B Impact Report

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Prepare Inc

Comprehensive Violence Prevention Trainings for Children and Adults
Certified Since: January, 2017
Location: New York City and Tri-State Area, New York, United States
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

82.5

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

prepareinc.com

Prepare Inc. is an educational services company that offers comprehensive, evidence-based violence prevention training and personal safety programs. Prepare programs situate violence in the social and cultural context within which it exists. Along with the broad spectrum of curriculum offered, Prepare supports the work of others in the anti-violence community. Since 1992, the company has served over 50,000 young people and adults.

Prepare takes an integrated approach to personal safety and violence prevention using consistent, research-based methods, and highly trained instructors. Trainings are designed to reduce vulnerability to emotional and physical violations and violence due to age, gender, race, identity, and/or physical ability. The company’s primary prevention programs work to change beliefs and behaviors before they lead to violence: health and life skills education, anti-bias and anti-bullying programs, and social and emotional learning fundamentals. Prepare is best known for its secondary prevention Empowerment Self-Defense and personal safety courses which feature the suited instructor: IMPACT Basics and Prepare classes for kids and teens. All programs address sensitive issues in a trauma-informed and explicitly non-victim blaming manner.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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