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Share Your Secret Sauce—AKA Your Expertise
Already an experienced B Corp? Pass on what you know. When we invest in world-changing companies, we ensure that entrepreneurs have the support systems they need to thrive. As an Impact Mentor, you’ll empower others to grow their businesses or become B Corps themselves. Your level of participation is up to you!
The Marks of a Certified B Corporation
Taking responsibility for the social and environmental issues of our world isn’t just a worthy cause. It’s good business. Turn your for-profit company into a Certified B Corp and shape the world for the better.
Do you make an impact in these areas?
Community
Your business model engages with your local community and is designed to solve specific problems.
Customers
Your business delivers ethical and valuable services or products. Your work meets a need of the people you serve.
Environment
Your business manages its environmental impact by applying sustainable practices and innovating processes.
Governance
Your business fulfills and protects its mission and formally grants all stakeholders power.
Workers
Your business respects and provides for your employees, offering living wages, career development, health care, and more benefits.
Start Your Adventure in Responsible Business: How to Become a Certified B Corp
Embarking on the journey to B Corp Certification is like setting out on an epic adventure. This path is for those who dare to redefine success in business, combining profit with purpose. Here’s a preview:
[1] Answer the Call
Something inside your soul knows your business was meant for more and can be achieve a higher purpose. When your team is ready, lean on us for resources, advice, and guidance. Consider us your allies on this journey!
[2] Pack for Your Journey
This transformation calls for preparation. The first step is to study the map to B Corp Certification, planning for the route ahead and the obstacles that await. Then, pack your tools and get ready to measure your impact against B Lab’s standards. You’ll want company on this journey, so rally your adventuring team and start planning!
Inside your adventuring pack:
[3] Your First Hurdle
The crux of this journey is the B Impact Assessment, a free online tool to determine your certification eligibility based on your company’s social, environmental, and governance performance.
Once you’ve completed all five impact areas pertaining to your company’s various stakeholders (Governance, Community, Workers, Environment, and Customers), you will be able to see your comprehensive score and complete the Disclosure Questionnaire.
You’ve passed your first trial if your score is over the 80-point benchmark. If your score is below the 80-point benchmark, you have more training to do—and we can help you with an Improvement Plan so you can surmount this hurdle!
[4] Pass the Test
Honors such as a B Corp Certification necessarily have high standards. Your next hurdle is verifying your impact with a team member from B Lab Global who will evaluate your B Impact Assessment. You will have a review call with a standards analyst to go over your assessment in depth to make sure everything is up to standard.
[5] Celebrate Your Certification
Once you overcome these challenges, you’ve reached your destination: certification. You can proudly sign the B Corp Agreement and Declaration of Interdependence. Celebrate with your whole business how far you’ve come on this adventure!
[6] Never Stop Adventuring
You successfully stepped into the world of B Corps, but your journey is just beginning. With B Corp Certification comes great responsibility to meet strict social and environmental standards. These standards push your business to go above and beyond others. You’ll need to keep raising the bar, improving your impact over time. You’ll have to think outside the box and rely on your team’s strengths to implement new practices.
Sometimes, the journey will continue to feel difficult, but you weren’t made for an easy destiny. Stay the course and lean into the true purpose of your business.
[7] Your Transformation
You will succeed in your quest to make your business even better through B Corp Certification. As a Certified B Corp, you will transform how you do business, putting tangible social and environmental impact at the forefront of everything you do. As evolve, you and all your stakeholders will reap the rewards of real, earth shaking change.
[8] Return With A Tale
You’ve overcome great odds on your journey and become something new. All that time, others have been watching. Share your experience to inspire new adventurers who join the quest to shape the world into the future we all wish to see.
FAQs
Doing business and doing good can be challenging under traditional economic models. When you think outside the box, business becomes a transformative force for change. A Certified B Corp is a company that actively addresses the world’s problems instead of centering itself on profit.
- Show environmental and social impact based on the B Impact Assessment.
- Legally commit to being accountable to all stakeholders.
- Be transparent by making your performance publicly available on B Lab’s website.
You must complete the B Impact Assessment and provide verifying documentation for your company to become a Certified B Corp. Your B Impact Assessment score must be 80 or above, and you must pass B Lab’s risk review to be eligible. For more information about the certification process, please visit B Lab’s website.
Certified B Corps see beyond financial gain to provide solutions to injustice, poverty, and environmental issues. Within a Certified B Corp, stakeholders monitor the company’s profit and environmental and social change contributions.
B Corp certification is a designation given by B Lab. A Certified B Corp meets specific standards for its environmental and social impact, and it makes a legal commitment to change its governance structure.
B Lab is the organization that reviews and grants B Corp certifications.
Yes! Nothing excites us more than sharing the knowledge we’ve picked up along the way. You might catch us shouting about B Corps from the rooftops—that’s how passionate we are about them! Jokes aside, we’d love to speak with you about B Corp impact. Please email us at [email protected].
The world’s first Certified B Corp was UnTours!
UnTours was the first company to undergo B Lab’s rigorous certification process. The Foundation is proud to own UnTours, which funds our work with mission-aligned businesses.
Dive Deeper into B Corps
Take the adventure one step farther. Explore our list of curated B Corp resources.
About B Corp Certification B Lab Global
Legal Requirement Tool for Certified B Corporations B Lab Global
B Impact Assessment B Lab Global
B Impact Assessment Knowledge Base B Lab Global
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