Is your business thriving amidst economic and social shifts? Share your insights and take the survey today!

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BC businesses are adapting to changing local and global economic and social conditions by defining their core purpose to benefit communities and society. The BC Chamber of Commerce is launching a complimentary five-part educational series on business as a force for good and seeks to understand the current state of social purpose in BC businesses.

Please fill out these five questions to help us understand what you think about these ideas and where you are headed next.

This survey will take 3 minutes of your time and is open from September 16, 2024, to October 18, 2024, at 5.00pm (PT).

A social purpose business is a business whose reason for being is to create a better world. It produces profitable solutions from the problems of people and planet and does not profit from creating problems.

With this definition in mind:

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* 1. Have you heard about the concept of social purpose business, and do you know what it means? Please check the answer that best describes your current awareness.

Yes, I am familiar with this concept and know what it means

I have heard of this concept and know a bit about it

I have heard of this concept but don’t know what it means

I have not heard of this concept

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* 2. Does your business have a social purpose statement describing the reason your business exists? (e.g. The purpose of Black & Decker is “to inspire makers and innovators to create a more sustainable world”) We are not asking about your vision (where you are headed) or mission (what you do), but about whether your business has a social purpose. Please check the answer that best describes your situation.

We have a social purpose that formally describes the reason our business exists, and this is shared publicly

We have an implicit social purpose to create a better world, but it is not on our website and is not formally defined

We are planning to develop a social purpose for our business that describes how we exist to create a better world over the next year

We would like to develop a social purpose for our business that describes how we exist to create a better world over the next 2 – 5 years

We are interested in this idea of social purpose, but have no plans to pursue it

This idea of social purpose is not something we are interested in developing