Each year the Alliance Center awards Colorado businesses dedicated to making a positive impact with Best for Colorado Awards in several categories. This year (2020) Dojo4 is honored to be awarded as being Best for Colorado in the Workers category.
The painful truth is that solving the problems of human and environmental dis-ease is one of the only guaranteed growth industries. That may sound like a dismal pronouncement, but I also see it as the greatest opportunity of our time.
Parents and families make strong, profitable businesses. Instead of asking parents and families to sacrifice themselves to support a grinding work culture, we can adapt our businesses.
The election happened. We looked around and suddenly understood that other people might see us as possible haters; that as far as they could see we could be secretly (or not so secretly) harboring ill will…
Whereas being parents or caretakers, having a family, is something that we should be able to celebrate and have pride in at work, we declare this Family-Friendly Workplace Manifesto.
We’re making our land acknowledgment more meaningful by donating to The First Nations Development Institute, which is headquartered just a few miles North of our office.
Here at Dojo4, we have been (and continue to be) committed open-source contributors. For example, there's a tasty pantry full of contributions to be found by any of the Dojo4 members.
Dojo4 just recertified as a B Corp. Again. And we'll keep doing it, for lots of reasons. It's been almost 6 years since we first certified as a company that is committed to changing the world for the better, by how and why we do business.
Turns out that financial capital is just one form of wealth worth measuring. Permaculture offers us some classifications for appreciating and evaluating several other forms of capital.
Despite that purely mercenary consumerist capitalism still rules the roost of business, the ideas of using business as a force for good and conscious capitalism seem now to have fully entered the popular mindstream.
Years ago, okay maybe decades ago, I worked at the most successful Boulder restaurant that nobody even knows is there…
Surviving is the new thriving.