The Fortune Change the World list recognizes companies that are having a positive social impact through activities that are part of their core business strategy. Readers are welcome to nominate companies, and companies are welcome to nominate themselves, using this form.
Companies must be generating revenue from business activities to be considered for the list, and we prioritize companies with annual revenues of $1 billion or more.
Fortune writers and editors evaluate the companies by these four factors:
1. Measurable social impact: We consider the reach, nature, and durability of the company's impact on one or more specific societal problems. This category receives particularly close attention.
2. Business results: We consider the benefit the socially impactful work brings to the company. Profitability and contribution to shareholder value outweigh benefits to the company's reputation.
3. Degree of innovation: We consider how innovative the company's effort is relative to that of others in its industry and whether other companies have followed its example.
4. Corporate Integration: We consider how integral the initiative is to a company's overall strategy, and how well that strategy is communicated through the ranks and elsewhere.
Please describe the nominated initiative in those terms using the form below. Please keep your responses to individual questions to 300 words or less. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, July 29, 2024. Please send any questions, using the subject line “CHANGE THE WORLD QUERY” to
[email protected].
See the 2023 Change the World list here:
http://fortune.com/change-the-world/. The 2024 edition of the Change the World list will appear in the October/November 2024 issue of
Fortune magazine, and will be published online in early October.
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