FAQs on Community

What counts as a "Significant Supplier"?

For companies on the service with a minor environmental footprint who have 1-9 employees, you can include the top 5 suppliers in terms of cost. In all other circumstances, it is those suppliers that represent 80% of purchases in currency terms.

What does B Lab mean by "Community Investment?

The definition of Community Investment that the B Lab Standards Team uses is:

“A community investment is a long-term involvement in a community partnership chosen or created by the company to address social or environmental issues. Contributions may include cash, employee volunteer time, in-kind product donations, use of services or facilities valued at cost to the company, etc.”

In practice, this question emerged out of a need to capture company giving activity that wasn't tax-deductible, so donations that fit that bill may also be relevant.

An example of a methodology to measure community investments that are recognised by B Lab is the LBG Framework. 

What details will we need for our corporate citizenship answers?

Cross-check your answers across:

• % of employees volunteer service
• total amount of volunteer service hours
• volunteer service per capita