Since our founding in 2001, SBN has helped thousands of local independent businesses in the Greater Philadelphia region to build profitable enterprises that serve the community, share wealth, and protect the environment.
At the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, we are committed to realizing our organizational values through our work. We recognize that we are setting an unprecedented example for how businesses and communities can coexist, collaborate, and create a more sustainable society. We pledge to champion these values and to model them in our daily work, with the goal of inspiring others to do the same.
We consider our values when making any and all decisions at the Staff and Board level.
You can find SBN’s Non-Discrimination Policy here.
We believe economic opportunity should be widely accessible and rooted in community.
We actively expand access, representation, and leadership for those historically left out.
Businesses, communities, and the environment are interconnected, and we build accordingly.
We lead with transparency, trust, and responsibility in everything we do.
SBN collaborates with mission-aligned organizations across the region and the nation to strengthen Greater Philadelphia’s local impact economy. These partnerships expand the resources, expertise, and opportunities available to our members while advancing shared goals in sustainability, equity, and community wealth-building.
Our leadership consists of passionate individuals at all levels of the organization who contribute their talents to a prosperous local economy that values the social, environmental, and economic health of our region.
We are grateful to our Board of Directors for supporting our work to build a just, green, and thriving local economy.
In 2001, an idea was born out of an organic restaurant in West Philadelphia.
Judy Wicks imagined a new way of doing business where social and environmental impact are valued the same way businesses value profit. The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia is the result of this way of rethinking business as usual and continues to advance a triple bottom line economy in the region.
