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9/23/2022

The Dreaded “Improvement Stage”

Most companies in the process of B Corp certification are surprised to find that their score often decreases by 5-15 points when they get to the audit phase of certification. They then enter an “Improvement phase” in which they have a limited amount of time (sometimes just 2-4 weeks) to get their score to the required minimum of 80 points. That’s where The Impact Collective comes in. We rely on our expertise and project management skills to get you to 80 quickly and with confidence.Read below to hear how we helped Food Huggers do exactly that in a few short weeks.Food Huggers: Improvement PhaseThe Impact Collective helped us to review our B Corp application answers and documentation before our final submission. It was a great comfort to us to have the benefit of their experience and insights. With their knowledge and extremely well organized feedback we are able to submit our application confidently.We scored 72.5 on our B Corp assessment and needed to increase our score to 80+. We wanted to have expert and experienced eyes and minds on our answers to help ensure that our application was organized correctly and that our answers were formatted and documented appropriately.Every open question on our list was methodically addressed with color coded answers to help us make the most effective and most important edits first.The Impact Collective came prepared for our meeting, having reviewed all of our answers to the B Corp assessment's endless questions and provided suggestions and solutions to earn us additional points. Their knowledge and expertise helped us earn points that we would have otherwise missed.The Impact Collective was exceptionally organized in their feedback which paved the way for us to have a well organized structure in place for our next steps.Our meeting to review our assessment was very efficient and organized. The Impact Collective color coded an excel document so we could easily see which questions we could gain more points for and which questions required additional documentation.We value the expertise and also the extremely high level of organization and clear formatting with which the insights and direction were delivered and watching our score rise above 80!

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