Ranking: 104
Industry: Media Production
Mission: A non-profit that combines the power of storytelling and technology to achieve social change around the world. They produce culturally resonant television and radio programs and communication campaigns to promote positive outcomes in health, environment, and social justice. Operating 22 active programs in 33 languages across 69 countries.
Ranking: 89
Industry: Physical Education
Mission: A youth development organization providing positive experiences through sports and creative play. They organize programs and activities outside of the classroom and teach kids the importance of health and fitness as a way of life. Working with over 25,000 kids in dozens of communities around New York City.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Committed, Inclusive, Ambitious
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.” — Nelson Mandela
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
We believe that sports and creative movement are a vehicle to learning life’s greatest lessons. By providing equal opportunity to all kids to engage in productive physical activity programs we believe that we can foster a positive sense of self in kids, bring people together of all backgrounds, and ultimately empower the next generation of leaders. We currently work with kids from over 75% of New York City’s zip codes and over 50% are living in low income districts. By closing the opportunity gap now, we believe in a bright and more equitable future for all.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our vision is to encourage active lifestyles and character-building, to develop the integrity of a generation. We see our impact as more than just a school year, a sports season, or a session of summer camp, but rather as a long term investment of our future. Our hope is to provide our kids with skills that translate to all aspects of life and empower them to go out into the world and continue to create positive change.
Ranking: 50
Industry: Fundraising
Mission: Creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits. They modernize the giving experience to accelerate social impact, and their annual Classy Awards spotlight the innovative work nonprofits are implementing globally. Fundraising on their platform has doubled each year — resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising $3 billion.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Fun Meaningful Work
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“To mobilize and empower the world for good.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Classy is a Certified Benefit Corporation that seeks to add value to all of our stakeholders. We deliver unquestionable value to our customers & their supporters, help employees feel their time at Classy is worth its weight in gold, create financial durability & returns over decades, and practice the belief that a business’ contribution to society is as important as its finances.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our purpose and values shape our vision for a stronger social sector; one where giving is easier and more accessible for billions of people around the world.
We believe an empowered and well-resourced social sector plays a vital role towards this envisioned future as the front-line champion for both humanity and the environment.
We believe in a reimagined corporate sector—one that plays a stronger role in society as a force for good and benefits all of its stakeholders, not just shareholders.
And we believe that breaking down the barriers between sectors, while incentivizing stronger collaboration towards our common goals, will accelerate “innovation for good” around the world.
The challenges in front of us won’t be solved by one person, one company, or one sector alone. We are inspired by the leaders who have come before us, and hope that our actions — over the next 100 years — will set a new precedent for conscious businesses as we work together to build a more inclusive and sustainable world for all.
Ranking: 100
Industry: Financial Services
Mission: A nonprofit financial services organization committed to transforming an unjust and extractive economy to one that brings healing and regeneration. They connect social entrepreneurs with diverse forms of capital to help them engage with money in more meaningful ways. Paving the way to long-term social, economic, and ecological benefit.
Ranking: 83
Industry: Marketing & Communications
Mission: A social change agency that crafts and integrates strategic and creative services. They work exclusively with clients who advance social change, and help them in their efforts to build a just and sustainable world. Striving to create vibrant and equitable communities, well-being and safety for all, and a healthy planet for future generations.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Engaged. Questioning. Committed.
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“We believe that social change requires two ingredients — change agents who see that the status quo is not acceptable and take action to change it, and the power of voice to engage with relevance and mobilize with conviction the diverse stakeholders who together can drive lasting change.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
We design and implement direct social change campaigns that shift narratives and support change agents in driving tangible and lasting policy, practice and behavior changes that advance public health, environmental sustainability and social justice. We build the capacity of change agents, organizations and movements to apply strategy and creative to increase efficacy and impact.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We envision a more just and sustainable world. A world where:
Ranking: 22
Industry: Environmental Services
Mission: Offers specialist grounds maintenance and commercial landscape services. They reduce the impact of human habitation while enhancing the human experience through designing, developing and maintaining beautiful, sustainable landscapes and environments for people, communities and wildlife to safely enjoy. Servicing over 45,000 commercial sites across the UK.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Family, Entrepreneurial, Inclusive
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Caring for Our Environment.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Our service maintains the environment in which we live, and we try to do this in the most sustainable way possible; using battery tools and electric vehicles, using renewable energy, composting or reusing waste and maintaining rather than removing vegetation. We train our staff to educate and work with our landowning customers to create habitats which create a positive environmental impact.
We also contribute through the Evergreen Fund. Financed by five percent of Ground Control’s annual profits, the Evergreen Fund is an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives that will specialize in providing seed and growth capital to early stage companies and social enterprises that are focused on delivering measurable, beneficial and sustainable environmental impact. Over the next five years, the fund will:
We also believe our field team model has a positive societal benefit, supporting micro-entrepreneurs around the UK to run and grow their businesses.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We create and maintain external spaces that are safe and enjoyable for all. By growing in our core maintenance led markets, our aim is to continue on our ambitious growth trajectory by doubling in size over the next five years. As we grow in our core markets, we become stronger and more stable as a business, providing stability to all whom depend on Ground Control for their livelihoods. The sustainability this provides allows us to pursue our work in Caring for our Environment. Imagine that by 2025 our technology platforms support a happy workforce of more than 10,000 people. We will have planted over 1,000,000 trees, installed more than 10,000 EV chargers and, through our environmental initiatives and Evergreen Fund, we will have significantly contributed to helping the UK become a carbon neutral country by 2050.
Ranking: 48
Industry: Industrial Equipment
Mission: An industrial equipment manufacturer that produces filtration, separation, and silencing products. Embracing the ideal of industrial growth while advocating environmental responsibility through the development of sustainable solutions that protect mission critical machinery and the surrounding environment. Serving a wide range of industries, with 20 facilities spread across 5 continents.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Pioneering, Connection, Supportive
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“When a company takes care of its people, working environment and mother earth, we can build our business through making products which solve customer needs.” — Charlie Solberg
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Being a certified B Corp & current 4-time Best for the World – Environment recipient, being recognized for this honor represents our intentional efforts in living our Guiding Principles to the fullest, attracting Purpose-led people who are a part of something much greater than themselves.
588 paid hours of volunteering in 2019 through our SCIP (Solberg Community Involvement Program) representing 64% participation. Current goal is 75% participation once Covid subsides. Millions of gallons of water saved annually through our enabling filtration technologies that are successfully enabling the transition from water-based systems to waterless-based systems 50% reduction in consumed electricity, representing millions of kW-hr’s saved annually, on equipment using our products due to the transition from water-based systems to waterless-based systems 33% increase in equipment longevity by equipping our technologies in high-intensity, extreme duty applications in the computer chip making industries, steel making industries, and solar-cell making industries.
Solberg’s products protect the environment, protect equipment, and help keep industrial working conditions safe by filtering hazardous contaminants from industrial processes. Our air/oil separation products capture oil mist emissions, fog, and smoke for re-use. Our silencing products reduce rotating equipment noise levels in work environments, improving the health and safety of workers.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our recent company Mantra & Mindset statement from June 2019 states, “our business family counts on ALL OF US”, inspiring all workers to know they and their work matters regardless of where they are in the company. Further, our Mindset statement “We are all Scouts” challenges all of us to proactively seek and push for continuous improvement in every aspect of business. This addition to our Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles provides further context and action by which we will make further positive societal and environmental impacts. New products in disciplines such saving people’s hearing by reducing mechanical noise pollution from industrial equipment in workplaces, generating less waste by extending the mean life expectancies of high-precision manufacturing systems in fabs, and realizing more re-use of manufacturing by-products through successful reconditioning are exciting outcomes of our passion for making the world a better place!
Ranking: 6
Industry: E-Commerce
Mission: A global online marketplace where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items. They turn creativity into a thriving business and aim to keep commerce human. Offset 100% of carbon emissions from shipping and bring together 2 million active sellers and 35.8 million active buyers.
Ranking: 36
Industry: Food Production
Mission: An American food producer revolutionizing the dairy industry by combining proprietary technology with age-old creamery methods to craft cheese and butter from plants. Dedicated to reducing the world’s consumption of animal products by making a Phenomenally Vegan lifestyle accessible to everyone. Crafting organic foods with artistry, integrity, and ethics.
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Miyoko’s Creamery is leading the animal-free transformation of the dairy industry for the urgent salvation of the planet and all living beings. Since its launch just five years ago, Miyoko’s has introduced a wide range of award-winning dairy products 100% made from organic plants, that set a higher standard for taste and quality within the dairy industry, are cruelty free, and are radically better for the environment, producing 98% less greenhouse gases than their animal based counterparts.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Miyoko’s Creamery is known for its delicious, award-winning cheeses and butters that are healthier, more ethical, better for the environment, and 100% made from organic plants. Miyoko’s is a Certified B Corporation, having completed the rigorous certification process that ensures the company is meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability. Going a step further in our sustainability efforts, Miyoko’s commissioned a third-party to complete a life-cycle analysis of the environmental impact in the production of our cashew-based line of cheeses, which proved Miyoko’s products are up to 98% lower in GHG emissions than dairy cheese. With innovation and compassion at its core, Miyoko’s developed a line of cheeses made from American-grown crops of legumes and potatoes and is working with domestic501(c)(3) organizations that help farms transition from dairy farming to plant agriculture for human consumption.
Ranking: 4
Industry: Clothing
Mission: A designer of outdoor clothing and gear, committed to authentic product quality and environmental activism. Their products are ethically sourced, made largely with recycled materials, and created for function, repairability, and durability. Supporting 66,000 workers in 10 countries through their Fair Trade program and on track to be carbon neutral by 2025.
