Loans & Debt Funds
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.
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.
Working Power seeks to reinvest in healthy, economically resilient neighborhoods while meeting the needs of investors.
PosiGen provides renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to low-to-moderate income homeowners.
Imperative Fund LP is Imperative Advisors LLC’s associated company for the implementation of its credit instrument model. In partnership with a development finance institution, Imperative Fund LP is expected to rank as one of the top-five largest providers of housing credits for the years 2022 – 2024 in its current market of operations.
We are a collaborative of Black, Indigenous, and POC food and agriculture leaders.
A nonprofit CDFI based in Concord, N.H., the Community Loan Fund collaborates with a wide range of donors and investors, and with business, nonprofit, and government partners, to provide the financing and support that people with low and moderate incomes need to have affordable homes, quality jobs, and child care, and to become financially independent.
KIEDF was established in Israel in 1994 upon the initiative of the Koret Foundation of San Francisco to demonstrate that philanthropic funds could be used efficiently to stimulate economic development and employment opportunity in the private sector in Israel.
KIEDF works to create employment opportunity and social equality for Israeli small businesses, microenterprises and social initiatives and is recognized as the preeminent Israeli private source of credit and business services.
Seed Commons builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support.
Comaco is a social enterprise that supports wildlife conservation in Eastern Zambia, by working with illegal wildlife poachers to provide alternative livelihood skills and train small-scale farmers in the leading practices of climate-smart, sustainable agriculture.
ChiFresh Kitchen is a Black-owned commercial food service contractor, structured as a worker cooperative. ChiFresh focuses on food justice and sovereignty and strives to make marginalized workers primary decision-making power.
Navajo Power was founded to maximize the economic benefits of clean energy for tribal and impacted communities.
MCE Social Capital is a nonprofit impact investing firm that uses a pioneering loan guarantee model to generate economic opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people, particularly women, in more than 30 countries.
Shared Interest works to mobilize the resources for South Africa's economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build an equitable nation.
Advance Global Capital, a financial services company based in the UK, specializes in trade receivables financing in emerging markets.
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder subsistence farmers in East Africa with financing and training as well as tools, seed, fertilizers, market access, and weather-related risk insurance.
Lendable provides capital to emerging and frontier market fintech companies and provides technology, asset management, and advisory services to leading investors.
Thousand Currents moves money to grassroots and movement formations in the global south.
Gigawatt Global is a multinational renewable energy company focused on the development of utility scale solar projects in the global south.
Liberty & Justice is Africa's first fair-trade certified apparel manufacturer, creating jobs in Liberia and Ghana.
Seed Commons builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support.