Our Story
Same Dream, Bigger Mission
In order to reach as many businesses and customers as possible, we launched CDG’s Giveback Program and adopted a new name: Companies Doing Good. Now we were attaching impact to product sales and doing it across all industries. Using the foundations of stakeholder capitalism and impact economics, CDG began expanding its footprint. Now, as Companies Doing Good, CDG creates pathways for customers to support racially-just, people-centered, and planet-loving brands. We are the trojan horse for Good; by educating customers on the power of their dollar and the businesses they choose, we can build a new economic model where social impact is baked into every business and brand across the country.
We can showcase that Doing Good, is in fact, Good for Business. Whether that be through the Giveback Program or our consulting services, by positively supporting communities that have been systematically oppressed, we can shape our story into one of community benefit, rather than extractive capitalism. We still use our health-equity framework, centering the struggle of our neighbors, the hope of our communities and the planetary climate crisis as primary stakeholders in our theory of change. So we have the same dream with an even more expansive mission. To Do Good not just in cannabis, but in every market and sector we touch.
Together, our collective legacy can grow beyond our wildest dreams. Together, we can build conscious capitalism beyond a philosophy – and into practice. Together, Good is possible.
Successes + Shout Outs
CDG is a Black-owned, queer-owned, woman-owned business. Founders Kelly Perez and Courtney Mathis have a combined 20 years of health equity and policy reform expertise, 20 years of nonprofit and leadership development, and a 10-year career in cannabis. During their time at CDG they have successfully implemented social responsibility and social equity programming for companies across the country and have received awards and recognition for their Cannabis Social Responsibility work from Green Entrepreneur, CBA Globes, Weedweek, and The Cannabist. They’ve been honored to speak at PolicyLink, MjBizCon, New West, SXSW, Women Grow, and many more.
Kelly and Courtney train, speak and advise on equitable policy initiatives across the US and Canada. Their work has been featured in Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, Represent Collaborative, ABC News, Canada’s The Star, Marijuana Business Magazine, Marijuana Moment, Pacific Standard, Colorado Public Radio, The Nonprofit Quarterly, CBS Local, and many other cannabis-trade magazines. Additionally, they were featured in Green Entrepreneur as one of the top 100 cannabis companies in the country.
