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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 for UGC’s work of tackling food security. …

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 qualify as borrowers. …

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 of Native CDFIs.…