B Impact Report

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Zip Code East Bay, Inc.

Home Buying, Home Selling, Investing
Certified Since: March, 2018
Location: Kensington, California, United States
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

88.1

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

zipcodeeastbay.com

With a focus on building community through real estate, Zip Code East Bay helps clients navigate the home buying and selling experience with innovative strategies, knowledgeable problem solving and creative energy.

We became a Certified B Corporation because we take environmental awareness and action very seriously. All Zip Code East Bay agents proudly hold the National Association of Realtor's® Green Designation, and we help homeowners and sellers take actionable steps to improve their home’s market value by choosing green alternatives.

Before getting into real estate, our founder Josh Dickinson worked for 15 years as an environmental engineer in non-profit, academia and the private sector, with a focus on water reuse and reclamation. Today, we continue to employ his environmental interests and passions in real estate.

Zip Code East Bay provides financial and logistical contributions to help make our clients' homes more energy efficient, we regularly share tips and resources on how to increase environmental sustainability, and we creatively partner with local green businesses to ensure that our footprint is light but our efforts to enact more green lifestyles are far-reaching.

Best for the World Honoreeinfo_outline

linkBest for Community 2019

Impact Area Scoresinfo_outline

info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.