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.
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.
Bay Bridge Ventures is an Institutional ESG and Sustainability focused venture capital firm, purpose-built from the ground up as a diverse-owned and managed organization investing in scalable, profitable, and impactful companies across technology sectors while providing transparency through its industry-leading impact reporting process.
Bay Bridge Ventures was founded on the belief that solutions to the world’s hardest environmental and social problems will be accelerated by the advancement of foundational technologies, such as AI & Big Data, Advanced Computing, Sensors & IoT, High-Bandwidth Connectivity, Energy Storage, Robotics and Synthetic Biology.
With a world-class team and scalable institutional investment strategy centered around meeting sophisticated ESG, DEI and Sustainability investment mandates, Bay Bridge Ventures invests in early to mid-stage companies supporting Climate Tech, Health Innovation and Inclusive Capitalism.
To advance equitable outcomes by developing and supporting collaborative financing solutions that bridge the gap between investors and underinvested communities.
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.
One of the largest mission-aligned firms in the world, Capricorn Investment Group was born from a belief that sustainable investment practices can enhance risk-adjusted returns. Underlying this investment approach is a deep desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. With offices in New York City and Palo Alto, the firm has grown to manage more than $10 billion in multi-asset class portfolios for families, foundations and institutional investors.
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.
The mission of the Chicago Community Loan Fund is to provide flexible, affordable and responsible financing and technical assistance for community stabilization and development efforts and initiatives that benefit low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, families and individuals throughout metropolitan Chicago.
CCLF was founded in 1991 by a group of visionary social-investment advocates. Their aim was to create a nimble, flexible nonprofit lender who would fill the community development credit gaps as they emerged across the city and region. In particular, CCLF was created to ensure that Chicagoland community developers (including small and emerging groups) would have a lender to turn to for harder-to-underwrite projects and enterprises.
