There is a movement taking place. It’s growing globally, and across every industry. An international community of 2100 businesses (to date) are redefining success in business as measured beyond the bottom line. Here at Phil, we make social impact our business. We’ve always been on the journey of profit intertwined with purpose, but recently, there have been some changes around here. A little over a year ago we were hard at work evaluating our social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency, and how our performance in these categories impacts our employees, our community, our environment, and our clients. February marks the one year anniversary since we passed the B Lab’s impact assessment and officially earned our badge of certification as a B Corp! That means we, too, are using our business as a force for good, and aspire to use our business to solve social and environmental problems. To become a Certified B Corp, Phil had to outperform the industry average, and score 80 out of a possible 200 points across five sets of performance standards: governance, workers, community, customers and environment. And we even outperformed that, which is incredible! But since our purpose is to support the organizations making truly meaningful change in our community, they really push us to consider our own business plan …show more content…
We work hard to see that their businesses thrive in the current state of philanthropy, and inspire others to action. Attaining our B Corp Certification ensures that every move we make moves us forward in driving (even more) positive impact on our employees, our environment, our community, and of course, our clients! As a member of the B Corp community, we also have a new means of engaging with our clients and delving further into what makes us work so well together - we’re helping some of our clients to explore the possibility of becoming a B Corp