Community Capital Housing’s mission is to be the premier source of investment capital for the NeighborWorks network and the community development industry.
CFNE’s mission is to work for economic, social, and racial justice by advancing community based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises with a preference to assisting cooperatives in low-income communities by:
● Providing financial products at reasonable rates;
● Developing business skills; and
● Offering an investment opportunity that promotes socially conscious enterprises
Our vision is of economic justice for all through thriving cooperative enterprises.
CFNE was founded in 1975 by cooperative developers to address the need for debt products suited to the shared ownership model of food co-ops. Food co-ops were thriving, as communities across the northeast embraced a community-owned model for healthy food access. However, the shared ownership structure that provided so many benefits to workers and communities also posed barriers to accessing capital from conventional sources, a dynamic that remains true today.
Over the decades since we launched, CFNE has grown to a staff of 15, located in 6 states across the northeast. In 2021 we changed our name from the Cooperative Fund of New England to Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, reflecting our staff expansion into New York state. Our borrower portfolio expanded to include co-ops beyond the food sector, such as housing, resident-owned communities (ROCs), worker co-ops, consumer and producer co-ops, and a small number of nonprofits and land trusts. And we have increasingly incorporated a racial justice lens into our work, resulting in Racial Justice becoming the North Star (key strategic goal) of our strategic plan in 2020.
The Courtney Family Foundation is dedicated to inspiring compassion for and alleviating the suffering of animals and people in our communities. We contribute to organizations who provide support to communities of people and animals who are greatly in need and those that work to create a more sustainable and humane future.
We have one goal: to empower under-represented public equity portfolio managers to launch independent firms and at-scale funds. We incubate portfolio managers (who are employees of Expect Equity and have not yet formed their own firms) for three years to enable them to build a track record and develop relationships with institutional allocators with the hope and expectation that they launch independently at the end of the three years.
FJC –A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC) is a boutique public charity that offers a diverse menu of philanthropic services to a range of stakeholders. FJC is primarily a platform for Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). In addition to DAF accounts, its over 1,000 accounts include fiscal sponsorships, collective giving accounts, and many other philanthropic vehicles that enable nonprofit organizations and their supporters to achieve their missions. FJC acts as a scaled platform that allows its account holders to focus on mission, rather than be burdened with the details of operations and compliance. Our roles as sponsors of DAFs and fiscal sponsorship organizations situates us as an intermediary between the financial services sector and the nonprofit sector.
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.
Giving Strong is a social impact consulting firm that advises foundations, corporations, and other social enterprises on philanthropic strategies and communications to reach their impact goals. Specialties in place-based work, convening community, and developing thought leadership.
We provide accessible equitable evaluation that enables you to create measurable and sustainable transformative social impact. We work with investors who want to make a positive social impact on the world in addition to making a financial return on their investment. Whether you plan to build your investment thesis, design an equitable screening process, conduct culturally responsive due diligence, or measure social impact post-investment, we can help you apply an equity lens to your investment.
