Nearly 30 years ago, Atlanta captured the world’s attention as the city played host to the 1996 Summer Olympics. Last week Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) - one of the country’s leading impact investing networks - announced that Atlanta will host its 2026 biennial conference...

The Georgia Shared Ownership Convening, co-hosted by the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative, Goizueta’s Business & Society Institute, and Georgia Social Innovation Collaborative, brought together 50+ stakeholders to discuss the future of shared ownership models in our state. From ESOPs to cooperatives, these models are vital tools for promoting economic resilience and racial equity...

Impact investing is often perceived as more burdensome than traditional investing due to the added complexity of addressing social and environmental issues alongside financial returns. This perception is supported by a 2009 Monitor Institute…

The Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (GSIC) partnered with the GoATL Fund to host a Catalytic Capital Wine Night sponsored by BNY Mellon at El Vinedo Local, a minority-owned restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. The event brought together impact…

my Panda helps people get trusted, reliable help from right in their own neighborhood. my Panda has a culture of women helping women. 95% of the Pandas are women, they understand the struggles our members face, and they hire those who are passionate…

June 6, 2022 By: Kayla Jones, GSIC Social Impact Fellow Bread and Butter Farms aims to utilize what the earth provides holistically to grow vegetables,  fruits, and herbs with zero chemicals. They simply take care of the soil, plant heirloom…

April 28, 2022   By: Lavonya Jones, GSIC Director   During the 2021-2022 academic year, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University because the first Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs)…

April 4, 2022   By: Kayla Jones, GSIC Social Impact Fellow   Yohana Solomon was born and raised in Ethiopia and came to the US in 1998 due to a civil war. She is the owner of Atlanta Underground Market and chef and owner…

March 7, 2022   By: LaDerrius Williams, GSIC Social Impact Fellow   On Friday, February 18th, 2022, Georgia State University’s (GSU) Social Entrepreneurship Club and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Career Center…

February 7, 2022   By: LaDerrius Williams, GSIC Social Impact Fellow   Self-described as “Atlanta’s home for good trouble,” the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) is an integral part of Georgia’s social impact ecosystem…

January 4, 2022   By: LaDerrius Williams, GSIC Social Impact Fellow   On December 8th, 2021, the United States Department of the Treasury announced the recipients of $180.3M from its Community Development Financial Institutions…

December 4, 2021   By: LaDerrius Williams, GSIC Social Impact Fellow   Women and diverse-led companies are reshaping the small business landscape. In the United States, 17 percent of Black women are in the process of starting…

November 8, 2021   Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) is a Georgia 501(c)(3) nonprofit and community development financial institution (CDFI) that provides capital, coaching, & connections to help borrowers create &…

September 21, 2021   Asha Owens, is one of 50 founders selected for Google for Startups program focused on high potential startups from Black entrepreneurs based in the U.S.  BestFit, Inc., an early-stage startup addressing basic…

Imagine being able to invest in a diverse portfolio of residential real estate properties around Atlanta’s rapidly growing market that not only delivers a great return, but also empowers the people in the properties that you’re invested…

By: Franzene Minott   Home-delivered meal kit services are exploding, and it’s no wonder. The now $10 Billion global industry combines the advantages of “fast food” and “slow food” by delivering easy-to-make, healthy and…

Healthcare Georgia Foundation is pleased to announce Carver State Bank as a recipient of the Foundation’s recent Strategic Health Impact Investment funding in the amount of $100,000. Since 2019, the Foundation has worked to identify organizations…

Announcing the Community Guarantee Pool, powered by the GoATL Fund   ATLANTA – June 8, 2021 – At a time of heightened need across the region, the GoATL Fund (GoATL), an initiative of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta,…

By: Brent Hobson, Project Manager at Cherry Street Energy   Where do you see yourself in 14 years? How about 29? Weird timelines, I know, but I ask because 2035 and 2050 are fairly significant dates. Organizations across the globe…

  Entrepreneur Name: Kevin Mobolade  Venture Name: Swipe Credit  Impact Focus Area(s): Financial Inclusion  Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later, Mature): Early  Year Venture Established: 2021  Business…

At the end of 2020, Crossing Capital Group, Inc. (CCG) established the The Oikos Institute for Social Impact (Oikos) to create mutually supportive ecosystems with seminaries and universities, foundations, government agencies and denominational…

Last fall, Atlanta Tech Village launched Start It Up Georgia with the mission to provide free training, support, and guidance to all Georgians who wanted to become entrepreneurs.   Here are a few stats on the program: 709 people…

Three activities result in $1 million deployed for COVID-19 recovery and more than $2 million raised for future deployment    ATLANTA – The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s GoATL Fund provides flexible, cost-effective…

By: Ed Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO of 412 Technology   In 2020 alone, it seemed like half of California was on fire, there have been so many hurricanes that we’ve run out of names, and the year is on pace to match 2016 as the hottest…

By: Ben Haynes, Daymaker Giving   “Food education should be a cornerstone of every child’s education." - Erin Croom, founder of Small Bites Adventure Club in Atlanta, Georgia Daymaker believes that everyone should have access…

Entrepreneur Name: Reginald Maisonneuve Venture Name: Aegis LLC Impact Focus Area(s): Financial & Economic Transformation for the consumer, enterprise & government. Core areas include: Financial Health Affordable…

October 2, 2020   Your business looks beyond a P&L statement for this week, this month and even this quarter, because you know that the social impact evolves and pays back over the long term. You know you and your business…

September 2, 2020 Atlanta influences everything, the saying goes, and racial and gender equity in startups is no exception. Atlanta is home to the largest pitch event for underrepresented founders, Startup Runway, which is closing the equity…

August 27, 2020 By: Brent Macon, Chief Partnerships Officer   At its heart, Daymaker is a compassion platform. We believe that giving expands our capacity to love one another while transferring resources so that every kid can develop…

July 29, 2020 By: John Moon, Purposity Summer Intern We believe that humanity is fundamentally good.  Earlier this year, a series of fifteen tornadoes hit Tennessee in a single night, causing a single mother and her teenage daughter…

The Georgia Social Impact Collaborative’s Steering Committee is committed to addressing racism and racial inequities internally and in our work in the community to accelerate the social impact ecosystem across Georgia. We must do and be better.…

Alongside Mission Investors Exchange (MIE), which held its 2020 conference virtually (instead of the originally planned location in Atlanta), GSIC hosted a session on place-based impact investing in Georgia on May 22. With over 75 participants,…

In 2017, PadSplit launched as an innovative new model providing affordable housing for workers who have been unable to keep pace with the city’s rising rents, which according to RentCafe have increased by 65 percent in the last decade. In…

Entrepreneur Name: Mario Cambardella Venture Name: ServeScape Impact Focus Area(s):  Landscape and Environment Business Stage:  Startup Year Venture Established: 2020 Business Type: Private - Landscape Consulting  There…

This post originally appeared on The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta's blog on March 17, 2020.   March 25, 2020 ATLANTA – With children out of school, businesses temporarily closing, performances shuttered and workers…

By: Ian Cohen, TARA Education Technologies March 4, 2020   “Data in education.” Whether you are an experienced educator or just an average community member, when you hear that phrase, I am willing to bet that only a single…

By: Stacy Funderburke, Assistant Regional Counsel & Conservation Acquisition Associate, The Conservation Fund February 26, 2020 In January, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms and Department of Parks & Recreation announced a new…

By: Zeb McLaurin VI January 24, 2020 Globally, there are 821 million people who are hungry. That’s 1 in 9 people on the planet. Every year, nearly 40 million people experience hunger in the United States, including more than 11 million…

Originally posted by The World Economic Forum By: Judy Oh, Global Shaper, Atlanta Hub, BrightHouse January 15, 2020   Millennials and Gen Z will be the majority of the workforce in 2020. For younger generations, workplace…

By: Nathan Stuck January 3, 2020 It’s 2020 and times have changed in the business world. More and more every day, becoming the gold standard of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is taking on a bigger role in C-Suite conversations. No…

By: Davion Ziere December 2, 2019 For at least 3,000 years, money (including but not limited to coin, shell, paper and digital currency) has dominated how mainstream society measures value. It was originally developed as a tool to simplify…

The Civic Impact Awards is an awards ceremony hosted by the Center for Civic Innovation to celebrate leaders and organizations who love Atlanta and are fighting for better policies, stronger civic engagement, and an Atlanta that is built for…

Foundations and community lenders scaling outcomes through capital October 9, 2019 Last week, the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (GSIC) hosted leaders from nearly 40 GA-based foundations and 15 community development financial institutions…

Originally posted on Invest Atlanta September 24, 2019 Four Atlanta social ventures have been awarded a total of $200,000 by the Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation and Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc. (AEMI) through the Civic Impact Loan Fund.…

August 29, 2019 By: Pavan Iyer, founder of eightvillage and Backyard ATL Backyard ATL is an affordable housing initiative that provides Atlanta homeowners with backyard space a platform to earn additional income with their property. We…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Nedra Deadwyler Venture Name: Civil Bikes Impact Focus Area(s): Historic Preservation, Community Identity, Culture Work Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later, Mature): Early Year Venture…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Erin Croom Venture Name: Small Bites Adventure Club Impact Focus Area(s): Health & Wellness, Food Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later, Mature): Startup Year Venture Established:…

This post originally appeared on the website of PRNewswire.    ATLANTA, May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) and Conscious Company Media (CCM) will host the inaugural SPECTRUM conference on June…

Atlanta Lands Largest Impact Investing Conference for Foundations Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) takes biannual conference south in 2020 On May 16, 2019, Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) officially announced to its members that Atlanta…

May 7, 2019 By: John Lanier, Executive Director of The Ray C. Anderson Foundation   I wonder how linguists feel when they hear frequently misused words and idioms. Is it like nails on a chalkboard, or do they find this vernacular…

April 24, 2019 By: Brandon Chubb, Chubb Foundation   What better way to spend an evening than to hear elementary school kids pitch innovative products and ideas that they've created all on their own? Well, that's exactly…

April 10, 2019 By: Andrea Jaron, Chief Development Officer, Meals on Wheels Atlanta Meals on Wheels Atlanta is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving our metro area’s seniors in need. In exploring ways to diversify funding sources…

March 23, 2019 By: Jeannie Tarkenton, Founder/CEO, Funding University Being part of the impact investment “ecosystem” these days means you likely have a mash up of issues on your mind because – thankfully – the movement has matured…

February 19, 2019 By: Nikishka Iyengar, Founder and CEO, The Guild   This article originally appeared in Green Money Journal. Growing up in Mumbai, India’s financial hub, it was hard to escape the pervasive Slumdog Millionaire-esque…

December 7, 2018 By: Ted Kietzman 19MBA and Janvi Pamnani 21BBA, Emory University's Goizueta Business School Impact investing is a growing trend in the world of social impact and entrepreneurship. Traditionally, social enterprises were formalized…

SAN FRANCISCO- October 2018- I am the owner of a yoga studio called All Life is Yoga, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Dharma Project, an Atlanta-based non-profit that brings mindfulness and yoga to communities and organizations…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Greg Block, Founder and Chairman Venture Name: First Step Staffing Impact Focus Area(s): Homeless, Workforce Development, Disability Services Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later,…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Grace Fricks, President & CEO Venture Name: Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) Impact Focus Area(s): Small Business Capital with Coaching and Connections, Job Creation, Asset/Wealth Building,…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Judith Winfrey Venture Name: PeachDish Impact Focus Area(s): Agriculture; Environment; Food Products/Organics; Green Consumer Products Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later, Mature):…

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Jason Martin Venture Name: Community Guilds [STE(A)M Truck Program] Impact Focus Area(s): Education, Community Development, Work force development, Professional Development, Capacity Building …

Profile Summary: Entrepreneur Name: Jeffrey Martin Venture Name: honorCode Impact Focus Area(s): Education, Employment Generation Business Stage (Ideation, Startup, Early, Later, Mature): Early Year Venture Established: 2015 …