Fund the world you want to live in.
Crowdfunding
Funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions or investments from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.
Green America: Community Investing
Across America and around the world, many communities lack affordable housing, child care, health care, and jobs that pay a living wage. By putting your money into community development banks, credit unions, and investments, you’ll help people with low incomes lift themselves up economically and make the areas in which we all live more equitable and environmentally sustainable.
CDFI Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions
The CDFI Coalition is the unified national voice of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our mission is to encourage fair access to financial resources for America.
Social Funds
SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.
MicroCapital
MicroCapital publishes information on microfinance, SME investing and other forms of impact investing monthly in the MicroCapital Monitor and daily at MicroCapital.org. Since 2005, we have been covering news, events, research summaries and a range of special features on the sector. As impact investing is an emerging industry with a legacy of charity, objective news with a business orientation is scarce. MicroCapital seeks to counter this scarcity by providing candid information with the goal of encouraging rational growth of the industry.
US SIF: Community Investing
US SIF – Community Investing, channels public and private investment to low income and other underserved communities in order to provide capital, credit and training that these communities would otherwise lack.
Vested –
Vested.org is the only online platform where you can invest in the causes and places that matter to you starting at $20.
Community Investment Note
Calvert Foundation – Community Investment Note, since 1995, more than 13,000 people have invested in our Community Investment Note, which earns a financial return while economically empowering communities worldwide.
CDFI
Community Development Financial Institution, a financial institution which provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations
SME
Small Medium Enterprises
Described by Kiva
Microfinance
Financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses lacking access to banking and related services.
MicroRate
MicroRate was the first microfinance rating agency dedicated to evaluating performance and risk in microfinance institutions (MFIs), as well as evaluating microfinance funds, also known as microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs). As the oldest and most well-respected organization of its kind, MicroRate’s primary goal is to promote growth in the microfinance industry by facilitating the efficient flow of money from capital markets to MFIs through independent evaluation and increased transparency.
MicroFinance Gateway
Since 2000, CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway has been a valuable resource for individuals and organizations working to advance financial inclusion for the world’s poor. The Gateway welcomes more than 1 million annual visitors from over 200 countries, who recognize the Gateway as the web’s leading resource for knowledge and career development opportunities in microfinance and financial inclusion.
AboutMicrofinance –
AboutMicrofinance is an aggregator and disseminator of current and authoritative information and resources on all aspects of the microfinance industry.
CARS – Comprehensive Ratings for CDFI Investments by Aeris
Aeris is an information service for community investors who champion economic justice in underserved markets. Since 2004, Aeris has provided data, analysis, and advisory services that support investment in community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our proprietary CDFI ratings tool — CARS, the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System — helps investors evaluate opportunities that meet their impact goals and risk parameters.
Investing in CDFIs
Some CDFIs take loans from individuals wanting to make an investment
Opportunity Finance Network
Opportunity Finance Network® (OFN) is the national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)—private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream.