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 underserved 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. We invite you to spend a few moments reading our stories of impact and learn more about the lives we have touched.
Creating Equitable Access by Bringing Health Care into the Community
OLE Health – Napa Valley, California
While health centers and clinics serve millions of patients, there are still many who are unable to make it to those facilities. OLE Health is bridging that gap by taking its services on the road to meet patients where they are. The result: more equitable access to quality health care for more people.
Changing the Older Workforce Paradigm
Peninsula Home Care Cooperative – Port Townsend, Washington
At 75, Raea never imagined she would still be serving as a home caregiver and struggling to get by on a low wage. Yet, Raea’s situation represents a growing workforce dominated by older women. Learn how one organization uses the cooperative model to change that paradigm by empowering and protecting its older staff with competitive wages and management opportunities.
How One + One is Greater than Two for Underinvested Neighborhoods
Briya Public Charter School | Martha’s Table | Takoma Place Apartments – Washington, DC
As a parent, Diana has a lot to manage among her three children. Fortunately, she discovered a unique opportunity to find a good school and quality health care all in the same place. Across Washington D.C., stories like this are becoming more common as facilities bring together – or “co-locate” – important services that are vital to healthy communities.
See how Combining Multiple Services is Creating Equity in the Nation’s Capital
Helping Minority Developers Shape the Future of Their Communities
Equitable Development Initiative – Detroit, Michigan
Too often minority real estate developers are not part of shaping the future of their communities. With our new initiative, developers like Alisha, Chase and Damian are being given a unique opportunity to demonstrate how minority real estate developers can participate in Detroit’s revitalization in a way that reflects the city’s diversity.
Detroit Developer Comes Home and Gives Back
Developer Spotlight: Richard Hosey – Detroit, Michigan
When Richard Hosey returned to his hometown in 2008, the economic downtown had completely changed the city he remembered. Now the Detroit native has focused his efforts to returning the city to its former greatness.
Integrative & Innovative Health Care for Vulnerable California Residents
OLE Health started as a humble clinic for farmworkers, but now they’re offering quality team-based care to all of Napa Valley’s vulnerable residents employing an innovative integrated behavioral health model.
Residents Take Ownership over their Community…“Cooperatively”
Takesa Village Housing Cooperative – Mead, Washington
Their neighborhood in a constant struggle with drugs and nuisance houses, the residents of this mobile home park take action to control their future and take back their community.
Join the Takesa Village Residents on Their Ownership Journey
Taking the Longview: 40 Years in Detroit’s Cass Corridor
Developer Spotlight: Joel Landy – Detroit, Michigan
In 1977, Joel Landy purchased his first vacant home in Detroit. With a lot of sweat-equity, Landy became a defacto not-for-profit economic development agency and a key figure in the city’s revitalization.
Nourishing the Neighborhood for 20 Years
Imperial Fresh Market – Detroit, MI
Amidst the economic turmoil facing Detroit, five brothers have continued to defy the odds for 20 years by expanding their grocery store…creating a healthy investment in the neighborhood and their neighbors.
Stroll the Aisles of Imperial Fresh Market’s Healthy Offerings
Filling the Gap for Washington D.C.’s Uninsured
Unity Health Care – Washington, D.C.
Without health insurance, Michele Reynolds’ options for quality care were limited. But that all changed when Unity Health Care built a brand new facility in Washington, D.C.’s Ward 5.
Surmounting the “Boulders” on the Path to College
Equitas Academy – Los Angeles, CA
When Malka talks about removing boulders, images of a quarry may fill your mind. But in reality, it’s the barriers to college that this tireless Executive Director is attempting to remove from the path of her elementary school students in downtown Los Angeles. See how she inspires her kids.
Delivering Food and Friends to Those in Need
Meals on Wheels – Tarrant County, Texas
Once an accomplished chef who fed diners across North Central Texas, Kajl now relies on the kindness of volunteers to deliver a hot meal…with a side of friendship.
Fulfilling A Life’s Passion to Deliver Quality Health Care
South of Market Health Center – San Francisco, CA
As a child, Charles Range had to drive miles for basic medical care. Now, as the CEO of South of Market Health Center, he is helping deliver quality care in one of San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods.
The Taubman Center: Sparking Creativity and Growth in Detroit
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education – Detroit, MI
Though vacant for a decade, Rick Rogers saw the promise of A. Alfred Taubman Center as a draw to bring a density of creative people to Detroit.
Henry Ford Academy Student Designs His Future
School for Creative Studies – Detroit, MI
Read how one of Detroit’s most unique charter schools is helping students like Devon literally “design” their own future
Big Green Truck Delivers Healthy Bounty
Produce on the Go – Merced, CA
Watch Don and Nancy as they use their big green truck to help eliminate a food desert in the midst of California’s agriculturally rich central valley.
A Medical Safety Net for San Francisco’s Vulnerable Residents
South of Market Health Center – San Francisco, CA
Step inside this innovative community health center and hear patients and staff describe how their lives have been transformed.
Delivering Dignity to Colorado’s Elders
The Green House Homes at Mirasol – Loveland, CO
Experience a day in the life of this dignified aging community through a photo essay documenting the experiences of its 70 residents, a large portion of whom are Medicaid eligible.
Co-ops & Capital Impact: Staying True to Our Roots
Interview with Alison Powers, Capital Impact Partners
Take a journey with Alison Powers as she reminds us that Capital Impact was born out of the cooperative movement – and how we are just getting started.
Rebuilding Detroit’s “Main Street” Block by Block
Woodward Corridor – Detroit, MI
Take a walk down Woodward Avenue and see how our financing is helping to support local projects and bring vitality back to Detroit.
An Affordable Housing Swat Team
Hello Housing – Novato, CA
Join Hello Housing’s quick thinking team as they race to save a home from foreclosure, ensuring an affordable place to live for a needy family.
Teaming Up with JPMorgan Chase for Detroit’s Neighborhoods
Interview with Aaron Seybert, JPMogan Chase
Meet Aaron Seybert as he talks about our partnership, the launch of the Detroit Neighborhoods Fund, and what’s next for the city.
