On September 20th join iBec Creative, a certified B Corp, for a beach trash clean-up at South Portland's Bug Light Park.

We are joining the statewide annual initiative 2024 Maine Coastal Cleanup. The state will send us data forms for recording the debris we collect, trash bags, and instructions.

We hope you can join us! Sign up here.

Date and Time: March 26th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Luke's Lobster Portland Pier - 60 Portland Pier, Portland

Help us close out a wonderful B Corp Month with a B Corp themed Happy Hour at Luke's Lobster! Join us in the upstairs bar to meet Luke's founders and team members, and folks who are just interested in or excited about the B Corp movement. Enjoy free snacks from B Corps and $1 off beers and wines from Certified B Corps at the bar.

Learn more about B Corp Certification and the Lift All Boats project, Luke's Lobster's program to help students from marginalized backgrounds enter the lobster industry.

This is a free event with a suggested $5 donation to Lift All Boats: if we raise $500 that will buy all of one student's lobster traps for the year! Please be sure to register regardless so we can get an accurate headcount. Tickets will sell out so reserve yours now!

If you'd like to support the program with a more generous donation, you can do so through Island Institute: https://giving.islandinstitute.org/give/442513#!/donation/checkout

Date and Time: Wednesday March 13th, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Location: iBec Creative, 177 High Street, Portland, ME 04101

Join us in contributing your hand to create a collaborative art piece that will hang in our office. We will provide snacks, drinks, and all the supplies needed to embrace your inner artist. Don't worry if you don't have any artistic experience! This is all about self-expression.

In honor of B Corp Month, we'll be highlighting Maine Climate Action Now, a local nonprofit dedicated to transitioning our community to zero carbon emissions by 2030. They demand the equitable implementation of clean renewable energy, ecological land-use practices, and bold community-led action for a more resilient Maine.

We hope you'll join us for an evening of creativity, community, and climate action!

Date and Time: January 24th from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Patagonia, 100 Main Street, Freeport, ME 04032

The Maine B Corp Community, B Lab U.S. & Canada and 1% for the Planet invite you to #STANDWITHWABANAKI at the launch of the Wabanaki Alliance's Businesses for Wabanaki 

Join Wabanaki Alliance Board President and Penobscot Tribal Ambassador Maulian Bryant, Wabanaki Alliance Board Vice President and Mi'kmaq Nation Vice Chief Richard Silliboy, Wabanaki Alliance board member and Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative Aaron Dana, and Wabanaki Alliance board member Rena Newell, and leaders from Maine's business community to learn how your business can support Wabanaki Nations' efforts to achieve tribal sovereignty. 

Date and Time: November 16th from 4pm-7pm
Location: Alnoba 24 Cottage Road Kensington, NH 03833

Award winning film, “Hopeful: The Story of MaineWorks”, tells the story of Margo Walsh who literally built a business from her kitchen table, as a single mother of two. Her company, MaineWorks, employs ex-cons and people in recovery, exclusively. We meet many of her employees and hear their stories of hope. We hear from Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills, and US Senator from Maine, Angus King, who both discuss how Margo’s model is ripe for both state and nationwide roll-outs; MaineWorks is already operational throughout Maine and expanding into five other states. Miraculously, Margo is part of the discussion for staffing for the future, as the Infrastructure bill works its way through Congress. “Hopeful – The Story of MaineWorks” is an uplifting portrait of a female American entrepreneur with a social conscience, who gives individuals a second chance to rebuild their lives, and a pathway back to the community and redemption through hard work.

In addition to viewing this incredible film, you will also have the amazing opportunity to meet the daring woman behind it all, Margo Walsh, for a Q&A session following the film!

RSVP Here

Date and Time: November 14th from 6pm-7:30pm
Location: Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Library, Brunswick, ME

Explore how choosing gifts can be a positive experience – in this holiday season and beyond! We’ll present a buying guide full of resources and tips on ways to be a more thoughtful consumer, and hear stories about approaches to gift giving that strengthen our connections and communities from local representatives of more sustainable businesses:
• Jenna Vani, Woods and Waters Gear Exchange;
• Benn Marine, Responsibly Different/B Corporations;
• Emmy Andersson, Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
• Ward Clark, Dean’s Beans Fan.

Come share your ideas, browse a resource table and enjoy fair trade refreshments.

Co-sponsored by Curtis Memorial Library and Hope and Action: An Economy for All. Free and open to the public - all welcome!

Date and Time: Thursday, September 28th from 5-7pm

Location: Smith Education Center at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment (WNC), Freeport, Maine

Join Maine B Corps at the stunning Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment in Freeport. Plenty of networking, beer from Maine Beer Company, a Patagonia Provisions Food Tasting, as well as other snacks provided by Dirigo Collective. Watch this video for more information on the partnership between WNC and Maine Beer Co.

There will be a short program to learn about how businesses are collaborating in innovative ways with non-profits to build an economy that is good for people and planet.

You will hear from:

• Dave Herring, Executive Director of Wolfe’s Neck Center, a national leader in the regenerative farming movement, one of the key solutions to the climate emergency

• Britt Lundgren, Senior Director of Sustainability and Government Affairs at NH-based B Corp, Stonyfield, on their multiyear partnership with WNC to support the organic dairy farming industry, and regenerative organic agriculture

• Steve Mills, CEO of Maine Beer Company, on their longstanding collaboration with WNC around renewable energy goals, a finalist for 1% for the Planet’s 2023 Partnership Award!

We welcome all visitors free of charge but we appreciate any donations of $10-25 to support the mission and impact of our non-profit host organization, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment. Click here to donate

RSVP HERE

Date and Time: Friday, September 8th from 1pm to 4pm
Location: Bug Light Park, South Portland

On September 8th join iBec Creative, a certified B Corp, for a beach trash clean-up at South Portland's Bug Light Park. We are joining the statewide annual initiative 2023 Maine Coastal Cleanup. The state will send us data forms for recording the debris we collect, trash bags, and instructions. Hope you can join us!

RSVP HERE

Happy Hour Book Launch:
Altruistic Business by Gavin Watson
(Chair, CT Conscious Capitalism)

Please RSVP to Bobbie (bobbielamont27@gmail.com) if you can join!

Join us for an evening of inspiration and networking! Student teams have been working with partner organizations to help them advance their sustainability initiatives and goals. B Impact Clinic students helped our partners assess their social and environmental impacts by completing the B Impact Assessment, the first step to becoming B Corp certified. Carbon Clinic students have been helping our partners calculate their carbon footprints. Students and their mentors will reflect on the experience, followed by time for networking with sustainability peers.

Please join Patagonia Freeport, Maine B Corps, and 1% for the Planet for a festive mixer to learn more about what it means to be a Benefit Corporation and a 1% for the Planet member or grantee. Learn why these certifications are good for businesses, the community, and the planet and how they will help build a more inclusive and sustainable Maine economy.

Snacks and drinks from B Corp and 1% for the Planet participating members will be provided.

MaineWorks and Maine Recovery Fund invite you to a screening of Hopeful: The Story of MaineWorks.

An uplifting portrait of an entrepreneur with a social conscience who gives individuals a second chance to rebuild their lives, a pathway back to the community, and redemption through hard work.

Maine Conscious Business Collective is thrilled to partner with ClimateWork Maine to bring this movie to Portland.

Join us at the University of Maine as we bring business and community leaders together in a memorable event to network and learn about sustainability, stakeholder capitalism, ESG and the related challenges organizations face going forward. ‘Beyond Zero’ is not only an inspirational story but can serve as a meaningful spark of action to address climate change, define corporate higher purpose, and illuminate the roadmap to sustainable transformation.

See the feature-length documentary in a private screening that chronicles the story of visionary leader Ray Anderson and his company, Interface, embark on a high-stakes journey to become a 100-percent sustainable enterprise.

Nathen Havey, Beyond Zero’s director will join us after the film for an intimate fireside conversation.

This film is the product of a series of serendipities. Nathan Havey first encountered the Interface story in Ray Anderson’s book Confessions of a Radical Industrialist in 2010. That’s why, when staging a storytelling event about business purpose in Atlanta, his goal was to find a story from Interface. The storyteller that came forward was Erin Meezan, Chief Sustainability Officer.

On his first call with Erin, Nathan was so nervous to meet Ray’s lead sustainability person that his hands were sweaty, his heart pounding, and mouth dry. He felt like he was talking to Oprah. Erin graciously accepted the invitation to tell her story and subsequently Nathan learned much about what had happened at Interface since the publication of Ray’s last book. Soon after, Erin took the stage alongside five other storytellers, including Elaine Dinos who would later become a Beyond Zero investor, and video from that night is featured in the film.

Another storytelling event in Atlanta, co-hosted by the local chapter of Conscious Capitalism, introduced Nathan to Jim Hartzfeld, the person who asked Ray to give the speech that set the whole journey in motion. Between Jim and Erin’s reflections, Nathan saw a clear story-arc that could make a great movie. Once he saw it, he couldn’t let it go. During years of corporate training, Nathan was shocked at how few people had heard of Interface. It was time to change that.

https://www.maineconsciousbusinesscollective.com/events/erinch-sahan-from-doughnut-economics-action-lab-team

Erinch Sahan is the Business & Enterprise Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab. For over 10 years, he has focused on the transformation of the business world to make it regenerative and distributive by design – exploring governance and ownership models that embed social and ecological priorities.

Doughnut Economics is a compass for human prosperity in the 21st century. It highlights the transformations needed if we are to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. For business, Doughnut Economics means a deep internal reflection on the traits of enterprise design. This talk will give an overview of Doughnut Economics, identify the broader economic transformations needed and identify ways businesses can pursue regenerative and distributive goals through a redesign of their purpose, networks, governance, ownership and finance.

Erinch will be speaking to us virtually, but we will be gathering in-person in downtown Portland, exact location TBD. Light breakfast will be provided.

2022 BLD New England Conference

http://www.bldnewengland.org/

The University of New Hampshire
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics
10 Garrison Ave.
Durham, NH 03824

Connect with the New England B Corp Community for an engaging in-person B Corp Leadership Development event. ​
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For those unable to attend, we will live stream the keynote presentation. By signing up for this ticket, you will receive a link to join us for the keynote portion of the day. Please keep in mind that this will not be an interactive session.