{"id":121243,"date":"2016-01-04T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=121243"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:52:35","slug":"voip-supply-is-a-b-corporation-committed-to-being-a-sustainable-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/voip-supply-is-a-b-corporation-committed-to-being-a-sustainable-business\/","title":{"rendered":"VoIP Supply is a B Corporation Committed to being a Sustainable Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WHAT ARE B CORPS?<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bcorporation.net\/community\/voip-supply-llc\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121283 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/12\/b-corporation1.png\" alt=\"b corporation\" width=\"111\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bcorporation.net\/community\/voip-supply-llc\" target=\"_blank\">Beneficial Corporations<\/a>&#8220;(B Corps) are corporations certified by the non-profit B Lab with the\u00a0goal of developing\u00a0positive impact on society and the environment in addition to the legally defined shareholders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing B Corporation as our business guideline to make decisions and develop core value and culture, \u00a0VoIP Supply has been certified as<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0a B Corp\u00a0for the second time\u00a0to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With seven points higher than the median score in Environment evaluation, VoIP Supply would like to highlight its extensive recycling program, specifically the <\/span><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/services\/reclaim\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reclaim Equipment Buyback Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which not only gives customers more options to buy and sell VoIP equipment, but saves excess VoIP equipment from being wasted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B Corp Anthem - B The Change\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-VFZUFJwt4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>WHY\u00a0WE BECAME a B CORP<\/h2>\n<p>VoIP Suppy has been offering a tremendous amount of education and real value to customers and helping employees enjoy\u00a0coming to work in a delightful environment. Becoming a B Corp gives VoIP Supply a clear roadmap to continue doing good business and becoming the company that&#8217;s the best for the world.<\/p>\n<h2>HOW to BECOME a B CORP<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To become a B Corp, a business needs to complete the <\/span><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"http:\/\/bimpactassessment.net\/how-it-works\/assess-your-impact\" target=\"_blank\">B Impact Assessment<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and earn minimum score of 80 out of 200 points. The assessment covers the impact of a business on environment, workers, customers, community and governance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on difficulty and impact, the <\/span><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"http:\/\/bimpactassessment.net\/how-it-works\/improve-your-impact\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvement Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0helps businesses find the areas they want to focus their effort on. Helpful practices to improve B Impact score vary from different businesses including increasing employee satisfaction and engagement, establishing specific social and environmental targets, improving energy efficiency, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>WANT TO LEARN MORE?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are interested in learning more\u00a0about <\/span><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/corporate\/about-us\/bcorporation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B corp certification<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/services\/reclaim\">Reclaim Equipment Buyback Program<\/a>, please contact us\u00a0at <strong>1-800-398-VoIP <\/strong>or<strong> voipexperts@voipsupply.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or visit the links below for more information. We would be thrilled to hear from you and be happy to answer any questions you may have! <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/services\/reclaim\/reclaim-voip-buyback-faq\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reclaim<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/services\/reclaim\/reclaim-voip-buyback-faq\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reclaim FAQ<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/services\/reclaim\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reclaim Center<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"\/refresh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refresh Center<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'blog-post', 'click', 'b-corp');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bcorporation.net\/community\/voip-supply-llc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B-Corporation<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT ARE B CORPS? &#8220;Beneficial Corporations&#8220;(B Corps) are corporations certified by the non-profit B Lab with the\u00a0goal of developing\u00a0positive impact on society and the environment in addition to the legally defined shareholders. Seeing B Corporation as our business guideline to make decisions and develop core value and culture, \u00a0VoIP Supply has been certified as\u00a0a B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026,1221,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121243"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254413,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243\/revisions\/254413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}