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Certified B Corporations鈥痑re businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.鈥疎very semester, 91制片厂 students have the opportunity to help firms such as Timberland, Lonza, Orvis, and Jack鈥檚 Pizza work toward B-Corp Certification, recertification, or simply to assess and improve their effect on the world through the听Changemaker Collaborative鈥檚 B-Impact Clinic, of which Paul College is a founding partner.

At the heart of the Clinic is the B Impact Assessment, an opensource tool developed by the non-profit B Lab, widely considered to be the most rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a sustainable company.听

Economics and sustainability dual major Sarah Wilkinson 鈥�22 worked on a B-Impact Clinic student team that partnered with Orvis to help the legendary outdoors brand and retailer. Though only a sophomore, the Oxford, PA. native said her team 鈥渉it the ground running鈥� and, over the course of the 2019 fall semester, made recommendations for improving everything 鈥渇rom water usage and packaging to鈥痵tandardizing facilities inspections and adjusting manager roles to include social and environmental performance.鈥澨�听

Paul College alum Rob Bean 鈥�96, the project mentor and chief financial officer at Orvis, lauded听the 鈥渆xceptional team of students鈥� for quickly gaining 鈥渁n intimate knowledge of the business鈥� and 鈥渕aterially lifting the administrative burden鈥� of completing the B Impact Assessment from Orvis鈥� operating team.听

鈥淲ithout their assistance, the process would have taken significantly longer,鈥� Bean said.听

Wilkinson said the students not only learned what constituted a truly sustainable business, how to communicate with busy professionals in a fast-paced environment and analyze business processes,听they also got free fly-fishing lessons from Orvis staff.听听

Said Wilkinson, 鈥淚鈥檝e always wanted to learn that!鈥澨