OUR PURPOSE
Inspire the Marketplace
BY SERVING THE GREATER GOOD
Sustainability is a systems approach to life’s resources and decision making that attends to economics, people, and the environment, so as to thrive in perpetuity. Your business can provide a good or service AND it can defy marketplace expectations by taking a triple bottom line approach, deliberately working to help people and the natural world, and in doing so, inspiring the marketplace. Path Collective can help you make this a reality through talent transformation, sustainability strategic planning and thought leadership to help your company make a positive influence. Use your business as a force for good.
Path Collective guides purpose-driven people, teams, and organizations to leverage their unique strengths and unlock their potentials to cultivate vibrant, productive workplaces, meaningful impact, and business success.
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We believe in a sustainable business model, meaning that companies should not only be used as a means to profit their owner(s)/shareholders, but they should also be making a positive impact on employees, the communities in which they operate, and on the environment. Path Collective is a proud Certified B Corp.
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Cultivate robust relationships, as well as inclusive cultures and learning environments through Unabashed Authenticity, Empathy, and Trust
Leave comfort zones and engage in Edgework in pursuit of transformation
Create and facilitate tailored fun, supportive, and challenging services to address Client-Centered Outcomes
Foster health benefits through Nature-Infused Environments
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Employees
Contractors
Clients
Natural Environments
Society & Local Community
Vendors
Partners
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Path Collective's Code of Ethics includes our purpose, values, and identified stakeholders. It guides our decision-making and behaviors, as well as allows stakeholders insight into who we are and how we operate. In addition to abiding by the laws of Colorado, the United States and the other states and countries in which we serve our clients, we have also developed a Code of Business Conduct to guide and align our behaviors. It is as follows:
Engage with empathy and kindness. This pertains to ourselves, our employees, our clients, our vendors, the natural world, and our community. Every single person inherently deserves respect.
We create a safe and equitable space for our employees. Each person requires physical, emotional, and psychological safety to step out of their comfort zones and work toward their potential. We curate environments wherein people can reach their potentials.
Design and facilitate exceptional client engagements. Our purpose is to elevate clients’ effectiveness to create positive change. This requires us to have a deep understanding of clients’ purpose and values, pain points and strategy, previous experiences, and talents to enable us to custom design engagements that will give them the tools to build trust and execute.
We strive for continuous growth and learning. While we can aim for perfection, we understand that it does not exist. We will learn from all successes and mishaps in pursuit of growth.
Maintain client confidentiality. Vulnerability is required for growth, and we applaud the courage it takes to be vulnerable. One of the ways we create trust is by maintaining confidentiality.
Engage in rigorous triple bottom line decisions. It is imperative that we take the long-view in decision-making, which isn’t necessarily the easiest, fastest or cheapest. Though our business is in a small, rural, mountain town with limited vendors, whenever possible, we will support local, minority-owned vendors and sustainability-sourced products. When not possible, we will make the next best choice. We look to support B Corps.
Engage in our Community. This includes volunteering in our community and giving 1% of our proceeds to the Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley. It also includes engaging in and supporting the B Corps community.
Make environmentally-positive choices. Minimize negative environmental impacts. Be carbon neutral. Minimize waste. Support business that are actively reversing negative environmental impacts.
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
A business is considered sustainable when operations are economically efficient and it produces a good/service that does not harm the environment nor other living beings. Ideally, a sustainable business elevates the well-being of society and the environment, while becoming more profitable and serving as an inspiration for other businesses and consumers. Path Collective is a Public Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corp.
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Environmentally Responsible
Minimize consumption and waste
Reduce energy use & purchase renewable energy
Monitor carbon footprint - walk, bike, carpool, bus - and purchase carbon off-sets
Economically Responsible
Use a locally owned bank
Purchase from Certified B Corps and from underrepresented individuals, whenever possible
Pay a living wage
Socially Responsible
Offer flexible scheduling
Satisfy customer expectations
Volunteer and donate
Operate with a justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging lens
Social advocacy (e.g., Black Lives Matter, climate justice, women’s rights)
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A B Corp is a certification developed by the non-profit organization B Lab in order to measure companies' standards of social & environmental performance, accountability and transparency and inspires to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good™. Path Collective is a proud Certified B Corp. We encourage you to take your company's pulse by using the free, online assessment called The B Impact Assessment.
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Part of being a B Corp is being conscious of and measuring environmental and social impacts, as well as being transparent about them. We manage what we measure, so each year we set a new target goal so we can continue to improve our impact. Stay tuned for our forthcoming impact report.
COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENT
The Path team strives to make a minimal carbon footprint by commuting via bike/foot whenever possible.
Our home-office uses recycled goods and non-toxic cleaners, utilizes passive solar light & heat, heats with an energy-efficient wood-burning stove, and off-sets 100% of our electric through the City of Gunnison’s wind program.
RENEWABLE ENERGY:
2018 = 18% | 2019 = 30% | 2020 = 100% | 2021 = 100%2022 & 2023 = Off-set auto & air travel through Terrapass; 100% renewable energy offsets via the City of Gunnison.
2024 Goal = Maintain 100% renewable energy with the City of Gunnison & again off-set auto and air travel via Terrapass. Reduce air miles (210,266 total in 2023).
COMMITMENT TO PEOPLE / COMMUNITY
We donate 1% of Path Collective’s revenues to a donor fund managed by the Community Foundation of Gunnison Valley.
We are committed to providing 50 hours of pro bono / service hours, annually.
SERVICE HOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS, DISCOUNTS & DONATIONS
2020 = 50 Hours - $13,495 in Scholarships2021 = 52.75 Hours - $6,000 in Scholarships
2022 = 63 Hours - $2,758 in Discounts - $1,394.91 in Donations
2023 = 63.5 Hours - $11,200 in Discounts - $2,068.65 in Donations
2024 Targets: 60 Hours - $6,000 in Discounts - $1,200 in Donations
* We are anticipating less in Discounts and Donations in 2024 due to significant funds being dedicated toward rebranding and significant time dedicated to a family move cross country.
COMMITMENT TO CLIENTS
Path promises to treat each client with the utmost respect. We guarantee confidentiality, integrity & honesty. We offer discounted rates to non-profits, B Corps, and local government.