Examples of Profit/Benefit Companies

Slideshow of 10 for-profit companies with social goals from FastCompany.com.

I thought BetterWorld Books was interesting.

Slideshow of 45 winners of FAST COMPANY/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards.

Some of the companies that might be instructive models for those interested in development are:

• KickStart, develops and markets new low-cost technologies in Africa to enable local entrepreneurs to establish highly profitable new small businesses
• Room to Read, building libraries in the developing world
• the Scojo Foundation, to reduce poverty and generate opportunity through the sale of affordable eyeglasses
• TransFair USA, a third-party certifier of Fair Trade products