The third-party validation that comes with B Corp Certification helps your company stand out and stand by your mission. The B Corp seal on a product, website, sales materials or business card instantly communicates that a company is a verified leader when it comes to positive impact and empowers individuals to confidently vote with their dollars more.
While certification is the end-goal, the process itself can be just as beneficial for a business to identify all the areas where they can make a positive impact. Because it isn’t easy to get, consumers can feel confident that when they deal with a B Corp it’s the real thing. It can simplify purchasing decisions by making it clear which companies share your own values.
More and more of the workforce makes decisions about where to work based on the positive impact their work creates and how well an employer treats their team. There’s no better way to attract and engage mission-aligned talent than to verify your values with B Corp Certification.
At Silver Chef Limited, we have found that what people expect from organisations has changed. Not only do people want a job, they want a career. Not only do they want a career, they want to make a difference. Working for a purpose-driven, socially responsible company (and getting paid for your trouble) is the ultimate goal.
B Corps set the gold standard for good business and inspire a race to the top, creating performance standards and legal structures being used by thousands of other businesses around the world.
The B Corp movement is one of the most important of our lifetime, built on the simple fact that business impacts and serves more than just shareholders -- it has an equal responsibility to the community and to the planet.
When your company certifies as a B Corporation, you join a community of business leaders who share your belief that business can solve social and environmental problems. Connect online, meet in person at events, or build client and vendor relationships within a powerful community of practice.
The B Corp community works on the belief that together we can do more than we can apart – a simple but powerful focus and filter. [At the B Corp Retreat], there were start-ups, mature organisations and growing organisations with new ideas about building, repurposing and investing.
Maintaining B Corp Certification through the B Impact Assessment is a powerful mechanism to help your company set goals for improvement, create more positive social and environmental impact, and track performance over time.
" The certification process was seamless. The questions really activated us as an organisation to identify things we could do better.
This new knowledge provided UCA Fund Managers with confidence we were joining something bigger than ourselves. With the B Corp community we can be the change."
Make sure your company is built on a solid legal foundation for the long term. Currently passed in the US, Italy and Colombia, Benefit Company legislation is being advocated for in Australia by B Lab.
Benefit Company legislation will provide certainty and clarity for directors to be able to make long-term decisions that benefit ALL stakeholders (employees, customers, community, suppliers and the environment) as well as shareholders. It will also help the purpose-driven business movement to scale, by redefining how we measure success in business.
