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To B or Not to B: How B Corporation helps your company measure and certify your triple bottom line performance.

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Certified B Corporations meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental standards and legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include consideration of interests of all stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, community and the environment. During this lively roundtable, hear several prominent business leaders describe how the B Corporation model is adding credibility and strength to their brand with its tools to evaluate and improve the social and environmental performance of their companies.

Moderator
Deborah Hirsh, B Lab/BCorporation

Panel
Michael Hannigan, Give Something Back, Inc.
Matt Reynolds, Indigenous Designs, Inc.
Mal Warwick, Mal Warwick Associates
Haven Bourque, Straus Communications

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Matt Reynolds

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President & Co-Founder, Indigenous Designs

Matt has over 14 years Experience in organic and fair trade cottage industry production and has been responsible for Spearheading a new production financing model for fair trade knitting cooperatives throughout South America. In addition to their memberships with Co-op America, Social Venture Network, BALLE, Organic Trade Association, and the Organic Fiber Council, Indigenous Designs is a Founding B Corporation.

Deborah Hirsh

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Deborah Hirsh
Deborah Hirsh has been growing and supporting the community of Certified B Corporations out of B Lab's San Francisco office since Fall 2008. Deborah has 20 years of experience working on social and economic justice issues, which include 10 years of experience working with a variety of businesses and nonprofit hybrids in the corporate social responsibility space, with 6 years managing consumer education and business development programs at TransFair USA, the Fair Trade certification body for the US market, as well as the launch of the East Bay green consumer publication, the EcoMetro Guide. She holds a BA in Sociology and Women's Studies from Miami University and an MA in International Development Studies from Ohio University.

Deborah Hirsh has been growing and supporting the community of Certified B Corporations out of B Lab's San Francisco office since Fall 2008. Deborah has 20 years of experience working on social and economic justice issues, which include 10 years of experience working with a variety of businesses and nonprofit hybrids in the corporate social responsibility space, with 6 years managing consumer education and business development programs at TransFair USA, the Fair Trade certification body for the US market, as well as the launch of the East Bay green consumer publication, the EcoMetro Guide. She holds a BA in Sociology and Women's Studies from Miami University and an MA in International Development Studies from Ohio University.

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Deborah Hirsh

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Co-Director of Business Development for the West Coast, B Lab

Deborah Hirsh works on community and business development at B Lab, the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to support businesses in their goals to meausre and improve social and environmental performance through the use of their B Ratings System. Deborah has 20 years of experience working on social and economic justice issues and 10 years of experience in the CSR space, including 6 years of community and business development with TransFair USA, the Fair Trade Certification body for the US market.

Mal Warwick

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Founder & Chairman, Mal Warwick Associates

Mal Warwick divides his time between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded five successful companies since 1979, when he launched Mal Warwick Associates (Berkeley, California and Washington, DC), a fundraising consultancy specializing in direct mail that serves many of the nation’s leading progressive nonprofits and political leaders. Mal recently completed two terms on the Social Venture Network board, four of those years as chair.

Haven Bourque

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Vice President and Partner, Straus Communications

Haven uses the media as a mouthpiece for promoting organizations that move the needle on sustainability. Haven has over 17 years experience building communications programs for corporate and non-profit environments on issues ranging from Fair Trade to contemporary classical music. She served on the PR advisory board of Slow Food Nation and advises on communications and marketing strategy for the worker-owned green business cooperative, WAGES. Straus Communications became a B Corporation in early 2009.

Michael Hannigan

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President and Co-founder, Give Something Back, Inc.

Give Something Back, Inc. is California’s largest independent business to business office supply company. GSB was started in 1991 modeled on Newman’s Own food company. Company profits are donated to non-profit groups selected by customers and employees. GSB was named Corporate Grantmaker of the Year in 2003 and Small Business of the Year in 2005 by the US Small Business Administration. They are a Certified Green Business in Alameda County, a founding B Corporation, and have a 50 Kilowatt solar power system on the roof of their headquarters in Oakland.

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