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YourCause makes good intentions survive the paperwork
A failed consumer model became a business selling employers the machinery of generosity. Now YourCause from Blackbaud is tackling the gap between making a donation and getting it where it belongs.
Ethic: Your index fund has no idea who you are
Ethic turns personal convictions into custom portfolios, then deals with the awkward business of taxes, risk and scale. The interesting part is how much work sits behind a seemingly simple preference.
3BL Bought the Neighborhood. Now It Wants to Measure the Conversation.
The Northampton company spent years assembling the specialist outlets of responsible business. Its next wager is that corporate reputation can be distributed, benchmarked and even read through the eyes of an AI.
Good intentions need a project manager
The Social Impact Firm helps organizations do the work their missions demand. For founder Bree Jensen, that work became personal when the Eaton Fire destroyed her family home.
Miller Ink knows which part of the story travels
A Banksy on a building. A lullaby on a screen. A statement before a deadline. The Los Angeles communications firm works on the small decisions that determine whether a message gets through.
Civic Champs Turned Volunteer Paperwork Into a Product - Then the World Stopped Volunteering in Person
The Indiana startup began with a clever geofenced check-in. COVID broke that premise almost overnight - and forced the team to build the broader operating system nonprofits had been asking for all along.
BlueMark
BlueMark is an independent impact verification and market-intelligence firm for the sustainable and impact investing industry. Spun out of impact consultancy Tideline in 2020 and led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud, it audits how asset managers, allocators and issuers measure, manage and report the social and environmental impact of their investments. Its verifications, benchmarks and analytics - including the flagship 'Making the Mark' report and the BlueMark IQ intelligence platform - help investors prove their impact claims are credible and reduce the risk of impact-washing.
Resilia
Resilia is a New Orleans-based B2B SaaS company that helps nonprofits build organizational capacity and helps funders - foundations, corporations, governments and banks - go beyond the grant with coaching, technical assistance, and impact intelligence. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson (who first built the nonprofit-formation tool ExemptMeNow), the two-sided platform pairs on-demand courses, templates and fundraising tools for grassroots organizations with dashboards that let grantmakers track and scale impact across their portfolios. Resilia raised a $35M Series B in 2022 - the largest venture round ever for a solo Black-female-founded tech company.
OpenInvest, a J.P. Morgan company
OpenInvest is a San Francisco fintech that built the first automated platform for values-based investing, letting advisors and their clients tilt portfolios toward causes like decarbonization, deforestation-free supply chains and workforce diversity while tracking measurable impact. Founded in 2015 as one of the very few VC-backed Public Benefit Corporations and backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and QED, it was acquired by J.P. Morgan in 2021 and folded into the bank's Private Bank and Wealth Management offerings, where its technology powers personalized ESG customization and impact reporting at scale.