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.
FEG's mission is to "Empower our clients to achieve their goals through superior investment performance, objective insights, and research". We are an independently-owned advisory firm that provides investment consulting, outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), and research services to predominantly institutional clients, such as university endowments, private and public foundations, community foundations, religious organizations, and healthcare institutions. FEG developed the Responsive Investing Solutions Exchange (RISE), as a partnership with our clients to provide investors seeking both financial and social gains the opportunity to align their portfolios with their own unique goals.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation supports arts, education, environment, informed communities, and poetry to connect communities and influence social change to achieve an equitable New Jersey.
Consultant to https://www.inicio.ventures/, vetting Latinx enterprises and supporting Latinx Fund Managers; member & investor at https://www.levelleaders.com/ investing in Black-women owned businesses; Project Manager for the New York Small Business Funder Collective - banks, foundations, HNW donors closing the racial wealth gap in NY Metro (new effort, website under construction), https://philanthropynewyork.org/ serving as fiscal agent; Senior Consultant https://bwam.network/, Black Women in Asset Management; Board Member, Eileen Murphy Foundation, new family foundation with goals to give and invest to support youth in distressed communities and circumstances.
The Merchants Fund provides grants and other support to merchants and small businesses in Philadelphia.
TMF was established in 1854 - a time in our nation’s history when there was no safety net to provide health and disability insurance or pension plans and retirement benefits - to provide charitable gifts to merchants facing financial hardship. The Fund evolved from the Mercantile Beneficial Association, an organization dedicated to providing business advice, networking opportunities, and protection from financial failure or default due to illness, old age, or disability.
Recognizing its privilege as a funder and the historical and systemic disinvestment in communities of color, including BIPOC business owners, as well as the inequitable access to capital experienced by BIPOC, immigrant, and women merchants, TMF seeks to:
- Utilize the access and acumen of its leadership to strengthen its grantmaking;
- Engage small business owners in decision-making processes;
- Align its corpus to reflect its values; and
- Make flexible grants that address these historic disparities and build wealth within these communities.
The Regional Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families living in low-income communities in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware by concentrating resources on comprehensive, neighborhood-based economic and community development initiatives. Our community investment tools include Neighborhood Planning and Implementation Grants as well as Program Related Investments to support long-term, resident-driven neighborhood revitalization.
