Structuring an impact-driven business requires navigating a complex landscape of legal entities, each with distinct implications for governance, fundraising, and mission alignment. From benefit corporations to cooperatives, L3Cs to non-profits, selecting the right entity is a strategic decision that shapes an enterprise’s ability to scale, attract values-aligned investors, and maintain its impact integrity. In this Deep Dive, we will explore the insights from Mark Chasan’s recent article, Choosing the Right Entity for Your Impact-Driven Business, unpacking the legal and financial considerations that entrepreneurs must weigh when designing for long-term success.
Join us for an interactive discussion where attorney and IE magazine correspondent Mark Chasan will expand on his article’s key themes and engage with Impact Entrepreneur members in an open, candid dialogue. This is an opportunity to bring your questions, share experiences, and explore how different business structures can either enable or constrain your impact goals. Whether you’re launching a new venture or reassessing your existing entity, this session will provide valuable insights into aligning your legal framework with your mission.
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Mark Chasan, an Impact Entrepreneur Correspondent, combines his experience as a lawyer, serial entrepreneur (with a public exit and two M&As), strategic advisor, author, and fundraiser who has participated in over $500M of financing to accelerate and exponentiate the multi-trillion-dollar “Regenerative Economy.” The Regenerative Economy, devoted to the thriving of people and planet, will be the largest and most enduring economy in history.
Throughout history the two most impactful levers of influence and change on humankind have been (1) the environments in which we live and (2) technology. As CEO of Transformative, Inc. and AWE Global, Inc. (“AWE”), Mark is committed to (1) developing regenerative communities that positively transform the environments in which we live, work, learn, play and consume, and (2) advancing living systems innovation, technologies, and regenerative entrepreneurship to create The Regenerative Economy and positively transform our world.
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