Memberships

• Balle (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) (www.livingeconomies.org)
• B Corporation (www.bcoporation.net)
• Ceres (www.ceres.org)
• Global Reporting Initiative (www.globalreporting.org)
• JustMeans (www.justmeans.com)
• Soap and Detergent Association (www.cleaning101.com)
• Social Venture Network (www.svn.org)
• Society for Organizational Learning (www.solonline.org)
• Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (www.vbsr.org)
• 2008 CEO Board Memberships: Jeffrey Hollender serves on the board of directors of Greenpeace USA, Verite (www.verite.org), Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, and Alloy, Inc., a publicly traded company.

Awards and Top Rankings

Seventh Generation was ranked Number One Company on Earth by Better World Shopping Guide, the comprehensive buying resource for ethically-minded consumers.

• Jeffrey Hollender was named Social Entrepreneur CEO of the Year by Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) magazine.
• Gen Y Top 10 Green Brands. Marketing experts Outlaw Consulting asked members of “Generation Y” (ages 21-29) to name those companies they like and think are doing something for the environment and we were ranked one of their Top 10 favorite green brands.
• Seventh Generation was honored with Microsoft’s Pinnacle Award for Environmental Sustainability. This award to a Microsoft customer recognizes the innovative way our data management system tracks environmental information.
• We ranked in the Top 10 2008 Green Brands Index. The Green Brands Survey, conducted and released by WPP agencies Landor Associates, Cohn & Wolfe, and Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates (PSB), named Seventh Generation the “greenest” household cleaning brand and the sixth “greenest” brand across all categories.
• Frontier Natural Products Co-op, one of our customers, named us their Top Sales Growth Supplier for 2008.
• Customer Fred Meyer named us Vendor of the Year based on several key performance criteria, as well as general cooperation and enthusiasm toward achieving mutual goals.
• 2007 Corporate Consciousness Report Spheres of Influence received an award for Best Sustainability Report for a small or medium enterprise. The award is given by Boston-based Ceres Coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
• Vermont Business and Professional Women’s Employer of the Year Award.