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Agora Partnerships

United States of America

Agora Partnerships accelerates the growth of early stage impact companies in Latin America. They are a global community of entrepreneurs investors mentors and individuals dedicated to using the power of business to effect positive change in their communities. They work only with early stage entrepreneurs where the right kind of support can significantly accelerate their ability to create impact. Their aim is to help build a more just sustainable world primarily though Impact Accelerator program which provides entrepreneurs with access to social human and financial capital.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Latin America and the Caribbean

Impact: Access to Education

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Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors

United States of America

Arabella Advisors helps philanthropists and investors achieve greater good with their resources. They can help you use all your assets grants investments relationships and time to maximize your positive impact. Their comprehensive and personalized services deliver results for families and individuals institutional foundations impact investors and corporate clients worldwide.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Artemisia

Brazil

Artemisia is a pioneer in social business, and a reference in this area in Brazil. They catalyze professionals and entrepreneurs to generate high-impact social enterprises, through education initiatives, knowledge dissemination and social enterprise acceleration.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Latin America and the Caribbean

Impact: Access to Education

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Artha

Switzerland

Artha offers a window into a virtualized space for better information exchange and collaboration between investors, entrepreneurs & their support organizations, and the intermediaries & agents of change on the ground. However, Artha itself is neither involved in the due diligence contracts, nor in the structuring or closure of investment deals. The Artha team both invites enterprises into the pipeline, and accepts appropriate socially-oriented enterprises that apply to be listed in the pipeline through a link on the website.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Energy

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Berkeley Partners

United Kingdom of Great Britai

Berkeley Partners work across a range of sectors for clients including multinationals and household names. It support them across a number of different services but the things that they best known for are developing strategies that last making technology work for your organisation delivering successful programmes and getting the most from your people. In short all the key consulting areas that underpin successful business change.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Buckminster Fuller Challenge

United States of America

Buckminster Fuller Challenge was founded in 1983 to facilitate the convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, and work extend the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. In this way, they strive to catalyze the collective intelligence required to fully address the unprecedented challenges before us. BFC programs encourage participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature's fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Community Development

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California Clean Energy Fund

United States of America

CalCEF was founded on the principal that new models of entrepreneurship and financial innovation in the public interest were required to speed the transition to a clean energy economy. By utilizing tools from the worlds of finance public policy and technological innovation it has helped to accelerate the movement of clean energy technologies along the continuum from innovation to installation.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: South America

Impact: Affordable Housing

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Calvert Foundation

United States of America

Calvert Foundation harnesses the power of investing to connect cultivate and inspire those who want to shape the world for good.Our work is focused on connecting investors to organizations that strengthen communities and sustain our planet. Through our flagship product the Community Investment Note we offer investors the opportunity to invest with us. Since 1995 more than 18000 investors have invested over $1.5 billion through the Note. Today the Note is available to to both accredited and non accredited investors through our website and hundreds of brokerage firms in the U.S.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation

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Capital Impact Partners

United States of America

FF REVIEW Through capital and commitment Capital Impact helps people build communities of opportunity that break barriers to success. A nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) we have a 30 year history delivering strategic financing social innovation programs and capacity building that creates social change and delivers financial impact nationwide.

Type: CDFI

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Echoing Green

United States of America

Echoing Green is a Social Innovation Fund that Acts as a Catalyst for Impact.We ve been ahead of the curve for 30 years. We spot emerging leaders early in their careers and invest in their success. We help our Fellows achieve their vision by providing seed funding leadership development hands on support and networking opportunities during their Fellowship and beyond.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Education

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Energy Excelerator

United States of America

Energy Excelerator is a startup program dedicated to helping solve the world's energy challenges starting in Hawaii. Energy Excelerator help innovative companies succeed in Hawaii and the Asia Pacific with funding strategic relationships and a vibrant ecosystem. Energy Excelerator is primarily funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research who made a $30M commitment to our program in 2013 U.S. Department of Energy and the corporate partners. Energy Excelerator focus on commercializing innovative solutions to the energy water transportation cybersecurity and agriculture challenges.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Energy

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Etho Capital

United States of America

Etho Capital is an active investment manager creating top quality strategies that deliver financial performance in combination with greater Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) sustainability. Today investors increasingly want their investments to better reflect their ideals without compromising performance. Etho Capital understand that completely.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Las Paginas Verdes

Mexico

Las Paginas Verdes is a social enterprise whose mission is to link the supply of sustainable products and services with demand through strategic communication services for green and / or socially responsible companies. Las Paginas Verdes is promoting a movement for sustainable consumption and supports the growth of the base of responsible consumers in Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Mexico

