Investment Portfolio
Impact Company Investments
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
Boulder/Denver, Colorado
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 160+ employees
• Designs and installs solar electric systems
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 121.4)
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 150+ employees
• Sells fair trade coffee and chocolate from small farmers in developing countries
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 = 152.0)
Kansas City, Missouri
Key features:
• Renewable energy power producer
• Acquires, constructs, and operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants throughout North America
Seattle, Washington
Key features:
• Net-zero energy home construction fund
• Builds infill net-zero energy homes in urban Seattle and Portland
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 80.1)
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
• Utilizes Certified B-Corp (B Impact Score = 121.8)
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Holding company for natural product brands
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 88.2)
Durham, North Carolina
Key features:
• Impact venture capital fund that invests solely in impact companies
• Certified B-Corporation (B Impact Score = 88.2)
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)
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
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
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)
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
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)
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Independently owned craft brewery with 25+ employees
• Co-owner of one of Kachuwa’s subsidiaries and commercial properties
• Utilizes 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)
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Majority owned and managed by a woman
• Provides services for distributing, collecting, washing, and re-using insulated, stainless steel cups as an alternative to single-use cups
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 = 117.5)
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)
Brookline, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Listening skills platform focused on literacy instruction
• Majority-owned and managed by women
• Uses contemporary National Public Radio (NPR) podcasts to advance learning and literacy among students
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
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
Boulder, Colorado
Key features:
• Free-standing birth center and women's health clinic
• 100% women- and employee-owned cooperative
• Provides an alternative to hospitals via certified nurse midwives to assist women with pregnancy care, education, and personalized childbirth experiences
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
Boston, Massachusetts
Key features:
• Employee-owned cooperative with 25+ employees
• Brew pub in downtown Boston with a $15 minimum wage
Hayward, California
Key features:
• Owned and managed by a woman of color
• Produces non-diary, plant-based foods
