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$2.5 million investment in SolarAPP Foundation

Realize Impact is pleased to announce its $2.5M investment in SolarAPP Foundation. Solar Automated Permitted Portal (SolarAPP+) is an online instant permitting software for eligible rooftop residential solar and storage projects, designed to help code authorities achieve safe, code compliant rooftop solar and storage installations. This platform will reduce wait times and lower installation costs...

$50 million+

We launched our philanthropic investment program in February 2020 and by the end of 2023 averaged over $1 million per month in donations. Since the launch, we’ve received more than $50 million in total, accounting for more than 800 transactions. Please help us continue this growth. Make a philanthropic investment today. In what? Check our our blog for our investments and check out The Liist...

Ownify enables first-time homebuying through incremental equity

Ownify is a fractional homeownership program for first-time homebuyers. Instead of using a mortgage to purchase a home, participants in Ownify (“Ownis”) purchase incremental equity with each monthly payment and grow their ownership stake in their home. Once an Owni has a 10% equity stake, they can qualify for a traditional mortgage. We love this approach because it improves access to home...

NOW RECRUITING: BOARD OF DIRECTORS + INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Now recruiting for our Board of Directors and our Investment Committee! Interested in one or both of these roles with a dynamic, high-growth nonprofit in the impact investing arena? Learn more and apply here: Board of Directors Investment Committee Despite our audacious use of AI-generated imagery in this post, rest assured our Board and IC meetings are unlikely to include potted plants or take...

We’re hiring an Associate!

Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, final deadline is April 19 Location: Remote, with preference for Seattle metro area Start Date: Q2 2024 Total compensation including benefits (see below for details): $66,850-$87,650 Benefits: Flexible PTO, 401k company match, Health Reimbursement Arrangement, Section 127 Qualified Educational Assistance Program (student loan...

$1+ million per month

Realize Impact launched the philanthropic investment grants service in February 2020 and by the end of 2023 averaged over $1 million per month in donations, more than $37 million in total since launch, processing more than 400 individual donations. Please help us continue this growth. Make a philanthropic investment today. In what? Check our our blog for our investments and check out The Liist...

TerraFund 2023/2024 is Africa Trees

Realize Impact partnered with WRI in 2022 to launch the TerraFund, investing in for-profit companies restoring land in Africa. In 2023, we’ve created Africa Trees Ltd. as a for-profit company to organize those investments. The initial cohort of investments have been made. Over a dozen companies based in Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ghana: Emfed Farms is an agribusiness that makes cocoa...

Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your IRA

If you are over age 70½ (or know someone who is) you can reduce your taxes, even if you don’t itemize deductions on your tax return, by making a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your IRA.  How does this work?These transfers, known as qualified charitable distributions or QCDs, offer eligible older Americans a great way to easily give to charity before the end of the year...

Fiscally Sponsoring: gDiapers

In 2002, pregnant with their first child, Jason & Kim Graham-Nye learned 300,000 disposable diapers are thrown away every minute around the world! Before they new it, dirty diapers; the waste they create; and how to fix them, became their life’s work. gDiapers launched the “hybrid diaper” in 2005 with the world’s first Cradle to Cradle Certified disposable insert that tucked inside soft...

Fiscally Sponsoring: Baraka Impact Finance

ba·ra·ka: Swahili, Hebrew & Arabic for a blessing Baraka Impact Finance aims to connect impact investors, donors, and experts to global health innovators. barakaimpact.com Realize Impact is Baraka’s “fiscal sponsor“, a service where donors can provide donations to organizations that do work similar to a 501c3 nonprofit, but which themselves are not organized as a 501c3...