Blue Tree Strategies

About Blue Tree Strategies

Blue Tree Strategies is a triple bottom line business services and consulting firm located in Portland, Oregon. Blue Tree helps public and private sector clients achieve financial, social, and environmental outcomes through three service divisions: business planning, project finance, and program design. The Blue Tree team brings functional expertise in finance, accounting, tax equity finance, business strategy and sustainability, and industry experience in energy efficiency, renewable energy, real estate, agriculture and compostable products.

We joined the B Corp community for this very reason…to unleash private sector discipline to better serve society’s needs and challenges. Being a B Corporation allows our business to formally embody and reflect how we as individuals think and behave, as if equitable prosperity is achievable for present and future generations.

The company specializes in public-private partnerships that require innovation and collaboration to catalyze change in emerging industries. Blue Tree is probably best known for contributions to clean energy program design, particularly to the financial architecture of residential energy efficiency programs including Clean Energy Works Oregon. Blue Tree is in business to help business evolve.

The Change We Seek™

Their values are enacted through the industries and businesses that they support and through the integrity, analytical rigor, and triple bottom line results of the services that they provide to their clients. They combine expertise in commercial finance, accounting, tax equity instruments, public/utility incentives, stakeholder engagement and business strategy to create smart solutions tailored to their client's unique objectives and challenges. They believe that what gets measured gets managed and what gets managed gets done. The changes they seek are measured in jobs, in tons of avoided carbon emissions, in tons of recycled organic materials, and in dollars of clean energy investment. Project-by-project, program-by-program, company-by-company, they work to transform our economy in the direction of equity and ecology.

Blue Tree Strategies

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Summary:

Certified: December 2010
  Points Earned % Points Available
Accountability » 5 50%
Employees » 18.9 42%
Consumers » 35 100%
Community » 48 53%
Environment » 8 40%
Composite B Score 114.9
  • >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
  • >60% points available = Area of excellence

Highlights:

From B Impact Assessment

Community: More than 50% of the company's customers reside in the same community as the material owners.

Consumers: 100% of revenues come from services which help preserve the environment.