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Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to a company's commitment to operate in an ethical and sustainable way, considering its impact on society, the environment, and the economy. It goes beyond profit-making to include actions that benefit stakeholders such as employees, customers, communities, and the planet.

Sustainability reports or corporate social responsibility reports, if issued, can be found on a company's website. Other resources include the following:

B Corps

B Corp Certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials. In order to achieve certification, a company must:

  • Demonstrate high social and environmental performance by achieving a B Impact Assessment score of 80 or above and passing our risk review. Multinational corporations must also meet baseline requirement standards
  • Make a legal commitment by changing their corporate governance structure to be accountable to all stakeholders, not just shareholders, and achieve benefit corporation status if available in their jurisdiction
  • Exhibit transparency by allowing information about their performance measured against B Lab’s standards to be publicly available on their B Corp profile on B Lab’s website.

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