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Fast Company’s Social Capitalists
Fast Company’s Social Capitalists
Mar 20, 2026 12:30 AM

Fast Company has announced the results of its 2007 search for socially panies, conducted along with Monitor Group. View the winners and their grades in slideshow form here.

The winners range from the generally praiseworthy, such as ACCION International, to the rather more questionable, like Ceres, whose claim to fame on the list is that “after joining Ceres, Dell agreed to support legislation to require electronics recycling,” to the downright stultifying, such as TransFair USA, the certifying body for the Fair Trade movement, which “has certified 74.2 million pounds of Fair Trade coffee.”

Meanwhile, The Entrepreneurial Mind notes that “socialized entrepreneurship is high on the Democrat’s agenda now that they have taken power.”

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