Stories

Harvey drinks chocolate in the Solomon Islands

It’s a long way to the shop for a local alternative to Milo.

6 gentle ways to return from maternity leave

It was a lot easier returning to work after my second baby. This is why.

Behind the new Bank Australia website

After 18+ months, countless zoom meetings, an amazing cross-agency team, one baby and one pandemic later, we are stoked to share the new Bank Australia website!

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Goals

We want to improve our impact; optimise time spent on clients; deliver greater value and growth for clients; prepare for B Corp recertification

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Governance

There were no major changes to our governance in 21/22 and we’ll continue to maintain our current governance and ownership set up

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Environment

Since day one, it’s been important that we use Harvey as a tool for funnelling essential funds towards initiatives that help find solutions.

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Team

Harvey has gone from leaps to bounds since our backflip last year on not building a bigger team. In addition to the strong and lean crew of Becky, Simon, Sarah and Rachel, we’ve had Ezra, Gillian and a growing list of experts who provide support.

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Community

We were recognised in B Corp’s ‘Best for the World’ lists for our impact in Community, which means scoring in the top 5% of the global community.

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Clients

Our mission is to unlock the potential of the new economy to leave behind a better world. This past 12 months, we took the time to breakdown what this means to us in detail.

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Executive summary

What did this look like IRL in 2021-22? To be honest, the last 12 months were a heady mix of highlights and progress, alongside moments where we didn’t quite meet our expectations.

2022 Impact Trip: Rach's Reflections

A few months ago we went to Cambodia & Bangladesh to meet our colleagues, connect with end customers like Mrs Jonaki Akhtar in Bosila to get a first hand understanding of how 1 billion people live, without clean cooking. It was tough to hear their challenges, but positive to see how our work impacts people in a really positive way.

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Governance and Team

‘Good’ is baked into our constitution (yum!) from our governance, to the team we never meant to build we show up every day for equality and wellness.

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Community Good

We’re acutely aware of the fact that Harvey doesn’t exist in a vacuum. And even though we may be small, our operations and decisions can have a direct impact on our immediate (and extended) communities. So we strive, at all times, to enrich the community in which we operate. 

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Environment

It goes without saying that the climate crisis is the biggest issue facing our species right now. Since day one, it’s been important to us to use Harvey as a tool for funnelling essential funds towards initiatives that are helping find solutions. Our contribution might be small in the grand scheme of things, but it means a lot to us to know that we’re trying our best.

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Goals

Now that we’re a B Corp, we want to utilise the B Corp framework to help Harvey grow and thrive in a way that helps our planet and the people who inhabit it. As such, we’ve mapped our 2021 goals against the five pillars of B Corp assessment.

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Mission

Our mission is to unlock the potential of the new economy to leave behind a better world. At all times, we primarily work with companies who are helping move the needle on some of the pressing issues of our time through their work – either directly or indirectly. Importantly, we don’t work with organisations who are being destructive. 

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Partners

Over the course of 2020, we helped more conscious businesses grow. And that’s really what this is all about for us. To be able to play even a small role in helping ethically minded businesses connect their messages, products and services to more Australians gets us out of bed in the morning (if Margie hasn’t already, that is!).

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Executive Summary

We know our impact is small in the grand scheme of things, but it’s important to us that we do our bit to help create a fairer, more sustainable and more equitable society in whatever way we can.

5 big steps to becoming a more conscious business

If you’re looking to build some turbo impact into your business, we hope our 5 Big Changes will give you some ideas to help you do that. Here we go!

5 small steps we took to be a more conscious business

There were some little things we could change straight away, which helped us get certified, but also just made us feel good about the impact our business was having on people and planet. Here are five of ‘em.