Balancing Professionals Earns B Corporation Certification
Raleigh, NC (March 30, 2009) —Balancing Professionals, LLC is pleased to announce that they have become a Certified B Corporation and are one of five companies in the state of North Carolina to achieve this status.
B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. To become a B Corporation, a company must meet comprehensive social and environmental performance standards maintained by B Lab and legally expand their responsibilities to include interests beyond just the shareholders.
“Our mission to champion workplace flexibility was a natural fit for becoming a B Corporation,” says Maryanne Perrin, a founding partner at Balancing Professionals. “With significant changes in workforce demographics, technology and the environment, the workplace has outgrown the one-size-fits-all model of work and needs new, flexible options that better support employees, communities, the environment AND a company’s bottom line.”
In just 18 months, B Lab has certified over 180 B Corporations in the United States including Dansko, King Arthur Flour Company, Method Products, and Numi Organic Tea.
About Balancing Professionals
Balancing Professionals, LLC advises companies on creating a win-win, flexible workplace and
connects businesses to a pool of high-caliber, part-time professionals.
Operating in the Triangle area of North Carolina, the firm was
founded in 2004 by Kella Hatcher and Maryanne Perrin, respectively
an attorney and an engineer/MBA who had navigated careers as part-time
professionals prior to joining efforts to promote part-time opportunities
for others. Balancing Professionals has helped a variety of companies
capitalize on the changing workplace including clients in the pharmaceutical,
technology, manufacturing, non-profit, and professional services
industries.
About B Lab
B Lab is the nonprofit organization that certifies, supports, and promotes B Corporations. An independent body, theStandards Advisory Council, sets the legal and performance standards for B Corporation certification and oversees the evolution of those standards and the auditing of B Corporations.
B Lab envisions a new sector of the economy which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This sector will be comprised of a new type of corporation - the B Corporation. B Corporations will be legally recognized by the states, tax preferred by the IRS, and valued by investors and consumers. In our generation, this marketplace of B Corporations will reach 5-7% of US GDP -- the size of the non-profit sector today.
To learn more visit www.bcorporation.net.
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