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 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 International, Boomerang Water, Chimu Adventures, Cicil Home, Counter Culture Coffee, ECOmersion, Fair Game Beverage, Mountain Laurel Digital
Fall 2022 B Corp Clinic Companies
321 Coffee, Benchwarmers Bagels and Coffee, Carimus, Impact Karma (Karma Wallet), MSA Professional Services, New South Law Firm, Red Barn Mercantile
Spring 2022 B Corp Clinic Companies
Bright Black Candles, Vanguard Furniture, Jet It, Crowd Capital, Sugar Hollow Solar, AgBiome, CalicoSol, Natures Crop, Kennedy & Company.
Fall 2021 B Corp Clinic Companies
One Earth Rising, Carolina Solar Services, JetIt, Interloop North America, Mananalu, BIOMILQ 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 Rocks, Lulu Press, Ocaquatics Swim School, Orora Global, Prota Fiori, YAP!
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 & Colvard, Haven Developers, Murphy’s Naturals, Recover Brands and Touchstone Essentials.
Spring 2019 B Corp Clinic Companies
Counter Culture Coffee, HQ Raleigh, NARA collective, Project Shift, and SunSense Solar.
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.
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