Calvert Impact Capital
Calvert Impact Capital, established in 1988 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to promoting social good and financial equity. The organization connects individual and institutional investors with initiatives that support underserved communities, focusing on areas such as affordable housing, job creation, and environmental protection. Through its financial advisory services, Calvert Impact Capital offers due diligence, program design, and payment tracking, while also engaging in research and consulting. In recent years, it has expanded its offerings to include loan syndications, successfully originating and structuring loans for environmentally and socially impactful projects, mobilizing nearly $2 billion in investor capital throughout its history.
Sunwealth Power is a pioneering clean energy firm aiming to unleash the power of commercial solar by delivering meaningful returns and tangible impact to its growing community of investors. Sunwealth’s proprietary methodology identifies high-performing, high-impact projects, and its Solar Impact Fund allows for the rapid scaling of commercial solar investment, giving investors the unique opportunity to invest directly into a diversified pool of solar assets – generating returns and clean energy faster.
Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
FINCA Impact Finance (FIF) is a global network of 20 microfinance institutions and banks that provides socially responsible financial services to enable low-income individuals and communities to invest in their futures. With more than 30 years of experience and a mostly local staff of over 10,000, FIF delivers a double bottom line of positive social impact and financial sustainability.
A leading impact asset manager, responsAbility manages over USD 3 bn of assets invested in 450 fully ESG-compliant high-impact companies across 90 emerging economies. Since the company's inception in 2003, responsAbility-managed funds have disbursed USD 10 bn in private debt and private equity to companies in the financial inclusion, sustainable food and climate finance sectors whose business models directly support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). responsAbility is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and has local offices in Bangkok, Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris and Tbilisi. Owned by various reputable Swiss and international financial institutions, private investors and its own employees, responsAbility is registered with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.
One Acre Fund is a non-profit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with financing and training. The company provides subsistence farmers with tools, seed, fertilizers and offers market access, agricultural training, and weather-related risk insurance against potential harvest loss. One Acre Fund was founded by Eric Pohlman and Andrew Youn in 2006 and is headquartered in Bungoma, Kenya.
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.
Evergreen, a division of Greenbridge, was originally established in 1998 to provide a sustainable, reliable supply of quality polyester resin for the company’s portfolio of PET strapping.
Eureka Recycling is an organization that offers products and services that concentrate on reducing waste through reuse, recycling, and composting. Its goal is to show that waste is avoidable, not inevitable. The group provides answers to the social, environmental, and health issues brought on by garbage through its services, projects, and policy work. It includes a number of programs that include waste reduction, producer responsibility, reuse, recycling, and composting to stop the wasteful loss of economic garbage.
Ashv Finance serves the ‘missing middle’ enterprises working in sectors which make a positive Environmental, Social and Governance Impact. IntelleGrow offers debt without limiting them on their vintage or the security value offered for the loan – instead, the proposition is based on trajectory of business cashflows. It is not only lending from its Balance Sheet but also syndicating and arranging debt from other sources – gradually emerging as a debt solutions provider for ‘early-stage’, ‘high-growth’ small and growing businesses (SGB) in India.
ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania, Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
The Paradigm Project was born out of the desire to impact poverty in sustainable, profitable ways by leveraging our team experience in consumer products, capital markets, and environmental assets.What we do is simple in concept, and like everything in the developing world, difficult in execution:
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