B Impact Report

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Walden Local Meat

Food Services
Certified Since: April, 2017
Location: Billerica, Massachusetts, United States
Sector: Wholesale/Retail

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

104.6

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

www.waldenlocalmeat.com

Together with farm partners, Walden Local Meat markets and distributes sustainable meat that you can truly feel good about - from a health, economic, environmental and ethical perspective.

Walden began from a shared belief in linking our land to our food. Beginning with the farmer moving her chickens to fresh pasture each dawn and ending with members enjoying their locally grown mealsÑWalden is going beyond sustainability to regenerate local agriculture without antibiotics, hormones, herbicides, or pesticides.

Walden offers a customized share program of 100% grass-fed beef and pastured pork, lamb, and poultry. Members can define what they like and exclude what they donÕt while enjoying meat that happens to taste far better than anything found in a grocery store! All shares are delivered to homes from small farms within 250 miles.

Walden Local Meat strives to reinvigorate their local agricultural economy, in support of healthier animals, soils, and communities. Together with local farm partners, Walden promotes the best practices in meat, from a health, environmental, and ethical perspective.

Best for the World Honoreeinfo_outline

linkBest for Community 2018

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.

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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.

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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.