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.
Avivar Capital (Avivar) is a U.S.-based SEC registered investment advisor focused exclusively on assisting institutional, public and private clients in the design, development and execution of impact investing strategies, portfolios and funds. Clients range from small to the nation's largest independent and community foundations, banks, institutional investors and families. Strategies range from place-based or thematic impact investing goals to values alignment for traditional portfolios targeting market-rate expected returns. Strategies typically seek to increase equitable access to opportunity across thriving and sustainable urban, rural and tribal communities.
Mitigating climate change by removing animals from the consumer supply chain, sustainable replacements for single-use plastic, alternative sustainable bio materials and the many possibilities the fungi kingdom offers.
We work together with people and organizations to improve the health and well-being of residents in our community, especially those that have been historically under-resourced.
Hopelab is a social innovation lab focused on designing science-based technologies to improve the health and well-being of teens and young adults. Hopelab seeks to meaningfully and measurably improve the health and well-being of teens and young adults, by partnering to develop and distribute behavior-change products that are driven by science, powered by technology, and co-created with young people.
The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation supports grassroots organizations and movements in the United States working to change environmental, social, economic and political conditions to bring about a more just, equitable and sustainable world.
A force for good with global impact: Our mission is to help people unleash their ability to do good, give more, and solve the problems we face in our communities and as a society
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.
