Ecosystem Partners

Obran Cooperative believes that everyone should own their most precious asset: their time. Obran is the first worker-owned conglomerate. Leveraging its portfolio of small businesses, the cooperative empowers its workers through ownership and education.

Port of Africatown is a 501(c)(3) community development corporation (CDFI) created to grow opportunities and trade in the Africatown region. Just three miles away from downtown Mobile, Alabama, it was founded by the 32 people brought there on the last known illegal shipment of enslaved people to the US. Maintaining much of their Ewe, Fon, and Yoruba traditions into the 1950s, Africatown is a unique place in the US that has struggled to maintain its historicity in the face of a growing Mobile.

Headquartered in Juneau, Alaska, Spruce Root's mission is to improve access to capital for the historically underfunded region of Southeast Alaska. Historically rural, low-income, and Native, Spruce Root serves 23 communities, providing access to lending and specialized resources to help address the unique challenges of business in Alaska.

The Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation (FAHF) is a non-profit organization and CDFI whose mission is to promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development strategies that strengthen Latinx communities. For almost 20 years FAHF has supported thousands of business owners of color to receive no-fee or low-cost bilingual services for every stage of the business cycle.

Urban Tilth inspires, hires, and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture, feed our community, and restore relationships to land to build a more sustainable food system, within a just and healthier community.

Nexlegacy is a construction company that provides services to communities in the Deep South impacted by natural disasters, specializing in residential and commercial reconstruction. Many of the communities affected by climate change in the US are primarily Black and Brown neighborhoods, and it is Nexlegacy's mission to bring that representation to the reconstruction and recovery efforts in historically extracted areas.

Oweesta is the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities. Specifically, Oweesta provides training, technical assistance, investments, research, and policy advocacy to help Native communities develop an integrated range of asset-building products and services, including financial education and financial products.

HOPE CU is a women of color-led credit union and CDFI serving the Deep South. HOPE works to strengthen communities and improve lives throughout the Deep South, home to more than 1/3 of the persistent poverty counties in the U.S. In these areas, more than 20% of residents have lived in poverty for at least 30 years.

Rural Community Assistance Corp (RCAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates in 13 western states and Pacific islands. It serves Indigenous and rural communities through training, technical and financial assistance and advocacy.

Shared Capital Cooperative is a lending and investment fund for co-ops of all sizes. It is cooperatively owned and managed by the co-ops that borrow and invest in it.

Baltimore Community Lending supports the revitalization and strengthening of underserved Baltimore neighborhoods through innovative and flexible financial assistance designed to promote community development.

The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders is a national membership organization and certified CDFI that advances economic mobility in Latinx communities.

Appalachian Community Capital provides reliable and sufficient capital for its membership of CDFIs and mission-driven lenders to support economic growth, increased entrepreneurship, higher quality jobs, and increased local wealth in the Appalachian region.

NDN Fund is the impact investing and lending arm of the NDN Collective, providing financing for large-scale Indigenous regenerative community and national development projects that dramatically scale up investment and shift all decision-making power to Indigenous peoples.

Native Community Capital is a Native CDFI that serve tribes on a regional basis to advance tribal self-determination by unlocking capital resources necessary to build tribal economies.

PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.

Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis has been a key power-building base for the African American community for seventy years. The team’s dream is for the community to own the property, specifically the descendants of the Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968, and to advance the cultural and economic production of African American artists and entrepreneurs.

HDDC is one of Atlanta’s oldest surviving community development corporations and the only non-profit organization specifically dedicated to preserving the availability of affordable housing in the Old Fourth Ward district. For nearly four decades, HDDC has been a catalyst for equitable urban revitalization in Atlanta.

Kibilio Community and Farm is rooted in Black and Queer land sovereignty. It is an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice.

Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) is a 31-year-old 501 C-3 not-for-profit that provides financial, policy, research, and technical assistance to small businesses throughout North Carolina. We focus on underserved communities with an emphasis on businesses owned by people of color, women, veterans, rural residents, and low-income individuals.