Who we are

Founded in 2002, we're Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest sustainable business organisation. We’re a membership-based, not-for-profit social enterprise.

As well as with individuals, we work with organisations of all sizes and sectors. We facilitate collaboration, share knowledge and provide practical support. We also advocate for sustainability and run Aotearoa New Zealand’s only Sustainable Business Awards.

We have a special focus on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), which represent 97% of Kiwi firms. At the heart of our network are the more than 400 organisations and individuals that regularly support and work with us as Impact Investors. Thousands of Kiwi organisations and individuals partner and learn with us every year.

Our purpose

Revolutionising work together, so people and nature thrive.

Our mission

Accelerating Aotearoa New Zealand’s transition to an equitable, regenerative, circular economy.

Our manifesto

We stand for a sustainable future.

We stand for making decisions today that will bring positive change tomorrow.

We stand for a just, equitable and fair future where there are no billionaires, or if there are, it’s all of us.

In the future we’re working on, there is no waste, only resources to be reused or returned. There is growth but not at all cost. There is tech, invention, wealth and investment, directed to all the right places.

We stand for working with nature, because we are nature. When the Earth suffers, we all do.

And we stand for brave businesses and leaders who are defying the ordinary to get to that future faster.

We don’t think this is easy. Or inevitable. The political process is conspiring against it. ‘Business as usual’ is conspiring against it. And climate change will make it harder still.

So we’re working hard, providing encouragement, tools, knowledge, capital and connection to the right people working on the right stuff.

What we do now matters for tomorrow. What are you doing?

Join us.

We are SBN - the sustainable future network.