Hope theme #3: Blended Capital
In our December newsletter, we highlighted three themes bringing us hope for 2025. Here’s the final category.
Sophisticated market players know how a blended capital stack can maximize value. With the right mindset, we can use blended capital sources to create social value, such as improved equity, mobility and wellbeing. Whether it’s a private-public partnership, a social enterprise or a collective; here’s to those with the audacity to dream big and leverage capital for good.
Impact PHL
Impact PHL is a nonprofit building an impact investing ecosystem centered on Philadelphia. They are one of the best examples we’ve seen of a robust cross-sectoral approach to place-based economic development.
Obran Coop
Obran puts the engine of business to work for humanity by growing profitable, useful and impactful businesses as a conglomerate of employee-owned cooperatives.
Common Good Alliance
The Common Good Alliance uses real estate development as a mechanism for building prosperity and resilience for Black communities in Cincinnati.
Maycomb Capital
With their flagship Community Outcomes Fund, Maycomb provides flexible debt to further economic mobility. They have proven a model of impact investing that scales human service programs making a tangible improvement to American communities.
