Bluedog Design
Illinois, United States
October 2020
Other professional, scientific & tech
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium,
Chile,
Germany,
Ireland,
Mexico,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom,
United States
Bluedog is a woman-owned, modern, growth consultancy. They believe that doing better business together enables us to move ahead an agenda in which business enables thriving communities. They connect leadership strategy to brand and business, while confidently driving growth that impacts both Bluedog's and our clients' communities. They value “Bluedoggers” above all assets. As servant leaders, our teams invested 10,000+ hours in supporting, and growing Bluedoggers, as they fulfill their original vision and promise of People over Profits. Bluedog’s 21 years of success was not an accident. Their evergreen business was intentionally built upon a conscious decision to model and invest in sustained growth, together. They get out of bed each day to share a journey focused on bringing clarity to the most complex problems in the marketplace. As an organization of individuals, teams, and pods, they continue to build upon the foundation crafted with the mindset, signals and tools to create and capture value today, while sustaining their right to create the organization of tomorrow.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 18.4
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 18.4
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 75.7
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.
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.
Community 25.9
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 10.2
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 4.4
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.