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The difference 1% can make
Discover the impact you can make by pledging 1% of your gross sales
Invest in your community while you invest in your brand.
We’re an award-winning design agency and a certified B Corp.
This year, we are pledging to invest 1% of our total Q4 revenue back into our community.
Work with us and help support MetWest High School.
Oakland is a special place, and it takes collective, regular action from regular people to keep it that way.
That’s why we decided to donate 1% of all our Q4 sales to MetWest Highschool.
Want to get involved?
Let’s chat about your upcoming marketing communications projects, or donate directly to MetWest High School.
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MetWest does it differently.
When you meet principal Dr. Shalonda Gregory, you feel this. You know she’s the real deal. Under her guidance and with the support of her leadership team, MetWest students have the unique opportunity to learn through internships where they create rigorous, real world projects.
• 59% Four-year college acceptance rate
• 25:1 Student-to-teacher ratio
• Serving 203 students and their families
Why 1%?
Inspired by global and national movements like 1% for the Planet, The 15% Pledge, and B Lab—we are opting to focus our business success on making local impact right in our own backyard— at East 10th Street & 4th Ave, to be exact.
Three decades strong
We believe that even small businesses can demonstrate big ideas and leadership by investing in the people and places in their communities.
The Bay Area, and Oakland specifically, has been a welcome home to Barretto Co. for more than 30 years, and by centering people, planet, and profit equally, we’ve been able to contribute meaningfully with our services to the organizations that make it great—now we are taking the next step of sharing in our success by giving back.
We dedicate 40% of services towards efforts impacting better education, sustainable energy, public health, and more.
See our 2025 Impact Report
Not Just Social Impact
The creative team behind California pillars like Whole Foods, UC Santa Cruz, ServiceNow, and many more.
Choosing impact doesn’t mean you’re compromising quality. We build brands that do more than look good—they turn potential leads into customers, and customers into loyal brand evangelists.
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We were honored to work with MetWest earlier this year, and were absolutely moved by Dr. Shalonda Gregory’s philosophies and her commitment to her students, Oakland’s future decision-makers and innovators.
Each year, we will choose a new organization to funnel donations to. Have an idea of who we should support? Send it our way.
- Know someone who’s in the market for creative services? Send them our way!
- Get the word out! Write a post (or share this one) on LinkedIn, feature us in your newsletter or blog, or introduce us to your contacts with press connections to help us reach more people.
- Consider donating 1% of your own Q4 sales directly to MetWest high school here! Make sure you let us know so we can give your brand some love.
