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Budding Children’s Garden and Daycare is Vancouver’s first fully flexible occasional childcare centre, allowing caregivers to book last-minute daycare time online or via a smartphone app, to a maximum of 40 hours per month. Buddings combines convenience and flexibility with an emphasis on sustainability, incorporating environmentally friendly cleansers, organic snacks, low-water-usage washing, an indoor worm…

Taking care of your employees’ health and wellness plays a large part in your employees’ happiness and well-being. Wellness initiatives don’t have to be boring or expensive, you can make them engaging and fun! Here are a few fun, low-cost ways to promote wellness in your company. Stair/Step Challenges – Nothing beats some healthy competition…

Our AIM to Make a Difference program warehouses our customers’ surplus furniture that would otherwise be headed for the landfill and repurpose that furniture, for free, to Arizona nonprofits. Since 2008, 110 organizations have received over $1,000,000 worth of furniture though our program. AIM to Make a Difference has become a national model copied by…

“Realizing a better tomorrow starts with changing behaviors today. To help you improve your everyday life, we emphasize the power of taking small actions and we award you points when you take them.” With Recyclebank, people are rewarded for recycling at home. Members earn points based on the total weight recycled by the community. So…

Gauging Employee Happiness We believe the best work is born from happy, inspired, and empowered people. We developed the Happiness Index – a unique approach to measuring the overall well-being and connectedness of our employees to understand how well we are delivering on our cultural ambitions. Our Index evaluates the company as a whole ecosystem.…

When you think of a typical call center you probably imagine a sea of cubicles and the most uninspiring place to work. Right? Well, Zappos is anything but boring, and everything fun, weird and inspiring. They’ve taken an old model and not only reinvented its internal atmosphere, but set a new standard of workplace culture and customer service…

Water is a valuable resource, yet more than a third of the world’s drinking water is lost from urban water supply systems. No other industry allows itself to lose 30% of its product and term this acceptable, yet the water industry has done so for years. “Imagine that you run a company that sells bottled…

10% of what is paid for the Yerba Mate production goes back to the communities as a reward for social developments of their communities; which helps improve their quality of life immensely. It provides the men and women harvesting the Yerba Mate with higher wages to be able to afford food, schooling, and luxuries they could…

The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition school, has created a ripple effect in improving health and happiness that has the potential to transform the world. With a community of 30,000 students and graduates from all 50 states and 100 countries, they have changed the game of business from maximizing profit at-all-cost to…

Miya was established by Shari Arison in 2008, through Arison Investments, to influence and bring about positive change on a global level, with the vision of ensuring an abundance of fresh water through efficient management of our existing resources. Ms. Arison’s mission statement is to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change to people,…