Creating Social Impact

As a Certified B Corp and Public Benefit Corporation, Mightybytes exists to create positive social impact. Here’s how.

Making a Difference for People and Planet

Working with purpose-driven organizations that share our B Corp values is important to how we fulfill our mission. We choose clients carefully to ensure each project meets specific impact criteria.

We’re committed to helping stakeholders—communities, workers, customers, the environment, etc.—redesign systems and create shared value that benefits everyone. Here are some of the ways we work to create positive social impact:

• We designed impact business models for sustainable web design, education, and digital accessibility to ensure our work creates positive social impact while also enabling us to build a thriving, sustainable business.
• We host webinars and workshops to educate communities and clients on the latest responsible business, digital sustainability, and ethical marketing practices.
• We volunteer and donate resources whenever possible. For more information on these efforts, please read Our Corporate Philanthropy Practices.

Improving Communities

Here’s how we support communities in our work.

• As noted above, we host educational webinars and workshops that are open to anyone. These events are specifically targeted to reach social enterprises, nonprofits, and other changemakers.
• We create publicly available educational content on Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR), ethical marketing best practices, data privacy, accessibility, digital sustainability, and related topics.
• By buying first from area businesses and other B Corps whenever possible, we support the local impact economy.
• Through B Local Illinois, we collaborate with other B Corps in Chicago to grow the local B Corp community and help it thrive. In turn, this helps communities where B Corps operate thrive as well.
• From volunteer opportunities to speaking engagements, we actively spread the word about responsible digital practices and using business as a force for good.

Prioritizing People

As an LGBT-certified business enterprise, it is important for Mightybytes to create an inclusive work environment where our team and all stakeholders feel welcome and heard. We do this in several ways:

• Ongoing peer-to-peer education, collaboration, personal/professional growth, and process improvement.
• Team participation in strategic planning workshops and other collaborative activities.
• Coordinated volunteer efforts with community partners.
• Helping team members thrive by paying everyone a living wage, reducing pay inequity, offering the best benefits our resources allow, and providing work-life balance and a flexible schedule.
• Actively searching out values-aligned partners with which to do business.

Social Impact Campaigns

Social impact is critical to how we fulfill our mission as a B Corp and how we tell our story:

• As part of our 1% for the Planet commitment, each year Mightybytes supports organizations like Growing Home, which creates economic opportunities, job training, and access to healthy food in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.
• Also, we create original research and content with strategic partners. See our company impact report for more details.
• On our blog, we help product teams and organizational leaders understand how to make more responsible design and technology decisions.
• Plus, we contribute to publications like the Sustainable Ecommerce Handbook, the HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac, and the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Sustainability Guidelines to help digital professionals understand emerging topics like sustainability.

Make Mightybytes Your Social Impact Partner

If partnering with an agency that strives every day to make the world a better place matters to you, consider Mightybytes for your next project.