Ranking: 1
Industry: Automotive
Mission: An electric vehicle and clean energy company on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. They are the world’s only vertically integrated energy company and offer increasingly affordable electric vehicles and renewable energy generation and storage. There are currently 275,000 Tesla vehicles on roads worldwide.
Ranking: 20
Industry: Flavor
Mission: A 95-year-old flavor company best known for introducing the Italian soda to America and creating the world’s first flavored latte. Each bottle promises amazing flavor and a dedication to helping all the people, partners, and communities they impact. Their flavors have strengthened community in households, cafes, and bars around the world.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Caring, Fun, Growthful
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Grow Baby Grow!”
As an Opportunity Company who puts people at the center, we believe businesses can and should create more opportunity for people. We are dedicated to helping all the people, partners and communities we touch thrive. We embrace company growth and the opportunity it brings for personal growth and are passionate about shaping Torani to be a force for opportunity and development of people from all walks of life.
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Torani has been deeply committed to our people, partners and community since 1925. For our team members, this is about creating stepping-stones of opportunity, and lifting up people from all socio-economic, educational, and cultural backgrounds. We’ve built people development practices (like Learning Journeys, Contribution Management, and Career Mixology) that enable our team members to create paths to rewarding worklives. This impacts the trajectory of families.
Externally, we have always cared deeply for our partners and communities, and most recently launched the Torani Café Opportunity Fund. As the recent pandemic and social unrest thrust us into a new normal, it became increasingly apparent that we needed to play a bigger role as part of the solution. After realizing there was no national effort to help the café communities in the US and around the world, we launched the Fund to help café operators and baristas get back on their feet. Our efforts focus on those significantly impacted by COVID-19 as well as communities who have been historically underserved. We look forward to building momentum with both our internal and external efforts and continuing our positive impact in 2021 and beyond.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our Torani vision is to bust out meaningful models of Opportunity for people, businesses and society. We want to bring to life our purpose — Flavor for All, Opportunity for All — internally and externally in meaningful ways. In the future, we hope to have found allies across all sectors and to be working together to solve some of the key societal issues facing us today: income inequality, racial injustice, and other factors that deny access to opportunity for all. We look forward to piloting and generating new stepping-stones of opportunity to change the trajectory for individuals and our society as a whole.
Ranking: 53
Industry: Financial Services
Mission: Creating partnerships to invest in community transformation projects. They bring high-quality grocery stores, affordable housing, schools, and health centers to areas that need better access, making health, wellbeing, and financial security accessible to families, regardless of income or zip code. Partnerships with 830 investors have positively impacted over 2 million lives.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Data-driven, Entrepreneurial, Collaborative
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Great impact and meaningful social change are possible when organized data and capital is put into the hands of organized people and capacity. That belief has been fundamental to Reinvestment Fund’s work to build equitable communities.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Reinvestment Fund is a mission-driven financial institution committed to making communities work for all people. We are dedicated to ensuring that people in all communities have the opportunities they strive for: affordable places to live, access to nutritious food, schools where their children can succeed, and strong, local businesses that support quality jobs. Together with our partners and investors, we spark and sustain local, equitable, and green economic growth in communities across the United States.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
A nation where all people are healthy, safe, and joyful; where all neighborhoods are strong, vibrant and inclusive, with expanded opportunities for all people who live there.
Ranking: 107
Industry: Supplements
Mission: A wellness company committed to helping people overcome chronic health challenges through the use of physician-formulated natural supplements, guided online wellness courses, and personalized coaching and support. They seek to improve the lives of everyone, from the global farmers and foragers who source ingredients, to their customers on the path to wellness.
Ranking: 45
Industry: Food & Beverages
Mission: An herbal tea and supplement producer that aims to nurture healthier, happier lives through powerful organic plants. By maintaining mutually benevolent relationships with farmers and workers, they strive to build a sustainable future for all. Connecting people to the beauty and power of nature through their products available in over 40 countries.
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.
