B Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
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B Lab - The Nonprofit Behind B Corps
Who We Are
B Lab is a non-profit organization dedicated to using the power of business to address the world’s most pressing challenges. We support entrepreneurs who use business as a force for good.
We are building a business community and the market infrastructure necessary to create a new sector of the economy that will redefine success in business.
We are not activists standing against the old order; instead we are empowering people by giving them an opportunity to stand for something positive.
B Lab accomplishes this by advancing concrete and integrated solutions to systemic problems. Those problems include a lack of standards to help us tell the difference between good companies and just good marketing, and existing corporate law that demands that business prioritize shareholder value maximization to the exclusion of the value created for all stakeholders.
Our solutions empower these inspiring entrepreneurs and the movement of individual consumers, investors, workers, and citizens who support them.
What We Do
B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives:
- Building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between “good companies” and just good marketing
- Accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab’s GIIRS Ratings & Analytics by institutional investors
- Promoting legislation creating a new corporate form that meets higher standards of purpose, accountability and transparency.