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.
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.
BrightEdge is the innovation, impact investment and venture capital arm of the American Cancer Society. Today, our ACS Impact Venture Fund (AIVF) invests in for-profit, early-stage companies developing cutting-edge, cancer-focused therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, and technologies to fuel and accelerate ACS’s mission of ending cancer as we know it, for everyone.
Bullhorn is a branding agency that builds impact brands with language and design. We believe business can be a force for good. And for change. We specialize in working with other impact organizations: social entrepreneurs, impact investors, B Corps, public-benefit corporations, conscious capitalists, CSR, and ESG.
We are a collective group of empathetic learners and creators who help purposeful organizations solve problems through confident language and design. We aren’t looking for perfect clients; we are looking for groups of people trying to be better.
The California HealthCare Foundation works as a catalyst to fulfill the promise of better health care for all Californians. We support ideas and innovations that improve quality, increase efficiency, and lower the costs of care.
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy promotes more effective philanthropy and strengthens the nonprofit sector through research that informs philanthropic decision-making and public policy to advance community problem solving. We have long held discussions and hosted discussions on the topic of impact investing as a way to connect practitioners and researchers together and support the growing infrastructure in this space.
We are an independent, Minneapolis-based strategic, financial, and impact investing firm
empowering purpose-driven organizations that drive positive social impact in their communities
Our Vision - Across Colorado each of us can say: “We have all we need to live healthy lives.” Our Mission - Improve the health of Coloradans. Our Belief - Health is a basic human right. Our Cornerstones 1) We serve Coloradans who have low income and/or historically have had less power or privilege. 2) We are informed by the community and those we exist to serve. 3) We do everything with the intent of creating health equity.
