Investment Portfolio
Impact Company Investments
Kansas City, Missouri
Key features:
• Renewable energy power producer
• Acquires, constructs, and operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants throughout North America
Centennial, Colorado
Key features:
• Clean Energy Credit Union is a not-for-profit cooperative that’s led by a woman of color.
• “Loan participation” investment in multiple, diversified portfolios of consumer loans that helped homeowners throughout the USA to finance their clean energy projects such as residential solar electric systems and geothermal heat pump systems.
Evanston, Illinois
Key features:
• Organic farmland real estate investment trust (REIT)
• Purchases and converts farmland for organic agriculture
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 135.2) and public benefit corporation
Portland, Oregon
Key features:
• Sustainable forestry investment fund
• Purchases and manages forestlands in the Northwestern US for financial, ecological, and social returns
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 136.2)
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 150+ employees
• Sells fair trade coffee and chocolate from small farmers in developing countries
Boulder/Denver, Colorado
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 160+ employees
• Designs and installs solar electric systems
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 127.2)
Durham, North Carolina
Key features:
• Impact venture capital funds that invest solely in impact companies
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 87.7)
Seattle, Washington
Key features:
• Net-zero energy home construction fund
• Builds infill net-zero energy homes in urban Seattle and Portland
New York, New York
Key features:
• Venture capital fund that invests solely in women and people of color founders
• Fund management firm is majority owned and managed by people of color
Hanover, New Hampshire
Key features:
• Fund that invests in conservation assets
• Focuses on carbon mitigation banks, forest carbon sequestration, and targeted conservation real estate investments
Canada and The Netherlands
Key features:
• Private equity firm that invests in impact companies in developing countries
• Certified B-Corp (B Impact Score = 139)
San Francisco, California
Key features:
• Impact venture capital fund that invests solely in women-led companies
• Fund management firm is a women-led, wholly owned subsidiary of a
501(c)(3) non-profit
Concord, New Hampshire
Key features:
• Mutual bank that focuses its lending on local food ecosystem
• Start-up that's pursuing B-Corp certification
St. Petersburg, Florida
Key features:
• Start-up community bank that focuses on environmental sustainability
• Certified B-Corporation (pending)
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Holding company for natural product brands
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 80.1)
Tampa, Florida
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman of color
• Works with businesses and utilities to be more energy efficient by improving building energy performance and grid optimization
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Key features:
• Arts and entertainment group comprised of 200+ artists
• Creates immersive, interactive experiences to transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms of story and exploration
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 80.2)
Portland, Oregon
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 13+ employees
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 102.4)
La Farge, Wisconsin
Key features:
• Farmer-owned cooperative comprised of 2,000+ family farms and 900+ employees
• Sells organic food nationwide on behalf of its farmer-owners
Washington, D.C.
Key features:
• Mezzanine debt private equity fund that helps companies with significant workforces of color convert into 100% employee-owned businesses
• Fund management firm is majority owned and managed by people of color
Portland, Oregon
Key features:
• National organic food distributor owned by a Perpetual Purpose Trust with 220+ employees
• Distributes organic food throughout the Northwest U.S.
