Artisan Dental, LLC
Wisconsin, United States
April 2017
Medical & dental practice
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United States
Artisan Dental is an independent dental practice offering exceptional quality preventive, cosmetic and restorative dental care for individuals and families. Artisan Dental's mission is to optimize the health and happiness of their patients, team members, suppliers, community, and the planet through exceptional quality care and sustainable business practices. As part of an ongoing effort to enact its mission, Artisan Dental became the first dental practice in Wisconsin to be a Certified B Corporation in 2017. Artisan was recognized by Madison Magazine as a Best Place to Work in 2017, 2018 & 2019. Artisan Dental was awarded an In Business Magazine, Dane County Small Business Award in 2018 and a "Best For The World, Worker Category" by B Labs in 2018 & 2019. In 2019, Artisan Dental was also the winner of "Wisconsin, Force For Positive Change Award". In 2020 Artisan Dental became the 1st carbon neutral general dentistry practice in the United States. Feel free to visit our website to learn more about how the Artisan Dental Health Plan, Artisan Dental Wellness Series, and Artisan Dental Recycling Program support these recognitions.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.0
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.
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.
Governance 15.0
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.
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 24.3
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.
Community 19.8
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.
Environment 18.4
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.
Customers 15.8
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.
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.