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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...

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...

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...

The Care Access Real Estate (CARE) Investment Trust is a unique child care investment strategy in a $100M+ diversified, risk-mitigated real estate portfolio of commercial and residential properties. Within 10 years, CARE intends to IPO into a public REIT and drive massive investment capital into the child care system. Child care in America has been largely neglected and severely undercapitalized...

Established in 1971, Kokua Market is the first natural foods cooperative in Hawaii, and the only one in Honolulu. Its mission is: “to promote the economic welfare and nutritional well-being of our patrons by providing information, group activities, and auxiliary services for mutual advantage, and to accomplish the foregoing in accordance with the Rochdale Cooperative Principles of voluntary and...

Natural Provisions is an all-natural, pre-packaged / ready-to-eat food manufacturer and direct-store-delivery (DSD) distribution business serving the entire Northern California region, from as far north as Sacramento and Santa Rosa to as far south as Santa Cruz.  On a daily basis, we prepare fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, burritos, and dips that feature nutritious, wholesome ingredients with...

Bags is unlocking access to credit for the fastest-growing segments of the small business economy: Minority and Women-owned businesses. They do it by ensuring every business has tools to assess financial health and financing eligibility, and we provide hands-on technical support pre- and post-financing to increase success rates, economic impact, and total available credit over time. The Bags...

Farm Link Hawaii markets itself as Hawaiʻi’s premier online local food marketplace, connecting statewide farmers, ranchers, and food makers with the state’s largest retail consumer market on Oʻahu. Established to address Hawaiʻi’s broken food system and food deserts, FLH has evolved from B2B to B2C to meet growing consumer demand for fresh and “only found here” Hawaiʻi foods. Its operations...