Since our beginnings in 2004, Aeris has established risk management standards for private community loan funds (CDFIs) and has helped drive the development of impact measurement and management practices in the CDFI industry—a learning curve now being replicated in the broader impact investment world. In 2013, the Aeris Cloud became the first online platform to help CDFI investors understand the impact and financial performance of their investments. Today, the broader investing field seeks a reliable, high-quality tool to collect, manage, and analyze impact data. Aeris’ unique experience and expertise can help accelerate the pace of impact investing.
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.
The Change Happens Foundation is living into the spirit of its name by investing in partner organizations that make positive change happen through innovative and just solutions. We value courage, collaboration, and impact. We support environmental science, human services and education. The CHF envisions a legacy benefitting both people and the planet.
Promoting sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change and supporting other important causes.
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The foundation focuses on supporting sustainable agriculture and food systems projects, while also supporting women's reproductive rights and other important causes, including environmental protection, arts and identity, natural disaster relief and social justice.
Impact Charitable unites catalytic philanthropists with community partners, financial institutions, foundations, social enterprises, and governmental bodies. As an Impact Capital Catalyst, Impact Charitable unlocks and accelerates capital that sparks positive change. We move more money, in more ways, to more people and places.
The mission of Jesse Parker Williams Foundation is to support highly effective organizations that emphasize preventive, comprehensive health opportunities and enhance access to health services for women and children, could not be achieved with the current disparities in health equity across Atlanta, there has been an increasing with a focus in the areas where the social determinants of health and limited access to healthcare continue to be barriers to wellness and healing.
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.
Kingdom Charitable Trust adopts a holistic approach to philanthropy through partnerships with nonprofit organizations that serve underprivileged groups and communities to promote spiritual development, economic opportunity, community inclusion, and medical outreach.
