Some B Corps are just ordinary businesses, but a large percentage have community- or environment-based goals as central to their work. A good example is Catchafire, which matches people who would like to volunteer their skills with non-profit or social-based companies that need those skills. That makes them another business that needs to mentioned in the …
I previously mentioned the impressive work and B Lab score of Cooperative Home Care Associates. Here is Adria Powell of CHCA talking about the quality of jobs. It’s hard to think of a topic more central to the Best for NYC Challenge.
Today’s post comes while I’m in Kansas City for the annual APTI Conference. I’m spending my time at the conference generally schmoozing with people in all fields touching on preservation – architects, conservators, buildings owners, contractors, and so on – but also meeting with peers in the field of conservation engineering. Most of them are …
Some of the B Corps based in New York are quite a bit bigger in influence than we are. One of these companies is Etsy. They’ve become famous as a way for people to pursue crafts as part-time businesses instead of only as hobbies; more importantly, their high B Impact score shows that they are pursuing …
Here is a video of Sara Horowitz of the Freelancers Insurance giving a good explanation of the philosophical* foundation of the B Corp movement. Her points apply to the B Corp movement in general, but are a nice summary of the goals of the Best for NYC Challenge. *There’s that word again.
