Criterion Ventures launches ventures that create a better world, either by providing consulting services to large nonprofits, foundations or individuals or by taking an equity position in our own social ventures. We have invested over the years in our core asset—a network of relationships—built not around a set of services, but rather through conversations about possibilities, trust, and shared vision. We have both a reservoir of social capital among the leaders in the social change world and well-honed practices for connecting with the people we need. Criterion is a nimble, wonderfully-connected organization that achieves dramatic good for the world.
What is the change we seek?
The world is already connected; Criterion Ventures makes the connections visible so individual actions have incredible impact on the critical social issues of our time. Criterion’s work has, from the beginning, been driven by three core values: grace, hospitality and the power of invitation. These touchstones shape our business decisions and have shaped our methodology. We are, and have always been, value-driven players in a value-driven marketplace.
Why we became a B Corporation
As a leader and innovator in the social change space, Criterion Ventures supports the meaningful accreditation of beneficial business practices. One of the ways we connect the work we're doing with larger movements in social change is through our status as a B Corporation. Relationships drive our work forward, and networking is a key way in which resources and ideas converge.
Criterion Ventures
- Industry: Management Services
- Haddam, CT
- http://www.criterionventures.com
Certified: April 2008
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