RE-Volv
RE-volv is a climate justice nonprofit that helps nonprofits in historically excluded communities across the country go solar, while raising awareness about equitable climate solutions and training the next generation of clean energy leaders.
Green Energy Justice Cooperative
The purpose of Green Energy Justice Cooperative is to create energy sovereignty for Black and Brown communities everywhere by owning clean renewable energy generation and distribution that meets the needs of our communities. The Cooperative’s vision is to achieve economic, political, and educational independence for Black and Brown communities everywhere through the achievement of energy sovereignty.
Georgia Bright
Georgia Bright is its namesake's implementation for the EPA's Solar for All Program, intended to help low-income and disadvantaged communities access clean energy generation.
Common Trust
Common Trust is an employee ownership buyout platform supporting small businesses to exit to their employees. Groundwork, operated by Common Trust, is the nation's first fund dedicated to financing employee ownership trust (EOT) buyouts of small businesses, setting up businesses for long term success while building wealth for everyday Americans.
EFM Investments & Advisory
EFM was formed in 2004 to pioneer an alternative approach to commercial forestland management. Using a climate-smart management investment strategy that prioritizes long-term social and ecological value alongside financial returns, this approach considers the whole value of a forest to include timber, conservation, carbon, biodiversity, clean water, rural livelihoods, tribal values, recreational access and more.
Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund
Project Equity’s Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund promotes resilient, quality jobs, increases worker voice, and preserves and strengthens small business assets in communities. The fund supports low- and moderate-income workers and workers of color to become owners of their workplaces. It catalyzes employee ownership, including for smaller businesses that face significant barriers to accessing capital from most lenders, and expands the pipeline of businesses able to consider employee ownership.
Everytable Social Equity Franchise
Everytable's innovative Social Equity Franchise Program fosters economic empowerment among entrepreneurs from marginalized communities by providing a clear and supported path to business ownership. Serving as a model approach to franchising, a system largely devoid of diversity and representation by people of color and women, the program provides critical access to capital for qualifying graduates plus in-depth, hands-on training to empower and prepare minority entrepreneurs to operate Everytable restaurants in their own communities.
Aclima
Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company dedicated to catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and advances environmental justice.
Cooperative Energy Futures
Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) is a MN member-owned energy services cooperative that builds community wealth through energy efficiency and clean energy solutions that are accessible to everyone.
Obran Cooperative
Obran Cooperative believes that everyone should own their most precious asset: their time. Obran is the first worker-owned conglomerate. Leveraging its portfolio of small businesses, the cooperative empowers its workers through ownership and education.
Clean Fiber
CleanFiber turns recycled cardboard into high-quality, low-cost cellulose insulation while reducing environmental impact.
Concrete Rose
Concrete Rose invests in early-stage (pre-seed to Series A) companies across all sectors, with a focus on financial inclusion, productivity software and future of work, sustainability, precision/predictive health, and direct-to-learner Educational Tech.
Mission One Capital
Mission One is a thematic investment group, backing startups that solve problems deemed to be “mission-critical” to meet the challenge of climate change. Our focus is to support companies capitalizing on this inflection point to secure our generation’s sustainable future.
Port of Africatown
Port of Africatown is a 501(c)(3) community development corporation (CDFI) created to grow opportunities and trade in the Africatown region. Just three miles away from downtown Mobile, Alabama, it was founded by the 32 people brought there on the last known illegal shipment of enslaved people to the US. Maintaining much of their Ewe, Fon, and Yoruba traditions into the 1950s, Africatown is a unique place in the US that has struggled to maintain its historicity in the face of a growing Mobile.
Spruce Root
Headquartered in Juneau, Alaska, Spruce Root's mission is to improve access to capital for the historically underfunded region of Southeast Alaska. Historically rural, low-income, and Native, Spruce Root serves 23 communities, providing access to lending and specialized resources to help address the unique challenges of business in Alaska.
Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation
The Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation (FAHF) is a non-profit organization and CDFI whose mission is to promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development strategies that strengthen Latinx communities. For almost 20 years FAHF has supported thousands of business owners of color to receive no-fee or low-cost bilingual services for every stage of the business cycle.
