4D lab
Montevideo Department, Uruguay
September 2017
Education & training services
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Uruguay
4D lab es una empresa B certificada que se propone crear oportunidades de desarrollo en un entorno de colaboración para todas las personas y acompañar los procesos de transformación hacia una comunicación y una cultura inclusiva. A través de sus servicios de Comunicación en idiomas gourmet, flexibles y adaptados, fortalece una competencia clave para vivir en un mundo que cada vez más requiere de una comunicación de calidad. A través de sus servicios de consultorías y coaching en Comunicación Humana brinda herramientas para comunicar de forma ágil, creativa e inclusiva para así fortalecer la Competencia Intercultural, la Indagación Apreciativa y el desarrollo de habilidades transversales para la comunicación. A través de sus programas D Alliance y ProEdu, programas en Diversidad e Inclusión, brinda talleres y programas de sensibilización, consultorías en gestión del cambio cultural frente a la inclusión y realiza diagnósticos de perfil de inclusión. A través de sus programas para el Desarrollo Regenerativo facilita y acompaña a personas y a las organizaciones en la transición hacia un modelo de negocio de triple impacto.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.8
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.
Governance 15.8
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.
Workers 29.1
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 23.0
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 7.8
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 36.9
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.