Home of the Innovation Lab, Bethesda Green’s Be Green Business welcomes founders who are building for-profit business models around innovative and sustainable solutions to tackle environmental and social challenges and ensure compatibility between economic development and environmental protection. We also advise existing local businesses through B-Corps certification on best practices for sound governance, support for workers, and sustainability.
Our Impact
innovation lab
Bethesda Green’s Be Green Innovation Lab includes a suite of entrepreneurial programs to support green, social impact start-ups at all stages of their business life cycle. We invite you to join this active and engaged community of entrepreneurs, industry leaders, corporate and government partners, mentors, investors, and fellow changemakers. Participants in the Lab receive numerous tangible and intangible benefits ranging from hands-on mentorship and tailored curriculum to non-equity-linked financial awards. Participants also have access to program-embedded social and environmental impact benchmarking and improvement tools via our Be Green for B Corps program.
B Corps
Be Green for B Corp provides participating companies with tools and Workshop Series to benchmark, express and improve their triple-bottom-line impact (people, profit, planet). Through this program, our region is encouraging the triple-bottom-line business philosophy, so that one day, companies strive not only to be the best, but also to attract the best for workers, and improve communities and the environment.
