<aside> 📜 As a strong foundation for establishing knowledgeable and trusted entrepreneurial relationships, accreditation often sets businesses apart from their competitors through higher base level standards, learning or ongoing continuous development networks, and 3rd party insight or examination.

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<aside> 🥷🏼 Accreditation can often extend far beyond the basic means of running a business; differing across industries through expertise, practice, education, training, regulation, and law. Specialized accreditation around that pertaining to particular industry or professional training through accrediting bodies will be discussed in applicable sections.

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Local & Regional

Accreditation opportunities differ in locality from region to region across boundaries and shouldn’t be overlooked from local councils, cities, counties, provincial authorities, or states astringent of solely regional or national requirements or offerings. For localities or regional areas, results typically only require a simple search engine query.

B Corporation

Global and Americas led movement at establishing B Corp Certification as a “designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials”. Factors are based around high social and environmental performance, legal factors regarding accountability to stakeholders, and transparency against performance metrics regarding their B Corp Profile.

B Corp Certification Demonstrates a Company's Entire Social and Environmental Impact (bcorporation.net)

Further information about preparing for the certification process.

Information About the Pending B Corp Program for Start-Ups and Smaller Companies (bcorporation.net)

Small, Mid, and Medium B Corp Guides

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP69PNzOQ1U

World Fair Trade Organisation

Fair Trade International | USA

ISEAL Alliance Accreditation

Associations Tackling, Combating, and Eliminating Modern-Day Slavery

Participation in United Nations Environment Program or Affiliated NGOs

<aside> ⬇️ Refer to the sections below for regional accreditation authorities and opportunities for improving and distinguishing enterprises.

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<aside> 🗺️ Country or Region Specific Accreditation Resources

United States


Ireland


United Kingdom


European Union


Switzerland


Global

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Financing

Walkthrough of Business Plan development and a variety of financing resources.

Accreditation

Delves into a variety of processes, networks, and associations regarding accreditation.

Business Education

Illustrates avenues for formal and informal business training to augment enterprises.

Employee Training

Provides mechanisms at differing cost for employee education and workplace training.

Leadership | Management

Resources offering enrichment for both leadership and managerial development.

Digital + Business Integration Tools

Developing digital integration with a variety of digital tooling and workflow insight.

BCM, CSR, and Risk

Business continuity management, corporate social responsibility, and risk measures.

Information Security

Information regarding securing systems, data, and employees against threat vectors.

Privacy Frameworks

Touches on adhering to emerging data minimisation and privacy models.

Industry Regulation

Oversight of a wide variety and scope of industry regulatory frameworks.

Legal Considerations

Ground level overview of compliance and established legal frameworks.

Data Insights

Digs into the value that data carries for organisations in decision rendering.