The Social Impact Fund is an early-stage impact investing fund supporting community-based social enterprises with innovative solutions to social and economic barriers to health. The success metrics are accelerating revenue and impact growth of early stage enterprises and having positive social impact in communities in terms of reducing access to healthcare barriers, food and economic insecurity and recidivism. The Fund has deployed $20M in funding such as loans, equity, tailored products, grants, and hybrids to SMEs.
JFFVentures mission is to invest in founders with lived experience who are building technology companies that enable the economic mobility of low-wage workers. JFFV operates in partnership with a leading national nonprofit, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a 40-year-old organization with deep networks and expertise in education and workforce development. JFF works with various partners, including employers, educational institutions, and policymakers, to design and implement innovative strategies to create career pathways and improve economic opportunities for workers.
JFFV provides early-stage capital to founders with lived-experience who are closer to the problems they are seeking to solve; increasing access to quality and affordable learning and skilling solutions, access to career navigation and job placement; access to benefits and supports specifically designed for low-wage workers and ultimately increasing access to quality jobs and economic mobility.
The mission of Mercy Investment Services is to enhance the financial resources of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas through socially responsible investing. Mercy Investment Services engages in collaborative efforts to: Raise our corporate voice to effect systemic change in corporate policies and activities Provide capital to community organizations, and Participate in other investment opportunities consistent with our mission. Mercy Partnership Fund is the global community investing program of Mercy Investment Services. MPF seeks investment opportunities that benefit the poor, especially women and children, concentrating on those undeserved by traditional sources of capital. Current community investments are at work through approximately 60 mission-driven organizations, including community development financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, community development banks and credit unions, microfinance institutions and international funds. Mercy Investment Services recently established an Environmental Solutions Fund, which is focused on mission-related, market-rate investment strategies.
Tara Health Foundation advances health and economic justice by transferring all of our resources and assets to invest in and elevate solutions at the intersection of race and gender.
Institutions and people will take actions so that systematically marginalized people and minorities are able to assert sovereignty over their own bodies and futures, and lay full claim to quality healthcare, capital, and power. As a result, our society and the communities within it will be thriving with people of color at the helm.
To achieve this, systemically privileged institutions– beginning with the Tara Health Foundation– must let go of their historically unjust status, capital, and power. The vision of the Tara Health Foundation is that institutions and people must take actions to relinquish capital and power at the intersection of health, economic power, rights, safety, and education. This practice must be widely incorporated into public policy and all sectors so that racism and sexism in the US are eradicated.
