Where are YOU creating Social Impact?

I'd thought until recently that B Corp was only open to chartered corporations--so as a sole proprietor, I never tried to go near the process. I chose to get validation in other ways. For instance, my green and transformational business consultancy was the first business ever to be certified at the Gold level by Green America (and that was a fair bit of work on my part).

Dear Frankie,

There seems to be some confusion in this trail regarding the difference between becoming B Certified (going though a rigorous certification process sponsored by the non profit B Lab) and becoming a certified Benefit Corporation which involves registering an additional legal corp structure with your state (if the state supports it.) (Note that registration as a Benefit Corporation is complementary to registering as a C Corp, S Corp or LLC - not instead of).  There is a very strong community of certified B Corps throughout the country (and especially here in the Bay Area).  Many of these organizations are also registered as Benefit Corporations, though many choose only the certification. My company chose certification, but did not register as a Benefit Corporation. I have not heard complaints that either path has been a barrier to raising funds, but perhaps these organizations are more clear than others about where their ideal funding will come from and they target sources that appreciate these certifications/structures.  I agree with the moderator, there have been numerous conversations posted on FD around the BCorp movement.  Its is definitely one that is gaining momentum and some would argue brings benefits to organizations that choose to go down one or both of these paths.   Like many decisions in startups/small business/big business - the answer is: "it depends."  I will share that I have never met a group of more likeminded business owners than I did amongst my Bay Area peers involved in the BCorp (certification) community and for that alone, I am grateful. 

As a founding B Corp and NYS benefit corporation the 30+ year trend is way past being a fad. Post COP21 in Paris, the vast majority of major global corporations saw the writing on the wall when 195 leaders of the planets countries agreed that global warming is real and collectively agreed to begin to move beyond fossil fuels.
Consumers are on board with between 40-50% of consumers are shopping their values over price. They demand more more companies than simple a healthy bottom line. Traditional capitalism is failing us on many levels. Fortunately there are many good solutions being brouht forward and in my mind being a B Corp puts companies in a leadership role in the New Economy.

Sure Frankie the following paragraph is the major reason none of my startups have opted to do so since they are generally seeking venture capital:

You should edit the post; the body doesn't match the title and people are latching onto the B corp piece in the ambiguity.

Although we considered a B corp structure for Mountaintop, we didn't see any benefit to organizing this way that were sufficient to offset the additional constraints and fundraising challenges it imposed. You still can't go after the funding streams a 501(c)(3) would pursue, and you're shut out from many of the ones a traditional for-profit would seek - seems like the sort of thing where you should just pick one or the other instead of being halfway in each camp.

There are 2 billion kids under 15 in developing countries with low access to educational materials and toys.
We are here to work for them, TOY FOR TOY® for every STEM educational toy we sell one will be donated to a child in need. World get a WIN-WIN solution for developed and developing countries, many famous scientist became who they are today playing with right toys.

Hi Frankie, very unorganized segment to comment upon, few successes, many failures rather lack of ideas and raising funds. B corp are fulfilling partial social  responsibility towards society.

I have developed a new, very fundamental method for solving complex problems. My belief is that much of the frustration and animosity that we see in the world today is because we are not able to solve the problems that confront us. 

I have shown how problems can be solved by using cause-and-effects. But people are unable to solve these complex problems because they cannot deal with enough cause-and-effects. My Explainer computer can deal with an indefinite number of cause-and-effects in order to solve these problems. 

By using an appropriate set of cause-and-effects, given a behavior, this method will explain what causes that behavior, or the means for achieving that behavior. 

Using the Explainer, I have been able to demonstrate feasibility by solving examples of the following types of problems:

·         Science basically concerns solving this fundamental problem.

·         Showing how to solve social problems

o   Showing how to solve many of the problems that leave Congress in deadlock.

      To understand and solve the problems needed to unite us to make a more harmonious world now and in the future.

·         To understand the problems faced in the past, i.e. historical analysis.

·         Finding the source of faults in a system.

·         Diagnosing the causes of medical symptoms.
     If a computer program were used to analyze medical papers to extract their cause-and-effects, these cause-and-effects could be made into packages used by physicians to diagnose symptoms while helping them to plan tests and the patient’s treatments. This could help to improve diagnoses without making unnecessary tests and without prescribing treatments that produce unnecessary pain and suffering. This could significantly reduce the cost of medical care.

·         Finding the explanations of observations, thus being a primary tool for scientific discipline.

·         Solving crimes and showing how to prepare to present the evidence to juries.

·         Designing systems to satisfy given requirements specifications    By stating the desired requirements for a system as a behavior, each of the explanations for the behavior that would satisfy those requirements would represent a plausible design for that system. Assumptions are also doables that can be implemented to achieve the behavior described. Implementing the assumptions would constitute a design that would meet those requirements.

I still need to have some programming done to make this program user friendly. 

I am anxious to get this help sooner rather than later because the world has lots of troubles that might be alleviated if this method were put on a website where people familiar with various aspects of a problem can collaborate to solve it. Also, at age 83, I don't want to see this method die with me.  

Is there someone out there passionate enough to help support the completion of this work?

Donald V Steward   steward@problematics.com