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Best in Business 2022
From advancing Black and Brown entrepreneurship to stopping human trafficking to fighting climate change, the missions these role model companies pursue lift them above the rest.
Making a difference for people and the planet isn't just the responsibility of world governments. In 2015, all United Nations member states including the U.S. adopted a framework with 17 sustainable development goals toward peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Dubbed the 2030 Agenda for …
Though it was founded to support women at the zenith of their careers, New York City-based Chief is tackling the C-suite gender gap from all angles. Patience is no virtue to Carolyn Childers, 43, and Lindsay Kaplan, 38. When they founded Chief, their professional network for female executives, the …
Yardstick Management brings corporate clients together with Black and Brown business leaders to help businesses put their money where their mouth is on DEI issues. Atlanta-based Yardstick Management consults through a DEI lens, pipes diverse talent into C-suites and boardrooms, and facilitates …
International Van Lines CEO Josh Morales adopted the first two foster kids he and his wife hosted. Then he started doing pro bono moves for other kids and families in the system. Josh Morales has a soft spot for kids. The 40-year-old founder of International Van Lines, a moving company based in …
For Instagram-first content platform Impact, social justice is more than a subject area. It raises money for the very causes it covers. In a media landscape still figuring out how to appeal to Gen-Z, Tim Chau, 23, seems to have cracked the code with their company, Impact, an Instagram-first platform …
The funding to CareAcademy will help the investment bank reach its One Million Black Women commitment. As a former home health aide herself, CareAcademy's Helen Adeosun, 37, understands how important--and underappreciated--the job is. Now the CEO of the Boston-based virtual health care training …
Tricolor CEO Daniel Chu has proved he can profit without gouging his often-undocumented customers on rates. You can't do much in Texas without a set of wheels. Yet for the state's 1.7 million undocumented workers--nearly 6 percent of the workforce keeping the Lone Star economy running--buying a car …
Our Place embraces real-deal multiculturalism through cookware that honors and recognizes a wide range of food traditions, from Shabbat to Diwali and beyond. When Shiza Shahid emigrated from Pakistan to study international relations at Stanford, she found a sense of community by sharing home-cooked …
When it's not helping brands sell toys and sporting goods to Target, Toy'n Around runs ambitious philanthropic campaigns dedicated to helping children. Toy'n Around, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based sales representation firm, helps brands sell toys and sporting goods to Target. The company also runs …
CEO Saloni Doshi's EcoEnclose turned itself into an R&D lab for Living Ink, allowing the startup to commercialize its bio-based, carbon-negative black ink. When Saloni Doshi and her husband, Kyle Wente, heard that a small, ecofriendly packaging startup called EcoEnclose was for sale, they jumped at …
Caldwell Intellectual Property Law's pro bono work enables incarcerated entrepreneurs to pursue their startup dreams while serving time. Keegan Caldwell gets letters every week from inmates asking for help from his law firm. Not with appeals, but with their inventions. The firm is Caldwell …
New Engen empowers (and funds) its people to volunteer locally, while it contributes to key social causes. Many companies say they prioritize their employees' passions outside work, but few put their money where their mouth is as enthusiastically as New Engen. In the past 12 months, the Seattle …
Brother-and-sister-run Canyon State Electric had a wakeup call after their founder father suddenly passed. When Canyon State Electric CEO Stephanie Maderazzo-Hughes contemplated motherhood a little more than a decade ago, she began to think about lifestyle--what she was eating, how she was taking …