New York, Nicaragua, and Argentina
Key features:
• Non-profit that serves stakeholders in North America and South America
• Invests in and provides technical assistance to employee-owned cooperatives in low-income communities
Boston, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Managed by men of color
• Nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
• Provides loans to community-owned natural food cooperatives, low-income cooperative housing developments, and employee-owned companies and other community-based businesses and social enterprises
Berkeley, California
Key features:
• Founded and managed by a woman
• Sources high quality cacao for chocolate makers globally with a “radically transparent” supply chain
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 108.5)
San Francisco, California
Key features:
• Organic farmland real estate investment trust (REIT)
• Purchases and converts farmland for organic agriculture
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 86.2)
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Managed by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
• Provides a new source of patient and responsive operating capital (using revenue sharing agreements) to farmers and ranchers in the USA who are seeking to transition acreage to regenerative and organic food production
Baltimore, Maryland
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by women
• Manufactures medical devices primarily for markets in emerging economies. Their leading product is Hemafuse, a handheld autotransfusion device that addresses chronic blood shortages globally by enabling clinicians to salvage, filter, and recycle blood from patients during surgery
New York, New York
Key features:
• Impact venture capital fund that invests solely in tech companies that are founded or led by women of color (“WOC”)
• Fund management firm is majority owned and managed by women of color
Palo Alto, California
Key features:
• Impact venture capital fund that invests solely in construction tech companies that aim to address the global housing gap
• Fund management firm is majority owned and managed by women of color
Newton, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman of color
• Technology platform that matches home healthcare providers and families seeking senior care solutions
Encinitas, California
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman
• Manufacturer of sustainable packaging options for personal care products using curbside-recyclable aluminum options in lieu of hard-to-recycle plastic
Denver, Colorado
Key features:
• Non-profit social enterprise that works with women in Guatemala
• Provides micro loans, education, and health services primarily to indigenous women in rural areas where the rate of poverty in Guatemala is the highest
• Women-led
Nyack, New York
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by women
• Rescues food waste and processes it into shelf-stable healthy vegetable stocks and concentrates
San Luis Obispo, California
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman
• Manufactures medical devices to improve the lives of people with Parkinson's
California
Key features:
• Crowdfunding platform that focuses on raising values-aligned capital for entrepreneurs from underserved demographics (e.g. women and people of color)
• 100% woman owned and managed
• Public Benefit Corporation (B-Corporation certification pending)
El Cerrito, California
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman
• Makes vegan, organic, plant-based, "Adda Veggie" meal starters
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Independently owned craft brewery with 25+ employees
• Co-owner of one of Kachuwa’s subsidiaries and commercial properties
• Certified B-Corp (B Impact Score = 82.6)
Tucson, Arizona
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 50+ employees
• Designs and installs solar electric systems
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 135.1)
Durham, North Carolina
Key features:
• Woman-managed regional organic food distributor
• Distributes organic food throughout the Southwest U.S.
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 85.5)
Marina del Ray, California
Key features:
• Offers banking, investment, and insurance options that are screened to avoid fossil fuels, private prisons, and guns
• Certified B-Corp (B Impact Score = 128.0)
Wallington, New Jersey
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by women
• Produces plant-based and allergen-friendly falafel and dips from chickpeas and aquafaba
Kansas City, Missouri
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by people of color
• Adaptive learning platform that offers interactive math games designed specifically for kids
La Junta, Colorado
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman
• Utilizes drones, AI-enabled software, and 3D-printed robots to provide a variety of services that improve the efficiency of agricultural operations
Oakland, California
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman.
• Makes organic and vegan cookies.
North Carolina
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by women
• A social impact lending platform whose mission is to support and fuel the growth of women- and minority-owned businesses
New York, New York
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by people of color
• Operates a clinical grade Real-World Evidence (RWE) technology platform for the autoimmune disease (AID) industry
San Francisco, California
Key features:
• 501(c)(3) non-profit impact venture capital fund based in California
• Invests in start-up impact companies owned by women and people of color, and provides technical support to help them grow and become certified B-Corporations
Providence, Rhode Island
Key features:
• Nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
• Provides small-dollar personal loans and one-on-one financial & health coaching to tackle poverty, foster upward mobility, and reshape the predatory loan industry
Brooklyn, New York
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a man of color
• Offers energy efficient, air source heat pump systems to multifamily building owners for no money down
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Print and digital media company
• Majority-owned and managed by women
• Publishes a magazine focused solely on sustainable business
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 166.5)
North Vassalboro, Maine
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 12+ employees
• Distributes organic food that’s grown on small, local farms
Cashton, Wisconsin
Key features:
• Multi-stakeholder cooperative owned by employees, farmers, customers, investors, and vendors
• Produces and sells maple syrup products harvested on small, local farms
Washington, DC
Key features:
• Member-owned purchasing cooperative
• Helps schools, churches, and other mission-oriented property owners reduce their expenses related to purchasing solar electricity, waste hauling, payroll, maintenance, and many other services
Boston, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 25+ employees
• Brew pub in downtown Boston with a $15 minimum wage
New York, New York
Key features:
• Driver-owned, ride-hailing cooperative that aims to provide gig drivers and ride-hailers a better option than Uber and Lyft
• Racial- and gender-diverse leadership team
Hayward, California
Key features:
• Owned and managed by a woman of color
• Produces non-diary, plant-based foods
Biddeford, Maine
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative managed by two women co-founders
• Provides organic, plant-based tempeh that is high in protein, locally made, and friendly to the earth, human health, and animals
Baltimore, Maryland
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman of color
• Provides mental healthcare to children and families on Medicaid by utilizing a subscription-based
online platform to connect clients with licensed healthcare professionals.
