Membership Overview

About OSC2

OSC2 is a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation.

WHO?A collaboration of sustainable product founders and CEOs committed to making a positive impact on our industry, people, and environment

MISSIONAddress the toughest sustainability problems facing our industry and our planet by building new regenerative business models and agricultural systems

MembershipsOSC² Core CEO Member Requirements

• Current or past Company exceeds $10 M Revenues Minimum• Near or at/past Break Even; or fast growth and well-funded• Company has a socially conscious and/or sustainability

mission• Leader must be currently engaged in the business. He/she

must be a CEO, President, Partner, or C level founder and/or visionary leader

• Leader models sustainable values in their life and business• Presence in the Natural Foods Industry• Non competitive with other members – current members can

determine if a new member is competitive• Member must demonstrate high integrity, humility,

confidentiality, and openness to giving/receiving constructive feedback

• Reside in Northern California or able to make at least 5-6 meetings per year in the bay area

• B-Corp (bonus)• Commitment to Non GMO, working toward Organic and Fair

Trade• Annual membership fee - $6K plus small fee for dinner

subsidization ($300)• part of membership fee helps seed a fund for member voted

coalition work

Community Members

Community membership is for a limited number of members either outside of Northern California or with slightly different business models than core members. These members reflect a strong mission and embrace the collaborative OSC2 spirit and can support sustainability coalition projects and take on specific roles in our community to drive projects forward. This is a lower membership fee. The community member attends up to two meetings per year and additional project meetings.

COMPOSTABLEPACKAGING

OSC2

University

OSC2 Climate Food Movement +

Soil Health

2016 Collaboratives

OSC2 farm of the future training

Compostable Packaging CollaborativePURPOSERemove Petroleum based packaging from landfill, oceans and the planet

GOALSecure non-GMO, home-compostable materials that perform with appropriate moisture/oxygen barriers at a reasonable cost (for pouch and overwrap applications)

How are WE getting it done? • We take bold steps and invite

the industry to be a part of the momentum

• We are entrepreneurial leaders; we are not a research organization or industry trade group

• Together we can accomplish more than the sum of our parts

Compostable Packaging Collaborative Members

Climate CollaborativeHow can Food Companies take meaningful big steps on Climate

What is the Answer? Introduce a Climate Friendly Foods Movement for the natural and organic industry. The cornerstone is a program to help companies in our industry gain clarity on meaningful steps they can take to address climate change while working collaboratively to achieve great things. OSC2, Happy Family Foods, and New Hope, UNFI, Target, NCGA, SFTA have taken the first step together on behalf of the industry to develop this program.