NFEC: A B Corp Certified Organization Dedicated to:
Mobilizing a Global Force of Champions to Spread Financial Empowerment
The National Financial Educators Council has always been driven by a mission of economic empowerment through financial education. As a Certified B Corporation and an IRS-recognized Public Benefit Corporation, we are uniquely positioned to advance that mission at scale. We mobilize a global network of champions and advocates – equipping them with industry-leading training and resources – to expand financial capability and resilience in communities worldwide.
Business as a Force for Good
Earning B Corp Certification and formalizing our public-benefit commitment reflects our dedication to using business as a force for good. The certification process required a rigorous review of how our practices affect clients, employees, communities, and the environment. It verifies that we meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
B Corp Status – Third-party Verified Social Impact
The B Corp Certification designation is an independent, third-party verified credential administered by B Lab for companies that meet rigorous social and environmental performance standards and make a legal commitment to stakeholder governance.
The certification involves a comprehensive review of a company’s operations across governance, workers, community, environment, and customers. To maintain certification, companies must recertify every three years through a full reassessment and demonstrate continuous improvement – ensuring ongoing accountability and maximum positive impact for communities.
NFEC B Corp Certification – Assessment & Ranking Details
We are committed to continuous improvement across every dimension of our organization. Our B Corp journey reflects that commitment: by strengthening governance, deepening community impact, protecting workers, and improving environmental stewardship and customer protections, we’ve raised our overall impact while maintaining mission focus and operational rigor.
Elevating Success Across the 5 B Corp Assessment Areas
Between 2021 and 2025 we prioritized actions that produce tangible, verifiable impact: formalizing mission-protecting governance, expanding community partnerships and state-level engagement, building stronger employee supports and professional development, reinforcing customer protections and data practices, and reducing operational environmental impacts where feasible. Those efforts combined to lift our overall B Impact Score while improving the quality and reach of the work we deliver.
1) Community
Assesses a company’s engagement with the communities it serves—hiring, sourcing, investment, civic participation, and charitable giving. Key topics include local economic impact and supply-chain responsibility. This category also recognizes business models that directly address community challenges (for example, poverty reduction through fair-trade sourcing, cooperative models, microenterprise distribution, or formal philanthropic commitments).
NFEC Note: Community impact is a core measure we use to gauge our success. We are dedicated to partnering with local leaders, designing programs that fit community needs, and tracking measurable outcomes so our work strengthens economic opportunity where it matters most.
2) Customers
Evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality and safety of its products and services, ethical marketing, transparent customer feedback channels, and strong data privacy and security practices. This category also recognizes products and services designed to address social problems for or through customers – examples include educational programs, health services, arts & media that serve underserved audiences, and offerings that increase partner organizations’ social impact.
NFEC Note: We are committed to centering learners in everything we produce. Protecting participants with clear, accurate content, ethical outreach, and secure data practices is fundamental to our mission.
3) Governance
Assesses a company’s mission alignment, ethical practices, transparency, and accountability. This section evaluates how organizations formally protect their mission and incorporate stakeholder voices into decision-making – through corporate structure (e.g., benefit corporation), governing documents, board oversight, and public reporting on social and environmental performance.
NFEC Note: Strong governance protects the integrity of our work. We commit to transparent decision-making, stakeholder engagement, and mission-centered oversight so that our standards, resources, and partnerships always serve learners first.
4) Environment
Measures a company’s environmental management and its impact on air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This criterion includes the direct effects of operations as well as relevant supply-chain impacts. The category also highlights businesses that adopt environmentally innovative processes or provide products and services that reduce consumption or pollution, conserve natural resources, or educate and enable others to reduce environmental harm.
NFEC Note: Environmental health affects household finances and long-term resilience. We prioritize practices that reduce environmental risk and promote sustainability because protecting the planet supports stronger, more stable communities.
5) Workers
Evaluates a company’s contribution to employee well-being – financial security, health and safety, wellness, professional development, and workplace engagement. This criterion also recognizes business models and practices explicitly designed to benefit workers, such as significant employee ownership, inclusive hiring and workforce-development programs, and support for employees facing various challenges.
NFEC Note: Our commitment to workers is both ethical and practical: investing in staff financial wellness, training, and career development builds the skilled, stable workforce needed to deliver high-quality financial education and coaching at scale.
Note from NFEC CEO
Our mission is simple: advance economic empowerment by mobilizing passionate people to deliver high-quality financial education. B Corp certification and our public-benefit status strengthen our ability to scale that mission and ensure that our work is guided by rigorous standards and measurable impact.
We are committed to continuing to raise our B Impact Score by improving governance, deepening community partnerships, strengthening employee supports, protecting learners, and reducing operational impacts. That progress reflects concrete choices to prioritize learners and deliver programs with verifiable outcomes.
Thank you to our staff, advisors, state boards, graduates, and patrons whose dedication makes this possible. If you share our belief that financial education can be a force for good, join us – partner on a pilot, adopt our standards, or bring practical financial skills to your community.
Vince Shorb
CEO, National Financial Educators Council