Ranking: 124

Industry: Regenerative Agriculture

Mission: The first regenerative holding and operating company, creating brands and businesses that transform emerging social and environmental needs into market-based opportunities. They seek solutions inspired by natural systems, human potential and intuitive imagination with the intention of enhancing the biosphere, local communities and one’s authentic life.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Developmental, Curious, Value Adding

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“No problem has been solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” — Albert Einstein

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

We aim to be life giving in everything we pursue and effect.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our vision is for Waste Farmers to evolve into an innovative and agile network of businesses focused on meeting the emerging social and environmental needs of the 21st Century and beyond.

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Ranking: 71

Industry: Investment Management

Mission: A leader in global impact initiatives dedicated to the pursuit of financial return and social change. Their clients share a common conviction in sustainable enterprise and a commitment to ethical standards that carry from their missions to their investments. Aligned with 12 Sustainable Development Goals, with the largest contribution towards Climate Action.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Authentic, Inclusive, Engaged

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We analyze opportunities from a wholistic perspective and activate capital with our investor voice, incorporating Environmental, Social, & Governance drivers to enhance traditional assessments of growth, competitiveness, and profitability.”

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

We integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into every step of our investment process. We seek leaders on ESG issues and avoid investing in companies with unsustainable business models. We look at areas such as the environment, employment practices and labor relations, human rights, and marketing safe and sustainable products and services. The result is portfolios of high-quality, long-term oriented companies with strong sustainability characteristics and significantly smaller portfolio carbon footprints versus respective benchmarks.

We have helped create industry standards in emerging ESG areas, such as climate risk in the financial sector, human rights, access to nutrition, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, access to medicines, human trafficking, renewable energy, hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas operations, and chemical safety. Through our active ownership and engagement initiatives, we seek to improve our portfolio companies’ financial performance and reputations by improving the long-term sustainability of their products, processes and policies. Leveraging our issue expertise and thoughtful engagement approach, we help build and lead investor coalitions engaging companies, industries, and policy makers on ESG issues. Ultimately, we seek to identify key ESG risks and best practices and then raise overall industry ESG practices and investor expectations.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Boston Common is dedicated to the pursuit of financial returns and societal change, with a commitment to be an ESG/Impact firm where employees, clients, partners, and vendors are inspired to create social change through the deployment of capital, shareowner engagement, and forward-looking integration of ESG and activism.

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Ranking: 10

Industry: Agriculture

Mission: A market maker for pasture-raised eggs and butter that exists to improve the lives of people, animals, and the planet through food. They focus on the humane treatment of farm animals and sustainable farming practices. Partnering with 200 family farms to create products sold in 13,000 stores in the U.S.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Vital Farms is an ethical food company that is disrupting the U.S. food system.”

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

Our purpose is rooted in a commitment to Conscious Capitalism, which prioritizes the long-term benefits of each of our stakeholders including farmers and suppliers, customers and consumers, communities and the environment, crew members and stockholders.

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Ranking: 87

Industry: Personal Care

Mission: Thoughtfully crafted personal care products empowering people to change the world through everyday, quality purchases. For every product sold, they donate a bar of soap to someone in need in the U.S. or abroad, pairing donations with hygiene education. Helping to improve health through hygiene in 65 countries and counting. 

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Ranking: 73

Industry: Information Technology & Services

Mission: A consultancy that supports technology innovators by designing, building, and delivering quality software solutions. They lead with a people-centered approach, and are driven by their vision to be a thriving example of business for good. Inspiring others to think differently, thereby growing a collective impact on the world. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

People-centered, Purpose-driven, Passionate

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

A B Corp certification is the only certification that measures a company’s entire social and environmental performance. As a certified B Corp, we are held to this standard. At Ingage this looks like encouraging conversations on equity, inclusion and diversity. We are also committed to contributing 3% of our revenue to transform communities. We have an exceptionally strong culture, driven by passionate and purpose-driven individuals. In 2019, our team served 4,921 hours in our community and made possible $371,518 in donations and nearly $2 million since our inception in 2011. Furthermore, one of our service offerings, the Thrive Accelerator Program, is a proven talent development model, where we invest in training and mentoring technical talent to grow our clients’ diverse teams.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

To be a thriving example of business for good in order to inspire others to think differently, thereby growing our collective impact on the world.

