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.
DRK Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place. We find, fund and support exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale. We provide unrestricted capital, and, most importantly, we provide rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact. Since we started in 2002 we have invested in over 200 organizations, which have impact a combined 220 million lives. With the support of 50 donor partners, we are currently deploying our fourth fund: ~$85 million dedicated to supporting the next generation of 100 social entrepreneurs who will change the world.
The Educational Foundation of America is a family foundation that envisions a society in which every person has a meaningful voice in an inclusive democracy, with unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom, and lives in creative, thriving communities on a healthy, regenerative planet. We are a proud leader in the impact investing movement. In the early 90s, EFA was one of the first private foundations to begin screening its investments using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria to guarantee those investments aligned with our core values. Building on our commitment to ensure that our portfolio supports, rather than dilutes, our grantmaking goals, our investments became 100% fossil-fuel free in 2015. That year EFA was also one of the original signatories to the Divest-Invest Movement, actively avoiding fossil fuel investments and instead seeking out forward-thinking companies leading the clean energy revolution. Our assets have grown as a result of this strategic shift. Furthermore, we are engaged shareholders. By owning shares in public companies, EFA is able to raise environmental, social, and corporate governance issues with management. We do this through productive dialogue or by filing shareholder resolutions.
FEG's mission is to "Empower our clients to achieve their goals through superior investment performance, objective insights, and research". We are an independently-owned advisory firm that provides investment consulting, outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), and research services to predominantly institutional clients, such as university endowments, private and public foundations, community foundations, religious organizations, and healthcare institutions. FEG developed the Responsive Investing Solutions Exchange (RISE), as a partnership with our clients to provide investors seeking both financial and social gains the opportunity to align their portfolios with their own unique goals.
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.
