The Human Rights Campaign Buyer's Guide

More than ever, consumers are sending a message to businesses that they are watching. They are watching to see if the businesses they patronize understand and honor issues important to them, giving buying power to issues ranging from LGBT inclusiveness to environmental protection. Corporate social responsibility has become an imperative for a successful business. With Buying for Workplace Equality, we hope to harness that power by providing you with the most accurate review of a business's workplace policies toward LGBT employees.

Whether you are buying a cup of coffee or renovating your home, by supporting businesses that support workplace equality you send a powerful message that LGBT inclusion is good for the bottom line. We hope that you will use this guide as one component when determining if a business's social practices make it worthy of your dollars.

http://www.hrc.org/apps/buyersguide/index.php

Each company is classified as follows:

Green (80-100): Businesses/brands that receive our highest workplace equality scores.

Yellow (46-79): Businesses/brands that have taken steps toward a fair-minded workplace and receive a moderate workplace equality score.

Red (0-45): Businesses/brands that have more work to do in furthering equality. If possible, make the choice to support a more fair-minded company.
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(Non-responder): Businesses/brands that have not responded to the survey despite repeated attempts and have been provided with an unofficial score based on publicly available information that has been collected.

Human Rights Campaign National Corporate Partners

Equals sign: The support of these businesses is directly tied to the Human Rights Campaign's success in ensuring equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. All HRC National Corporate Partners are required to maintain a CEI score of 85 or above.

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