At the onset of the pandemic and as part of a $1 million donation to the AHA, Caulipower helped fund a program that provided 100,000 meals with food brought from local farmers to 4,500 families across the country.

Paramount Software Solutions built a farm-to-aisle tracking tool on the blockchain that brings transparency to the meat and dairy supply chains and potentially additional profits to marginalized farmers in developing nations.

WHY WE THINK WE'RE A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

Paramount has a work culture that is pretty nontraditional for a small - medium size business. The management structure is a fine blend of flat- management and Holacray - which does not follow the traditional hierarchy system of management or operations. Instead, it distributes the structure across people based on clear roles and responsibilities, which are executed autonomously. This way Paramount's team works in a more structured way, based on a clear set of rules and processes and roles have clear accountability and increases productivity by cutting down on bureaucracy, saving time, and faster decision making. Thus Paramount encourages the "think and acts like a decision- maker" policy to encourage leadership among every team member. Additionally Paramount offers an extremely stress- free environment where job roles are not analyzed through annual reviews and matching targets with deliverables. Rather, employees are given the freedom to set targets for themselves, present it to the CEO and self- review them every year - and identify the areas where work needs to be done.

Charity:water raised more than $900,000 in 2021 for the Covid-19 relief fund, which provides emergency hygiene and sanitation response activities such as building handwashing stations, distributing soap and sanitizer, and providing personal protective equipment to frontline workers.

Via helped more than 150 cities and communities in the past year access a cost-effective way to meet community transport needs as they battled slashed budgets and unpredictable travel patterns.

Created the All for Farmers initiative, a campaign to provide financial relief to farmers. The 80-family-farm co-op initiative also supported various charitable endeavors, including feeding first responders and donating provisions to food insecurity organizations.