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.
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.
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.
We are an independent, Minneapolis-based strategic, financial, and impact investing firm
empowering purpose-driven organizations that drive positive social impact in their communities
Community Capital Advisors (CCA) is a boutique impact investing advisory firm helping foundations and place-based funders align their investment capital and practices with mission to advance racial equity, inclusive economies, sustainable growth and healthy communities. CCA offers a range of impact investing program consulting services from design through implementation, as well as outsourced solutions for ongoing investment sourcing, due diligence, loan underwriting, monitoring, reporting, project management and administration. CCA has particular expertise in loan funds, CDFI programs and underwriting, mission-aligned cash, racial equity assessment of investment practices, leading investment advisor consultant searches, landscape scans, and customized research and analysis. Please visit the CCA website to learn more about the team, our partners, services and deep commitment to racial equity and advancing equity-focused investment practices.
