Innovative Partnerships
Seeds, Soil & Culture/Urban Growers – Green Era
Seeds, Soil & Culture helps Urban Growers Collective invest in Green Era Sustainability LLC of Chicago to benefit the local community through UGC’s equity ownership of the waste-food-to-energy project they helped develop. Erika Allen, CEO and Director of Operations at Urban Growers Collective in Chicago, says helping people thrive is the emphasis and the motivation…
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Related DAF at RSF – Reciprocity Fund
Related DAF at RSF makes a recoverable grant to Beneficial Returns to found and develop the Reciprocity Fund For impact investment fund managers, balancing risk against return, along with the pressure of generating financial returns, often means that some of the very businesses, communities, and nonprofits that can benefit most from access to capital cannot…
Oweesta/Tamalpais Trust – Native CDFIs
First Nations Oweesta Corp and Tamalpais Trust Partner to facilitate direct investment into Native CDFIs PILOT PROJECT: LOAN PACKAGE FOR NATIVE CDFIs As a philanthropic organization and community investor with a very small staff, Tamalpais Trust had limited resources to perform due diligence for potential loans, yet wanted to develop direct relationships with a variety…
About Highlands 3:23 Fund
Highlands 3:23 Fund – BIPOC Initiative The Highlands 3:23 Fund, our Donor Advised Fund housed at Impact Assets in Baltimore, was opened in 2018 specifically to provide integrated capital for businesses and non-profits run by African American, Indigenous, and other People of Color including Latinex and Asian/Pacific Islanders. This low-cost, patient capital is often paired…