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Sustainability Practicum

Help real companies, from startups to multinational corporations, strengthen their social and environmental impact. Develop real-world experience working with local and global companies.

About the B Corp Clinic

Have you ever wondered how companies become B Corps? B Corps—like Warby Parker, New Belgium Brewing, and Patagonia—are “for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.”

Since 2015, the NC State B Corp Clinic has engaged over 480 students to help over 100 companies from around the world improve their social and environmental impact. Since Spring 2021 the B Corp Clinic is offered as a graduate level practicum course, MBA 582.

Each company is matched with a team of graduate students from the Poole College of Management and across the University. The team uses the B Impact Assessment (BIA), as a tool to measure and drive impact. The BIA is a free, confidential platform designed to help measure and manage a company’s positive impact on workers, community, customers and environment.

Real World Impact.

The B Corp Clinic has worked with 480 students on 108 projects and helped companies make progress on over 2,500 points towards certification, including 34 companies that have become B Corp Certified.

Past Company Participants

Spring 2025 B Corp Clinic Companies

Big Spoon Roasters, Carimus, Circ, Fillaree, Southbound Travels

Fall 2024 B Corp Clinic Companies

Doré, Firsthand Foods, Raleigh Founded

Spring 2024 B Corp Clinic Companies

Cadence Cash, Marit Digital, Doré, Carpool.School, Leyla, MSG Ready Mix, English Garden Raleigh Florist, Good Bowls

Fall 2023 B Corp Clinic Companies

Mountain Laurel Digital, Beautycounter, CAPTRUST, Cadence Cash, Greenbacker

Spring 2023 B Corp Clinic Companies

Animal Experience InternationalBoomerang WaterChimu AdventuresCicil HomeCounter Culture CoffeeECOmersionFair Game BeverageMountain Laurel Digital 

Fall 2022 B Corp Clinic Companies

321 CoffeeBenchwarmers Bagels and CoffeeCarimusImpact Karma (Karma Wallet)MSA Professional Services, New South Law Firm, Red Barn Mercantile

Spring 2022 B Corp Clinic Companies

Bright Black CandlesVanguard FurnitureJet ItCrowd Capital,  Sugar Hollow SolarAgBiomeCalicoSolNatures CropKennedy & Company.

Fall 2021 B Corp Clinic Companies

One Earth Rising, Carolina Solar Services, JetIt, Interloop North AmericaMananaluBIOMILQ and Crowd Capital.

Spring 2021 B Corp Clinic Companies

Loading Dock Raleigh, TS Designs, Prota Fiori, Crocodile Creek, Northwestern Mutual – Tom Morris, Amanda’s Best Friend, Birdcall, Green Sprouts.

Fall 2020 B Corp Clinic Companies

360 RocksLulu PressOcaquatics Swim SchoolOrora GlobalProta FioriYAP!

Spring 2020 B Corp Clinic Companies

9miles Media, Boer Brothers Heating and Air, Get Spiffy, Inc., ndustrial.io, Prota Fiori, Spiritex/Asheville Apparel,Triangle Environmental and Unity Digital Agency.

Fall 2019 B Corp Clinic Companies

Charles & ColvardHaven DevelopersMurphy’s NaturalsRecover Brands and Touchstone Essentials.

Spring 2019 B Corp Clinic Companies

Counter Culture CoffeeHQ RaleighNARA collectiveProject Shift, and SunSense Solar.

B Corp Clinic Information Packet

Learn more about our B Corp Clinic, types of projects, and past company participants in our B Corp Cinic packet.

Why Participate?

Drive social and environmental impact

  • Open to undergraduate and graduate students, all disciplines, from across North Carolina
  • Work on a semester long consulting engagement with a local company
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary, cross-university teams to drive social and environmental impact
  • NC State students can receive credit for participation in the B Corp Clinic

The Spring 2024 B Corp Clinic is only open to students in MBA 582.