EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today. EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com. About EY Ripples The global EY Ripples program aims to positively impact one billion lives by 2030. EY people, together with clients and other like-minded organizations, use their skills, knowledge and experience to bring positive change across three focus areas: supporting the next generation workforce, working with impact entrepreneurs and accelerating environmental sustainability. Learn more at ey.com/eyripples.

Website:http://ey.com/eyripples

Walton Family Foundation

The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We believe the best ideas can come from anywhere, so we stay open to new thinking from all over. And we partner with those who are closest to the problem because they’re usually closest to the solution. We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta.

Website:https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) – founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg – is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the US. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work, and life. In a fast-changing world with scarce resources and complex challenges facing children, families, and communities, we employ below market and market-rate impact investment dollars to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable children, to advance our mission.

Website:http://www.wkkf.org

Prudential was founded on the belief that financial security should be within reach for everyone. A strong sense of social responsibility has remained embedded in the company, guiding our efforts to help people now and in future generations achieve peace of mind and a more secure future. Prudential’s commitment to doing business the right way, strengthening communities and providing an inclusive work environment is reflected in its inclusion in awards such as the 2019 Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies and 2019 Fortune Change the World lists. In 2020, it also became one the first institutional investors to grow and manage a $1 billion AUM impact investing portfolio.

Website:https://www.prudential.com/links/about/corporate-social-responsibility

OneTrust

OneTrust ESG simplifies the gathering, storing and assessing of your company's ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) data and metrics. OneTrust ESG comes with a powerful assessment platform, that helps identify and track both internal and third-party risks and manage ESG goals to make a successful ESG program. OneTrust ESG is a part of OneTrust, the #1 most widely used privacy, security and governance platform used by more than 10,000 customers and powered by 150 awarded patents. OneTrust ESG is powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine, and integrates seamlessly with the full OneTrust platform, including OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust DataDiscovery™, OneTrust DataGovernance™, OneTrust Vendorpedia™, OneTrust GRC, OneTrust Ethics, OneTrust PreferenceChoice™, and OneTrust DataGuidance™. To learn more, visit OneTrust.com or connect on LinkedIn.

Website:https://www.onetrust.com/solutions/esg/

Shell Foundation

Shell Foundation supports pioneering social enterprises to alleviate poverty by improving access to energy and transport for low-income communities in Africa and Asia.

Website:https://shellfoundation.org/

Website:https://www.moodys.com/

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including advancing global climate solutions, decreasing nuclear risk, promoting local justice reform in the U.S., and reducing corruption in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program and the global 100&Change competition, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsive democracy as well as the vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago. MacArthur also is committed to building the field of impact investing and providing catalytic capital to address social and environmental challenges around the world.

Website:http://www.macfound.org

Solidaridad is an international network organization with partners all over the world. There is one agenda and one strategy: together we learn and progress, together we achieve results and together we decide on future steps. In the past 50 years, the work of Solidaridad has closely followed the socio-economic developments in the field of international cooperation. And more often than once, the organization has also stood at the cradle of innovation in promoting and fostering sustainable economic development.

Website:https://www.solidaridadnetwork.org/

Tyton Partners is a dynamic advisory firm that serves clients across the education, information and media markets within the global knowledge sector. We help clients capitalize on opportunities and solve for challenges through our dual-practice platform: investment banking services built on a foundation of strategy development and operating experience, and strategy consulting services built on a foundation of transactional experience and data-based market insight. These two complementary practices are relentlessly focused on one singular outcome: our clients’ optimal path forward.

Website:https://tytonpartners.com/

The Nature Conservancy

Korn Ferry

Website:https://www.kornferry.com/

Website:https://www.argidius.com/

WES Mariam Assefa Fund

The WES Mariam Assefa Fund is the philanthropic arm of World Education Services. Through grantmaking and impact investing, the Fund supports catalytic efforts to build more inclusive economies for immigrants and refugees in the U.S. and Canada.

Website:https://www.wes.org/fund/

TZP Group

TZP Group is a multi-strategy private equity firm based in NYC. The firm launched TZP Impact, a lower-mid market impact investing fund strategy focused on two areas: the arc of human opportunity (education, employment and financial inclusion) and the sustainable society (ethical consumerism and infrastructure). The strategy's mission to invest in leading market-based solutions that address pressing global problems at scale without trading financial for social returns.

Real Leaders is a Certified B-Corp and signatory in the United Nations Global Compact (an advocate for achieving the global goals for sustainable development). Real Leaders is dedicated to elevating and accelerating the global impact movement in order to inspire wise solutions to the issues that matter most. The Real Leaders Impact Awards, established in 2019, recognizes and ranks top impact companies based on growth and market acceptance. The high performance of these impact leaders makes a compelling case for all businesses to re-think their purpose.

Website:https://real-leaders.com/

AsianNGO

AsianNGO is the prime source of information on grants and funding opportunities, learning tools and knowledge resources, partnerships, news, events, and policy updates in the development sector across Asia. As a social enterprise venture of ASSIST (Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation), AsianNGO is the first and only platform for Asia's social sector and was initiated to address the three main issues that NGOs face today: finding funds, partners, and relevant learning resources for better management.

Website:https://asianngo.org/about-us

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha is a subscription-based, multi-channel digital media platform that is redefining business journalism around social and environmental value. Our audience and our beat are “Agents of Impact” working in impact investing, sustainable finance, ESG and entrepreneurship to accelerate a more just, equitable and sustainable world.

Website:https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/

Impact.Edition

IMPACT.EDITION is a nonprofit digital media hub about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. We deliver inspiring stories about local and global changemakers who drive sustainable change either through their business practices, products or community engagement.

Website:https://www.impactedition.org/

IIMPAKTER is a Global online platform that empowers and promotes sustainability via its news portal, sustainable startups hub, green index, and marketplace of eco-products.

Website:http://www.impakter.com

Main Street Journal

A newsletter for local investors everywhere

Website:http://www.nextbillion.net

The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in developing economies. ANDE members provide critical financial, educational, and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs) based on the conviction that SGBs create jobs, stimulate long-term economic growth, and produce environmental and social benefits. As the leading global voice of the SGB sector, ANDE believes that SGBs are a powerful, yet underleveraged tool in addressing social and environmental challenges. Since 2009, we have grown into a trusted network of nearly 300 collaborative members that operate in nearly every developing economy. ANDE grows the body of knowledge, mobilizes resources, and connects the institutions that support the small business entrepreneurs who build inclusive prosperity in the developing world. ANDE is part of the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society.

Website:http://andeglobal.org

Website:https://artemisia.org.br/en/

Benevolent.ly

The Benevolently app & web platform creates opportunities for altruism, both leveraging recent research in neuroscience to amplify good feelings for helping others, and to connect to oneself, and leveraging sophisticated logistics management to make it easy to act. All platform actions directly and indirectly drive change in the individual, and through actions aligned with the UN’s SDGs.

Website:http://www.benevolent.ly

Bridges Impact Foundation

Website:https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.com/us/bridges-impact-foundation/

co:census is an enterprise product that helps teams gather inclusive data through open-ended questions and provide contextual analysis so your data has depth. We are trusted by more than 60 government agencies and companies across America.

Website:http://cocensus.io/

Sustainable Development Action Network, A community of impact entrepreneurs, investors and changemakers collaborating for Sustainable Development through innovation and technology. #Tech4Good

Website:http://colaborativo.net

Community Wealth Builders

Community Wealth Building is an economic development approach that emphasizes creating and connecting strong local spaces, working collaboratively, and nurturing community-based economic institutions (e.g, worker-owned businesses.) When these elements are combined, they foster an economy intentionally designed to generate shared prosperity an economy characterized by empowering jobs, robust businesses, and resident participation. Given the significant socio-economic challenges facing Baltimore City neighborhoods, developing and growing community wealth building models with proven track records of creating quality jobs and vibrant businesses in distressed areas is more important than ever.

Website:https://www.communitywealthbuilders.org/

The COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs was launched in April 2020 by 60 leading social-sector organizations aiming to help mobilize support and raise awareness of the vital role these entrepreneurs play in tackling the crisis and beyond. In various capacities, the members of the Alliance support over 50,000 social entrepreneurs across the world. The entrepreneurs, in turn, have a direct or indirect impact on the lives of nearly 1 billion people according to their own estimates‚ providing access to employment, food, affordable energy and other critical services.

Website:https://www.weforum.ch/covidsocial

Creativity, Culture & Capital

Creativity, Culture & Capital: Impact investing in the global creative economy is a living resource and community platform launched in January 2021 to celebrate the United Nations International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. With essays by 96 experts from 24 countries, Creativity, Culture & Capital illustrates how the creative sector delivers social and environmental impact, and how impact investors are already backing a more just and sustainable global creative economy. The full collection is available in English and Spanish at www.creativityculturecapital.org; new written contributions will be added through January 2022. Edited by Fundación Compromiso (Argentina), Nesta’s Arts & Culture Finance (UK), and Upstart Co-Lab (US).

Website:https://www.creativityculturecapital.org

Ethmar

We are working to find optimal solutions to problems and needs as they combine entrepreneurial approaches and sustainability. From the premise that social investment is the use of commercial solutions to solve urgent social problems, and in order to localize this new sector in our Arab environment, we have established an Ethmar Impact Investment Center company and an experts aimed at enabling these investments and their tools.

Website:https://ethmar.social/en/

Gateway Regional Council, Corps. mission is to support leaders and organizations who are championing causes within Black communities as they strive to be the change. GRC assists by injecting the human and/or financial capital needed through executive coaching, strategic planning, identifying best practices & models, program/project development & management and assessments. Our hope is that by joining in these efforts we help change makers to build stronger teams, make deeper impact, garner sustainability and establish foundations that center on equity through models of change. We believe that anything is possible and we want to do our part to make it a reality!

Website:http://www.gatewayregionalcouncil.org

Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (GSIC)

Website:https://gasocialimpact.com/

GOGLA

GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry. We are proud to champion one of the world’s most innovative and impactful sectors. Hundreds of millions of people already benefit from affordable, high-quality, clean off-grid solar products and services. With the right support, our pioneering industry will be able to scale up rapidly to improve the lives of 1 billion people by 2030. To help make this happen, we promote, safeguard, and convene the industry, advocating for enabling policies and increased investment as well as supporting our 200+ members with effective services. To find out more, visit www.gogla.org

Website:http://www.gogla.org

A podcast about the business of sustainability. John Treadgold interviews business leaders in sustainability, impact investing and social enterprise who are re-defining economics and building companies as a force for good.

Website:https://johntreadgold.com/goodfuturepodcast/

Website:http://www.gratituderailroad.com

Grow Ensemble

At Grow Ensemble, our mission is to make sustainability and better-for-the-world business practices the norm for both individuals and businesses, to support an impact economy. Our focus is accelerating the cultural shift that leads to consumer expectations of sustainability and fair practices of the companies they engage with. Through our audio, video, and written content, we raise awareness of the social and environmental issues we collectively face, highlighting the companies and organizations providing solutions to these issues, and inviting our community to engage with these solutions daily.

Website:https://growensemble.com/%20

Previously called "Social Entrepreneurs Meetup," Impact Circles consists of growing circles of social impact enthusiasts, subject matter experts, and thought leaders who believe in our collective strength in tackling the pressing issues facing our societies and planet. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of individual social entrepreneurs and meaningful projects while engaging the wider public in social innovation.

Website:http://www.impact-circles.org

Impact Hub Baltimore

Website:https://baltimore.impacthub.net/

The Summit sits at the beating heart of Asia Pacific's investment community. Impact investing is fuelling the rapid rise of finance as a force for good. It's a global trend that the Asia Pacific region has both an opportunity and imperative to understand and embrace. Our purpose is to be the catalyst and champion for impact investment in the region. We work with key partners, to grow the sector and demonstrate how 20th-century capital market dimensions of ‘risk’ and ‘return’ are now expanding to include measurable social and environmental impact.

Website:http://impactinvestmentsummit.com

Inclusiv

At Inclusiv, we believe that true financial inclusion and empowerment is a fundamental right. We dedicate ourselves to closing the gaps and removing barriers to financial opportunities for people living in distressed and underserved communities. Inclusiv is a certified CDFI intermediary that transforms local progress into lasting national change. We provide capital, make connections, build capacity, develop innovative products and services and advocate for our member community development credit unions (CDCUs). Inclusiv members serve over 14 million residents of low-income urban, rural and reservation-based communities across the US and hold over $207 billion in community-controlled assets. Founded in 1974, Inclusiv is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Madison, WI and Atlanta, GA. For more information about Inclusiv, visit us at Inclusiv.org and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Website:https://www.inclusiv.org

Las Fotos Project’s mission is to elevate the voices of teenage girls from communities of color through photography and mentoring, empowering them to channel their creativity for the benefit of themselves, their community, and future careers.

Website:http://www.lasfotosproject.org

New Ventures Mexico

We empower the disrupters to challenge the status quo to design the society we strive to live in. New Ventures uses the power of business to accelerate, finance and connect impact-driven individuals.

Website:https://main.nvgroup.org/

Mission Investors Exchange

Mission Investors Exchange is the leading impact investing network for foundations dedicated to deploying capital for social and environmental change. With over 200 members, we provide resources, inspiration, and connections to help our members increase the scale and impact of their impact investing practice. Members come to Mission Investors Exchange and each other for best practices, new investment opportunities, deal partnerships, and innovations in impact investing around the world.

Website:http://missioninvestors.org

As King T’Challa, said in Black Panther, “Now more than ever, the illusions of our division threaten our very existence.” This is why we have created Walk in My Shoes: The Experience. Walk in My Shoes is an immersive, virtual bias-disarming training that will empower and amplify your organization EQ. Through WALK, your entire team will become healers of any and all future potentially broken dialogues. The magical, scientifically-informed immersive experience is 2020 Winner of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Award, granted by the office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. We at Playground of Empathy created WALK in collaboration with the President of the Association of Psychological Sciences and clinicians from the Transgender Health Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. We've already received invitations from the American Medical Association, Association of Psychological Sciences, Gender Spectrum Conference, and Education First. Playground of Empathy's Experiential aim to provide an immersive and caring atmosphere that empowers you to invest in self-discovery and self-improvement. Through our experiences, you will learn to lead your own emotional journey while becoming an active participant in positive social change much bigger than yourself. We've currently received at 500,000+ in-kind investment by one of the country's top app developers, and will be launching our app in early 2021! As Michelle Obama said during the DNC, “Empathy: that's something I've been thinking a lot about lately. The ability to walk in someone else's shoes; the recognition that someone else's experience has value, too.."

Website:https://www.playgroundofempathy.com/

Website:https://www.propelcapital.org/

The Oikos Institute for Social Change

The Oikos Institute for Social Impact helps congregations harness the power of their assets in order to be a catalyst for communal transformation and economic renewal. Through strategic partnerships with seminaries, universities, foundations, government agencies and denominational judicatories, the Oikos Institute creates mutually supportive ecosystems that strengthen the Faith, Intellectual, Social and Human Capital of congregations actively engaged in social impact and transformational work in the under-resourced communities they serve.

Website:https://www.oikosinstitute.org/

The SHE Mark is a benefit corporation specializing in the certification of companies that have at least 50% representation of women and/or gender diverse individuals in varying levels of the workplace - management, creative, and/or ownership. We understand the importance of being the change you wish to see in the world; that is why we certify and celebrate companies that are currently living by the gender-equal future we imagine. Through use of the SHE Marks, we envision the world moving closer to a more ethical economy that benefits all people. Learn more at theSHEmark.com.

SEED SPOT is a globally recognized nonprofit organization committed to educating, accelerating, and investing in diverse, impact-driven entrepreneurs.

Website:http://seedspot.org

The Roberto C. Goizueta Business & Society Institute

The Roberto C. Goizueta Business & Society Institute is an action-oriented research institute within Emory University’s business school that works to catalyze social and environmental change. The Institute generates research insights that it employs in its teaching and programmatic work on topics ranging from climate change and energy systems; inequalities in organizations, markets, and communities; and purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organizations.

Website:http://emory.biz/society

Website:https://www.spectrum-impact.com/

UCOT is a platform exclusively focused on addressing the grand challenges at the intersection of technology and society. We host an action-oriented annual gathering of influential partners in the public, private, and government sectors on the topics of the unintended consequences of Technology. The goal of the event: A) to advance public understanding, awareness, and perception of the Unintended Consequences of tech. B) accelerate approaches and solutions in a collaborative pursuit of knowledge and collective large-scale action. In addition, UCOT has an Innovation Hub designed to identify, incubate, and fund solutions responding to unintended consequences of technology.

Website:http://Helloucot.com

Upstart Co-Lab

Upstart Co-Lab is a nonprofit thought leader and field-builder connecting impact investing to the creative economy. Since 2016, Upstart has framed the creative economy as an impact investing priority, garnered international attention for impact investing in the creative economy, and directly mobilized more than $16 million of impact capital for creative economy opportunities. By introducing a Creativity Lens, Upstart Co-Lab helps impact investors who understand the power of art, design, culture, heritage, and creativity see the opportunities that align with their values. Upstart Co-Lab is a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Website:https://www.upstartco-lab.org/

Website:https://vertuelab.org/

Village Capital

Village Capital helps entrepreneurs bring big ideas from vision to scale. Our mission is to reinvent the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Our vision is a future where business creates equity and long-term prosperity. Since 2009, we have supported more than 1,000 early-stage entrepreneurs through our investment readiness programs. Our affiliated fund, VilCap Investments, has invested in more than 110 program graduates.

Website:http://vilcap.com

Village Micro Fund is a social impact fund sitting on the west side of Atlanta and we invest in black and brown businesses through our education, cooperative investing, and cooperative development.

Website:http://www.villagemicrofund.com/