B Corporation
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Voice Over IP & Why It’s Better For Your Businesses
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short, is when you use your Internet connection instead of a traditional phone line to make your calls. Now we know what you’re thinking, but why would it matter how my call is transmitted as long as it works properly? There are a few reasons to use VoIP instead of a traditional phone line. See why VoIP is the better call for your business.... -
Using Tech at Work to Be More Sustainable
Image courtesy of Pixabay As a certified B Corporation, it’s important to us as an organization to continue to find new and innovative ways to improve. Being a sustainable organization means continuing to lessen our environmental impact while still providing meaningful and useful services. How can you make a difference in your office?... -
Three Benefits of Partnering with a B Corp
B corporations are businesses that are run with the good of the community in mind. For these businesses, it is about profit — but not only about profit. B corporations are only certified as such if their business practices can be held accountable to a high set of standards. This means that they are transparent and also have a strong dedication to social and environmental awareness. At the end of the day, B corps “redefine success in business.” B corps don’t just make for better businesses, they make for better partners! Take a look at how your company or nonprofit would benefit from a partnership with a B corp. ... -
How to Recycle Your Old Electronic Devices
At BetterWorld Telecom, we care about the people we serve and the world we live in. That’s why we focus on sustainability and have been tested and certified as a “For Benefit” company by B Corporation. Despite our efforts, there can never be enough involvement for helping our planet. That’s why we like to encourage you to give back to the environment as well. Learn how you can recycle your old electronic devices and keep our planet greener today and for future generations!... -
Why Non-Profits Should Use Sustainable Companies
Non-profits benefit immensely when they partner up with BetterWorld Telecom, and that’s because our business practices are the perfect fit for non-profits. We set high standards for ourselves, so we can go above and beyond for our customers and our community as a whole. Take a look at a couple of the reasons your non-profit’s relationship with BetterWorld Telecom would blossom beautifully this spring.... -
What B Corporations Do for Our Communities
The concept of a business is simple. A business owner supplies his or her community with a product, a service, or any combination of the two. In exchange, the customers pay the business owner monetarily. This is what a for-profit business does. Business is a wonderful thing since the owner or owners make a living, while the customers are provided a beneficial product or service. However, this is only a win-win situation as long as businesses are doing more good than bad for the community. For instance, a business with factories that are severely polluting the air to manufacture a product causes more harm than good.... -
San Francisco Steps up Big for B Corps – Board of Supervisors President, David Chiu, Proposes Incentives for CA B Corps
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President and SF Mayoral Candidate, David Chiu, today held a press conference at the Hub SoMa and laid out his plan for San Francisco to become the beacon and capital of Social Entrepreneurialism, starting with a plan for the City to provide contract bid preferences to CA B Corps or Benefit Corporations. BetterWorld has stood by Supervisor Chiu through this process, which began at a Silicon Valley Leadership Group event a few months ago and culminating recently in a roundtable with Supervisor Chiu with many SF Access Economy and B Corps leaders, including Jeff Marcous of Dharma Merchant Services, Brian Back of Sustainable Industries, David Brodwin from the American Sustainable Business Council, Alex Michel from the 5M Project and others.... -
B Corporations
In a huge stride forward for business and communities alike, Governor Brown signed into law the historic Assembly Bill 361, creating a new class of corporation, a benefit corporation. The legislation, introduced by Assembly member Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) legally requires benefit corporations to prioritize positive impact on society and the environment, while meeting higher standards of accountability and transparency. Current law requires corporations to prioritize the financial interests of shareholder over the interests of workers, communities, and the environment. The California legislation is unique, providing the strongest consumer and investor protection, with more rigorous transparency provisions than the states that have so far enacted benefit corporation legislation. California is the sixth and largest state to enact benefit corporation legislation and has a strong existing base of entrepreneurs connected to sustainability. ... -
Criterion’s Joy Anderson on Shaping Markets
BetterWorld customer and friend, Dr. Joy Anderson, was the featured speaker at the latest Hanson Bridgett Sustainable Business Leadership Forum, held this past Thursday in San Francisco. Joy is President and Founder of Criterion Ventures and a co-founder of Good Capital and had a full room considering the process and dynamics on how firms/organizations can move and shape markets, from a historical, modern and post-modern perspective....
