Impact Growth Partners is excited to present a session on materiality assessments, featuring Adam Garfunkel from Junxion Strategy, an expert in helping organizations align their values with their business practices.
2024 VBSR Awards
Get your tickets now for the 23rd Annual VBSR Awards Ceremony & Dinner and celebrate this year's business leader awardees!
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Join our network of values-led businesses and changemakers championing people, planet & prosperity.
Amplify Your Impact Through Sponsorship
Spotlight your organization's dedication to our mission – and gain visibility with VBSR's network.
Help Expand Our Movement
In this pivotal moment for our planet and its people, VBSR is committed to bringing new voices and greater access to our movement through the Expanding Our Movement Fund.
Why VBSR?
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) is a statewide, nonprofit business association with a mission to leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact. For over 30 years VBSR has championed “business as a force for good” through education, networking, advocacy and thought leadership.
We are Vermont’s network of students, entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, small businesses, largest employers, policymakers, advocates, nonprofit organizations and inspired individuals – collectively working toward a just, thriving and transformative economy that works for all people and the planet.
Champion Members
VBSR Champions are corporate social responsibility icons. Brands around the globe look to Vermont industry leaders to learn how to lead successful businesses in a way that is good for their people and good for the planet, and these companies lead the way.
VBSR is one of the only places to get a comprehensive education on both the theory and practice of being a values-led business.
— Liz Schlegel, Champion Member The Alchemist
VBSR’s proven track record at the statehouse helps put our values into impactful, progressive public policy.
— Sascha Mayer, Champion Member Mamava
I encourage those interested in expanding personal awareness, belief systems and business expertise to take advantage of VBSR’s programming.
— Karen Lawson, Lawson’s Finest Liquids
We know how critical the business voice is – and how much influence is has. And particularly in Vermont it's become commonplace for companies to have a strong sustainability programs. Advocacy like VBSR’s is the next horizon for that.
— Kate Ogden, Seventh Generation
VBSR Events
The Vermont Brewers Association lineup for the Vermont Craft Brewers Conference – November 11-12 – includes a variety of VBSR members including Efficiency Vermont (a program of Champion Member VEIC), Gallagher, Flynn & Company, and Gold Member The Richards Group. From sustainability tips and tricks in the brewhouse to leadership and team building best practices, attendees (brewers or otherwise!) can learn plenty about business approaches from this year’s offerings.
Join VBSR and Vermont leaders to discuss balanced approaches to land use and economic development at Norwich Solar’s new Greenway Institute campus.
The date and location for the 23rd Annual VBSR Awards Ceremony and Dinner have been set for Thursday, October 10, 5-8:30 p.m., at The Barn at Smugglers’ Notch, Jeffersonville. Tickets are on sale now!
Join VBSR, Rebuild by Design, and Vermont leaders for this virtual policy forum exploring the history of Vermont’s federal disaster declarations and recovery funding, the economic impact of climate disasters and recovery, and actions Vermont business and policy leaders can take toward a climate resilient economy.
Join us for a day of volunteering and networking as VBSR and Ursa Major partner with the Vermont Foodbank and Burlington Beer Co.!
VBSR News
Explore the latest from VBSR members: Adventure Dinner, Cabot Creamery Co-operative, VSJF, Cabot Creamery Co-operative, VSJF, and more!
Explore the latest from VBSR members:UVM Medical Center, AO Glass, Ben & Jerry's, Hotel Vermont, Champlain Housing Trust, and more!
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR), the statewide, nonprofit business association with a mission to leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact, has announced the 2024 recipients for three awards honoring Vermont leaders in social equity, environmental responsibility, and sustainable economic development. The date and location for the 23rd Annual VBSR Awards Ceremony and Dinner have been set for Thursday, October 10, 5-8:30 p.m., at The Barn at Smugglers’ Notch, Jeffersonville.