering new categories and new markets.
Key strategies for future growth include increasing our market penetration locally and internationally, continuing to grow our brand awareness and engagement with our customers, continuing to innovate in product development and to expand our share of the existing category as well as disrupt other children’s categories to help achieve our mission of creating a happier, healthier world for kids.
Alongside this, we will continue to advocate for kids and to strengthen and grow our community partnerships to show that there is a better way to do business that is based on principles of strong values, conscious leadership, ethics and transparency in business and that considers all stakeholders and the future of the environment and our impact on future generations.
