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.
Autodesk Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Autodesk, Inc (NASDAQ: ADSK). We invest in startups and organizations using design and engineering to address the world's most pressing problems.
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.
CapShift’s mission is to help financial and philanthropic institutions, along with their clients, mobilize capital for social and environmental change. To advance this mission, we partner with leading donor advised funds, national foundations, and private foundations to help them identify, access, and evaluate impact investments. Key funding and support from the Fink Family Foundation, Heron Foundation, and Omidyar Network helps us ensure that our activities align with our mission.
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.
FJC –A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC) is a boutique public charity that offers a diverse menu of philanthropic services to a range of stakeholders. FJC is primarily a platform for Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). In addition to DAF accounts, its over 1,000 accounts include fiscal sponsorships, collective giving accounts, and many other philanthropic vehicles that enable nonprofit organizations and their supporters to achieve their missions. FJC acts as a scaled platform that allows its account holders to focus on mission, rather than be burdened with the details of operations and compliance. Our roles as sponsors of DAFs and fiscal sponsorship organizations situates us as an intermediary between the financial services sector and the nonprofit sector.
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.
Consultant to https://www.inicio.ventures/, vetting Latinx enterprises and supporting Latinx Fund Managers; member & investor at https://www.levelleaders.com/ investing in Black-women owned businesses; Project Manager for the New York Small Business Funder Collective - banks, foundations, HNW donors closing the racial wealth gap in NY Metro (new effort, website under construction), https://philanthropynewyork.org/ serving as fiscal agent; Senior Consultant https://bwam.network/, Black Women in Asset Management; Board Member, Eileen Murphy Foundation, new family foundation with goals to give and invest to support youth in distressed communities and circumstances.
The Jewish Community Foundation facilitates social change through philanthropy, investment, education and capacity building to benefit the Jewish and secular communities.