Ceniarth is a single-family office, and related private foundation, focused on funding market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities. Ceniarth primarily engages in rural, marginalized regions in sectors such as agriculture, financial services, energy, and affordable housing. Ceniarth makes full use of its entire portfolio in these efforts and is active in making both mission-related and program-related investments.
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy promotes more effective philanthropy and strengthens the nonprofit sector through research that informs philanthropic decision-making and public policy to advance community problem solving. We have long held discussions and hosted discussions on the topic of impact investing as a way to connect practitioners and researchers together and support the growing infrastructure in this space.
Our community faces urgent challenges such as poverty, inequality and a shortage of safe, affordable housing. Neither government nor philanthropy are equipped to solve these problems alone. At the Community Foundation, we are working to make Central New York a vibrant community with equal access to opportunity for everyone. To help us get there, we have implemented a new tool called impact investing to help create transformational change.
The Change Happens Foundation is living into the spirit of its name by investing in partner organizations that make positive change happen through innovative and just solutions. We value courage, collaboration, and impact. We support environmental science, human services and education. The CHF envisions a legacy benefitting both people and the planet.
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.