Urban Tilth
Urban Tilth inspires, hires, and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture, feed our community, and restore relationships to land to build a more sustainable food system, within a just and healthier community.
Nexlegacy Real Estate
Nexlegacy is a construction company that provides services to communities in the Deep South impacted by natural disasters, specializing in residential and commercial reconstruction. Many of the communities affected by climate change in the US are primarily Black and Brown neighborhoods, and it is Nexlegacy's mission to bring that representation to the reconstruction and recovery efforts in historically extracted areas.
Totem
Totem is creating pathways to financial inclusion for Native Americans through digital banking. They partner with sovereign tribal governments to deliver culturally relevant financial products and education, make tribal benefits more accessible, and help the growing number of self-identifying Natives born off-rez connect to culture.
Working Power
Working Power seeks to reinvest in healthy, economically resilient neighborhoods while meeting the needs of investors.
Raven Indigenous Impact Fund I LP
Bringing flexible patient, capital to invest with innovative, scalable, purpose-driven Indigenous social enterprises in Canada and the United States who are at an early-and-growth stage.
Posigen
PosiGen provides renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to low-to-moderate income homeowners.
Ultranauts
Ultranauts provides onshore quality engineering and assurance services to F500 enterprises, hyper-growth startups, and top-tier digital consultancies. Their cognitively diverse teams, 75% of whom are on the autism spectrum, are uniquely equipped to improve data and software quality across a wide range of industries undergoing digital transformation.
Ruthless For Good Fund I
The Ruthless for Good Fund is directed by Camelback Ventures. CBV seeks to increase access to opportunities for BIPOC and women entrepreneurs by investing in their ventures and leadership.
Imperative Fund
Imperative Fund LP is Imperative Advisors LLC’s associated company for the implementation of its credit instrument model. In partnership with a development finance institution, Imperative Fund LP is expected to rank as one of the top-five largest providers of housing credits for the years 2022 – 2024 in its current market of operations.
MaC Fund II
The second fund from MaC venture Capital, MaC Fund II is a seed-stage fund that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
Solar Holler
Helping communities, non-profits, and municipalities develop affordable community supported solar projects across West Virginia.
Debut Capital Fund I
Debut Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing funds and resources in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders.
Ecosystem Integrity Fund III
The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is an early growth stage investor in companies contributing to environmental sustainability.
Adobe Mezzanine Fund II, LP
Through the use of tailored financing alternatives, Adobe Capital supports impact driven entrepreneurs who are able to create innovative, profitable and scalable business models to address the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
Community Housing Capital
Community Housing Capital (CHC) is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and 501(c)(3) created to facilitate the creation and preservation of affordable housing.
People's Land Fund Watsonville LLC
We are a collaborative of Black, Indigenous, and POC food and agriculture leaders.
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
A nonprofit CDFI based in Concord, N.H., the Community Loan Fund collaborates with a wide range of donors and investors, and with business, nonprofit, and government partners, to provide the financing and support that people with low and moderate incomes need to have affordable homes, quality jobs, and child care, and to become financially independent.
Oweesta Corporation
Oweesta is the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities. Specifically, Oweesta provides training, technical assistance, investments, research, and policy advocacy to help Native communities develop an integrated range of asset-building products and services, including financial education and financial products.
Arab Business Relief Fund
KIEDF was established in Israel in 1994 upon the initiative of the Koret Foundation of San Francisco to demonstrate that philanthropic funds could be used efficiently to stimulate economic development and employment opportunity in the private sector in Israel.
KIEDF works to create employment opportunity and social equality for Israeli small businesses, microenterprises and social initiatives and is recognized as the preeminent Israeli private source of credit and business services.
Red Bay Coffee
Red Bay Coffee is at the forefront of “the fourth wave of coffee” —a firm commitment to ensure coffee production is not only high quality and sustainable, but a vehicle for diversity, inclusion, social and economic restoration, entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability.
Seed Commons Flagship Capital Pool
Seed Commons builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support.
Komaza
Komaza is a non-profit social enterprise committed to reducing rural poverty by connecting smallholder farmers with high-value markets.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher with the mission of connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all.
