Best For The World: Changemaker Honoree GloryBee Shares What Guides the Company to Have a Positive ImpactGloryBee, a family-owned business based in Eugene, Oregon, was founded in 1975 as a honey stand operated by Pat and Dick Turanski, right. They now ...
B the Change Weekly: October 11, 2019(Photo by Karsten Würth (@karsten.wuerth) on Unsplash)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter f...
Germany-based Discovering Hands taps into the superior skill of blind women to detect early-stage breast cancer (training tools are pictured above). A new study by McKinsey and Ashoka argues
How to Assemble the Right Team and Build a Purpose-Driven Enterprise(Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash)By Omar HarrisCompanies spend millions of dollars and significant time defining meaningful mission statements. But rarely do they execute the harder wo...
See If Your Southeastern State Provides a Governance Structure for Businesses Seeking Purpose and Profit(Photo by Heather Shevlin on Unsplash)In our experience, Certified B Corporations and benefit corporations are not common knowledge in Tennessee or ...
On this episode of the Growing with Purpose podcast, host Paul Spiegelman talks with Steve Palmer, Managing Partner of Indigo Road Hospitality Group.
Entrepreneurs talk a lot about what makes a company culture great, but what about keeping a culture great? In the early days of a company, it’s pretty easy for founding members to cultivate and protect a shared identity and set of values. But what h...
(Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash)The U.N. General Assembly including the U.N. Climate Action Summit, Climate Week NYC, the youth-led Global Climate Strike, and the U.N.’s report on the impact of climate change on the world’s oceans and frozen region...
B the Change Weekly: September 27, 2019The expected career trajectory is changing rapidly as new generations move into the workforce. Studies show that millennials often change jobs, and even industries, an average of four times in their first 10 years...
By Anne Stych, BizWomen Women now hold more than 20 percent of the board seats at the top 3,000 publicly-traded companies, an achievement that reaches the goal set by national advocacy group 2020 Women on Boards a year early. Data governance company Equilar Inc. analyzed gender representation on the boards of directors at companies in the Russell 3,000 Index, … Continue reading Women’s representation on boards reaches a milestone
The Average Worker Is Productive for Only 3 Hours a Day. Here Are a Few Tips to Make the Most of Their Time(Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash)By Ester BrierlyIn the modern business world, employers often expect that they will boost corporate productivity i...
Transitioning from a Traditional Business to a Social EnterpriseSocial Entrepreneur Bernie Geiss Shares Insights and Lessons Learned on the Path to Restructuring His Company for the Impact-Driven Spacehttps://medium.com/media/f3d1ea2a30673458e6e9e41347...
Edgar Villanueva Sees Path to Social Justice Through Philanthropyhttps://medium.com/media/e30fd1b3301cef00a7fb1a7b5ce4eac0/hrefEdgar Villanueva is a nationally recognized expert on social justice philanthropy. He currently serves as chair of the Board ...
Dealing With Paper Waste As an Eco-Friendly B CorpTips to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle All That Paper at the WorkplaceImage Source: PexelsDid you know that in 2014, the state of California disposed of 225,000 tons of recyclable office paper? Or that, on aver...
Cooks Who Feed Founder Transforms Love for Cooking into Business That Benefits Artisans and Connects with NonprofitsFood waste is a pressing issue affecting both climate change and world hunger. You know it, I know it, we all know it. So why not do som...