AKALAKA
North Carolina, United States
August 2025
Technology-based support services
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United States
AKALAKA co. exists to serve the families who need and give the greatest care. Guided by the vision of Dr. Victoria Chibuogu Nneji, AKALAKA harmonizes advanced systems engineering with the heart of human compassion to address the economic and emotional challenges of long-term care. We operate the Care Partner Security Collective, a workforce development model that professionalizes the "invisible" labor of family caregivers. By training family members and friends caring for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities to become Certified Peer Facilitators, we convert unpaid labor into a dignified livelihood with portable benefits. This approach creates a sustainable infrastructure of care that directly addresses health disparities and builds intergenerational wealth, particularly for women of color. AKALAKA partners with community underwriters and Medicaid managed care organizations to deliver services that are consistent, affordable, respectful, and equitable. We measure our success not just by efficiency, but by the tangible improvement of our members' Connection, Clarity, and Confidence. We are dedicated to a future where every interaction is marked by timeliness, thoughtfulness, and delightfulness. With AKALAKA, we handle life together.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 12.2
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 43.8
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 7.0
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 37.0
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.