Impact: Capacity Building

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Liquidnet

United States of America

Liquidnet is a technology driven global institutional investment network that intelligently connects the world s investors to the world s investments. Since its founding in 1999 Liquidnet's network has grown to include more than 1000 institutional investors that collectively manage $33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets. The network spans 46 markets across six continents and seamlessly connects institutional brokers investment banks exchanges alternative trading venues and a growing list of data and research providers. Liquidnet was built to make global capital markets more efficient and continues to do so by adding additional participants enabling trusted access to trading and investment opportunities and delivering the actionable intelligence and insight that its customers need.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

United States

With world class programs and immersive executive mentorship Miller Center accompanies social entrepreneurs on their journeys to impact creating innovative and sustainable solutions to some of the world s most pressing challenges. Through its signature programs Miller Center engages an international network of business investment capital and technical resources to build the capacity of social enterprises around the world. As a Center of Distinction at Santa Clara University the Center's work is focused on three major activity areas social entrepreneurship action research and impact capital.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Education

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New Energy Nexus

New Energy Nexus works to accelerate the great energy transition by supporting entrepreneurs who are powering the thousands of businesses technologies and innovations needed to break open the economic and social opportunities of a clean energy future.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Energy

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New Resource Bank

United States of America

New Resource Bank is the bank for people who are leading the way to a more sustainable world. We match an entrepreneurial spirit with a dedication to achieving environmental and social as well as financial returns. Our mission is to advance sustainability with everything we dothe loans we make the way we operate and our commitment to putting deposits to work for good.

Type: Bank

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Omidyar Network

United States of America

Omidyar Network invests in entrepreneurs who share our commitment to advancing social good at the pace and scale the world needs today. We are focused on five key areas we believe are building blocks for prosperous stable and open societies Education Emerging Tech Financial Inclusion Governance & Citizen Engagement and Property Rights.We take calculated risks in the earliest stages of innovation helping to transform promising ideas into successful ventures. As an active impact investor we offer more than just financial support. We provide vital human capital capabilities from serving on boards to consulting on strategy coaching executives to recruiting new talent. We connect promising investees to entrepreneurial visionaries with business know how. We also leverage the tremendous capacity of Web and mobile technologies to go beyond incremental improvement and make a significant widespread impact.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Education

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Palo Alto Impact Center

United States of America

The Palo Alto Impact Center provides professional development for social impact investors entrepreneurs and corporate professionals. Palo Alto Impact Center's mission is enabling the launch of new social impact organizations that improve the lives of individuals in the Bay Area and globally. Palo Alto Impact Center achieve this by growing and connecting the ecosystem of social impact professionals creating high impact professional development and providing access to capital.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Prudential

United States of America

Prudential formalized its impact investing program in 1976 to identify market inefficiencies and craft investment solutions that generate an appropriate risk-adjusted return while driving social change. As markets evolve, many impactful assets have become investable assets by mainstream investment standards. The group invests in a variety of asset classes including public and private debt and equity, mortgages, tax credits, REITS and structured products. The team manages a portfolio that will soon surpass $500 million and originates over $100 million in new impact investments each year, while generating an appropriate risk-adjusted return.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Asia

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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REDF

United States of America

REDF is building a new industry that creates jobs for people who are willing and able to work, but face the toughest time getting a job.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: North America

Impact: Access to Education

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Rockefeller Foundation

United States of America

The Rockefeller Foundation envisions a world with Smart Globalization a world in which globalization s benefits are more widely shared and social economic health and environmental challenges are more easily weathered. The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that enables individuals communities and institutions to access new tools practices resources services and products. And they support work that enhances individuals' resilience in the face of acute crises and chronic stresses whether manmade ecological or both.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Switzerland

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. It identifies a select community of social entrepreneurs and engages it in shaping global regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with the other stakeholders of the World Economic Forum.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Switzerland

Impact: Access to Information

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Tides

Tides is a network that supports donor engagement, grantmaking, fiscal sponsorship, shared spaces, advocacy, and political engagement.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Unreasonable Institute

United States of America

Unreasonable Institute is dedicated to tackling the world’s biggest problems by arming entrepreneurs who can take them on with the mentorship, capital, and lasting, robust network to make it happen. They do this by running multi-week, in person acceleration programs in Boulder, CO, USA; Kampala, Uganda; and Aguascalientes, Mexico (with more locations to launch soon).

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation