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INTRODUCTION

On behalf of our team at S2G Ventures (S2G), we invite you to participate in our first annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) & impact survey. As we partner with you to build a more humane and healthy planet, this survey is an opportunity for us to learn more about your company’s ESG practices and the impact of your product(s) or service(s) on people and planet so that we can best support, champion, and amplify your work. Moving forward, we will send this survey on an annual basis. We realize that this request is one of many competing priorities as you build your business. However, we believe that a strong foundation for impact measurement and management will be a competitive advantage to your growth and look forward to learning with you along the way.


This survey is intended to capture data as of year-end 2022, and is divided into three parts:


A.     Company-Specific Impact Metrics

B.     Other ESG & Impact Information

C.     S2G Ventures’ Common ESG & Impact Metrics

 

Since there are no universally accepted standards for impact reporting at this time, we have designed the survey questions to align with best practices set forth by industry groups such as B Corp, Impact Frontiers, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), among others. It is our hope that this helps to streamline your responses to reporting requests as much as possible.


Click here for a link to download a Word version of the survey for your reference to support your data gathering and coordination across your team. 


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We plan to use survey data for a range of internal and external purposes, including:

  • Informing ongoing conversations with S2G about how we can support your company’s growth, enhance your success in the market, and deepen your long-term social and environmental outcomes.
  • Reporting on company-level impact to S2G’s leadership team.
  • Reporting on portfolio-level impact of S2G’s funds with internal and external audiences.

Company-level responses will be treated confidentially and anonymized and/or aggregated for external reporting purposes. In some circumstances, following your submission, we may separately request your explicit permission to share data or stories with external audiences that identify your company by name. By responding to this survey you consent for your data to be used in the way described above notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any existing confidentiality agreement that S2G may have entered into with your company.


For all public companies, by responding to this survey, you confirm that none of the information provided in the survey contains "material non-public confidential information" as defined by the US securities laws and regulations or infringes or violates any obligation of the company with respect to confidentiality or otherwise to any third party. You further confirm that S2G may rely on the foregoing confirmations.



Please direct any questions related to this survey to impact@buildersvision.com and a member of our impact measurement and management (IMM) team will respond as soon as possible. We also invite feedback and suggestions on how we might improve this process moving forward. Thank you for your participation and partnership!

We ask that you please submit this survey by end of day on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

COMPANY INFORMATION

Please answer the questions below to ensure that we have the most updated information about your company for our records.







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PART A: COMPANY-SPECIFIC IMPACT METRICS

At S2G, we believe that impact measurement and management creates competitive advantages for your company in the marketplace. Among other things, you can use qualitative and quantitative impact to maximize the positive impact of your product(s) or service(s) on people and planet, differentiate your company from others, motivate staff, and attract new customers and investors.


Please use this section of the survey to identify up to 5 metrics that you are currently using, or plan to use, for measuring the impact of your company’s product(s) or service(s) on people and planet. For each metric, we've asked for year-end 2022 data as well as year-end 2021 data to inform performance over time. Please note that even if you don’t have the year-end data or target information to report at this point, we still ask that you include impact metrics that you plan to use in the future to measure your impact objectives. An example is included below for your reference.


IMPACT METRIC EXAMPLE & DEFINITIONS:

Impact Metric Example

IMPACT METRIC 1

Metric used to track progress against and manage activities toward a company's intended impact(s).
Unit of measurement to describe impact metric. 
Description of calculation methodology and any alignment with industry standards.

Value of metric as of year-end 2022.

Value of metric as of year-end 2021 to inform performance over time.
Intended value of the metric that company aims to achieve by 2030. Performance against targets will not be used to evaluate company progress over time.
Space to provide any additional information, comments, or context (including external benchmarks) around impact metric and data.

IMPACT METRIC 2

Metric used to track progress against and manage activities toward a company's intended impact(s).
Unit of measurement to describe impact metric. 
Description of calculation methodology and any alignment with industry standards.

Value of metric as of year-end 2022.

Value of metric as of year-end 2021 to inform performance over time.
Intended value of the metric that company aims to achieve by 2030. Performance against targets will not be used to evaluate company progress over time.
Space to provide any additional information, comments, or context (including external benchmarks) around impact metric and data.

IMPACT METRIC 3

Metric used to track progress against and manage activities toward a company's intended impact(s).
Unit of measurement to describe impact metric. 
Description of calculation methodology and any alignment with industry standards.

Value of metric as of year-end 2022.

Value of metric as of year-end 2021 to inform performance over time.
Intended value of the metric that company aims to achieve by 2030. Performance against targets will not be used to evaluate company progress over time.
Space to provide any additional information, comments, or context (including external benchmarks) around impact metric and data.

IMPACT METRIC 4

Metric used to track progress against and manage activities toward a company's intended impact(s).
Unit of measurement to describe impact metric. 
Description of calculation methodology and any alignment with industry standards.

Value of metric as of year-end 2022.

Value of metric as of year-end 2021 to inform performance over time.
Intended value of the metric that company aims to achieve by 2030. Performance against targets will not be used to evaluate company progress over time.
Space to provide any additional information, comments, or context (including external benchmarks) around impact metric and data.

IMPACT METRIC 5

Metric used to track progress against and manage activities toward a company's intended impact(s).
Unit of measurement to describe impact metric. 
Description of calculation methodology and any alignment with industry standards.

Value of metric as of year-end 2022.

