Fourth Sector Directory

Investment funding company for business enterprises that have environmental sustainability missions. Designed to address the ecological risks and opportunities of the investment process in the 21st century.

An investment firm that increases the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty.

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Our investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, water, housing and energy – through innovative, market-oriented approaches.

With the support of individual investors and our signature partner, Monitor Group, New Profit provides multi-year financial and strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs working in education, youth development, workforce development, and other areas. In addition, we bring together social innovators from across sectors at the annual Gathering of Leaders.

Social Investment Forum is the U.S. national nonprofit membership association for professionals, firms and organizations dedicated to advancing the practice and growth of socially responsible investing (SRI). Forum members support SRI through portfolio selection analysis, shareholder advocacy and community investing.

Provides mutual funds that invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies. Calvert has been a leader in the field of sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) for over 25 years, demonstrating that investors may manage risk and enhance long-term portfolio performance by investing in well-governed, sustainable and responsible companies. Calvert believes that responsible management of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors contributes to sound financial performance which, in turn, can translate into long-term shareholder value.

Underdog Ventures seeks to set a standard of leadership and creativity through its work with high net worth social investors, community-minded CEOs and community organizations. Underdog Ventures has developed a new model of customized community venture capital funds, combined with a model of customized philanthropy. Underdog Ventures partners with a group of investors committed to financial, community and environmental results. We create innovative and customized investments to meet the specific needs of each of our investors, each of whom has a dedicated fund that invests in areas that they choose.

Underdog Ventures acts as a managing partner for each of the funds, structuring, negotiating and managing the investments, while serving as an intermediary between investors and the invested companies. We provide value-added consulting, using the expertise of our in-house staff, advisory board members and investors; perform the due-diligence on companies in which we invest; maintain a strong on-the-ground presence in designated communities; create strategic relationships with non-profits; and provide exit opportunities for our investors consistent with their priorities.

A nonprofit community development loan fund and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), PCG is operating as the first wholesale loan participation network in our industry. By partnering with mission focused lenders and investors, we provide access to capital for low income people and communities. Our mission is to advance economic justice and opportunity by partnering with organizations who provide access to capital for low income people and communities.

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is a national leader in helping nonprofits strengthen their financial health and improve their capacity to serve their communities. NFF speaks regularly at workshops, conferences, NFF events and other gatherings around the country focused on nonprofit finance and social enterprise.

GEXSI links charitable donors, entrepreneurs and investors in funding social businesses in low-income regions around the world. We support social entrepreneurs in moving “from Aid to Market”: from charity dependence towards sustainable business. GEXSI provides social enterprises with coaching and development investment services.

Big Issue Invest is a specialised provider of finance to social enterprises or trading arms of charities that are finding business solutions that create social and environmental transformation.

RSF is a social enterprise dedicated to using the tools of business to bring about positive, real-world change. Our goal is not just to make money available to progressive and innovative projects; it’s to fundamentally change the way the world works with money. Today, RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and enterprises committed to improving society and the environment. We currently have over one thousand clients who are creating enormous positive impact by helping us redirect the flow of money from global capital markets to local ones.

InVenture Fund is a global investment fund and online social network that enables everyday people to put their money to work to change the world. When “InVestors” invest with InVenture Fund, they provide capital to entrepreneurs in developing countries who are being trained in business and community leadership and are committed to reinvesting in their own communities. This combined financial and educational investment, unique among today’s social venture capital marketplace, ensures that the entrepreneurs grow viable businesses that give back—to both their InVestors and the local communities that support them.