Our VALUES System

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• Our VALUES System articulates our VALUES in a transparent and accessible way for our Bay Area Entrepreneurship Alliance members
• Our VALUES System serves as a system for identifying and strengthening community-based, community-serving businesses
• Our VALUES System helps us to consistently vet resources we refer local underrepresented entrepreneurs to in navigation sessions
• Our VALUES System provides a VALUES adoption roadmap to our members and to our broader community, rewarding the creation of plans and progress.
• Our VALUES System was built by a team representative of the communities we seek to serve: women, people of color, mothers, youth, children of immigrants, parents of people with disabilities.

​​How do you define each value?

The following definitions incorporate the input we have received from our members and from our broader community over many years of engagement with local entrepreneurs, business support providers and funders here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each value seeks to tackle a specific barrier that stands in the way of equitable access to capital and support for underrepresented entrepreneurs.

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What will a VALUES Verified world look like?