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for-profit company currently authorized in 30 states,
including Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
The Commonwealth requires state businesses to have a
"corporate purpose" of creating public benefit in order to
file articles of incorporation or amend existing articles to
elect benefit corporation status. So incorporated companies
must provide an Annual Benefit Report to shareholders
describing its public benefit during the preceding year.

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Modo, a web and web application design studio in
Lancaster, became a benefit corporation last year. The
company, which has national and international clients
working to drive social change, earned its B Corp
certification in 2010.
"Many of the clients we had were B Lab certified, so we
thought, 'we're in great company, they're our clients, we
share similar philosophy in how we work,' so we wanted
to be B Lab certified as well," recalls Kristine Newswanger,
co-founder and managing principal at Modo. "We enjoyed
being the first B Corp in Lancaster County and the southcentral PA region, and still do believe in the social
impact mission."
But Modo made the decision to discontinue certification in
favor of reincorporating.
"While the social impact mission is still paramount to us,
the certification did not hold more value for us than the
Benefit Corporation incorporation," she says, pointing to
the significant staff time for their small firm and annual fees
associated with maintaining certification status.
Whether it's certification or incorporation, Coleman, of
ASSETS, says it's all about "using the power of the private
sector and business to transform communities."
"It's not a zero sum game," he says. "A business doesn't thrive
unless the community's thriving." LT
BY ADAM AURAND,
Director of Marketing and Public Relations,
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
Contact Adam at:
aurand@stevenscollege.edu

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