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Through the business innovations of aquaponics and greenhouse growing, Main Street Farms is able to grow fresh and sustainable food locally and all year round in the Upstate New York area. Aquaponics is an innovation that combines aquaculture, or raising fish, with hydroponics, or growing plants without the use of soil. Main Street Farms also serves as an education center by providing educational programming to local schools, colleges, and other community organizations.
UTC Aerospace Systems in Colorado Springs is partnering with the local food bank to turn manufacturing waste into meals for those in need.
Verstak (literally translated as a workbench) is a small business – a design bureau oriented exclusively to serve the needs of the nonprofit sector. This model is quite unique in Russia, but already proved to be successful. Co-founders of Verstak have a vision to share their experience to encourage other companies in their transformation to work with the third sector.
Their pledge includes ‘Love for the poor’ dedicated to women and poor empowerment.
Mr Haque says "64% of the artisans enrolled in Jharcraft are women. Ever since its inception, it has been growing very rapidly and has shown exponential growth in the number of weavers, silk rearers and artisans associated with the organization."
The sole purpose of the organization is to create sustainable livelihood opportunities in the rural areas based on Sericulture, Handloom and other allied activities.
Jenelle began her business by cutting up and repurposing clothing that her children had outgrown. From there, she has drastically expanded her business. She is very goal driven. Her goal is to make an impact. "I always wanted to become a teacher," says Jenelle "but as my life progressed, that didn't really happen. But what did happen, is that I became my own boss and started a company that went on to be recognized by Martha Stewart, and has diverted TONS and TONS of clothing from our landfills."
Through properly educating people, Jenelle hopes to be able to change the way humans dispose of old textiles in hopes of benefiting the environment. By doing this, she hopes to create a better world for her children to grow up in.
6ENTE Chemicals' main business is to provide engineering services for new chemical projects and upgrading services for existing chemical plants. In response to the Kyoto Protocol, 6ENTE Chemicals has transitioned their business efforts into an environmentally friendly operation by introducing new technologies that help the environment. Their innovations include a unique organic fertilizer that promotes plant growth and is not harmful to the environment, and their desulphurization and denitrification technologies that treat exhaust gases in order to clean and reduce air pollution.
Packwell is a packaging company, founded in 1986, that provides packaging expertise and solutions to the polymer industry, specifically in Houston, Texas, and Shanghai, China. Packwell's business innovation is the unique company culture that they have. The company prides itself on being family oriented and supporting its employees, their families, and the community. Packwell has become a paperless company and is teaching its employees how to be paperless too.
La Estufita - Glatt Stove is a Mexican B Corp committed to the environment and health of Mexicans. La Estufita (little stove) can be used anywhere and uses liquid natural gas which makes it possible to cook in a different way and in any place, eliminating the risk of smoke inhalation from cooking with wood which is extremely harmful to health.
LavkaLavka is a social enterprise that aims to revive agriculture and lost gastronomic traditions in Russia, as well as to foster a new agricultural and gastronomic culture worldwide. It is a farm cooperative, which includes an online service designed, as a social network to interact with farmers and consumers, as well as a restaurant chain and a retail store network.
The organization(Svatantra) provides affordable financial and non-financial solutions to rural women who have taken up entrepreneurship. Currently, the organization has 120,249 active clients across three states (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh) and a total client portfolio of 128 crores.
They provide individual loans to customers, largely catering to the rural. The loans can be used for business requirements such as working capital or capital expenditure, among others. Ananya wants to grow her company to become a small finance bank and eventually a national bank. But now she is focused on growing the portfolio by leveraging more technology. From cashless disbursement, her microfinance is moving towards cashless collections too
Lambbank by Jonggol Farm is a breakthrough way of investment in sheep or goat farming in Indonesia. The investment system provides the easiness to invest by small investors even individuals who are willing to invest in sheep or goat farming using the method of profit sharing. The new business model is to connect the investors who are willing to invest and the farmers who are willing to manage the sheep using the specific monitoring model. The model manages up to the process of sharing the benefit of the sheep: meat, milk, etc. The farmers can also gain the benefit by having a lot of sheep with minimum own-pocket expenses, and gain the benefit from the sheep.
Wall-Street is often criticized for failing to make considerations behind returning shareholder value; Appleseed Capital is an investment firm seeking to change that image through a different approach to evaluating potential investments and advising clients. As the first investment firm in Chicago to be designated a "B-Corp," Appleseed uses a unique ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance) metric to both evaluate good investments for their clients and lobby firms to make positive social changes
Starting in 2014, Sodexo services at Nicholls State University sponsored the Cast your Chip for Community Donation Project. This project's goal is to stop hunger and help our communities thrive. The Nicholls Dining branch of Sodexo started this project, which grants time, money, and effort back to local non-profit organizations. It helps these organizations to continue to assist the less fortunate by providing food, shelter, clothing, counseling and any other necessities needed. "Since opening, we've donated $6,868.83 to local, non-profit organizations through our Cast Your Chip for Community program," said Bianca Gilfour, Marketing Manager of Nicholls Dining.
Positive Vibes is an organization created to promote love and positivity. Positive Vibe Nation is a support system for individuals who are not fortunate enough to have a support system. The overall goal of this brand is to make the world a better place and give back to charities.
Lumni provides funds to students through income share agreements so that they can successfully complete their studies. Essentially, the company empowers students by providing an easier way to receive education, and then helping them receive jobs thereafter.
Vanessa Escudero (People & Organizational Development Director, Heineken México), said during the interview:
"Me as a woman I do not want to be hired for being a woman, I want to be hired for the ability and for what I can contribute and I believe that most human beings would say the same, man, woman, blue, yellow, whatever, frankly we want that. So I believe the vision of Heineken at a global level and my own vision I think it is a much more equitable world, how to do so that everyone can participate in the same table, not trying to make democracy in action, but by now to have equal opportunities."
Proton Group is a company working for long-term employment and nurturing the community around them while working towards a sustainable industry business.
Renova has for a long time worked within the recycling business and they keep creating new ways to improve their mission. They strive for a better environment and Kurt Lindman, their sustainability chief, is the person who's the driving force in this process.
Kinnarps is a company in the forefront when it comes to their sustainability work. They are working diligently with majority of the UN Global Goals but are mainly focused on goal number 12 and 13.