Sample overview
| Company name | Description | Founded year | Country of origin | Countries ofoperation | Legal structure or type of enterprise | Key partners in creating social or/and environmental impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNL-Prologues | The Solidarités Nouvelles pour le Logement (SNL-Prologues) support people excluded from sustainable housing because of insufficient resources. The SNL-Prologues rehabilitates integration housing (follows the “Housing First” approach) and rents them exclusively to individuals in very precarious situations. This social enterprise accompanies these people for an average of three years until they find a permanent housing solution. During this time, the tenants regain stability and move on to sustainable housing. Besides providing the accommodation, each tenant is accompanied by neighborhood volunteers and a social worker from the association, which provides them social support (www.solidarites-nouvelles-logement.org/) | 1995 | France | 1 | Public Limited Company, Solidarity enterprises of social utility (ESUS)1 and Finansol certified | Company Employee Saving Funds, Large Donors – Ile de France region and fondation Abbé Pierre and Local partners |
| Foncière Chênelet | La Foncière Chênelet is recognized as an enterprise of public benefit. This social enterprise sets up societal projects to build or/and renovate comfortable and low energy consumption accommodation (social housing) for the elderly or families with a disabled member, young couples starting their lives and big families to offer them a rewarding living environment by renting the social houses on the long term (https://fonciere-chenelet.org/) | 2009 | France | 2 | Simplified joint stock company (SAS)2, B-Corporation, Solidarity enterprises of social utility (ESUS)1 and Finansol certified | Public and Private Funders (Institutional and Financial Partners), Real State Agencies, Solidarity Companies, SMEs and Associations |
| World Tree | World Tree is an American agroforestry company that promotes the economic and environmental benefits of the Empress Splendor (Paulownia elongata and Paulownia fortunei) tree. The social enterprise is the largest grower of Empress Splendor in the Americas. The company invests the impact investors’ investments in producing beautiful as well as sustainable eco-timber for the rapidly growing lumber market of North America. To plant those trees, this enterprise does long-term contracts with farmers and landowners who own degraded lands or/and do not have the resources to cultivate that land. Once the Empress Splendor trees mature within 10 years, the company sells them to lumber buyers and shares the profit with farmers/landowners and investors. However, the fast growth property of this tree makes it the best choice for carbon sequestration, land regeneration, native forest protection and timber production. In short, this social enterprise creates tangible social and environmental benefits and provides a significant financial return to all its stakeholders, such as impact investors, framers and lumber buyers. (www.worldtree.eco/) | 2001 | USA | 5 | For-profit Social Enterprise | Organizations and Companies that have the same mission and values, for example, Adrian Grenier, Lunaria Financial and Centered Wealth, Green Diamond Solutions, Kiss the Ground, Soil Health Academy, Sustainable Furnishings Council and many more |
| AUARA | AUARA is the Spanish mineral water social enterprise, which invests 100% of the dividends it generates with its sales in developing projects for access to drinking water in developing countries. In addition to this social impact, this social enterprise also has a significant environmental impact – as it is manufacturing all its bottles with 100% recycled rPET plastic, which CO2 footprint is up to 50% lower than standard PET (https://auara.org/) | 2015 | Spain | 1 | Social enterprise certified by Social Enterprise Mark | Suppliers, NGOs, Investors, Shareholders and Commercial Distributors |
| Impak Finance | Impak is the Canadian and French impact rating startup that has built Impak IS² – the impact assessment and scoring solution that relies on leading international standards, such as Impact Management Project (IMP) and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This solution provides a global extra-financial balance sheet statement, known as an impact statement, that includes both positive and negative impacts. Moreover, this user-friendly digital platform generates an Impak ScoreTM for each analyzed business organization. These offer services help financial investors and bankers to make impact-oriented sustainable decisions based on assessments that go beyond ESG and include both the positive and negative social or/and environmental impacts companies generate – whether listed or private. Besides this, Impak has also developed three Impak Indices based on Impak ScoreTM and other Impak database elements (www.impakfinance.com/) | 2016 | Canada | 2 | B-Corporation | Financial institutions and the platforms, for example, Impact management project (IMP), world benchmarking alliance, SDGs and Social Value Canada |
| Company | Description | Founded | Country of | Countries ofoperation | Legal structure or type of enterprise | Key partners in creating social or/and environmental impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNL-Prologues | The Solidarités Nouvelles pour le Logement (SNL-Prologues) support people excluded from sustainable housing because of insufficient resources. The SNL-Prologues rehabilitates integration housing (follows the “Housing First” approach) and rents them exclusively to individuals in very precarious situations. This social enterprise accompanies these people for an average of three years until they find a permanent housing solution. During this time, the tenants regain stability and move on to sustainable housing. Besides providing the accommodation, each tenant is accompanied by neighborhood volunteers and a social worker from the association, which provides them social support ( | 1995 | France | 1 | Public Limited Company, Solidarity enterprises of social utility (ESUS)1 and Finansol certified | Company Employee Saving Funds, Large Donors – Ile de France region and fondation Abbé Pierre and Local partners |
| Foncière Chênelet | La Foncière Chênelet is recognized as an enterprise of public benefit. This social enterprise sets up societal projects to build or/and renovate comfortable and low energy consumption accommodation (social housing) for the elderly or families with a disabled member, young couples starting their lives and big families to offer them a rewarding living environment by renting the social houses on the long term ( | 2009 | France | 2 | Simplified joint stock company (SAS) | Public and Private Funders (Institutional and Financial Partners), Real State Agencies, Solidarity Companies, SMEs and Associations |
| World Tree | World Tree is an American agroforestry company that promotes the economic and environmental benefits of the Empress Splendor ( | 2001 | USA | 5 | For-profit Social Enterprise | Organizations and Companies that have the same mission and values, for example, Adrian Grenier, Lunaria Financial and Centered Wealth, Green Diamond Solutions, Kiss the Ground, Soil Health Academy, Sustainable Furnishings Council and many more |
| AUARA | AUARA is the Spanish mineral water social enterprise, which invests 100% of the dividends it generates with its sales in developing projects for access to drinking water in developing countries. In addition to this social impact, this social enterprise also has a significant environmental impact – as it is manufacturing all its bottles with 100% recycled rPET plastic, which CO2 footprint is up to 50% lower than standard PET ( | 2015 | Spain | 1 | Social enterprise certified by Social Enterprise Mark | Suppliers, NGOs, Investors, Shareholders and Commercial Distributors |
| Impak Finance | Impak is the Canadian and French impact rating startup that has built Impak IS² – the impact assessment and scoring solution that relies on leading international standards, such as Impact Management Project (IMP) and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This solution provides a global extra-financial balance sheet statement, known as an impact statement, that includes both positive and negative impacts. Moreover, this user-friendly digital platform generates an Impak ScoreTM for each analyzed business organization. These offer services help financial investors and bankers to make impact-oriented sustainable decisions based on assessments that go beyond ESG and include both the positive and negative social or/and environmental impacts companies generate – whether listed or private. Besides this, Impak has also developed three Impak Indices based on Impak ScoreTM and other Impak database elements ( | 2016 | Canada | 2 | B-Corporation | Financial institutions and the platforms, for example, Impact management project (IMP), world benchmarking alliance, SDGs and Social Value Canada |
Note(s): 1In French: Entreprise Solidaire d‘Utilité Sociale; 2In French: Société par Actions Simplifiées (SAS)