While lending is a primary activity at Capital Impact Partners, it is a means to an end: we use capital as a tool to effect positive change in communities across the country. As a mission-driven lender, our true impact is felt when we finance projects that create jobs or provide needed services or opportunities for those most in need.
Cornbread Farm to Soul — Brownsville, Brooklyn
Cornbread Farm to Soul is redefining how restaurants grow and give back. With support from our Community Development Lending and Impact Investments teams, the fast-casual soul food brand is expanding into new markets using flexible, non-dilutive financing designed for sustainable business growth. At the same time, they’re creating jobs and revitalizing local communities along the way.
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Learn how the Co-op Innovation Award has supported Pilsen Housing Cooperative, Co-op Cincy & other co-ops in transforming communities through co-op ownership.
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Tulare County, situated in central California’s San Joaquin Valley, is fortunate to have an abundance of food production, hence why it is considered a breadbasket for the country. However, it is also one of the poorest and most clinically underserved counties in California.
Read more about Altura Centers for Health’s inclusive approach to health care.
Obran is utilizing the cooperative model to not only create a more effective health care system, but also create equity and power for the workers themselves. Facing the need to expand and reach the next level of its operations, Obran turned to Momentus Capital. Momentus Capital’s impact investment team worked with Obran to create a preferred equity investment vehicle to support their vision.
Read more about Obran’s transformative approach and our impact investment model to support them
Naimah and Charlayne were living their dream of creating their own businesses. However, those dreams hit a significant roadblock when they could not get loans from traditional financial institutions in order to expand. The Entrepreneurs of Color Fund opened up pathways for them and other business owners of color to create the wealth and health they have wanted for themselves and their communities.
Read along to see how EOCF helped Naimah and Charlayne’s businesses to flourish
When a new apartment complex came up for sale in a rapidly gentrifying suburb of San Francisco, Kate Comfort Harr of HIP Housing knew she had to preserve it as an affordable housing option. Read more about the partnership with Capital Impact to make her vision a reality.
Follow Kate’s saga to save Rolison from market-rate developers
