Blueprint for Creating Sustainable Businesses

Emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models, this book draws on Melissa Scanlan's extensive experience founding and directing social enterprises, as well as her interviews with sustainability leaders.

Melissa provides a legal blueprint for creating alternative corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members, including Certified B Corps and benefit corporations.

Focus on Cooperatives

With an emphasis on cooperatives, this book reveals the power and potential of cooperating as a unifying concept around which to design social enterprise achieving triple bottom-line results: for society, the environment, and finance.