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A comment on Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?.

Re:Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming? by numlocked on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:20AM (#14375311)
Work with mission-driven businesses. B Corps[0] are a good place to start. There's nothing quite like coming to work every day with a group of like-minded folks who want to make a dent in the universe.

My company, www.grove.co, strives to help families making it easy to buy sustainable products vs. conventional CPG. It seemed a bit crazy when we started, but now literally thousands of families get sustainable products from us every single day. It's hard to make a big impact on your own, but organizations and companies can do great things.

[0] https://www.bcorporation.net/

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Re:Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming? by ISL on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:37AM (#14376031)
B Corps don't always stay B Corps when they get all grown up: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-18/the-barba...
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Re:Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming? by hooverlunch on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:41PM (#14377308)
Worker co-ops usually have provisions in their bylaws to ensure they stay co-oops. This is to guard against the issue you allude to here.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming? by sz4kerto on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:27AM (#14375935)
Exactly. :)

Shameless plug: we at https://www.patientsknowbest.com/careers.html are also hiring and are a B Corp -- our mission is to give patients control over their own medical data.

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