Tanka — Native American Natural Foods
The Tanka Bar is based on a centuries old Lakota recipe and is the product of Native American Natural Foods (NANF) — a Native American natural food brand based on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. NANF creates and sells healthy foods based on buffalo meat, which restores and preserves their lands, ecosystems and the Buffalo.
Comaco
Comaco is a social enterprise that supports wildlife conservation in Eastern Zambia, by working with illegal wildlife poachers to provide alternative livelihood skills and train small-scale farmers in the leading practices of climate-smart, sustainable agriculture.
ChiFresh Kitchen
ChiFresh Kitchen is a Black-owned commercial food service contractor, structured as a worker cooperative. ChiFresh focuses on food justice and sovereignty and strives to make marginalized workers primary decision-making power.
EBPREC
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC) aligns the technical, financial, and organizational inputs to support Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, and steward mixed-use and residential property in the East Bay.
Impact America Fund I
IAF makes early-stage investments in tech-driven businesses that create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity within marginalized communities.
Apis & Heritage Legacy Fund I
By combining the speed and scale of Private Equity with the preservation and wealth creation power of Employee Ownership, specifically a 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) — Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (A&H) is attacking the Racial Wealth Gap and helping to restore dignity and status to the American Worker.
HOPE Credit Union
HOPE CU is a women of color-led credit union and CDFI serving the Deep South. HOPE works to strengthen communities and improve lives throughout the Deep South, home to more than 1/3 of the persistent poverty counties in the U.S. In these areas, more than 20% of residents have lived in poverty for at least 30 years.
RCAC
Rural Community Assistance Corp (RCAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates in 13 western states and Pacific islands. It serves Indigenous and rural communities through training, technical and financial assistance and advocacy.
Shared Capital Cooperative
Shared Capital Cooperative is a lending and investment fund for co-ops of all sizes. It is cooperatively owned and managed by the co-ops that borrow and invest in it.
Baltimore Community Lending
Baltimore Community Lending supports the revitalization and strengthening of underserved Baltimore neighborhoods through innovative and flexible financial assistance designed to promote community development.
Community Housing Capital
Community Housing Capital (CHC) is certified as a community development financial institution (CDFI) and a community development entity (CDE) by the U.S. Treasury’s CDFI Fund. It aggregates loan capital to finance the creation and preservation of affordable housing
NALCAB
The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders is a national membership organization and certified CDFI that advances economic mobility in Latinx communities.
Appalachian Community Capital
Appalachian Community Capital provides reliable and sufficient capital for its membership of CDFIs and mission-driven lenders to support economic growth, increased entrepreneurship, higher quality jobs, and increased local wealth in the Appalachian region.
NDN Fund
NDN Fund is the impact investing and lending arm of the NDN Collective, providing financing for large-scale Indigenous regenerative community and national development projects that dramatically scale up investment and shift all decision-making power to Indigenous peoples.
Native Community Capital
Native Community Capital is a Native CDFI that serve tribes on a regional basis to advance tribal self-determination by unlocking capital resources necessary to build tribal economies.
Partnership for Southern Equity
PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.
Historic Clayborn Temple
Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis has been a key power-building base for the African American community for seventy years. The team’s dream is for the community to own the property, specifically the descendants of the Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968, and to advance the cultural and economic production of African American artists and entrepreneurs.
Historic District Development Corporation
HDDC is one of Atlanta’s oldest surviving community development corporations and the only non-profit organization specifically dedicated to preserving the availability of affordable housing in the Old Fourth Ward district. For nearly four decades, HDDC has been a catalyst for equitable urban revitalization in Atlanta.
Kibilio Community and Farm
Kibilio Community and Farm is rooted in Black and Queer land sovereignty. It is an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice.
Carolina Small Business Development Fund
Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) is a 31-year-old 501 C-3 not-for-profit that provides financial, policy, research, and technical assistance to small businesses throughout North Carolina. We focus on underserved communities with an emphasis on businesses owned by people of color, women, veterans, rural residents, and low-income individuals.
