Community evaluates a company's engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity and inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain practices. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems.
This section identifies whether your company is designed to deliver a specific, material, positive impact for its community, and if so, opens the Community Impact Business Model section that is most applicable.
Does your company’s business model create a specific positive benefit for stakeholders such as charitable partners, vendors or suppliers in need, or your local community?
Is your company structured to benefit community stakeholders in any of the following ways?
Is your company a community based business, focused on serving your local economy?
Is your company locally and independently owned?
Will your locally-focused practices be preserved regardless of company growth or scale through a formal commitment or the design of your business model? Answering affirmatively will opt you into additional sections of the B Impact Assessment with more specific questions about this Impact Business Model.
Is your company majority-owned or -led by individuals from any of the following underrepresented groups?
Which of the following practices does your company have in place around diversity, equity, and inclusion?
What attributes of a diverse workforce does your company track, either through anonymous surveys or other methods legal in your jurisdiction?
What percentage of your workforce lives in poor/very poor or low-income areas or does not have college degree?
What percentage of your workforce identifies as being from a racial or ethnic minority?
How many of your non-managerial workers identify as women?
What percentage of your workforce is either under the age of twenty four or over the age of fifty?
What multiple is the highest compensated individual paid, inclusive of bonus, as compared to the lowest paid full-time worker?
How many of your company managers identify as women?
How many of your company managers identify as from another underrepresented social group?
Does your company have any of the following policies or programs in place to promote diversity within your supply chain?
What percentage of your purchases were from companies that are majority-owned by women or individuals from underrepresented populations?
We realize that for companies with more than one office, the definition of local involvement is a more complicated one to answer. Please tell us a bit about the structure of your company geographically. one office in the silicon valley of california
Number of full-time and part-time jobs that have been added to your company's payroll. Enter 0 if none or if your company has no workers. Last twelve months:
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What was your company’s net job growth rate for full-time and part-time positions over the last 12 months? ONLY include newly created jobs that are paid a living wage. If there is no living wage data available for your country of operations, include new jobs that pay 10% or more above a minimum wage.
What percentage of the company is owned by individuals who would qualify as non-accredited investors?
Is the majority (over 50%) of the company's ownership located locally to at least two-thirds of the company's workforce? “Local" is defined as being part of the same community. While the size and distance of a community may vary by context, they should generally be based on a small-scale economically and culturally connected area like a metropolitan area or a city/town.
What percentage of your company's Cost of Goods Sold (including value-adding activities) was spent within the country of operations, from in-country registered companies or national citizens?
What written local purchasing or hiring policies does your company have in place? “Local" is defined as being part of the same community. While the size and distance of a community may vary by context, they should generally be based on a small-scale economically and culturally connected area like a metropolitan area or a city/town.
What percentage of your company's expenses (excluding labor) was spent with independent suppliers local to the company's headquarters or relevant facilities in the last fiscal year? Please click "Learn More" to understand how to answer this question.
What percentage of your workforce is low-income or does not have a college degree AND is also employed in company facilities located in low-income communities?
What characteristics apply to the financial institution that provides the majority of your company's banking services?
How does your company take part in civic engagement?
How does your company manage employee community service?
What percentage of employees took paid time off for volunteer service last year?
Number of hours volunteered by full-time and part-time employees of the organization during the last
fiscal year
What was the percentage of per capita worker time donated as volunteer, community service, or pro bono time in the reporting period? Calculate by total volunteer hours / total hours worked, generally 2000 hours per FTE.
What are your company’s practices regarding donations or community investments?
What was the equivalent percentage of revenue donated to charity during the last fiscal year? Please include tax deductible in-kind donations but do not include pro bono time.
Total amount (in currency terms) donated to registered charities in the last fiscal year
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Has your company worked with policymakers to develop or advocate for policy changes explicitly designed to improve social or environmental outcomes in the past two years?
How has your company worked with its stakeholders (including competitors) to improve behavior or performance on social or environmental issues in the past two years?
Please select the types of companies that represent your Significant Suppliers: Significant Suppliers represent 80% of your company's purchases in currency terms (excluding salaries on payroll and bonuses, rent, utilities, and taxes).
Does your company screen or evaluate Significant Suppliers for social and environmental impact? This question determines the set of supplier-focused questions your company will respond to.
What does your company formally screen for regarding the social or environmental practices and performance of your Significant Suppliers? Significant Suppliers represent 80% of your company's purchases in currency terms (excluding salaries on payroll and bonuses, rent, utilities, and taxes).
What methods does your company use to evaluate the social or environmental impact of your suppliers? Only select practices that apply to all your significant suppliers. See "Learn More" for further instructions.
Does your company outsource support services (staffing) essential to the delivery of your services to other individuals or organizations?
What percentage of your Significant Suppliers is located in low-income communities or create employment opportunities for other chronically underemployed populations? Significant Suppliers represent 80% of your company's purchases in currency terms (excluding salaries on payroll and bonuses, rent, utilities, and taxes).
Is there a formal written Supplier Code of Conduct policy that specifically holds your company's suppliers accountable for social and environmental performance?
What is the average tenure of your company's relationships with suppliers?
What percentage of materials or products purchased have third-party social or environmental certification or approval or are from Significant Suppliers that are purpose-driven or have third-party company level certification or approval? Significant Suppliers represent 80% of your company's purchases in currency terms (excluding salaries on payroll and bonuses, rent, utilities, and taxes).
- Impact Business Model
IMPACT BUSINESS MODELS 18.0 This IBM section is applicable to companies designed to strengthen their local economy by committing a significant portion of their procurement and/or sales to remain local. Local Community Description Please describe how your company defines the local community that you operate in (e.g. your city's metropolitan area, your county, etc.) Ensure that this definition is consistent with the guidance in "Learn" We operate in the Silicon Valley of California. No where else. All of our employees live in these areas except for those that commute from lower income areas farther away from the office.
Does your company have any explicit written commitments to serving local communities?
During the last fiscal year, how much did your company source (in currency terms) from local, independent suppliers?
During the last fiscal year, how much did your company source (in currency terms) from local, independent suppliers?
What percentage of your non-labor expenses are made with local independent suppliers?
During the last fiscal year, how much in revenues was generated through sales to local consumers?
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What percentage of your company revenue comes from local and independent clients or customers?
What other ways does your company support the local community?
Is the community where you operate, which you support in the ways identified above, an underserved community?
How has your company measured outcomes or determined whether the formal commitment(s) identified previously contributes to local economic development?
Is there something different or innovative about the company's approach to local economic development that has changed the industry? Is this something replicable, unique at the time it was created, and that has been emulated by other organizations?
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