First Affirmative offers asset management and consulting services to individual and institutional investors seeking to align investment decision-making with personal values and/or institutional missions.
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA)
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) The network for the field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity. CDVCA promotes the field by combining advocacy, education, communications, and best-practice dissemination through conferences and workshops. CDVCA makes its expertise available to CDVC funds by providing consulting services and technical assistance.
Mission Markets –
An independent capital marketplace and community network for the impact and impact-related investing markets. They make it easier to source, research and move capital into investments that have a positive social & environmental impact.
Locavesting
Locavesting
Community Development Bankers Association
Community Development Bankers Association (CDBA) is the national trade association of the community development bank sector. We are the voice and champion of banks and thrifts with a mission of serving low and moderate income communities.
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.
GRI Global Reporting Initiative
GRI promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a way for organizations to become more sustainable and contribute to sustainable development.
Social Funds
Social Funds – List of CDVC funds
Social Stock Exchange
The Social Stock Exchange launched as an information platform for investors seeking to access impact opportunities on the public markets. Through its platform, member companies have the opportunity to articulate and evidence their social and environmental credentials through the production of an independently assessed Impact Report. The Social Stock Exchange was set up to help unlock capital at scale, via a growing community of global impact investors, for all organisations and businesses that create an evidenced social or environmental impact through their core activities.
Local Dollars, Local Sense
Local Dollars, Local Sense
Independent Community Bankers of America
Independent Community Bankers of America – ICBA The Independent Community Bankers of America®, the nation’s voice for more than 6,500 community banks of all sizes and charter types, is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education and high-quality products and services.
Investing in CDFIs
Some CDFIs take loans from individuals wanting to make an investment
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a coalition of faith and values-driven organizations who view the management of their investments as a powerful catalyst for social change. Our membership comprises nearly 300 organizations including faith-based institutions, socially responsible asset management companies, unions, pension funds and colleges and universities that collectively represent over $100 billion in invested capital.
Social Finance Israel
Social Finance Israel (SFI) is a financial intermediary that aims to provide both social and financial returns to investors. SFI will issue social-financial products, such as Social Impact Bonds, in order to raise new capital for the most effective not-for-profit organizations in Israel, tackling the country’s most pressing social and economic issues, while delivering monetary returns to investors.
SVX
An impact first platform connecting social ventures, impact funds, and impact investors.
Total Portfolio Activation | Trillium Asset Management
Total Portfolio Activation | Trillium Asset Management