Mightybytes, Inc.

Certified B Corporation
Standards version

1.6

Headquarters

Illinois, United States

Certified Since

July 2011

Industry

Web portals

Sector

Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Operates In

United States

Mightybytes is a Chicago-based digital agency, Certified B Corporation, and LGBT-certified Business Enterprise. Launched in 1998, the company helps nonprofits, social enterprises, and purpose-driven companies solve problems, build capacity, and drive business results. The agency has helped hundreds of organizations find enduring, measurable success. Mightybytes is also a pioneer in the growing field of green UX and sustainable web design. Tim co-chairs the group that launched the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Sustainability Guidelines, which help organizations incorporate sustainability principles into their digital products and services. Mightybytes’ web sustainability tool Ecograder helps people make more sustainable choices in the digital products and services they create and manage. Ecograder has provided reports for tens of millions of web pages since it was launched in 2013.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, Mightybytes, Inc. earned an overall score of 171.8. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
171.8
171.8 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 22.3

Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.

Mission & Engagement6.0
Ethics & Transparency6.3
+ Mission Locked10

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Workers 35.6

Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.

Financial Security12.5
Health, Wellness, & Safety8.4
Career Development5.3
Engagement & Satisfaction6.6

Community 47.4

Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion9.5
Economic Impact5.7
Civic Engagement & Giving7.9
Supply Chain Management7.8
+ Designed to Give16.3

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Environment 31.4

Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.

Environmental Management5.1
Air & Climate6.6
Water0.3
Land & Life3.0
+ Renewable or Cleaner-burning Energy2.5
+ Resource Conservation12.6

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Customers 34.9

Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.

Customer Stewardship5.0
+ Support for Underserved/Purpose Driven Enterprises14.5
+ Serving in Need Populations15.3

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.



Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2022 Overall B Impact Score168.6
2017 Overall B Impact Score101.7
2015 Overall B Impact Score83.6
2013 Overall B Impact Score98.1

Additional Documentation

LGBTBE certification from National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce