How We Measure Good
The Good For Michigan program offers two technical assistance on two benchmarking tools that aid businesses on their sustainability journey: the B Impact Assessment and the SDG Action Manager.
Learn more about these assessments below.
Measure, manage, and improve
The B Impact Assessment
Business needs comprehensive, credible, comparable impact standards to support economic systems change. Used by more than 150,000 businesses, the B Impact Assessment is a digital tool that can help measure, manage, and improve positive impact performance for the environment, communities, customers, suppliers, employees, and stakeholders. This assessment is also the first step towards B Corp Certification.
The process
Here’s how it works
Assess your impact
Complete the B Impact Assessment by answering a series of questions about your company’s practices and outputs across five categories: governance, workers, community, the environment, and customers.
Compare your impact
Evaluate your performance compared to the thousands of other businesses that have taken the B Impact Assessment. You’ll see where your business is outperforming others, and where there’s room for improvement.
Improve your impact
Use the B Impact Assessment platform to identify, track, and learn about improvement opportunities and best practices over time.
A blueprint to a better world
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. Learn more
Measure Your Impact
The SDG Action Manager
The SDG Action Manager enables dynamic self-assessment, benchmarking, and improvement through a series of questions, guidance, and performance scores related to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact in areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. You’ll start with the SDG Baseline, a confidential tool that is free and easy to use.