Candide Group supports families, foundations, and other investors who want to flow their money to social justice-focused companies, funds, and vital organizations building a new economy.
Taking action to move money at scale
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Community collaboration and accountability
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Investment flexibility, creativity and accessibility
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Listening, learning and story sharing with humility
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Racial, gender, economic and climate justice
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Taking action to move money at scale 〰️ Community collaboration and accountability 〰️ Investment flexibility, creativity and accessibility 〰️ Listening, learning and story sharing with humility 〰️ Racial, gender, economic and climate justice 〰️

As a Registered Investment Advisor, our duty is to prioritize clients’ interests to align with positive social change. Learn more about our client relationships here.
Recently Supported Investments
RE-volv is a climate justice nonprofit that helps nonprofits in historically excluded communities across the country go solar, while raising awareness about equitable climate solutions and training the next generation of clean energy leaders.
The purpose of Green Energy Justice Cooperative is to create energy sovereignty for Black and Brown communities everywhere by owning clean renewable energy generation and distribution that meets the needs of our communities. The Cooperative’s vision is to achieve economic, political, and educational independence for Black and Brown communities everywhere through the achievement of energy sovereignty.
Georgia Bright is its namesake's implementation for the EPA's Solar for All Program, intended to help low-income and disadvantaged communities access clean energy generation.
Common Trust is an employee ownership buyout platform supporting small businesses to exit to their employees. Groundwork, operated by Common Trust, is the nation's first fund dedicated to financing employee ownership trust (EOT) buyouts of small businesses, setting up businesses for long term success while building wealth for everyday Americans.
EFM was formed in 2004 to pioneer an alternative approach to commercial forestland management. Using a climate-smart management investment strategy that prioritizes long-term social and ecological value alongside financial returns, this approach considers the whole value of a forest to include timber, conservation, carbon, biodiversity, clean water, rural livelihoods, tribal values, recreational access and more.
Project Equity’s Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund promotes resilient, quality jobs, increases worker voice, and preserves and strengthens small business assets in communities. The fund supports low- and moderate-income workers and workers of color to become owners of their workplaces. It catalyzes employee ownership, including for smaller businesses that face significant barriers to accessing capital from most lenders, and expands the pipeline of businesses able to consider employee ownership.
Everytable's innovative Social Equity Franchise Program fosters economic empowerment among entrepreneurs from marginalized communities by providing a clear and supported path to business ownership. Serving as a model approach to franchising, a system largely devoid of diversity and representation by people of color and women, the program provides critical access to capital for qualifying graduates plus in-depth, hands-on training to empower and prepare minority entrepreneurs to operate Everytable restaurants in their own communities.
Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company dedicated to catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and advances environmental justice.
Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) is a MN member-owned energy services cooperative that builds community wealth through energy efficiency and clean energy solutions that are accessible to everyone.
The investments highlighted here represents are recent, and non-exhaustive. To view our full portfolio, updated in-full quarterly, please click below.
Recent Candide Group Newsletters
At Candide Group we remain committed to shifting the flow of money and power to create a world where all of us thrive, no matter who occupies our political offices. We make space at this moment for a multiplicity of emotions: from grief to hope. We are reflecting on the interdependency of cultural, economic and political change. And we center the long work of organizing — supporting the leadership of those most disinvested and disrespected by traditional power structures.
For the past few years, Candide Group’s very own Director of Impact, Jasmine Rashid, has been working on a book featuring many of our partners in the impact investing ecosystem and beyond. The time has finally come — to celebrate the official launch ofThe Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)!
Happy summer! If you emailed any of our team members the first week of July, you may have seen our “OOO” autoresponder — acknowledging July as Bebe Moore Campbell Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month. For the second year in a row, Candide Group wanted to create some space for the team to support mental wellness, so we took a collective week-long break to honor the often complex and emotional nature of our work.
At Candide Group, we define “impact” as the tangible and intangible contributions to improved realities on the ground for people and the planet. This means approaching impact as a journey rather than a destination – embracing what emerges rather than just settling for a goal that may have been set under an outdated context.
2024 has already been a year of tremendous growth for Candide Group, with the launch of our Afterglow Climate Justice Fund, the evolution of our Olamina community debt vehicle, and the continued commitment of our community of foundations and families seeking to make money a tool for social justice.
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