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At Amped, we design appliances from the ground up for energy efficiency to create a better experience: brighter and longer runtimes. Our product pipeline is focused on appliances that can help people make money, and all our appliances are mobile money enabled.
Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund based in Utrecht, the Netherlands that makes investments in sustainable aquaculture businesses that generate investment returns, while creating positive social and environmental impact.
APEN is leading a transition away from an extractive economy based on profit and pollution and toward local, healthy, and life-sustaining economies that benefit everyone. We’re building community-owned renewable energy resources to power our neighborhoods, protecting affordable housing so that our historic cultural communities can stay together, creating a local economy of cooperatives owned and governed by community members, and taking back control of our democracy.
Braven’s mission is to empower promising, underrepresented young people — first generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds, and students of color — with the skills, confidence, experiences and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.
Breakthrough Silicon Valley empowers young people from underserved communities to reach their full potential. Our multi-faceted six-year program launches low-income, first-generation students on the path to college through personalized academic advising and support, college counseling, and leadership development.
Brightline is an environmental justice nonprofit organization that works to empower communities and create sustainable environments. The Brightline team blends public policy advocacy and on-the-ground partnerships to promote sustainability and opportunity in traditionally underserved communities. We promote sustainable policies ranging from local hiring to clean energy to energy efficiency.
Buoyant Ventures invests in early-stage digital solutions for climate risk. Their portfolio companies focus on adaptation and mitigation. They are committed to hiring, investing in, and supporting the development of diverse teams.
Californians for Justice is a statewide youth-powered organization fighting to improve the lives of communities of color, immigrant, low-income, LGBTQ and other marginalized communities. Work includes relationship centered schools, equitable school funding, and youth voice in democracy.
The Center for Youth Wellness is part of a national effort to revolutionize pediatric medicine and transform the way society responds to kids exposed to significant adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress.
change:WATER Labs is developing a low-cost, compact, waterless toilet for non-sewered households and communities. In many refugee camps and disaster-relief arenas, aid agencies struggle to mount acceptable responses to the immediate pressures of providing safe sanitation. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted when toilets are not available because they risk assault or violence with their current solution. change:WATER is particularly motivated to help develop solutions for these situations.
Climate Resilient Communities has a volunteer-driven commitment to helping residents reduce their energy costs, improve home health, and gain access to local resources like subsidized solar panels and home energy audits, and weatherization upgrades.
CNote makes it easy for individuals and institutions to invest in a more inclusive economy. CNote has created the Rapid Response Fund to quickly deploy patient loan capital to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI)s so they can fill this critical lending gap until federal and state aid is implemented.
Code Tenderloin removes barriers that keep people from securing long-term employment such as finances, legal, soft skills, childcare, transportation, and education. We collaborate across different sectors to achieve system-level change.
College is Real identifies, motivates, educates and mentors the “college-aspirational” students at Richmond’s three public high schools in order to have as many students as possible apply to, attend, and graduate from four-year colleges. We want to change the lives of the students in the program so they can ultimately improve the lives of their families and change their communities.
Community Investment Management (CIM) is an institutional impact investment manager which provides strategic debt funding to scale and demonstrate responsible innovation in lending.
Our work combines experience, leadership, and values to align the long-term interests of investors and historically underserved borrowers.
Countable’s community platform can empower transformative movements by enabling organizations to turn engagement into meaningful, measurable, and scalable impact.
Croptix is developing a practical turn-key solution for identifying crop disease, allowing growers to spot problems long before they’re visible to the naked eye. Croptix uses a revolutionary patented technology to look inside the leaves of citrus trees for signs of HLB and other diseases. Croptix stores each grower’s geo-tagged data in a secure database and applies artificial intelligence to achieve a constantly improving recommendation specific to their groves and growing conditions.
At Harvest Thermal, we’re reinventing home heating and hot water, while slashing carbon emissions. The Harvest Pod uses the cleanest and cheapest electricity to deliver comfortable, steady heating and hot water. It integrates super-high efficiency heating equipment with thermal energy storage. Our customers enjoy cleaner air, safer homes and lower bills while drastically cutting their carbon footprint.
