Our businesses exist to benefit society.

We have a personal coach for our employees where they receive one-on-one coaching for two weeks each quarter. The focus is to help develop “person-centered” skills and challenge employees to take a critical look at themselves. Many of those who’ve participated claim that their lives have been forever changed by the coaching.  

In 2004, a customer told Adam Goodman that buying office furniture was like buying a used car. That ugly comparison inspired Adam to write a manifesto that challenged Goodmans to change the perception of the entire office furniture industry. Adam wrote that “I am on a mission to change that perception by applying pressure to…

In 2012 we redesigned a handful of our branches to help us be more responsive to their communities and support our business model of member-led innovation. These prototype branches act as community hubs where members can get the financial services and advice they need, while helping us build the local community. Some features include free…

Since we make it our business to help people improve their lives and their communities, it’s only right that we take breaks to focus on our own. Each year, Recyclebank team members work together on a local community improvement project for Earth Day. While that’s one big way we’re working together in our own neighborhoods,…

Recology’s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan was publsihed in 2013 to guide the company in meeting our mission of ZERO WASTE in San Francisco by 2020. We formed a Strategic Plan Oversight Committee (SPOC) to be responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Strategic Plan. Recology’s Strategic Plan incorporates goals and milestones that will be tracked, while…

Personal Core Values Can Act as a Guide “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ~ Roy Disney Considering all the time spent at work, spending it somewhere that aligns with one’s personal core values is quickly becoming more and more of a factor in where people decide to…

At Miya, each employee has his/her own office with lots of daylight a view into a main arts area into the city. When Miya upgraded its current facility, employees all received ergonomic chairs, following a workshop a few years ago on proper working posture. We’ve installed bamboo floors in all of our offices. Bamboo flooring is…

Among Etsy’s core values is our commitment to acting as a mindful, transparent, and humane business, and planning and building for the long term. For this reason, it is important for our company and our community to minimize our impact on the depletion of scarce natural resources. Those resources include threatened and endangered animals. As…

At Crowdstaffing, we put programs and people in place to provide our recruiting partners with the tools, training, and resources they need to thrive and succeed. We offer coaching and consultative interactions to help them become business leaders who will in turn change their worlds. We’ve developed unique Crowdstaffing software that empowers recruiters through automation…

When we were first starting out it was easy to see the effects of our impact and adjust according. As we scaled it became a challenge to remain connected to our customers. Therefore, each month we now publish a story on a client and how we’ve impacted their life. This helps keep our team connected…