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.
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.
Community Capital Advisors (CCA) is a boutique impact investing advisory firm helping foundations and place-based funders align their investment capital and practices with mission to advance racial equity, inclusive economies, sustainable growth and healthy communities. CCA offers a range of impact investing program consulting services from design through implementation, as well as outsourced solutions for ongoing investment sourcing, due diligence, loan underwriting, monitoring, reporting, project management and administration. CCA has particular expertise in loan funds, CDFI programs and underwriting, mission-aligned cash, racial equity assessment of investment practices, leading investment advisor consultant searches, landscape scans, and customized research and analysis. Please visit the CCA website to learn more about the team, our partners, services and deep commitment to racial equity and advancing equity-focused investment practices.
Equivico by NCRC is a woman-owned impact investment management firm launched by the Nationall Community Reinvestment Coalition. We’re a group of people passionate about leveling the economic playing field for those with limited access to capital resources. We’re driven by a strategy of inclusion, which means leveraging capital to improve the way the economy works and produce an inclusive and equitable society, while delivering competitive returns. We seek to empower and maximize the potential of businesses, people and markets.
We seek to catalyze the growth of small businesses nationally through responsible debt financing, entrepreneur management training and support, and grant making. We have a strong network of small businesses nationally the vast majority of whom are owned by people of color and women. Our debt solution brings together the efficiency of technology with the intelligence of manual underwriting and access to underserved communities.
We are Equivico. Equality and Victory for All.
Founders First, established in 2015, aims to close racial and social equity gaps by providing alternative growth capital and advisory programs to diverse-led companies, helping underrepresented founders build value-generating, mid market businesses to boost premium-wage jobs and build intergenerational wealth, while offering reliable and liquid financial returns to mission-driven investors.
Giving Strong is a social impact consulting firm that advises foundations, corporations, and other social enterprises on philanthropic strategies and communications to reach their impact goals. Specialties in place-based work, convening community, and developing thought leadership.
We provide accessible equitable evaluation that enables you to create measurable and sustainable transformative social impact. We work with investors who want to make a positive social impact on the world in addition to making a financial return on their investment. Whether you plan to build your investment thesis, design an equitable screening process, conduct culturally responsive due diligence, or measure social impact post-investment, we can help you apply an equity lens to your investment.
