Deadline:
June 15, 2025
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
Now entering its seventh year, The Meaningful Business 100 recognises business leaders, globally, who are driving companies and initiatives aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Comprising social entrepreneurs, CEOs, corporate sustainability leaders and impact investors, the MB100 cuts across sectors, geographies, role types and SDGs, to champion outstanding individuals solving the biggest issues we face today.
Delivering much more than congratulatory recognition, the year-round MB100 programme, supported by industry leading organisations including EY, Hogan Lovells, Green Frontier Capital, Kenya Climate Ventures and The Portman Estate, is designed to help increase the winners’ positive impact and scale, by providing access to a range of pro-bono services, investment opportunities, potential customers, capacity building resources and a global community of peers.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 award and the deadline for submissions is Sunday 15th June 2025.
Details
ABOUT US
Meaningful Business is a curated network of progressive leaders across the world, who are combining purpose and profit to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our Values
A Meaningful Business leader focuses on achieving sustainable and positive impact through:
- Taking a people-centred approach, placing the wellbeing of employees and those impacted by the business, at the forefront of their strategy
- Ensuring the preservation and protection of planetary resources and environmental sustainability are pivotal to business practices
- Looking beyond creating shareholder value and seeking to integrate social, environmental and good governance considerations effectively into decision making at the highest levels
- Showing innovation in creating new products and services that drive positive social and environmental impact, alongside profits
- Engaging with the development/humanitarian/academic sectors to create effective partnerships around specific causes/SDGs
- Taking a long term view, beyond quarterly results or other short term metrics, to create measurable, sustainable and long term impact
- Building diverse teams that promote inclusivity across gender, race, background and disability
- Ensuring business supply chains are ethical and uphold human rights principles
- Being cause-led and ready to take action to support the issues they align to
- Moving beyond greenwashing and brand positioning to create tangible impact
- Striving to reverse the negative impact of a company’s existence to date, in order to create a sustainable future
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
MB100 Criteria
Each leader must have:
I - Created positive, direct and intended impact aligned to one or more SDGs in the last 12 months.
II - Been the driving force behind the product, service or project that combines purpose and profit.
Judges are considering:
I - Originality of the idea behind the product, service or project.
II - Longevity of the product, service or project.
III - Intersectionality – how successful is the product in creating impact across multiple SDGs?
IV - Localisation – is the product or service helping local communities take better control of their lives?
V - Scalability of the product, service or project – is it replicable?
VI - Inclusion – is there a focus on representation of minority groups?
VII - Collaboration – has the leader made best use of the core competencies of different stakeholders, and encouraged them to work together?
VIII - Affordability – what level of investment did the product or service require? (Low investment, high impact products or services will be favoured)
IX - Use of innovation/technology to power the product, service or project.
X - Is the leader a role model for, and champion of, meaningful business beyond their own company?
Dates
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
