Ranking: 8

Industry: Business Support Services

Mission: A dental service organization providing comprehensive business support services. Their support enables dentists to spend less time on the administrative, marketing and financial aspects of operating a practice and more time caring for patients. An assembly of 5,000 dedicated team members in over 425 affiliated dental offices on a mission to deliver smiles to everyone.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Smiles for Everyone

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Smiles for Everyone — we have a simple three word mission and vision statement that is the foundation for all we do. We start every meeting and interaction with a tie back to this statement and our goal of creating mutually beneficial win-win relationships at every turn.”

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

We focus on activating people into comprehensive oral health care. We generate half a million new patients into dental care each year in our 425 locations. Additionally, we donate free dentistry around the world throughout the year at outposts in Ghana, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Thailand, and Laos. We are expanding to Mexico in late 2020.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We will continue to drive dentistry into the mainstream of oral healthcare and relieve pain and extend lives. We currently care for approximately 1.5 million Americans and are adding a location each week on average.

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Ranking: 84

Industry: Clothing

Mission: A sustainable outdoor brand, built to inspire a love of the sea. Their garments are created with natural materials and through circular sourcing, which includes renewable and recyclable textiles and biodegradable natural fibres and finishes. Staying true to their design ethos of functionality and sustainability, remaining committed to product, environment and people.

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Ranking: 64

Industry: Retail

Mission: An online, fair-trade marketplace that features one-of-a-kind handmade works of art from global artisans. They improve lives and uplift communities around the world by helping each artisan earn personal recognition and real-world prices for their work. Have helped change the lives of 50,000 people in eight developing nations. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Courageous, Open-Minded, Transformational

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“NOVICA is one of the best uses of the internet I’ve heard of to date.” — Bill Gates at Davos World Economic Forum

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

NOVICA is one of the world’s largest social impact marketplaces with over $100M given back to artisans since inception.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our vision is to continue to transform the lives of more and more artisans around the world, providing a platform that empowers tens of thousands of artisans, gives access to 0% interest microcredit loans, preserves culture and traditional art forms and seeks to build global unity by connecting artisans with customers worldwide.

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Ranking: 43

Industry: Personal Care

Mission: A manufacturer of personal care products made with active botanicals and scented with pure essential oils. They use ethically sourced ingredients in a certified organic, zero-waste facility and push sustainability initiatives in their industry. Offering affordable products at over 6,000 stores in the U.S., and in 11 more countries around the world. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Good Intentions, Hard Work, Changing

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Work is love made visible.”

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

Founded in 1995, EO Products is a certified B Corporation, and makes all decisions in respect of its customers, its employees, and the planet, and imagines and manufactures products in a zero-waste, certified green facility in California. The EO Products factory is a solar-powered, certified organic plant that utilizes post-consumer recycled packaging and an environmentally preferred supply chain policy to honor the well-being of people and the planet we share. EO Products uses non-GMO ingredients and infuses its products with the best-quality, pure essential oils and food-grade extracts that are available while never using parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate, synthetic fragrances, aluminum, propylene glycol, polysorbates, phthalates, or artificial colors and dyes.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

A unified sense of belonging, internally and with our community at large.

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Ranking: 85

Industry: Construction

Mission: A unified design-build firm specializing in healthy, eco-friendly homes, renovations, Net Zero Energy and Passive House design. By mimicking natural systems, their buildings provide fresh air and clean water, create and conserve energy, and minimize toxins. These smart buildings pay back with healthier living, reduced operational costs, and improved economic value.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Integrity, Nurturing, Inclusive

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We believe healthy buildings are a basic human right.”

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

We create healthy and resilient buildings to support the wellbeing of people and our planet. We are committed to inspiring change and excellence in the building industry. We are one of just 16 firms nationwide meeting the American Institute of Architects’ 2030 Commitment — a voluntary initiative to transition the building industry to a carbon-free environment by 2030. Many of our projects produce more clean energy than they consume, achieve carbon neutrality, eliminate chemicals of concern, and provide healthy, comfortable interior spaces.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We envision a future where all building rooftops are garden landscapes and solar energy generators; all buildings produce more renewable energy than they consume, and all buildings are free of chemicals of concern. We envision a future where the built environment is regenerative and works with the natural world to clean our air, clean our water, and sequester carbon from our atmosphere. People have access to clean air, clean water, and a thriving planet. And healthy buildings are accessible and affordable to all.

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Ranking: 70

Industry: Facilities Services

Mission: A janitorial service that partners with community-based organizations to support programs for clean environments, personal health and welfare, and neighborhood development. They operate through an employee-centered approach, offering team members professional training and a chance to grow inside and outside the work space.

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Ranking: 51

Industry: Education Management

Mission: A global learning community connecting teachers and students through comprehensive programs to foster human understanding and create peace around the world. They partner with schools and districts to develop cultural competency that empowers students for the global marketplace. Serving 22,000 students and 4,000 educators in more than 400 schools across the country. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Passionate, Supportive, Fun

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela

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

Participate Learning unites our world through global education programs. We connect teachers and students to foster human understanding and create peace throughout our global community. We work with schools, educators and administrators to integrate global content and language learning into existing curriculum, classroom instruction and school-wide planning. We support teachers, school leaders and districts in developing open-minded, curious citizens.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our vision is to develop global citizenship among today’s students and tomorrow’s leaders.

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Ranking: 38

Industry: Environmental Services

Mission: An environmental charity focused on reforestation with the model one dollar plants one tree. They are dedicated to helping individuals and businesses give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, and protect biodiversity. To date have planted 11 million trees, which will mature to sequester 528 million pounds of carbon each year.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Innovative, Passionate, Hardworking

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Get your hands in the dirt!”

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

One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Our projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to rebuild forests after fires and floods, provides jobs for social impact, and restores biodiversity. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. At the end of the day, it’s all about restoring nature to give us all a healthy and thriving future.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We aim to create a sustainable world full of healthy and biodiverse forests.

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Ranking: 110

Industry: Food & Beverage

Mission: An Oregon-based winery with a commitment to biodynamic farming and locally sourced ingredients. They produce quality and affordable wine, while also focusing on the health of the land and community. Boosting biodiversity in their region while bottling 50 different wines, they produce more Riesling than any winery in America. 

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Ranking: 105

Industry: Food & Beverages

Mission: The world’s first FairChain coffee supplier that aims to restore the supply chain to a 50/50 balance between coffee producers and coffee drinkers. Their model is helping countries to become less dependent on development aid. They collaborate directly with 658 coffee farmers, helping them to work towards a living income.

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