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| May 2025 |
B Corporation
Dr. Bronner's issued a detailed statement critiquing B Lab's V7 Standards revision, emphasizing their previous record of having the 'highest B Corp score globally' of 206.7.
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| February 2025 |
B Corporation
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps announced their decision to drop B Corp Certification, citing concerns about potential greenwashing and compromised certification integrity.
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| 2024 | PSFCU sponsored the Flag and Polonia Day celebration in New York City. |
| 2024 | PSFCU opens a branch in Clearwater, Florida and begins offering mortgage services in Indiana. |
| 2024 | The Polish Youth Association awarded PSFCU the Medal for Merits to the Youth during its five-year anniversary gala at the Consulate General of Poland in New York, recognizing the credit union's support for youth education, scholarships, and exchange programs. |
| 2024 | Better Society Capital had invested a total of £925 million and attracted nearly £3 billion in co-invested private capital since its inception. |
| November 2024 |
B Corporation
B Corporation certification reached a milestone of 9,187 certified companies across 161 industries in 216 countries, with significant presence in Canada (1,079 companies), Australia (1,032 companies), France (1,232 companies), and the United Kingdom (3,144 companies).
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| August 2024 | Muhammad Yunus was appointed as chief adviser to Bangladesh's interim government, during which several Yunus Centre-affiliated organizations received significant regulatory approvals, including Grameen University, a manpower export licence for Grameen Employment Services Limited, and a digital wallet licence for a Grameen Telecom concern. |
| July 2024 |
B Corporation
Four Havas agencies lost their B Corp status over work for Shell plc.
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| July 2 2024 | Swiss daily newspapers Tages-Anzeiger and Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on the Wall Street Journal allegations, with the WEF denying the claims and stating they were 'provably false'. |
| June 29 2024 | The Wall Street Journal published an investigative article alleging sexual harassment and workplace misconduct by Klaus Schwab, including claims of discriminatory treatment towards a pregnant employee and potential age-based discrimination in hiring practices. |
| May 3 2024 | PSFCU sponsored the May 3rd Constitution Day Parade in Chicago. |
| April 2024 | The organisation was renamed to Better Society Capital to more accurately articulate its mission. |
| January 2024 |
B Corporation
Aqua, a B Corp-certified bottled water brand, topped the audit of Indonesia's biggest plastic polluters.
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| 2023 | PSFCU opens a branch in Algonquin, Illinois. |
| 2023 | PSFCU contributed over $3.5 million to community causes, supporting Polish-language schools, cultural festivals, nonprofit organizations, veterans' associations, and religious institutions. |
| 2023 | PSFCU was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Alliance of Polish Clubs during its 95th anniversary celebration in Chicago, recognizing the credit union's commitment to supporting Polish-American institutions and cultural heritage. |
| 2023 | PSFCU CEO Bogdan Chmielewski received the Ignacy Paderewski Medal for distinguished service to the Polish-American community, presented at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. |
| 2023 | PSFCU awarded over $500,000 in academic scholarships to high school and college students through its scholarship program. |
| 2023 | Reach Digital Health awarded with Debbie Rogers |
| 2023 | Protect Democracy recognized with Ian Bassin |
| 2023 | AMAN recognized with Mina Setra and Rukkha Sombolinggi |
| 2023 | PolicyLink recognized with Michael McAfee |
| 2023 | Conexsus awarded with Carina Pimenta |
| 2023 | Published a collection of methodological materials 'Production and placement of social advertising by social enterprises'. |
| 2023 | The project expanded sales beyond gas stations to include Russian hypermarkets O'Key and Selgros, as well as the Wildberries internet platform. |
| 2023 |
Sheltered workshop
Fourteen states have passed laws banning subminimum wages for workers with disabilities, marking a significant shift in workplace policies for disabled employees.
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| July 2023 |
Benefit corporation
Oregon Governor signed House Bill 3572, enabling public contracting agencies to award contracts to benefit corporations if their goods and services are within 5% of other companies' pricing.
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| March 2023 | The UK government announced that social investment would continue to receive funding from dormant asset allocations. |
| 2022 |
Hult Prize
The annual Hult Prize competition challenged students to develop innovative solutions for getting the world back to work. The winning team was EcoBana from St. Paul's University in Limuru, Kenya, who presented a successful project addressing workforce recovery and economic challenges.
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| 2022 |
B Corporation
30 Certified B Corps joined with Fair World Project to petition against Nespresso's B Corp certification due to only 28% of their aluminum capsules being recycled.
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| 2022 | Noora Health recognized with Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam |
| 2022 | NOSSAS awarded with Alessandra Orofino |
| 2022 | MapBiomas recognized with Tasso Azevedo |
| 2022 | NDN Collective awarded with Nick Tilsen |
| 2022 | Financing Alliance for Health awarded with Angela Gichaga |
| 2022 | Common Future recognized with Rodney Foxworth |
| 2022 |
Social entrepreneurship in Russia
State Duma adopted first reading of a bill allowing individual entrepreneurs with disabilities to obtain social enterprise status.
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| 2022 |
Social entrepreneurship in Russia
Co-financing requirement for social entrepreneurs was relaxed from 50% to 25% of the total grant amount.
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| 2022 | The 'More than a Purchase!' program was recognized as the best in the 'Social Entrepreneurship' category at the 'Best Social Projects in Russia' forum. |
| 2022 | The Department for Culture, Media and Sport launched a consultation on allocating a further £880m of dormant assets. |
| 2022 |
Sheltered workshop
California reported that less than 20% of developmentally disabled persons were employed in the state.
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| December 2022 | Foundation was awarded the 'Positive Changes 2022' award in the nomination 'Development of the practice of implementing the evaluation of social projects', recognizing their systematization of methods and programs in assessing socio-economic efficiency of social enterprises. |
| September 2022 |
Social enterprise
Whitebox Enterprises hosted the Social Enterprise World Forum in Brisbane. Simultaneously, Social Enterprise Australia published a sector assessment report titled 'Business for Good', revealing over 12,000 social enterprises in Australia employing more than 206,000 people and contributing $21.3 billion to the economy.
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| September 2022 | Signed an agreement with the National Accreditation Council for Business and Management Education (NASDOBR) to jointly develop educational and professional standards in social entrepreneurship. |
| September 2022 | Published a free online course on social entrepreneurship on the Stepik educational platform, developed with RANEPA experts. |
| September 2022 | The foundation held a competition to develop a 'social entrepreneur' distinction mark, similar to the Russian State quality mark. |
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