B Impact Report

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Pringle Creek Community- Sustainable Investments

Sustainable Development Company
Certified Since: January, 2016
Location: Salem, Oregon, United States
Sector: Service with Significant Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

91.6

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

pringlecreek.com

Pringle Creek Community (PCC) is a fully sustainable residential development located in the heart of Oregon’s flourishing Willamette Valley. The recipient of many awards, PCC is grounded in sustainable principles, including the use of earth-friendly building materials, energy efficient processes, respect for the natural environment, and community-oriented planning.

They intentionally re-developed a former state-owned institutional site for their mixed-use development, creating a new, vibrant space to live and work, reincorporating the property into the fabric of the Salem community. The natural assets inherent to the site were the first elements to inform their master plan. Pringle Creek, the community’s namesake, naturally provided the initial structure on which all planning decisions were based. The natural topography allowed them to create a fully solar neighborhood and existing wells allowed them to create a geothermal system loop that serves the heating and cooling needs of 70 homes and businesses.

Pringle Creek Community is building neighborhoods and selling homes while employing a variety of resources that encourage interaction and healthy living in a beautiful community.

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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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info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

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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