Complete Solar
Complete Solar Solution offers a wide range of solar products and financing programs to help consumers reduce their electricity bills.
Navajo Power
Navajo Power was founded to maximize the economic benefits of clean energy for tribal and impacted communities.
MCE Social Capital
MCE Social Capital is a nonprofit impact investing firm that uses a pioneering loan guarantee model to generate economic opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people, particularly women, in more than 30 countries.
Shared Interest
Shared Interest works to mobilize the resources for South Africa's economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build an equitable nation.
Advance Trade Growth Offshore Fund Ltd
Advance Global Capital, a financial services company based in the UK, specializes in trade receivables financing in emerging markets.
Illumen Capital I, LP
The world's only PI fund of funds firm focused on reducing implicit bias to unlock impact and returns
Firebrand Artisan Breads
Born and raised in the East Bay, Firebrand is committed to serving the community both as an employer and as a local artisan bakery. Firebrand is committed to hiring formerly incarcerated and homeless people. The investment was designed to include workers in profit sharing alongside investors, and to transfer partial ownership of the company into a Purpose Trust to ensure long-term mission preservation.
Lendstreet
Lend Street was a lending platform to help financially stressed consumers restructure and refinance debt to rebuild their financial lives.
Trove
Trove works with brands such as Patagonia, REI and Eileen Fisher to develop channels that take control of the resale marketplace, which deepens customer engagement, increases profit and helps the planet by advancing the circular economy.
Bitwise Industries
Bitwise Industries creates a bridge between humans from marginalized communities and stories of systemic poverty to skills and resources necessary to access opportunities in the tech industry.
Dirt Capital Partners 2018 LLC
Dirt Capital Partners invests in farmland in partnership with farmers throughout the Northeast United States, promoting sustainable farmers’ land access and security.
One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder subsistence farmers in East Africa with financing and training as well as tools, seed, fertilizers, market access, and weather-related risk insurance.
Core Innovation Capital III, LP
Core invests in companies that deliver more efficient, well-designed financial products that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale.
Huruma Fund SCA, SICAR-EuSEF
Huruma Fund is an impact investment fund that will provide financing to smallholder farmers or those excluded in rural areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.
Cornbread
Cornbread is a fast-casual farm-to-table restaurant focusing on authentic savory soul food, ingredients all sourced from local farmers, and the use of innovative technology to provide a unique and family friendly dining experience.
Mayvenn
Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
HCAP PARTNERS IV , L.P.
HCAP Partners is a provider of growth capital to lower-middle market companies throughout California and the Western United States.
Kapor Capital Fund III
Kapor Capital is the venture capital arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact. It is an equity fund that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Blackstar Stability Distressed Debt Fund
Founded shortly after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007, Blackstar began as a state-funded program designed to keep families in their homes. Blackstar Stability fund has now helped hundreds of families across the US.
Lendable
Lendable provides capital to emerging and frontier market fintech companies and provides technology, asset management, and advisory services to leading investors.
Buen Vivir Fund (Thousand Currents)
Thousand Currents moves money to grassroots and movement formations in the global south.
Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund IV LP
The Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund IV, L.P., is Jonathan Rose Company’s fourth institutional fund focused on generating strong risk-adjusted returns through creating and preserving affordable multifamily housing, implementing practical green strategies to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and growing opportunity for its residents through social and educational services.
Big City Farms
Big City Farms was a Baltimore-based, vertically-integrated urban farming company. We build urban farm networks that create good jobs for worker-owners, transform neighborhoods by improving blighted and vacant urban land, and produce ultra-local, healthy food using sustainable, biological growing methods.
Relay Foods
Relay Foods was a healthy online grocery store with the mission to make eating quality and sustainable food simple. Relay Foods operated in Virginia, Maryland, the DC Metro, and North Carolina.
Traditional Medicinals
Traditional Medicinals is an herbal medicine tea company committed to using high quality pharmacopoeial grade herbs and embracing ingredient purity and sustainability.
Mosaic
Mosaic is the nation's leading residential solar lending platform, helping thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Gigawatt Global
Gigawatt Global is a multinational renewable energy company focused on the development of utility scale solar projects in the global south.
InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund II
Investeco is a Canadian investment company financing high growth sustainable food and agriculture companies.
EFM Fund III
We are a real asset investment manager that invests in working landscapes, including forests, farms, and ranches across the Americas to create long-term financial value and enduring environmental and social impact.
Organically Grown
Organically Grown Company is promoting health through organic agriculture as a leading produce distributor in the Pacific Northwest, as well as pioneering the perpetual purpose trust steward-ownership model.
Impact Engine Ventures Fund II LP
Impact Engine Ventures II is dedicated to supporting and scaling early-stage software companies that improve economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.
Change.org
Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries.
Clean Choice Energy
CleanChoice Energy is a clean energy supplier whose mission is to make 100% renewable energy available to everyone.
Learners Guild
Learners Guild’s mission was to ensure that anyone who has the will and capacity to become a professional software developer to do so, providing job-readiness training in tech for low-income and diverse students.
Piece & Co
Piece & Co. was a marketplace that connects retail brands with artisans in the developing world, providing sustainable livelihoods to underserved populations and unique, socially impactful products to brand partners.
Portapure
PortaPure produced a variety of portable, effective water filtration systems for individuals, households, and small businesses and communities.
Powerhive
Powerhive develops scalable, bankable off-grid utility solutions to create a future where everyone has access to clean energy and the opportunities that come with it
Namaste Solar
Namaste Solar is transforming energy to create a brighter future powered by renewables and transforming business to be a force for good in the world.
Wholeshare
Wholeshare was a program that saved people substantial amounts on groceries through collective purchasing, giving consumers access to wholesale prices.
Liberty & Justice
Liberty & Justice is Africa's first fair-trade certified apparel manufacturer, creating jobs in Liberia and Ghana.
My Strong Home
MyStrongHome was a public-benefit corporation that sought to help homes and communities in coastal areas in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to be better protected from extreme weather by financing and managing home upgrades, especially new storm-ready roofs, to meet resilient building standards.
Crossboundary Energy
CrossBoundary Energy is an investment company that directs capital towards renewable energy projects in Africa, offering stable, clean power for enterprises and organizations.
Global Impact Funds S.C.A. SICAR
GAWA's second fund, executed its last investment at the end of 2017, and since then the Fund has carried out four capital returns to investors. GFIF has focused on investments in Microfinance institutions and Micro & Small Enterprise lenders. The portfolio was made up of a total of 10 investments (7 debt; 3 equity) in 8 countries in Latin America and Asia. To date, three of GFIF’s investments have come to maturity with positive returns.
Impact America Fund II
IAF II is a $55M fund, raised and led by Kesha Cash, one of the most significant funds raised by an individual Black woman partner. IAF II makes early-stage investments in tech-driven businesses that create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity within marginalized communities.
Mac Fund I
MaC Fund I is the first fund from MaC Venture Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund V
Through this fund, Rose aims to provide safe, energy efficient and affordable housing as a stable base for families and seniors and to connect residents with a range of health, educational and social services.
Impact Engine Private Equity Fund, LP
Impact Engine is a women-owned and led investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.
Raven Indigenous Impact Fund II LP
Raven Fund II invests in innovative, scalable Indigenous enterprises at the forefront of advancing the well-being of Indigenous Peoples. Bringing flexible patient, capital to invest with innovative, scalable, purpose-driven Indigenous social enterprises in Canada and the United States who are at an early-and-growth stage.
HCAP Partners V, L.P.
The HCAP Partners V Fund will continue the firm's strategy of investing in underserved businesses in the lower middle market and implementing the “Gainful Jobs Approach,” its platform designed to measure and improve job quality standards across its portfolio.
Seed Commons THRIVE Capital Pool
Seed Commons builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support.
All Across Africa
All Across Africa is a global network of makers driving social change through the ethical production and distribution of sustainably made artisan goods.
Bridges Fund Management
Bridges Fund Management Ltd. is a fund manager that specializes in sustainable and impact investing. It invests in businesses, properties, and social sector organizations, focusing on four impact themes: health and wellbeing, education and skills, sustainable living, and under-served markets.