Foothold Technology
New York, United States
January 2020
Software publishing and SaaS platforms
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United States
Foothold Technology is a premier, nationwide human services Electronic Health Record (EHR) software company. Founded in 2000 and based in New York City, Foothold’s client community currently consists of 1,000 provider agencies across 28 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Foothold’s software, AWARDS, was developed by human services professionals for use by human services professionals. AWARDS supports agencies providing a wide range of services including mental health, alcohol and substance use, intellectual and developmental disabilities, homelessness and housing, employment and training, seniors, veterans, and more. Foothold’s service model ensures each and every client benefits from the wealth of knowledge in the entire community. As a result of this sustained focus, AWARDS has attained an incomparable level of sophistication and usability. The team at Foothold is passionate about using technology to help human services agencies help people, and believes that all human beings deserve to live with dignity. As such, AWARDS is built to ease the burden of record-keeping and to provide flexible, sophisticated reporting tools to strengthen an agency’s operations on every level. That way, Foothold’s client agencies have the freedom to focus on their mission.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 11.5
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.
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 11.5
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.
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 25.3
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 11.8
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 5.4
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.
Customers 37.6
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.