MicroVest seeks partners to build capital markets that work for the world’s entrepreneurial poor. We seek sustainable solutions to poverty by facilitating the flow of international private capital to low-income financial institutions. We believe a commercial approach offers the most effective, scalable, and sustainable solution for generating a positive impact in the developing world while achieving market financial returns to our investors.
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The Reinvestment Fund
The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) has invested $1.3 billion in Mid-Atlantic communities since 1985. As a CDFI, TRF finances housing, community facilities, supermarkets, commercial real estate and energy efficiency projects. It also provides public policy expertise by helping clients create actionable solutions and by sharing data and analysis.
Coastal Enterprises
CEI provides financing and technical assistance to small and medium-sized businesses, natural resource-based industries including the farm, fish and forest sectors, community facilities, renewable energy, commercial real estate and affordable housing. CEI serves communities in Maine, New England, and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Southern Bancorp
Southern Bancorp is committed to revitalizing rural communities in Arkansas and Mississippi. They measure their success through the increased opportunities residents have to improve their lives, plan for their futures, and re-imagine their communities.
New Resource Bank
New Resource Bank is the bank for people who are leading the way to a more sustainable world. Their mission is to advance sustainability with everything they do – the loans they make, the way they operate, and their commitment to putting deposits to work for good.
Impact Funds
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RSF Social Finance
RSF Social Finance (RSF) is a pioneering non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In partnership with a community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises addressing key issues in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. RSF offers investing, lending and giving services that generate positive social and environmental impact while fostering community and collaboration among participants. Since 1984, RSF has made over $275 million in loans and $100 million in grants to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises in its focus areas.
SJF Ventures
Representative investment areas include efficiency and infrastructure, asset recovery including reuse and recycling, sustainable agriculture and food safety, health and wellness technology, education technology and digital media and marketing services.
Green Century Funds
Green Century offers two mutual funds that invest in companies that are committed to a sustainable future, while avoiding those that are environmentally negligent in their policies, processes or products. Green Century believes that companies that are environmentally responsible could enjoy competitive advantages possibly including cost and liability reductions, quality improvements, profitability enhancements, and access to new and expanding growth markets. Green Century uses a set of negative and positive screens for each Fund so you can align your investments with your support of clean air, safe water and a stable climate.
Meyer Family Enterprises
Meyer Family Enterprises manages the assets of the Meyer Family in a way that provides for the financial, educational, emotional, spiritual growth and health of the family. We embrace the values of love, joy, respect, excellence, humility, cooperation, and integrity in our decisions and interactions with others.
F.B. Heron Foundation
The F.B. Heron Foundation was created in 1992 with the mission of helping people and communities to help themselves. Recently, Heron has been changing its strategy to advance this mission as well as the organization of its operations.
The Contact Fund
Contact Fund’s portfolio has included high-impact, short-term loans ranging in from $65,000 to $600,000 to various New York City community development finance institutions (CDFIs), affordable housing finance intermediaries, micro-lenders, social enterprises and community development corporations (CDCs).
Trilinc Global Impact Fund
At TriLinc, our mission is to provide investors with access to unique impact investment products that will help them achieve their financial goals while creating jobs, growing the middle class, and improving the lives of so many around the world.
Shared Interest
Shared Interest mobilizes the resources for Southern Africa’s economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build equitable nations.