Impact & Social Good Startups

Rafiki África is a Spanish non-governmental development organization working in Uganda, running projects such as in-kind agricultural microcredits (goats, laying hens, beehives, and maize seeds), schools, boarding houses, and a medical center in the Sembabule and Hoima districts. It prioritizes women and aims to turn subsistence farming into profitable family businesses for communities in Kenziga, Katwe, and surrounding areas.

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Rainbow Chefs Academy is a WASC-accredited supplementary education program that provides standards-aligned health, wellness, and nutrition courses with hands-on cooking experiences for students. It partners with TK-12 schools, districts, after-school networks, camps, and youth organizations to address childhood obesity and diabetes.

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Ramps builds systems to help people from cities and other areas easily travel to and engage with local communities across Japan, aiming to create sustainable relationships between people and regions. The company frames its work around regional living and local community access in Japan amid challenges like climate change and population decline.

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The Rape Recovery Center is a nonprofit community provider of sexual assault services and prevention education, offering survivors advocacy, crisis intervention, and therapy. It also educates the public about the causes, impact, and prevention of sexual violence in Utah.

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Rareform creates durable totes and accessories from upcycled materials, offered through customizable mystery bundles where customers select bundle tiers and receive unique assortments of styles and patterns.

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RCMA is a nonprofit organization serving farmworker families in Florida's rural agricultural regions through early childhood education and support services. The organization operates Head Start programs, pre-kindergarten classes, and primary education initiatives in underserved areas while advocating for migrant and seasonal farmworker rights and family welfare.

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re.green is a Brazilian company focused on large-scale ecological restoration of degraded land in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, using nature-based solutions to rebuild native forests, capture carbon, and conserve biodiversity. It serves clients worldwide, combining research and technology with local communities, and aims to restore one million hectares and capture 15 million tonnes of carbon per year.

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Re.Group designs, builds, owns and operates recycling systems and facilities, providing kerbside recycling, material recovery, organics (FOGO) processing and container deposit schemes for local governments and communities. Founded in 2013, it operates a network of recycling facilities serving more than 4 million people across Australia and New Zealand, and includes an internal engineering team for resource recovery infrastructure.

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Reach Out and Read Washington is the regional affiliate of National Reach Out and Read that partners with pediatric clinicians to promote early childhood literacy through parent-child shared reading during well-child visits. It provides training, technical assistance, and books to clinics across Washington and Oregon, serving tens of thousands of young children and their families.

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Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company that builds an open-source platform to ingest, link, and standardize criminal justice data from across data silos, making it usable for government agencies, researchers, advocates, and policymakers. Its products and analyses help justice systems track progress, inform evidence-based policy, and support the reentry of justice-impacted individuals.

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Reciki operates self-designed material recovery facilities that receive, separate, and prepare recyclable materials from municipal waste, aiming to divert waste from landfills. It is a privately-owned waste management company serving Indonesia's waste and recycling sector.

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ReciVeci runs ReciApp, a mobile app connecting citizens, companies, and grassroots waste pickers to recover recyclable and returnable materials and support inclusive recycling. Operating in Ecuador, it also offers businesses recycling systems, collection events, and advisory services to reduce CO2 footprint and meet ESG goals.

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Reclaimed Textiles sells recycled fabric products to industrial and commercial customers in automotive, manufacturing, janitorial, and construction sectors. The materials offer cost savings, environmental benefits through waste diversion, and high absorbency for cleaning and operational applications.

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Red House is a K-12-focused knowledge brokerage and social impact venture capital firm that works pro-bono with school and district leaders to identify high-need problems and then invests in and curates emerging education technology companies. It serves both school systems and early-stage edtech companies in the institutional K-12 market.

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The Red Wing Port Authority is a municipal economic development organization that attracts, retains, and supports businesses to strengthen the city's tax base and employment. It serves as the primary coordinator for economic and industrial development initiatives in Red Wing.

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Redtech is a fintech company offering digital payment solutions (RedPay) and an energy technology platform (SITCOM) aimed at addressing financial and infrastructure challenges across Africa. It serves banks, businesses, and institutions with payment and energy tech products.

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RADC is a non-profit organization established in 1986 that provides economic and community development services including grants, loans, and business support to the Redwood Area region.

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Regen Network builds digital infrastructure and protocols for measuring, verifying, and financing regenerative ecological projects. It enables land stewards, scientists, and institutions to register environmental initiatives, issue ecological assets, and direct capital toward climate and biodiversity outcomes.

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Regen Organics produces organic fertilizer products to address food insecurity and climate change in emerging economies.

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Regeneration.VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer climate technology. It focuses on regenerating consumer industry value chains to operate within planetary boundaries.

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OroVerde (Tropenwaldstiftung) is a German nonprofit foundation dedicated to protecting tropical rainforests, combining forest conservation with development cooperation and consumer-awareness work. It funds projects such as tree planting, wildfire prevention, and helping farmers form cooperatives to market rainforest cacao, financed through donations.

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Chilli is a mobile app and platform that lets users follow impact creators and take quick actions (around 30 seconds) and donate to support causes such as climate justice, oceans, forests, and human rights. It is aimed at individuals who want to participate in activism and collective action alongside creators.

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REITIUM operates a donation marketplace that funds affordable housing, daycares, and community centers built on surplus church land across North America. It connects donors with vetted church projects serving groups such as veterans, single mothers, seniors, and new immigrants.

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