Professional Affiliations
B-CORPORATION: "The Change We Seek"™
B- Corporation™ is a community of businesses setting the new corporate standard for social and environmental performance. B-Corporations are transparent, purpose-driven and create benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
Seventh Generation is proud to be a founding B Corporation, seeking to harness the power of private enterprise to create public benefit.
BALLE: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
BALLE is an international alliance of more than 50 independently operated local business networks with more than 15,000 members dedicated to building local living economies.
BALLE envisions a sustainable global economy made up of local living economies that build long-term economic empowerment and prosperity through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity, and environmental stewardship.
BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE/GUILD: Nature as Model, Measure and Mentor
The Biomimicry Institute is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to naturalize our culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.
The Biomimicry Guild has been helping communities and companies like Seventh Generation understand and emulate life's time-tested strategies towards designing sustainable products.
CERES: Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity
Ceres is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.
Charged with integrating sustainability into capital markets, they have introduced a new vision of business which promotes the well being of human society and the protection of the earth’s resources.
CHLORINE FREE PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION: Education for a Chlorine Free Future
The Chlorine Free Products Association is an independent not-for-profit accreditation & standard setting organization.
They focus on promoting sustainable manufacturing practices, implementing advanced technologies free of chlorine chemistry, educating consumers on alternatives, and developing world markets for sustainably produced third party certified products and services.
THE ORGANIC CENTER: Promoting the Benefits of Organics
The Organic Center’s vision is a conversion of agriculture to organic methods, improved health for the earth and its inhabitants, and greater awareness of and demand for organic products.
Through a comprehensive set of credible scientific studies the Organic Center works to promote organic benefits to the public, the policy makers, and mainstream media.
SOCIAL VENTURE NETWORK: Transforming the Way the World Does Business
Social Venture Network is a nonprofit group committed to inspiring business and social leaders to believe in a new bottom line that values healthy communities and the human spirit as well as high returns.
SVN transforms the way the world does business by leveraging its members' collective strengths for a more just and sustainable economy.
SUMMIT 2020: The Summit on the Future of the Corporation
Summit 2020 addresses the tension between the corporation as the world's most powerful and innovative social institution and the growing severity of social and environmental problems.
The Summit marks an historical moment for considering how corporations can serve the broader public interest essential to its own long-term prosperity, and design corporate forms based on that reciprocity.
VBSR: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility
VBSR advances a business ethic of multiple bottom lines – economic, social, and environmental – through education, public influence, and workplace quality. They provide resources and information to empower businesses to solve environmental, social and economic problems
Seventh Gen is a proud VBSR member, housing their offices here in Vermont, and Jeffrey Hollender is on their board.
