Step 3.
Improve Your Impact
Create a roadmap of improvements to deepen your company's impact.
ContinueOliberte measures the engagement and professional growth of their factory employees.
Oliberte
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Customized Improvement Reports
Pick the impact areas you value most, and the tools within the Assessment will help you chart out a roadmap of improvements appropriate for your company.
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Best Practice Guides
Want to do better but stuck on implementation? The Assessment provides 40+ detailed best practices guides filled with useful tips and examples to help you implement these practices.
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Creating an Employee Handbook
Worker Benefits
Employee Wellness
Employee Engagement and Metrics
Health and Safety
Renewable energy resources
Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Monitoring Water use
Workplace recycling guide
Monitoring Hazardous, Nonhazardous waste
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Improvement Case Studies
See what other businesses implemented to improve their impact.
Badger
Greyston
Noto Group
Vidrios Marte
Etsy
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Badger Impact Improvement Report
Overview
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Point Increase |
Total Score |
Category Breakdown |
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98 B Impact
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+24
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122 B Impact
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Established a whistle-blowing policy. | +0.4 | 98.9 |
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Now produces an annual report that highlights their mission-related performance. | +0.2 | 99.1 |
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Now conducts annual worker satisfaction surveys and more than 80% of their employees are satisfied or engaged. | +0.3 | 99.3 |
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Now offers employees subsidized offsite childcare. | +0.7 | 100.1 |
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Employees drastically increased the hours they participated in community service, from 1-24% of employees being involved to over 75%. | +0.6 | 100.6 |
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Facilities are now mostly LEED certified, including dense-packed cellulose derived from recycled newspaper and fireproofed with the inert mineral, boric acid, as insulation. | +0.5 | 101.2 |
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Significantly increased their usage of renewable energy, from 0% to 25-50%. | +0.7 | 101.9 |
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Plus dozens of other practices. | +20.1 | 122 |
Starting Score: 98 |
+24
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122 B Impact Score |
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Greyston Impact Improvement Report
Overview
Starting Score |
Point Increase |
Total Score |
Category Breakdown |
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108 B Impact
Score |
+27
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135 B Impact
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Greyston now evaluates 50—75% of its management on corporate, social, and environmental targets, whereas in the past it did not evaluate any of them. | +0.7 | 108.9 |
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Greyston has now worked within its industry to develop social and environmental standards for the baking industry. | +0.6 | 109.5 |
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Employee metrics are now collected, monitored and made transparent to all employees. | +0.1 | 109.6 |
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Greyston Bakery supports employees who seek to take a short-term leave/sabbatical and guarantee their job when they return. | +0.1 | 109.7 |
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Greyston now recognizes that 10—19% of suppliers are located in low-income areas and create jobs for chronically underemployed populations. Greyston makes sure its suppliers understand and share their social and environmental values. | +0.4 | 110.1 |
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Greyston Bakery now has specific goals regarding community service hours and monitors contributions. All employees are allowed 8 paid community service hours per year. | +0.2 | 110.3 |
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Over 15% of energy is now used from on-site roof solar panels donated by Green Mountain Energy™ Sun Club and 100% pollution-free! The solar panels provide an estimated 8,000 kWh of energy per year, and save an estimated 164 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. | +0.9 | 111.2 |
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Greyston has now implemented energy conservation measures for not only lighting, but also heating, ventilation, and air conditioning in their corporate facilities. | +0.5 | 111.7 |
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Plus dozens of other practices. | +23.3 | 135.0 |
Starting Score: 108 |
+27
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135 B Impact Score |
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NotoGroup Impact Improvement Report
Overview
Starting Score |
Point Increase |
Total Score |
Category Breakdown |
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60 B Impact
Score |
+25
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85 B Impact
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Incorporated a social and environmental evaluation into their performance reviews. | +2.8 | 63.0 |
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Developed a 35-page plus Employee Handbook for the first time to include their values, mission, policies and benefits, as well as a code of ethics that aligns with their valuea and service standards. | +2.8 | 65.8 |
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Developed an employee engagement policy. | +1.4 | 67.2 |
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Developed a formal, written policy on community and volunteering engagement. | +1.8 | 69.0 |
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Launched a process for measuring and reducing overall energy use. | +0.3 | 69.3 |
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Plus dozens of other practices. | +16.1 | 85.4 |
Starting Score: 60 |
+25
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85 B Impact Score |
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Vidrios Marte Impact Improvement Report
Overview
Starting Score |
Point Increase |
Total Score |
Category Breakdown |
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91 B Impact
Score |
+14
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105 B Impact
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Started using International Financial Reporting Standards (NIF) for financial reporting. | +0.6 | 92.3 |
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In addition to technical and language training, the company provided tuition reiumbursement for employees in the last 12 months. | +1.2 | 93.4 |
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Company sent out a questionnaire to Significant Suppliers and requested reporting on social and environmental practices and certifications. | +1.5 | 94.9 |
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Company conducted a survey to get feedback on the company's social and environmental practices and asked the community what its needs are and how the company can serve them. As a result, the company trained employees to be respectful to neighbors and donated lighting to a nearby school to improve the safety of the area at night. | +3.0 | 97.9 |
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Company provided time and donations to schools and non-profits. | +2.3 | 100.2 |
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Company has a written recycling policy. | +0.6 | 100.8 |
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Company has 3rd party collection of recycling and composts organic waste on-site. | +0.5 | 101.3 |
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Plus dozens of other practices. | +4.4 | 105.7 |
Starting Score: 91 |
+14
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105 B Impact
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Etsy Impact Improvement Report
Overview
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Point Increase |
Total Score |
Category Breakdown |
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80 B Impact
Score |
+25
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105 B Impact
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Practice |
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Managers established specific social and environmental targets that they are responsible for achieving. | +0.2 | 80.4 |
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Established an employee education program around company financials. | +0.3 | 80.7 |
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Worked to develop social and environmental standards within its industry. | +1.1 | 81.8 |
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Began monitoring and recording volunteer hours of company workers. | +0.1 | 81.9 |
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Increased the number of paid paternity leave days from 15 to 25. | +0.2 | 82.1 |
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Increased percentage of employees participating in company paid professional development or lifelong learning from ~30% to 70%. | +0.8 | 82.9 |
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Began evaluating employee satisfaction and engagement and found that the percentage of engaged employees was >80%. | +0.9 | 83.8 |
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Put in place specific environmental and social criteria that significant suppliers must meet | +0.8 | 84.6 |
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Began tracking the percentage of materials/products purchased from significant suppliers that have met 3rd party social/environmental standards. | +0.6 | 85.3 |
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Tripled the percentage of spending with locally owned businesses. | +0.4 | 85.7 |
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Began tracking what % of the company is owned by previously excluded populations (e.g. women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, etc). | +0.7 | 86.4 |
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Began monitoring and recording energy usage and set specific reduction targets in order to help pave the way for eventual solar or other renewable energy on-site installations. | +0.2 | 86.6 |
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Made improvements in energy efficiency. | +0.2 | 86.8 |
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Began monitoring and recording energy usage and set specific reduction targets in order to help pave the way for eventual solar or other renewable energy on-site installations. | +0.5 | 87.3 |
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Plus dozens of other practices. | +17.9 | 105.2 |
Starting Score: 80 |
+25
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105 B Impact
Score |
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The B Impact Assessment
