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Building the Bridges to Sustainability |
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Rhode Island Pursuing the HIP Investor Challenge:
Can You Build a Better World and A Bigger Bottom Line?
Announcing:
The Building Bridges/HIP Investor/RISCPA & Providence College Business Sustainability
Pilot
The RI MVP (More Value & Profit)TM Pilot Program
Click on this link to listen to the Pilot Interview
with Peter Arpin of Renewable Now and Pilot Creator Joy Pettirossi-Poland
MIT Sloan Management Investment Conference
Joy Pettirossi-Poland, Sustainable Investing Panelist
Our Objective: Re-Think, Re-Invent & Re-Vitalize Rhode Island
How?
By engaging Innovative, Forward-Thinking business people & CPA's who are willing to participate in a Break-Through pilot program that will demonstrate by recognizing and quantifying Intangibles, aligning business strategy to Sustainability and Impact Metrics and integrating these New Essential Metrics into standard Financial Statements We Can:
1. Increase the opportunity for Business Profitability, Bottom Line, Valuations and More Accurately Depict Company Value
2. Identify and Reduce Company Risks & Lower Business Costs
3. Integrate ESG/Sustainable Investing Criteria to Minimize Risk, Lower Costs and Increase Performance on 401K's and Investments for Investors
4. Create Jobs, Increase Productivity, Improve the Economy
5. Positively Impact our Human, Environmental & Social "Bottom Lines" (Triple Bottom Line) *NCLI and the RI ELP K-16
* Our Community Signature & Positive Human Impact = No Child Left Inside ~ RI Environmental Literacy Plan ~ RI Education Skills Gap
The 3 OTHER Vital Capitals
| 1 | People as Assets (Human Capital) |
2 | Environmental Profit & Loss Statement (Natural Capital) |
3 | Social Enterprise Impact Scorecard (Social Capital) |
“We cannot solve the problems that we face today
from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." "
~ Albert Einstein
What is Transparency and How Does it Impact YOU?
| The Building Bridges/RISCPA New Metrics, Sustainable Business and Investments Pilot Aligning to and Operationalizing the SASB mission |
Resources that Support the Premise of the Pilot:
Other Resources:
- Read the SB Bridge to Better Brands Article "Rhode Island CPA's Create Pilot Program Around Sustainable Business Metrics"
- Read the Overview of the Metrics ~ CFO Leadership Summit; Surprising Business Value from New Metrics of Sustainability
- Health and Company Cultures of Wellness: Why It Is Profitable to Address Stress in the Workplace
- No Child Left Inside, Original Co-Sponsor Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed
- RI Environmental Literacy plan
- AICPA Insights Article - Emergence of Social Stock Exchanges and Other Market Drivers of Sustainability
- Consumers Demand More Than CSR "Purpose" New Cone Communications research shows Americans more than twice as likely to buy from companies that promote CSR progress and results - "PROVING PROGRESS" is the new mantra for effective CSR"