Streamlines affordable housing applications so you can eliminate data entry and unnecessary phone calls, thereby transforming the way low-income applicants keep track of their housing applications. Haven Connect digitizes paper applications and integrates them with online submissions, then returns them to you in one organized hub. Future tenants receive instant email or text message confirmation when they apply online.
ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap. Through its Accelerator and innovative investment strategies, ICA helps underrepresented entrepreneurs access the capital and support they need to grow and thrive.
MedHaul provides access to quality, inclusive transportation services for often overlooked populations, improving their quality of life and care. Having access to transportation makes a huge difference for an individual’s quality of life especially for people with reduced mobility due to age, ability, and income. We’re here to close the transportation gap and to provide compassionate solutions for the people who need them most.
We are a nonprofit collaboration of local government, businesses, and residents helping Menlo Park become climate neutral by 2025 as we advance community prosperity, economic vitality, and strong civic heritage.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a double mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice. MUA does direct service work (peer counseling, English classes, etc) and advocacy work (training and developing women to become leaders to their peers and to work in community organizing and policy work).
NeedsList is a Public Benefit Corporation that facilitates relationships between donors and NGOs by providing a marketplace where donors can immediately meet needs by purchasing directly from local suppliers. In this way, NeedsList supports local economies and helps on-the-ground organizations better track and grow their impact.
One Life believes that access to mental health services should be easily accessible, readily available and comfortable. Everyday we counsel, advocate, and nurture our clients, our community, our schools. We believe no one should have to suffer alone, suicide is preventable and treatment is available.
Puente de la Costa Sur promotes and advocates for equitable access to education, health, and economic security among those in Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar, and San Gregorio. At Puente, we believe that self-sufficiency is essential for turning those dreams into reality. Every day, we walk side-by-side with our South Coast neighbors as they cross the bridge toward independence.
Re:Dish tackles food service waste with a reusable container and cup service program that eliminates single-use disposable containers. Re:Dish delivers and collects containers and cups, cleans and sanitizes them at our own industrial washing facility, and then returns them back to our clients. We service corporate cafeterias and pantries, arenas, K-12 schools, production sets – anywhere food is served at scale!
The Redwood City-Police Activities League (PAL) joins police professionals and community members in a unified effort with a mission to provide school-age children and their families with access to academic support, life skills and personal development activities, with a focus on producing successful opportunities for underrepresented and underserved communities throughout Redwood City.
Sanivation designs, builds and operates waste collection and treatment facilities for secondary (non-sewered) cities in East Africa. We partner with local governments to help meet the growing waste processing need from septic tanks and pit latrines. Each plant that we deploy ensures waste is safely managed, creates local employment, prevents environmental pollution, and saves trees through our innovative biomass fuels.
StreetCode Academy acts as a bridge between Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and the technology they need to thrive in a digital age. We provide historically economically disadvantaged people of color in our community with the high-tech skills, confidence, and access to networks needed to enter the technology industry. We offer free courses in coding, entrepreneurship, and design.
Suyo helps families secure their property rights by offering the most affordable and reliable property formalization services in Latin America. Combining modern technology with our expert team of lawyers, architects and other property professionals, Suyo solves property formalization needs in a simple process for approximately half the price of other providers.
SV@Home advocates for policies, programs, land use, and funding that lead to an increased supply of affordable housing. Additionally, SV@Home educates elected officials and the community about the need for housing, and the link between housing and other quality of life outcomes.
Upward Scholars provides adult immigrants the boost they need to move up the economic ladder through education and vocational support. Immigrants and first-generation Americans have always been an integral part of California’s story and success. Our state is the vibrant, diverse, and innovative place it is because of their hard work and ingenuity.
Zeal Capital Partners is a venture capital fund seeking to generate top-tier financial and social returns by partnering with strong management teams with diverse backgrounds and skillsets who are building early-stage businesses.
Learning Genie developed a mobile app that allows educators to personalize early learning by collecting data for student assessments. This tool saves educators time and makes it easy for families to engage with their child’s early learning.