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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Community Foundation Mission Investments Company (TCFMIC) provides capital and assistance to entrepreneurs and businesses for the purpose of building generational wealth for families, neighborhoods and communities.
The Foundation’s local impact investing program allows the Foundation to:
• Develop a new tool that can promote community development;
• Broaden the community’s existing perception of the Foundation – as a community leader and grant maker – to include its new role as investor;
• Activate more existing assets and develop opportunities for residents and partners to leverage capital in support of local projects.
The Impact Evaluation Lab brings clarity and accountability to impact investors, aligning impact investment strategies with traditional capital-markets expectations so the impact sector can scale with integrity and become a trusted part of mainstream finance.
Through our flagship tools, the Impact Authenticity Score and the Impact Navigator, the Impact Evaluation Lab provides assessments of mission alignment, impact execution and financial performance to identify funds which deliver on their impact commitments. Developed in partnership with leading impact organizations, fund managers and asset owners, the IEL tools provide practical, actionable insight and analyses for fund managers and asset owners, empowering confident allocation decisions in the impact investing sector.
Our mission is to provide the tools and develop the trust that is required by all asset owners and investors to enable impact investing to fulfill its potential as part of the core architecture of global financial markets.
