Simply Good Jars
Pennsylvania, United States
December 2019
Food products
Wholesale/Retail
United States
Founded in November of 2017 in Philadelphia, PA by Chef Jared Cannon, Simply Good Jars was created to provide fresher, healthier and more accessible food options while encouraging its customers to help make the world a better place for all. All SGJ products are packaged in recyclable + returnable for reuse packaging + to-date has achieved the highest return rate of any post-consumption packaging at 93%. For every jar returned back to the Company for reuse SGJ donates proceeds to help feed a local individual in need through multiple partnerships with localized non-profits and organizations who are able to distribute fresh-healthy meal options to those in need. With an Omni-channel approach, you can find SGJ products in non-traditional retail channels and also in their Tech-Enabled Vending Refrigerators. Simply Good Jars has joined the Net-Zero Carbon emissions commitment by 2030 + also has a Zero-Waste goal by 2022. SGJ hopes you will join them in their mission to eliminate single-use plastic, hunger and carbon emissions as they strive to make better eating more enjoyable and impactful for all!
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.3
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.
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 16.3
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.
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 20.1
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 45.4
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.
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 14.5
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 3.9
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.