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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

United States

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that aims to foster economic independence by advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Education

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GIIN

United States of America

The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities education and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Information

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Honeybee Capital

We provide long term thematic research focused on topics that lead to resilient regenerative profitable investing activity. Fields where we gather ideas include behavioral finance impact investing and complexity science and we have a particular interest in applying the principles of biomimicry to investing.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Impact Finance Center

United States of America

The Impact Finance Center is dedicated to catalyzing investments that produce enduring value for the investor society and the environment. We hold that capital deployment whether through grants direct investments or public and private securities should be evaluated as an investment. Because every investment has impact investors can integrate these transaction across their portfolios.IFC is a nonprofit in partnership with the Sustainable Endowments Institute and the Sustainability Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference led from Colorado State University and connecting more than 250 scholars around the world to the advancement and accumulation of knowledge and practice in the industry. This allows us to share our cutting edge research education and thought leadership across every sector.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

United States of America

Innovations for Poverty Action is a nonprofit dedicated to discovering what works to help the world s poor. IPA fight poverty with innovation evidence and action rigorously evaluating programs in order to understand what interventions are most cost effective. They work around the world in the areas of agriculture education health finance governance social protection and post conflict recovery. They have over 400 projects completed or underway in 51 countries.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Lesar Development Consultant

United States of America

LDC is led by an experienced senior staff of proven industry professionals. Founded by Jennifer LeSar in 2005 LDC employs seasoned experts with more than 50 years combined experience in the private nonprofit and public sectors.LDC is certified by the State of California as a woman owned small business corporation. We have offices are in San Diego Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Type: Corporate

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Morgan Stanley

United States of America

Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments corporations institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 75 years the firm s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising serving and providing new opportunities for its clients.

Type: Corporate

Geography: Global

Impact:

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Pakistan Microfinance Network

Pakistan

The Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN or ‘the Network’) traces its beginnings to 1997 when a group of microfinance practitioners laid its foundations as an informal platform for coordination, exchange of ideas and peer learning. Since then the Network has grown significantly and is now recognized locally and globally as the national association for retail players in Pakistan’s microfinance industry. Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SECP] in April 2001 under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, PMN is a member driven network with a vision to expand access to formal financial services in Pakistan.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

United States of America

Silicon Valley Community Foundation advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems. Since SVCF formed in 2007 we've become the largest community foundation in the world with more than $8 billion in assets under management.We partner with families individuals and corporations to manage and facilitate their philanthropy. We connect donors interests to the most pressing needs whether in Silicon Valley or around the globe. As a comprehensive center for philanthropy SVCF shapes critical public policy issues partners with nonprofit groups and institutions advancing the best ideas and directs resources swiftly and strategically toward unforeseen needs.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Sustainable Endowments Institute

United States of America

The Sustainable Endowment Institute (SEI) is a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Founded in 2005, the Cambridge-based nonprofit pioneers research, education and outreach to advance resilient institutional responses to the climate crisis. Focusing on sustainable use of endowment and operations assets, SEI promotes innovative impact investing by nonprofit and public institutions. The Institute is leading the Billion Dollar Green Challenge in the United States and Canada, as well as the Leaders in Energy Efficiency Financing (LEEF) Network in New England. These initiatives are creating collaborative frameworks empowering institutions to use green revolving funds to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost their bottom lines. SEI's facilitation of green revolving funds is transforming energy efficiency improvements from being perceived as expenses to recognition that they can serve as high-return investments. A suite of tools for participating institutions includes GRITS, a new web platform for sharing energy, financial and carbon data. Along with climate and cost benefits, SEI's work is fostering campus and community engagement, developing local jobs and creating opportunities for student leadership and experiential learning. The Institute's current work builds on their groundbreaking College Sustainability Report Card first issued in 2007. This trend-setting annual survey—evaluating more than 300 leading colleges—spurred stakeholders to learn from, and outperform, peer institutions in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Another earlier breakthrough was joining with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to produce the Minority-Serving Institutions Green Report.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Canada

Impact: Access to Energy

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Swift Silliker (Pty) Ltd

South Africa

Since its inception in 1991 as the first commercial food testing laboratory of its kind in South Africa Merieux NutriSciences (formerly Swift Silliker (Pty) Ltd) has built a brand name synonymous with quality and service.In South Africa Merieux NutriSciences provides a comprehensive product safety service to the food and beverage cosmetics hospitality and related industries throughout the SADC region from its branches in Cape Town Midrand Durban George and Jeffreys Bay. By addressing needs such as microbiological and chemical testing of products the design implementation and auditing of quality management systems staff training (from floor worker to management level) as well an on site technical consultancy service Merieux NutriSciences builds long term partnerships with its clients.Globally with over 80 accredited laboratories and more than 6000 employees across 21 countries the Merieux NutriSciences network works with clients as a trusted partner to promote public health through analysis consulting auditing training contract research and sensory analysis services.Merieux NutriSciences is proud to be BEE rated in South Africa.

Type: Corporate

Geography: South Africa

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

United States of America

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J PAL) was established in 2003 as a research center at the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then it has grown into a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services