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Baraka Impact Finance aims to connect impact investors, donors, and experts to global health innovators.
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 nonprofit.
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...
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...
Matriark Foods makes healthy vegetable pantry staples that eliminate food waste by upcycling farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants. Their products reduce greenhouse gasses, provide more revenue for farmers, and create greater access to healthy food. Anna Hammond, founder and CEO of Matriark Foods Thirty-seven percent of all food grown in the U.S. is wasted, a third of which is edible and fresh...
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...