Acansa Investment Management is an investment advisor offering fully Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) services and custom investment advisory and impact advisory services to non-profit asset owners, including mission-oriented endowments & foundations, healthcare systems, higher education, and associated entities. Our specialty is providing scale to small-to-mid-sized institutions where aligning assets with organizational mission, financial and non-financial goals is equally important as access to differentiated asset management solutions across public and private asset classes.
Advance Global Capital, Ltd (AGC), is a global impact investment manager that supports responsible and inclusive economic growth in underserved communities worldwide. We specialize in financing invoices for small and medium businesses (SMEs) – the engine of economic growth and job creation and the foundation of resilient local communities. Our mission is to support local, responsible and inclusive economic growth by delivering well-structured financing options that help underserved small businesses thrive.
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.
Aperio (part of BlackRock) provides hyper-customized, public equity, direct indexing separately managed accounts (SMAs). Aperio's values-aligned portfolios are constructed based on each client's unique worldview and investment goals, including desired portfolio risk and return characteristics. We work with each client to identify and incorporate into their portfolios the factors that are important to them based on their values and/or ESG goals. Aperio helps clients identify, clarify, and prioritize their values. This can be achieved through one-on-one conversations with individual investors, or by facilitating decision making with members of boards, endowments, foundations or multi-generational families.
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.
Baltimore Community Foundation was created by and for the people of Greater Baltimore, where many donors join together to make the region they love a better place, today and for future generations. Their mission is to inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation and to iporve the quality of life in the Baltimore region through grant making, enlightened civic leadership and strategic investments.
A family foundation, rooted in Catholic social values, Better Way Foundation invests in systemic, holistic and evidence-based approaches that support the positive development of all children
Our mission is to develop & promote Black business enterprises through education, training, loans, investments, and other activities & aggressively promote an atmosphere conducive to their development.
