North Edge provides business financing and community development throughout Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Siskiyou, and Trinity Counties. We exist to invest in businesses, communities, and people in ways that create a resilient and equitable economy for our region.
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Formerly: AEDC was created in 1978 by a group of Arcata business and community leaders to help grow the city's economy through assistance to local businesses and homeowners. Today, AEDC is a 501c3 non-profit organization and a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). AEDC's mission is to provide loans and support to entrepreneurial, innovative business and community endeavors. AEDC provides financing for business opportunities in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties, and sometimes Shasta County, in Northern California.
The mission of the Northwest Area Foundation is to support efforts by the people, organizations of their eight-state region to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity.
The Oikos Institute for Social Impact is committed to leveraging financial resources to create positive, sustainable change in historically underserved communities. Our loan fund is designed to empower mission-driven organizations, faith communities, and community leaders to unlock economic opportunities that promote social equity, economic mobility, and lasting community transformation.
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility. Digital technology is a powerful and ubiquitous force, that, harnessed wisely, makes wondrous things happen. We believe in working together to guide tech's trajectory intentionally.
Our vision is for our shared humanity to steer our digital future. So far, we have committed more than $1.94 billion to initiatives that share our vision. We engage, partner, and fund some of the world's brightest thinkers and innovators to guide our digital future toward the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Established in 2012, Open Road Alliance is a philanthropic initiative that serves the social sector by keeping impact on track in an unpredictable world. Open Road provides short-term solutions by disbursing fast grants and loans to nonprofits and social enterprises facing discrete, unexpected roadblocks during project implementation. It also conducts research and advocates for the adoption of long-term, system-wide risk management practices across the social sector.
OFN represents the country's leading network of CDFIs with over 400 members, and over $1 billion in assets under management. I am looking for deep partnerships to drive investments to CDFIs across the country serving urban, rural, and Native communities.
To fund projects and programs that build Opus communities and make them better places to live, work and raise families. The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that foster human and community development with an emphasis on early childhood education, youth development, workforce development, and community revitalization.
The purpose of Opus Foundation’s impact investing is to deploy a board-defined portion of the Foundation’s financial assets in ways that will advance the mission by building Opus communities and making them better places to live, work and raise families. This generally means investing in opportunities that will foster human and community development with an emphasis on early childhood education, youth development, workforce development and community revitalization.
Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) envisions a world of thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social good. We achieve our mission through a combination of fair lending, free mentorship, skilled volunteerism, impact investing consulting services, and field-building research.
PCV's research and consulting practice supports clients in more effectively deploying capital and managing investments to achieve their social, environmental, and financial goals. PCV's global client-base includes foundations, pension funds, banks, insurers, fund managers, CDFIs, and nonprofits. PCV is a nonprofit CDFI, with staff in Oakland, CA and New York, NY.
We create and advance strategies that cultivate commitment, imagination and resources to make it easier and more rewarding to give back to forests that so much to us.
