Coffee is one of those topics that causes a somewhat surprising amount of debate. On one hand, people who love their morning fix and know a lot about the quality of coffee often insist on only the best beans, roasted in exactly the right way, and presented just so. On…
For our continuing series on B Corps we love, we look to another Bay Area company that’s doing its best to advance social causes with its business practices. Bixbee is, on the surface, a company that makes backpacks for school kids. Now, that may not sound like anything special, but…
As a B Corp ourselves, we like reading and learning about what fellow B Corps are up to, and when we come across one that’s doing something extraordinary, we like to share their story. Oaklandish came to our attention because they’re local to us (as the name suggests), and though…
When we talk about the sharing economy, the same names tend to come up over and over. Although there’s certainly a reason that Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft get a lot of press, under the surface there’s a much wider picture of what the sharing economy can mean. At Exygy, we…
Because of the nature of nonprofit and social enterprise work, usually the focus is on people – as it should be. Micro-lending in particular is about empowering people in underserved communities by giving them access to the resources they need to make financial independence a reality. It’s easy to forget,…
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