The Triple Bottom Line Tool helps optimize investments for economic, environmental, and social impact – what's referred to as the triple bottom line or TBL. Investors, economic development professionals, and decision-makers can use the TBL Tool to:

Design economic development investments for maximum returns
Consider an economic development investment's impact on various factors
Compare or communicate impacts of investment

An orientation to the TBL Tool is provided in this brief video. Important information is also included in the User's Guide -- particularly the section titled Using the Tool.

The TBL Tool is in Beta mode. Make sure it works for you - take a test drive and provide your feedback here. When testing the TBL Tool, you may find that you don't have all of the necessary information on hand. In these instances, for the purpose of testing the TBL Tool, you may estimate the response and note that in the Beta feedback survey.

Please note that the Tool works across all current browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8 and above). You may need to upgrade your browser or download Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome if you are running an unsupported browser.