A public benefit corporation still has a profit-making goal, but it also has a broader public benefit purpose: to make a material positive impact on society and the environment. Owners and managers must work to achieve this purpose and therefore they have the flexibility to make decisions that balance profits with social causes and environmental responsibility. In January of 2021, Georgia and Alabama formally enacted legislation that allowed for benefit corporations to be created.

Front Porch of Bowdon was formed in 2022 and thus became the first Public Benefits Senior Living Corporation in Georgia. Our ethics and values are are hard coded into our operations. We seek to utilize the power of business to give us flexibility and allow us to grow, but also allow us to further our goals of social good. Our ethics are fundamental to our organization and is at the core of our operations.

These values are our guiding principles. We seek to instill these core values in everything we do as an organization. Profit is important, as we can’t operate without it and we can’t better the lives of our residents and employees without it; however, profit is merely a single piece of a much larger operational objective. These core values represent the pillars of our operations and the core of who we are as an organization.