The New List for the New Paradigm

The GameChangers 500 profiles organizations that are reinventing the world and redefining the rules of business around fun, fulfillment and fairness to all life.

The 2012 Candidate List

Browse the growing list of GameChangers 500 organizations below. Each one has passed our GameChangers DNA Test and is playing an important role in reinventing the world.

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California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Produce quality apparel to inspire environmental solutions

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Patagonia

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Patagonia produces top-notch clothing and equipment for outdoor enthusiasts through New Game principles. They operate from iconic green building facilities, contribute substantially to environmental groups and are fully transparent around their clothes’ production and lifecycle.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Pioneer social enterprise with one-for-one

TOMS Shoes

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

TOMS was founded on a simple premise: for every pair of shoes you purchase, TOMS will give a pair to a child in need. One for One. Through a for-profit model, TOMS Shoes has donated over 1 million pairs of shoes to children all over the world.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Celebrate the joy of life through hospitality

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Joie de Vivre Hotels

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Joie de Vivre develops hotels that resonate with their guests. Each one is a soulful reflection of its location and designed to engage the five senses so that guests enjoy authentic, memorable experiences.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Produce transformative films

Elevate

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Elevate Studios is a community of highly gifted artists unleashing higher expressions of human potential through the boundless medium of movies, music and new media. As a full-service production company, Elevate specializes in the fine art of making consciousness cool.

Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Help young people drive change daily; Improve the lives of children

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Me to We & Free the Children

Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Me to We and Save the Children are a for-profit and non-profit working together to improve the lives of children and empower their communities. They offer meaningful voluntourism opportunities, market responsible products and fight for justice.

Virginia, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Pioneer the field of social entrepreneurship

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Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Virginia, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Ashoka Innovators for the Public is recognized for naming, creating and pioneering the field of social entrepreneurship. They have more than 2,000 Fellows operating in over 60 countries.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Redesign cleaning products

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Method

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Method is in the business to change business. They’re redesigning how cleaning products are made and used by integrating sustainability, happiness and abundance into all aspects of their work.

California, New York, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Publish content that’s good for the world

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GOOD Magazine

California, New York, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

GOOD Magazine publishes print and online media that supports what works in the world. In opposition to traditional media, which is known for shaping its content around catchy, short-lived hype, GOOD entered the industry on a noble mission and has never wavered from it.

Washington, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Redefine the role of the corporation

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Starbucks

Washington, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Starbucks is a multi-national coffee company specializing in gourmet beverages. They were acquired by long time President and CEO Howard Schultz in 1988 and have grown into one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. They carefully consider social and environmental impact on nearly every front, helping redefine the role of corporations.

Texas, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Market nutritious food

Whole Foods Market

Texas, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Whole Foods Market (WFM) markets nutritious food through impressive, quality-driven supermarkets. By creating a profitable retail model with hundreds of locations, this organization makes it easy for people to buy food that makes them feel great, outside and in.

Indiana, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Generate funds for literacy initiatives

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Better World Books

Indiana, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

A not-only-for-profit social enterprise, Better World Books collects and sells books online. With each sale they generate funds for literacy initiatives in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

California, USA; Ecuador

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Change the dream of the modern world through eye-opening and empowering workshops

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The Pachamama Alliance

California, USA; Ecuador

Our Role as a GameChanger:

The Pachamama Alliance inspires and galvanizes the human family to generate a critical mass of conscious commitment to a thriving, just and sustainable way of life on Earth. Through workshops and sustainable development initiatives this organization is changing the dream.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Create wholesome environments for eating and sharing

Café Gratitude

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Café Gratitude creates wholesome environments for eating and sharing through their collection of 100% organic vegan restaurants. Specializing in gourmet raw and cooked cuisines, they practice business through a view of love they call Sacred Commerce.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Create impact through design

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IDEO

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

IDEO is an award-winning global design and innovation consulting which takes a human-centered, evolutionary approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors grow. They identify new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviors, and desires.

New Jersey, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Build leaders who make a better world

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The National Society of Leadership and Success

New Jersey, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

The National Society of Leadership and Success is a worldwide organization building leaders for a better world. At a time in history where so many young people can benefit from inner-reflection and expert guidance, their ability to help students discover and achieve their goals is aiding the educational system in big ways.

Costa Rica

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Build a just, sustainable and peaceful global society

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Earth Charter International

Costa Rica

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Earth Charter International supports the Earth Charter Initiative – a diverse, global network of individuals and organizations that work together to to build a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.

United Kingdom

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Work together for peace and human rights

The Elders

United Kingdom

Our Role as a GameChanger:

The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights. They confront some of the world’s most pressing problems to create lasting change; a tremendous service to all of mankind.

Colorado, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Cultivate potential in rural communities

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iDE

Colorado, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

iDE cultivates potential across rural communities, working in eleven countries on three continents. Their irrigation systems and other low-cost tools generate cash income for small farmers.

Pennsylvania, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Promote legislation for a just economy

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B Lab

Pennsylvania, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

B Lab is the nonprofit organization supporting Benefit Corporations, a new class of corporation recognized in a handful of U.S. states that requires companies to consider all stakeholders, not just shareholders. They are dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems and are doing so in extraordinary ways.

California, Massachusetts, USA; Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Help people shine in the workplace

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Achievers

California, Massachusetts, USA; Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Believing in the power of social recognition, Achievers developed a software system any company can use to recognize and reward employees for their shining moments. It’s creating positivity the workplace and compensating good performance at many levels.

Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Equip people for healthy lifestyles

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Lululemon Athletica

Canada

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Lululemon Athletica takes a community-focused approach to selling yoga and running apparel. With a mission is to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness, they’ve gone international, and it’s getting them a lot of attention.

India; Kenya; New York, USA; Pakistan

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Invest in social enterprises

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Acumen Fund

India; Kenya; New York, USA; Pakistan

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Acumen Fund is changing the development paradigm through innovative finance. Focusing exclusively on social enterprises, their goal is to offer critical services – water, health, housing, and energy – at affordable prices to people earning less than four dollars a day.

Maryland, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Create high-octane networking environments

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Maverick Business Adventures

Maryland, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Maverick Business Adventures attracts membership from business leaders worldwide by creating high-octane adventures as a networking platform. Each member must be willing to donate money and time to charities.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Use business to improve the world

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Net Impact

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Net Impact is a global organization of students and professionals using business to improve the world. They span six continents and offer a portfolio of programs and initiatives to educate, equip and inspire over 20,000 members.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Make the world more open and connected

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Facebook

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Facebook is a social networking service with over 800 million active users around the world with a mission to connect people through the internet. They have revolutionized the way people communicate online and created unprecedented impact.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Cultivate successful social entrepreneurs

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Skoll Foundation

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

The Skoll Foundation was founded by former eBay President Jeff Skoll in 1999 to identify and cultivate the world’s most successful social entrepreneurs. They invest into promising enterprises, sponsor an MBA program at Oxford University and continuously explore new ways to drive widespread social change.

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Integrate technology into daily life

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Apple

California, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Perhaps best known for mobile devices such as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is integrating versatile, yet consistent technology into the daily lives of their consumers. They’ve expanded into many markets and will surely continue accelerating.

Nevada, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

Deliver the best customer service

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Zappos.com

Nevada, USA

Our Role as a GameChanger:

When Zappos co-founder Nick Swinmurn couldn’t find his favorite kicks at a mall in San Francisco back in 1999, it sparked a vision to create a web-based retail outlet with the very best selection of shoes. This evolved into a new goal – redefine the rules of business to deliver the absolute best online customer service in the world.

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