DBL Approach

DBL Approach

The Bay Area Equity Fund assists its portfolio companies in implementing a "double bottom line" strategy: that is, pursuing strong long-term financial success as well as positive social and environmental improvement in their local communities. The Fund invests in companies that have operations in or within five miles of one of the many low and moderate income areas of the ten-county San Francisco Bay Area: map. The Fund utilizes its partners and resources to help its portfolio companies develop double bottom line practices that are uniquely appropriate and effective for their business. These partners include the Bay Area Council and the Alliance for Community Development, who are co-sponsors of the Fund, among others.

The Fund helps each of its portfolio companies create its own double bottom line approach and assists them in implementing the following examples of double bottom line practices, many of which these companies may be already pursuing: