Root + Branch is committed to creating a material, positive impact on our society and our environment. Each of our projects and partnerships:

• Promotes economic opportunity for individuals or communities beyond the creation of jobs in the ordinary course of business
• Preserves and respects the environment
• Improves and conserves neighborhood health; socially, economically and environmentally
• Complements rather than substitutes existing real estate and community infrastructure
• Promotes the arts, sciences, or advancement and dissemination of knowledge
• Increases the flow of capital to entities with a public-benefit purpose
• Upholds the highest level of transparency and accountability in an effort to promote replication and scale of successful solutions
• Maintains an open door policy to  new ideas and opportunities to benefit our neighbors, society or the environment

We believe that our neighborhoods are the building blocks for sustainable economic growth. After all, equitable development is driven by shared opportunities.