Flaming Gorillas

• 2011-12-14

  Underpaid Genius: New York Now Allows Benefit Corporations

  underpaidgenius:

  New York has passed legislation to allo the formation of a new sort of corporation — a Benefit Corporation, or B Corp:

  Kyle Westaway, New Legal Structures for ‘Social Entrepreneurs’

   The Benefit Corporation is a new class of corporation with a corporate purpose to create public benefit,…

  Woohoo!  If you want to learn more about the changing landscape of the definition of a corporation, I took a great Skillshare class from Kyle all about legal structures for social entrepreneurs which I highly recommend.

  Source: underpaidgenius

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     Woohoo! If you want...learn more about...changing...

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      Amazing news! Go New York!

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      I am going to be actively looking for B corps in New York, and finding out why their founders opted for that path.

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