East Coast Avalanche Education LLC

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

Vermont, United States

Certified Since

August 2023

Industry

Other personal services

Sector

Service with Significant Environmental Footprint

Operates In

United States

Our mission at East Coast Avalanche Education is to foster equity, inclusion, and safe access to the outdoors while safeguarding and stewarding the environment. By prioritizing these principles, we provide exceptional avalanche training to students within the Green and White Mountains of northern New England. Through personalized courses and small class sizes, we guarantee comprehensive and impactful avalanche education for all individuals. We are dedicated to breaking barriers and ensuring that everyone can experience the beauty and power of the mountains. As permitted and insured by the White Mountain National Forest and the Smugglers Notch State Park, we commit ourselves to protecting and caring for these cherished natural spaces.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, East Coast Avalanche Education LLC earned an overall score of 86.8. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
86.8
86.8 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 12.5

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.

Mission & Engagement1.0
Ethics & Transparency1.5
+ Mission Locked10

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 26.6

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.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion0.0
Economic Impact9.3
Civic Engagement & Giving6.2
Supply Chain Management7.1

Environment 10.4

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.

Environmental Management1.7
Air & Climate0.1
Water0.0
Land & Life2.0

Customers 37.2

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.

Customer Stewardship2.9
+ Education33.3

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.



Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2023 Overall B Impact Score86.8

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