“We have the unprecedented opportunity to push the reset button, redesign, and rebuild a new version of capitalism. But this time, the scales will have shifted so that more of us will be equipped with something we didn’t share before: empathy.”
As noted by Ellonda L. Green, Ed.D., B Lab’s Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a time to create and strengthen new connections through empathy — a powerful emotion that the Certified B Corporation community can use to redesign and rebuild the economy as a force for good. Read more in Green’s article and others featured in our B The Change Weekly Friday newsletter, and on our B Corporation Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram channels.
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Forward-Thinking Strategies to Help Remote Workers: How Business Teams Can Rethink Collaboration and Connection
B Corps Make Giving Easier — for #GivingTuesdayNow and Beyond: Through Online Giving and Purpose-Driven Partnerships, Businesses Can Be a Force for Good
How Empathy Can Inform the New Capitalism: B The Change Weekly
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