South Mountain Company

Our worker-owned cooperative operates off a triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit).

We integrate architecture, engineering, building, interiors, and solar on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

We currently hold the highest ever B-corp rating and are guided by the following principles:

PEOPLE & COMMUNITY

• Create long-term, stable, meaningful jobs with living wages and exemplary benefits.
• Support our families in every possible way.
• Nurture a culture of inclusion, learning, cooperation, teamwork, and fun.
• Encourage individual creativity, health, opportunity, and fulfillment in the workplace.
• Share our expertise widely for the benefit of other businesses, organizations, and communities.
• Pursue affordable housing opportunities which help to preserve community.
• Strengthen our local economy and engage in community policy-making and civic discourse.
• Establish enduring and respectful relationships based on trust.
• Deepen our understanding and practice of employee ownership and workplace democracy.
• Reflect the communities we serve. 

PROFIT & PRACTICE

• Provide a superb experience for our clients from the beginning to end, and beyond.
• Embrace new ideas with a bold and flexible approach.
• Seek projects that are consistent with our values.
• Grow only with purpose.
• Concentrate our endeavors on Martha’s Vineyard.
• Practice internal transparency and open-book management.
• Fully combine beauty, craft, and science in our projects.
• Produce work that will be loved and admired for generations.
• Honor craft and those who practice it.
• Base our business decisions on long-term thinking.
• Be consistently profitable.

PLANET & ENVIRONMENT

• Deepen our understanding of the environmental consequences of our operations.
• Embrace regenerative principles to restore our environment and community.
• Create and implement strategies for climate change mitigation and impact reduction.
• Facilitate renewable energy use in our region.
• Aim for zero energy in the short term; aim for zero waste and zero discharge of toxins in the long term.
• Encourage our clients to minimize resource consumption.