Opportunity Illuminated
We shine a light on new opportunities
by accounting for your investment in your people.
The Solution for How We Begin Accounting for Everyone.
Lunum provides companies with real, actionable human capital insights to comprehensively evaluate performance and provide pathways to drive action. We find the link between inputs and outputs by monetizing the business impact of investments in your workforce.
Lunum works with companies across value chains to evaluate wage quality, diversity, economic development, and other factors to calculate the real dollar amount of the impact business decisions make around staffing, training, turnover and promotion. These valuable insights help companies make better decisions.
Our data helps realize a return on investment in people and communities so companies recognize how their practices can have a positive impact on business and the world. This helps bring to life our vision of a world where thriving communities create sustainable prosperity for everyone and contribute to business success.
It’s Time We Put a Value on Our Values
What is “Impact” and Why Does Measuring Impact Matter?
Every action a company takes has a ripple effect, impacting not only its employees and local communities, but its overall financial health. Impact refers to measurable effects those actions have on its stakeholders, including social and economic aspects. Measuring impact is the cornerstone of managing those impacts. By proactively assessing and managing social and employment impacts, companies can discover the financial value in putting people first, optimizing human capital management and improving their bottom line.
Lunum specializes in analyzing and quantifying the outcomes and impacts generated by businesses and complex value chains. We assign financial value to employment and community impacts, helping companies realize a return on investment in people and communities.
Using this holistic approach, firms can leverage Lunum’s data-driven insights to:
- Transcend Boundaries: Go beyond basic metrics to measure the broader effects of business operations on stakeholders.
- Enhance Decision-Making: Understand who is affected by business decisions and the value created or destroyed to foster meaningful change and improve bottom line.
- Meet Regulatory Demands: Stay ahead of new mandates like the EU’s CSRD to leverage sustainability efforts into a strategic advantage ensure long-term success and resilience in an ever-evolving market.
- Optimize Human Capital: Maximize positive impacts, minimize negatives, and improve human capital management, leading to increased productivity and reduced turnover.
Partner with Lunum to lead your industry to new opportunities and tell a story that both shareholders and stakeholders can get behind.
Navigating the Evolving Reporting Landscape Through Social Impact
As stakeholder demands for greater transparency and accountability intensify, what began as a moral imperative has evolved into a strategic advantage and regulatory necessity.
The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents a significant shift in this landscape. It mandates companies to report on their social and environmental impacts, as well as the financial risks and opportunities related to these factors. This regulatory trend is not confined to the EU; similar reporting requirements are emerging worldwide, and businesses are integrating sustainable practices as a core component of their operations, underscoring the growing importance of sustainability in business.
Impact accounting is at the forefront of this transformation, and LUNUM is pivotal in this area. Lunum helps to quantify the impact you and your value chains have on your people and communities in which they operate. We provide businesses with the tools to not only comply with regulations like the CSRD but also to meet broader market expectations and global standards. This ensures that companies are not just compliant, but also strategically positioned to leverage their sustainability initiatives for long-term success.
The Thought Leadership Behind Impact Accounting
The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI), a nonprofit born from the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School, created Impact Accounting to measure social, environmental, product and employment impacts. Lunum operationalized Impact Accounting by applying the social and employment framework at scale to businesses and complex value chains to analyze and quantify the outcomes and impacts companies generate. Lunum revolutionizes impact management through BrightStar Verification®, a continuous improvement program that enables companies to measure, manage, and improve their impact performance year after year, cultivating sustainable prosperity for everyone and contributing to business success.
Work with Lunum to make the intangible undeniable and measure the impact of complex value chains to help businesses, economies, and communities grow.
Meet BrightStar!
We’re building a community that is reimagining business practices to ensure long-term prosperity for workers, communities, and economies. We can show you that when you lift up people, you lift up business, illuminating new opportunities and creating a brighter future for everyone.
Whenever you see the BrightStar seal, it means the company is taking real action to create shared, long-term prosperity for the people & communities where they operate.
Values Alignment
Ensure your suppliers meet high standards for employment and community impact, giving you confidence and peace of mind.
Regulatory Alignment
Stay ahead of increasing demands for transparency and ethical practices by aligning suppliers to your company’s values and regulatory requirements.
Showcase Achievements
Highlight your commitment to ethical practices and the positive impacts on your workforce and communities, demonstrating the ROI of investing in people.
Lunum’s Ecosystem Partners
Testimonials
“The community is [our] driver, and we want to support our partners in creating community impact that can be measured over time. We want to celebrate the impact that we are all making in the respective communities we find ourselves in.
Lunum embraces what we are trying to do by giving us a means whereby we can measure our impact. This is a game changer.”
Weldon Williams
“Companies and the public are too focused on the performative elements – the stuff that brings good PR (like hiring statistics, minority spend)
I find the data and the KPI’s compelling – but the most compelling thing about it for me is the why it matters. Lunum is focusing on things that drive impact and that’s where the work you are championing is important. Without telling those impact “why” stories, we will stay in the performative phase in my opinion.”
John Hartline
"What is essential for MBEs, or any business, is to go a step further. Not only providing good wages, but also understanding your impact and then articulating that impact back to your partners. To drive profitability and efficiency, it is vital to discuss a return on investment (ROI) and create a bridge where business investments lead to wins for our communities."
Lunum articulates the data from your specific company and demonstrates how actions further increase and improve your impact.
Geoffrey Crawley
“Lunum’s approach gives us the lending hand that we need to help drive progress & helps us better align with our customers values & business needs.”
Matt Cowling
“Well, speaking on the side of the supplier for us… it's an honor to be a part of it. We met Jill Miller early on and … she is definitely 100% engaged and involved. You know, we've been in the system as a company since 2008. It’s been an honor … to be able to sit down at the table when decisions and strategies are being put together and to be a part of that. The company has grown so much [with the] commitment to doing the right thing that makes a difference. You know, just like a human being, it's your character that matters.“
Mark Tolliver
“We are beginning to create our future looking strategy and planning for DEI, and I see this data being incredibly helpful and eye opening on the areas where the organization can focus.”
Anastasia Matthews
“We want to be able to have customers know that when you do business with 'CartonCraft'-- you do well by your employees, your communities and consumers. This is what is unique about the work with Lunum. Brightstar Verification brings us the opportunity to confidently share that what we do is differentiated & creates the highest value for our customers."
Tony Reyes Sr.
“Lunum provides information that we can take back into our business to better understand where we can create more impact and solve business problems. It was great to see our work and initiatives reflected positively in the data. Its validating that the work we are doing is creating positive impact for our employees and the communities we operate in.”
Lauren Mikos
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