Stories of Impact

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 underestimated 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.


  • Black real estate developers work in hard hats on construction site

    Equipping Developers to Build Their Communities
    Growing Diverse Housing Developers: Video Series

    Learn more about the Growing Diverse Housing Developers program and the impact it has been creating for diverse developers and the communities they serve, through the words of GDHD participants and leaders. 

    Watch our video series

  • Baby receives affordable health care at a federally qualified health center, Cartmill Clinic, which was financed by Capital Impact Partners.

    Affordable Health Care in Central California: Cartmill Clinic’s Vision Comes to Life

    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.

  • Growing Cooperatives And Health Equity through Impact Investments

    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

  • When Access Equals Opportunity, Entrepreneurs and Communities Thrive

    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

  • Affordable Housing Preservation Project Comes to Fruition with Mission-Centric Capital

    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

  • Shattering Ceilings: Three Female Leaders Making a Difference for Communities

    For many years, Jane Garcia found herself to be one of the only women in the boardroom. She not only fought against this bias but became a tireless champion for immigrant communities and access to health care for all. Since 1982, Capital Impact’s success has grown across a variety of sectors through partnerships with women like Jane who have sparked positive change in their communities.

    Follow the hard fought journey of Jane and her female counterparts leading social change nationwide.