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Ranking: 108

Industry: Professional Training & Coaching

Mission: A global network and essential resource for professional women who create, inspire, and lead. They are committed to helping each other succeed, and aim to close the gender achievement gap in business by providing women with a community to lean on and learn from. Connecting over 150,000 women across the globe. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Intersectional, Grateful, Authentic

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Ellevate is the largest community for women+ at work. A powerful coalition of ambitious and supportive women+ who believe there is strength in numbers. We show up for each other, helping everyone — no matter their background or aspirations — build a career they love. And, more importantly, we mobilize our collective power to change the culture of business.”

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

At Ellevate Network, we’re redefining networking. Although our community is the largest of its kind, we know that navigating a sea of faceless connections is a waste of time. That’s why, at Ellevate, we prioritize the real, authentic relationships that can change your situation, can make a difference in your future.

We help women build meaningful local and digital relationships that can offer insights and open doors. Our community has reach, power and influence, while still remaining warm, welcoming and supportive.

Through collective action, Ellevate is shaping business to be more inclusive. Our goal is full and equal access to power, for everyone. Ellevate is where change makers cultivate their voice, build bridges to understand and mobilize for impact. We work with leading companies to help them hire, retain and improve diversity, equity and inclusion within their organizations.

We also approach our work through a B Corp lens. We want to have a positive impact on our community, our environment, and our team, so we’re always looking to do business the right way, not the easy way. After the pandemic began, we introduced the EllevateHER Forward fellowship, a program for women financially impacted by the pandemic to help them get their careers stabilized and back on track. We launched several new online event series to keep our community connected during these challenging times, and delivered peer mentoring through a 12-week Squads program focused on leading through uncertainty.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Equality. We believe that when ambitious professional women get more opportunity, it ultimately benefits everyone, and leads to a more equal world. We’re committed to giving these ambitious professional women the community they need to take the next step in their careers — whatever that means to each of them.

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Ranking: 57

Industry: Impact Investing

Mission: An investment advisory firm exclusively focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. They offer strategies designed to advance humankind towards a global sustainable economy, a just society, and a better world. Address the risks/opportunities created by the increasing constraints on natural capital to provide positive impact, long-term value, and ‘social dividends’.

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Ranking: 12

Industry: Public Health

Mission: A water treatment company that specializes in water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services. They deliver comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies. Operating in more than 170 countries around the world.

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Ranking: 76

Industry: Farming

Mission: The world’s first impact farming company that aims to upend the traditional farming model. They employ, support, and farm alongside local growers to raise crop yields with innovative farming technologies, empowering smallholder farmers and their communities while promoting renewable, sustainable environments. Over 800 people employed and 350 additional small farmers supported.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Inclusive, Inspired, and Innovative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Shared-X is an Impact Farming innovator, and we aim to help catalyze a global Impact Farming movement.”

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

Shared-X has chosen an impact path in which our social impact goes beyond price premiums for smallholder farmers, and our environmental impact goes beyond organic for farm ecosystems. In this way, the magnitude of Shared-X’s impact is uncommonly powerful — for people and the planet. At Shared-X, we express all three letters of ESG: E + S + G.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Shared-X’s vision is a global Impact Farming movement.

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Ranking: 65

Industry: Food Production

Mission: A social venture group consisting of four branches that promote plant-based eating and environmental protection. They aim to construct a multi-faceted global ecosystem of future food that combats climate change, food insecurity, public health crisis, planetary devastation, and animal suffering. Promoting the once-a-week plant-based meal philosophy that has now spread to over 30 countries.

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