The Impact Economy is Global and Diverse:
92 Companies From 15 Countries and 31 Industries
Recognized As Leaders in Redefining Success in Business
March 19, 2014: Santa Monica, California
PwrdBy was recognized for creating the most positive overall social and environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list. The ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list honors 92 businesses worldwide that earned an overall score in the top 10% of all Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a company’s impact on its workers, community, and the environment. Honorees were recognized among micro-, small-, and mid-sized businesses.
Today, there are over 970 certified B Corporations, across 60 industries and 32 countries, unified by one common goal: to redefine success in business. B Corp’s foundation of using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems through rigorous standards of performance, accountability, and transparency closely aligned with PwrdBy’s Founder Chris Brereton’s cultural and financial goals for his company and his clients: “I believe if we provide the best tools to facilitate the work of nonprofits, in the most cost-effective manner, and one in which the community, the stakeholders, and the team’s needs are met, we can enact the most good in the world.” In essence: be an agent of change through contribution, empowerment, and collaboration.
This will be PwrdBy’s 1st ‘Best for the World’ award, having already been honored with “Best of the Community” two years in a row. Twyla Monti, of PwrdBy’s fondly-named Cultivation team (which handles building and maximizing use of the App’s tools), weighed in: “We’re thrilled to be a part of this game-changing movement in business and hope to do our part to keep it moving. B Corp’s tools helped us think differently about the impact we make and where we could improve our social and environmental performance in the community. We encourage all our staff to take B Lab’s assessment and share their view of our company’s performance and where we have room for improvement.”
PwrdBy, launched in 2009, was built on providing easy and effective mobile solutions to nonprofit organizations. The company was founded on unusual turf; a former lead singer-turned white collar marketing agent-turned CEO of a tech company with a passion for helping others. Chris and his team have created a company in PwrdBy that is driven by innovation and collaboration, working hard to maintain a culture that enables nonprofits to maximize their people, process and technology resources.
One example of this impact is PwrdBy’s current project with Habitat for Humanity (HFH), which involves the creation of a platform to integrate HFH’s three main focuses:
- Streamline the process and paperwork of volunteering
- Improve the donation process to ReStores
- Increase donor revenue
These three foci are challenging PwrdBy to improve speed, security and simplicity while keeping the cost affordable. Said Brereton, “Through our collaboration on the needs of our clients, we can continue to develop tools that most of the time are relevant to other nonprofits out there. The more users we have, the less we can charge, and continue to expand the functionality of the App at the same time.” PwrdBy currently offers the HFH Mobile application in both the iTunes and Play stores.
The team is working towards creating an open-source environment: “The mindshare in the nonprofit world is what makes this work the most fun for me. Developers and many stakeholders have a ton of talent, big goals, and big hearts. Their willingness to share their expertise and ideas means we can collectively create, innovate and grow, while being in alignment with the goals of the nonprofit world: to use the least resources and do the most good.”
The ‘Best for the World’ companies come from 31 different industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and real estate. A majority operate in a service industry, including 17 honorees in financial services and 15 in environmental consulting. 30% of honorees are based outside the US with 15 companies operating in emerging markets, such as Afghanistan, Kenya and Colombia. (Full list of honorees at bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net)
For more information contact PwrdBy at 805-660-6622 or via email at Twyla@Pwrdby.com
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CONTACT: Twyla Monti, Media Relations
Twyla Monti, Pwrdby – (855) 691-2345, ext. 702 or twyla@pwrdby.com
