B Impact Report

Logo for Rescue Chocolate

Rescue Chocolate

chocolate bars and truffles
Certified Since: May, 2014
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Sector: Wholesale/Retail

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

119.2

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.RescueChocolate.com

Rescue Chocolate presents a line of delicious dark chocolate bars and truffles that are vegan, kosher, handcrafted in Brooklyn, organic, and fairly traded. While the chocolate is only for humans to enjoy, of course, all profits are donated to animal rescue organizations. It is sold in gourmet groceries, gift boutiques, pet stores, veterinarian offices, and animal rescue storefronts, as well as online. Since the company’s founding in January 2010, Rescue Chocolate has helped hundreds of non-profit animal welfare groups to raise thousands of dollars for their lifesaving work.

Approximately 4 million healthy dogs and cats are killed in American animal control facilities every year, because permanent homes cannot be found for them. Rescue Chocolate and its animal rescue partner organizations aim to bring that number down to zero through education, spay and neuter programs, special adoption events, and other humane initiatives.

Best for the World Honoreeinfo_outline

linkBest for Community 2019 linkBest for Overall 2019 linkBest for Community 2018 linkBest for Community 2017 linkBest for Community 2016 linkBest for Community 2015

Impact Area Scoresinfo_outline

info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

Previous Overall B Impact Scores

Explore More B Corps

B Corp Directory

RESET
filter_list FILTER
info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

info_outlineAdditional Documentation

B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.