Impact and the business model.
Mission
- For Intention: We assess the company has embedded impact into its DNA
- For Evidence: We look for whether the company has included impact as part of its mission or vision statement, or the founders have publicly declared their impact intentions
Impact generated from every dollar of revenue
- For Intention: We assess whether the positive benefits and financial success are aligned.
- For Evidence: We seek documentation for how the business model and impact model are linked
Do all stakeholders benefit? B-Corps
We draw heavily on B-Lab’s Impact Assessment methodology in due diligence and ongoing performance monitoring.
B Corps meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability, and aspire to use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems.
We encourage investees to become B-Corp certified, if they are not already.