The Georgia Social Impact Map is an initiative of the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (GSIC), which was formed by a group of community leaders committed to developing a stronger ecosystem of impact investing in Georgia.
By bringing together our region’s leaders, representing all sectors of our social fabric, we envision an energetic and dynamic network that raises up our social impact ecosystem.
All current entities in the map are listed below. Use the search engine or filters on the right-hand side of this page to drill down to specific entities that fit your criteria.
2500 Bachman Ventures
2500 Bachman Ventures provides angel funding and expertise for early stage B2B ventures.
A3C Festival & Conference
Empower artists, entrepreneurs, and creatives to influence hip-hop culture
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Inc. (ACE)
The mission of Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Inc. (ACE) is to provide community economic development to under served people and communities. ACE is a non-profit organization that provides loans and business development resources to help its borrowers create and grow sustainable businesses which generate jobs.
Acivilate Inc
Transforming Second Chances
Affordable College PBC
To help more community and technical college students afford and attain a high-quality degree, certificate or credential
Alston Family Foundation
The Goddard Foundation is the Alston Family Foundation that majority of grants are made to Metro-Atlanta chaities and orgaizations that primarily serve Atlantans
Annie E Casey Foundation
Our work focuses on strengthening families, building stronger communities and ensuring access to opportunity, because children need all three to succeed. We advance research and solutions to overcome the barriers to success, help communities demonstrate what works and influence decision makers to invest in strategies based on solid evidence.
As a private philanthropy based in Baltimore and working across the country, we make grants that help federal agencies, states, counties, cities and neighborhoods create more innovative, cost-effective responses to the issues that negatively affect children: poverty, unnecessary disconnection from family and communities with limited access to opportunity.
Atlanta Food & Farm, PBC Inc (AF2)
Atlanta Food & Farm PBC is a social enterprise consulting group providing experienced community food systems planning as well as urban agriculture project development, installation, and management services in the metro-Atlanta area.
Atlanta Habitat for Humanity
Atlanta Habitat transforms communities by acting as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization through education, innovative development, partnerships, and long term relationships with families
Atlanta MicroFund TeelaSpiller Inc
To create economic opportunities in low-income neighborhoods by assisting low and moderate-income home and/or neighborhood-based entrepreneurs with business startup and expansion. To eradicate blight, eliminate economic injustice and render health and human services to improve the lives of the poor.
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.
The mission of ANDP is to promote, create and preserve mixed income communities through direct development, lending, policy research and advocacy that result in the equitable distribution of affordable housing throughout the metropolitan Atlanta region.
Atlanta Technology Angels
The Atlanta Technology Angels and Gwinnett Angels are two private groups of high-net-worth individuals that provide a platform for evaluating and selecting companies to fund. Neither group currently manages a fund or pool of money. Instead, investments are made by a handful of members interested in exciting business opportunities.
Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI)
AWBI’s vision is to catalyze the collective resources of metropolitan Atlanta to fully engage and leverage the undiscerned potential of thousands of individuals and families living in our community’s historically marginalized neighborhoods to build a pathway from poverty and to the American dream for those for who the dream has been deferred for too long and for the ultimate benefit and wellbeing of our entire community.
BB&T
To make the world a better place to live
Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to honor Betty and Davis Fitzgerald by making a difference in the lives of others, primarily through the education and health care of the disadvantaged residents of Metro Atlanta and Georgia.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
With BNY Mellon, your charitable gifts not only serve recipients well, but also remained aligned with your strategic, philanthropic and financial goals.
Boardwalk Capital Management
As a Certified BCorp, Boardwalk Capital’s mission is to guide any and all investors, regardless of their wealth level, towards a solid financial figure built with investments that are in sync with their values.
Bobby Dodd Institute
To empower people with differing abilities to maximize their potential by securing economic self-sufficiency, independence, and inclusion within their communities.
Center for Civic Innovation
The mission of the Center for Civic Innovation is to address challenges by empowering people to shape the
future of our city by designing local public policy from the ground up.
Center for Financial Independence & Innovation
We are dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities and their family members advance their financial independence and security.
CF Foundation
The C. F. Foundation has invested an estimated $25 million in the community since 1993. The Foundation expects to remain involved in East Lake for the foreseeable future, though it hopes to provide less gap funding (for example, for the school) and more venture capital for special projects.
Community Farmers Markets
The mission of Community Farmers Markets is to develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact. Our purpose is to preserve, root, and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy lifestyles while providing a sustainable living for producers who steward the earth.
Community Foundation of Central Georgia
The Community Foundation of Central Georgia looks to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Central Georgia. Vision: Place where philanthropy thrives
Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta (GoATL Fund)
Connect philanthropy to causes in our community
Community Guilds: STEAM Truck
To close opportunity gaps and provide lifelong opportunities by transforming teaching and learning through an experiential maker approach that brings together youth and adult learners within collaborative communities.
Compost Now/Compost Wheels
Divert food waste from landfills and turn in to nutrients to build soil for local forms and gardens.
Conservation Fund
We practice conservation to achieve environmental and economic outcomes. (dual charter)
Couchman Noble Foundation
Giving primarily to organizations that improve the quality of life in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cousins Family Foundation
To serve as the hands and feet of Christ in the world, serving the least of these and empowering the faithful
Coxe Curry & Associates
Coxe Curry & Associates works with nonprofits of all sizes, across all sectors and in every stage of development. Unlike other fundraising consulting firms, we provide a uniquely hands-on approach and a deep and meaningful understanding of the local landscape.
CREATE
To support entrepreneurs in using STEM innovations to build healthy local food systems and create jobs in SW Atlanta.
East Lake Foundation / CF Foundation
East Lake: Comprehensive Redevelopment of Low Income Areas
eDea LLC
Our mission is three-fold: 1. Individuals & Communities: to advance individuals', families' and communities' financial awareness, literacy and interests; 2. Enterprise: To provide businesses with a strategic capability and competitive differentiator to improve market, service and operating performance; 3. Government & NGOs: to improve the economic performance and the social and economic return of economic development programs and policies.
Emory Impact Investing Group, Goizueta Business School
To provide impactful micro-loans and financial consulting services to our entrepreneurs in order to build their credit and create a path to sustainable growth for their businesses.
Emory Office of Sustainability
Emory’s mission is to create, preserve, teach and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Emory values the continuing existence of a healthy, safe, and environmentally sustainable campus that enhances individual health, community well-being, positive teaching/learning experiences, and environmental stewardship.
Epiphany Initiative, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
Epiphany is a social entrepreneurship initiative of First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta (“FPC”), created to promote individual economic empowerment and live out our identity as the Atlanta church that balances spiritual conviction with tangible compassion.
FCS|Focused Community Strategies
Focused Community Strategies partners with under-resourced neighborhoods to provide innovative and holistic development that produces flourishing communities where God's Shalom is present.
First Step Staffing
"We’re working to secure sustainable income for individuals transitioning from homelessness. Steady and sustainable income is the only permanent, reliable path out of homelessness.
And we help provide that sustainable income by helping local businesses succeed."
Food Well Alliance
"Our success is driven by collaboration and supporting thriving communities through measurable environmental, economic, community and health impacts.
As an Alliance, we unite communities in Atlanta to build a robust local food system - a network of individuals and organizations that grow, process, distribute and consume fresh local food. We connect people, ideas, leadership and capital to build a city that values healthy, locally-grown food."
Food Well Alliance
Food Well Alliance connects people, ideas, leadership and capital to grow a community that values locally-grown food.
Foresight Augmented Reality (FAR)
Enabling greater independence for the blind and visually impaired
Fuqua Capital/JB Fuqua Foundation
The J.B. Fuqua Foundation seeks to help individuals in need. Community support is concentrated in advancing high impact programs and research in the areas of education, health, and human & social services.
Georgia Family Law Project, LLC
Georgia Family Law Project is a sliding-scale family law firm, representing Georgians who do not qualify for free legal services but who cannot afford traditional representation with in their divorce, child custody, and child support cases.
Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education
Inform and influence Georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)
We are the state of Georgia's technology incubator that helps companies learn, launch, scale, and succeed.
Global Growers Network
Our mission is to increase the number of food producers who create access to healthy, sustainably-grown food and also to prepare farmers to be competitive in their local marketplace.
Goizueta Impact Investors
Goizueta Impact Investors works to support growing, Atlanta-based social enterprises through short term financing options while educating Goizueta MBA students about the impact investing field.
Good Measure Meals
Good Measure Meals™ is owned by Open Hand/Atlanta. Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through Comprehensive Nutrition Care™, which combines home-delivered meals and nutrition education as a means to reinforce the connection between informed food choices and improved quality of life.
Goodie Nation
To train and support all people to play a role within a civic engagment framework for the development for social impact startups, open source projects and digital awareness campaign
Goodr
Feed More Waste Less
Gray Ghost Ventures
To invest collaboratively in innovative, early-stage enterprises that contribute to the well-being of low-income communities in emerging markets and provide an attractive financial return.
Hands on Atlanta
At Hands On Atlanta, we tackle greater Atlanta's most pressing needs by igniting a passion for service and creating life-long community volunteers.
Harland Charitable Foundation
The mission of the Harland Charitable Foundation is to support effective, well-led organizations that enhance opportunities for low-income children and youth, respond to critical community needs and foster a vibrant arts culture. The majority of our grantmaking focuses on City of Atlanta and DeKalb County (Georgia) where the Foundation’s history lies.
Homestead Foundation Inc.
grants that make a diifferece
honorCode
To coalesce educators and our local business community to create future workforce ecosystems within K12 schools
Hydeouts Adventures
5 core mission statements:
(1) To balance urban development by providing green space development.
(2) To create new natural spaces and provide a safe home for the outdoor athlete community.
(3) To build a space specifically designed for runners, hikers, yogis and rock climbers.
(4) To be the outdoor natural environment for exceptional experiences while fostering connections to others, family, self, nature and ideas.
(5) To be the outdoor social scene.
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Encouraging values based leadership and socially responsible entrepreneurship.
Invest Atlanta
To advance Atlanta's global competitiveness by growing a strong economy, building vibrant communities, and increasing economic prosperity for all Atlantans.
J. Bulow Campbell Foundation
The J. Bulow Campbell Foundation responds to a variety of charitable organizations serving the general welfare of the community, education, youth, public spaces and cultural amenities, and Christian concerns. Grants are awarded almost exclusively in Atlanta and Georgia.
Joseph B Whitehead Foundation
An independent private foundation that seeks to help people in need in metro Atlanta, particularly children, by investing in education, health and economic opportunity.
LAB Atlanta
Develop civically engaged, design minded leaders focused on building a vibrant, sustainable future for themselves and the city of Atlanta
Lalabu LLC
A secure and loving start to life for every child.
Latino Community Fund
Our mission is to be a catalyst for investment, collaborative work, and positive narrative with and within the Latinx/Hispanic Community in Georgia.
Lawyers for Equal Justice
Empowering Newer Lawyers. Closing the Justice Gap.
Lawyers for Equal Justice (L4EJ) helps newer solo attorneys develop sustainable law practices that serve people who otherwise could not access legal services. L4EJ provides training, mentoring, software, office space, and comradery. The participating attorneys provide entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for making the world a better place, and an innovative approach to the delivery of legal services.
Love is Love Farm
to grow healthy food and sustain the success of farmers through collaboration
Partnership for Southern Equity
The Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.
PeachDish
To enrich and nourish peoples lives through good food experiences
Pediatric Medical LLC
Safely secure the 1.7 Million children under 5 years of age transported by emergency vehicles each year.
Pentorship Ed Labs LLC / Knewskill
Make sure people have the skills they need to be adaptable, collaborative, and entrepreneurial in their thinking so they can evolve at the speed of work.
Peyton Anderson Foundation
The Peyton Anderson Foundation is an independent, place-based foundation investing in the good works of people in Central Georgia and improving their quality of life through community development, education, health, human services and arts and culture.
Plywood People
Plywood People is a nonprofit in Atlanta that leads a community of startups doing good
R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation
The mission of the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation is to support educational opportunities, improve access to health services, and promote environmental stewardship. The Foundation is committed to honoring the legacy of R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. through its work.
Refuge Coffee Co.
To provide a living wage job, job training and mentorship to refugees in the ATL area
Rimidi
Rimidi is committed to providing significant and enduring solution to improve the lives of people living with chronic health conditions.
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
An independent private foundation that seeks to improve the quality of life in Georgia by investing in health, education, economic opportunity and community vitality.
Rockdale Foundation
To partner with local leaders striving to help vulnerable children and youth achieve wholeness with a grantmaking emphasis in the areas of education, ethical leadership and community.
Russell Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RCIE) is designed to connect the next generation of revolutionary entrepreneurs to the tools and relationships it needs to turn dreams into reality.
Sevamob
Sevamob provides artificial intelligence enabled healthcare platform to organizations in India, Southern Africa and the US. It has 3 components:
1. Artificial intelligence based triage, consultation and diagnostics
2. Tele-health infrastructure for remote care via medical professionals
3. Asset-lite Popup clinics for onsite, in-person care via medical professionals
By integrating these 3 components, we are able to offer comprehensive primary care at upto 50% lower cost. Care includes general health, vision, dental, nutrition, cardio-metabolic, infectious disease and cancer. We monetize it via service delivery and software licensing. Our customers include schools, employers, NGOs, hospitals, pharma and govt.
Significance
SIGNIFICANCE is a purpose-driven agency that serves the social innovation movement by developing results-driven solutions, strategies, projects, connections, and content to help people and brands amplify their ability to be a force for good and succeed in the modern marketplace. Do well by doing good.
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta
Making markets work for more people, in more places, in more ways
Social Impact Technology
Fusion between technology and philanthropy
St. Mary’s Foundation
St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation envisions an improved quality of life for people in southeast Georgia, the nation and the world
Start:Me
Start:ME strengthens Atlanta’s underserved communities by empowering local entrepreneurs to start or grow small businesses. These businesses increase the social and economic vibrancy of our communities.
Startup Atlanta
To introduce, connect, support, and expand the entrepreneurial ecosystem within the greater Atlanta region to bolster the creation of jobs, companies and wealth.
Suntrust
Widening the way to financial well being.
TechBridge
TechBridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact.
The Common Market Georgia
Our mission is to connect communities with good food from sustainable family farms. We strive to improve food security, farm viability, and community and ecological health.
The Federal Reserve Bank Atlanta
Responsible for working to attract more private capital into the public market
The Guild
The Guild is a social enterprise that develops co-living spaces and programs to empower changemakers and build resilient communities.
The Imlay Foundation
We finacially support the people who demostrate the passion, principles, and leadership to create better lives in our communities.
The Suntrust Foundation
Helping people achieve their financial goals doesn't stop at our front doors. It drives us to action in and around the communities that we serve.
TILA Studios LLC.
We empower black women artists to create and showcase their art
TQIntelligence, Inc.
"Disparities in treatment outcomes for patients from low-resource communities is related to the significant shortage of experts with an intensive clinical training. Individuals presenting for mental health services in the publicly funded practice ecosystem, exhibit multiple and diagnostically unrelated symptoms, partly due to the interaction between developmental disruption, trauma and social determinants of health that adversely affects this population.
TQIntelligence brings a particular expertise in the design of cost-effective solutions to low-resourced communities; the use of emerging technologies and innovative research in brain science makes it possible to create products that transcend culture."
TruePani
TruePani is a water quality and clean technologies group combining engineering and public health to build a more transparent, safer future.
Turner Foundation
Protecting and restoring the natural world
Vayando
Connecting travelers with entrepreneurs
Village MicroFund
Village Microfund is a grassroot finance org. with the mission to empower entrepreneurs in metro ATL by providing access to capital, business education and the village of support.
Wholesome Wave Georgia
Wholesome Wave Georgia believes that all Georgians should have access to fresh, wholesome and locally grown food. Founded in 2009, WWG strives to strengthen local food communities by empowering networks of farmers to facilitate access to and awareness of healthy food choices. By increasing the affordability of healthy, locally grown foods, WWG makes healthy, nourishing choices accessible for Georgia’s food insecure population. WWG realizes our mission through two core programs: Georgia Fresh For Less and the Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program. More information is at www.wholesomewavegeorgia.org.
Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation
To enhance the quality of human life by making grants that reflect the keen interests and passions of the Foundation's trustees and which are structured to achieve significant impact.
William Blair & Company
Help clients achieve long-term financial success by identifying Midwestern growth-oriented companies
Williams Family Foundation
Giving primarily for education and historic preservation
WoodLeaf Partners
To invest in and support sustainable businesses and inspiring people
Wylde Center
The mission of Wylde Center is to educate, cultivate greenspaces and build community in the areas we serve.
Young WallStreet Traders, Inc.
Our mission is to expose high school students to the fundamentals of investing and proven investment strategies to give them the tools and skills necessary to build a generational wealth mindset.