Value of metric as of year-end 2021 to inform performance over time.
Intended value of the metric that company aims to achieve by 2030. Performance against targets will not be used to evaluate company progress over time.
Space to provide any additional information, comments, or context (including external benchmarks) around impact metric and data.
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PART B: OTHER ESG & IMPACT INFORMATION

Building a company that incorporates ESG and impact considerations into its DNA is critical to helping you manage material risks to your business, and to driving positive impact for people and planet over the long-term. Clarifying ESG and impact factors that are most important to your mission, vision, and purpose can also help employees make the clear connection to how their work contributes to driving positive impact for people and the planet. The following questions address the current state of your company’s ESG priorities, policies, and practices, as well as your company’s overall impact goals.

ESG Considerations







Environmental Factors

Scope 1 Emissions
All direct GHG emissions.
Scope 2 Emissions
Indirect GHG emissions from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam.
Scope 3 Emissions
Other indirect emissions produced across a business's value chain, from suppliers, producers, to end-users.

Scope 1 Emissions
Scope 2 Emissions
Scope 3 Emissions
If applicable, please describe the calculations or methodologies used.

Social/Workforce Factors
8. Please indicate whether your company has the following policies or processes in place. If any of these are in the process of being developed, please feel free to offer any updates on your progress in the space provided in question 15.
Governance Factors


14. Please indicate if your company has the following data privacy and cyber security policies in place. 

Impact Considerations






20. Please provide one example or story that demonstrates the impact of your company's product(s) or service(s) on people and/or the planet using the space provided. You can upload any existing material, such as a link, video, report, picture, etc. Please confirm if S2G has permission to use this story externally. 

21. Is there other information about the impact of your company's product(s) or service(s) not already covered that you would like to share with S2G now? Please use the space provided and/or attach any existing materials, such as a link, video, report, etc.

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PART C: S2G VENTURES' COMMON ESG & IMPACT METRICS

At S2G, we track a small set of ESG & impact metrics across our portfolio to better understand key aspects of our companies’ growth trajectories, as well as how S2G can best contribute to your company’s growth as a partner and value-add investor. These metrics include:

  1. Demographic profile of workforce and Board
  2. Additional workforce information
  3. Impact of S2G’s value-add resources

Please use the sections 1-3 below to provide your company’s data on this common set of ESG & impact metrics.

1. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF WORKFORCE AND BOARD

S2G is committed to better understanding the diversity of the organizations with which we partner. To that end, we would like to invite you to provide information about the identities of your full-time employees, senior leadership, and Board members. We recognize that these demographic categories may not be relevant to all geographies. Please feel free to make a note of any adjustments needed to accommodate for differences in section 2 below. Providing this information is entirely voluntary, and your participation will not be used to treat you in any adverse manner.


As a first step, we would like to know if the demographic information you provide to S2G is collected directly from your employees, or if it is based on the assumptions of the survey respondent. Does your company collect the following data directly from full-time employees and Board? Please indicate if "yes" or "no" using the dropdowns below.


Note: “Full-time employees” is defined as the total number of direct-hire employees who are eligible for full-time benefits as of year-end 2022.
Full-Time Employees
                  Board        
1. Race & Ethnicity
2. Gender Identity
3. Sexual Orientation
4. Disability Status
5. Veteran Status

Next, please use the tables below (Tables A-C) to provide demographic data on full-time employees, senior leadership, and Board.

Table A

        Female           Male        Gender Nonconforming      Did Not            Disclose             Gender Totals
African American or Black
Native American / Alaskan Native
Asian and/or Asian American
Two or More Races or Ethnicities
Hispanic or Latino/a
Middle Eastern, Arab, or Northern African
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
                      White
Did Not Disclose Race & Ethnicity/ Unknown
                        Totals


SEXUAL ORIENTATION

# who identify as LGBTQ+

DISABILITY STATUS

# who identify as having a disability

VETERAN STATUS

# who identify as a veteran

Table B

Note: "Senior leadership" is defined as full-time employees who have responsibility for the overall management and oversight of the company (e.g., C-Suite and high-level management positions), not including Board members.

        Female           Male        Gender Nonconforming      Did Not            Disclose             Gender Totals
African American or Black
Native American / Alaskan Native
Asian and/or Asian American
Two or More Races or Ethnicities
Hispanic or Latino/a
Middle Eastern, Arab, or Northern African
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
                      White
Did Not Disclose Race & Ethnicity/ Unknown
                        Totals


SEXUAL ORIENTATION

# who identify as LGBTQ+

DISABILITY STATUS

# who identify as having a disability

VETERAN STATUS

# who identify as a veteran

Table C

        Female           Male        Gender Nonconforming      Did Not            Disclose             Gender Totals
African American or Black
Native American / Alaskan Native
Asian and/or Asian American
Two or More Races or Ethnicities
Hispanic or Latino/a
Middle Eastern, Arab, or Northern African
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
                      White
Did Not Disclose Race & Ethnicity/ Unknown
                        Totals


SEXUAL ORIENTATION

# who identify as LGBTQ+

DISABILITY STATUS

# who identify as having a disability

VETERAN STATUS

# who identify as a veteran

2. ADDITIONAL WORKFORCE INFORMATION

3.   IMPACT OF S2G’S VALUE-ADD RESOURCES

a. Has your company engaged S2G’s value-add resources, and if so, to what extent have they been helpful to your company’s capacity for driving positive outcomes on people and planet? Please review the list of value-add resources below and indicate whether you’ve received value-add resources and, if so, the extent to which they have been helpful to your company.



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