Impact & Social Good Startups

Circular Design Guide is an educational resource helping innovators and businesses transition to circular economy principles, providing design thinking frameworks and solutions for sustainable, regenerative business models.

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Climate Designers is a global community platform and professional network that connects designers and creative professionals committed to using their skills for climate action. The organization provides education, job matching, and peer support to help design professionals and leaders integrate climate solutions into their work.

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The Conduit hosts events and talks featuring public figures discussing social and political topics, such as leadership and global conflicts. It operates as a membership community and events venue focused on social impact.

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The Families and Workers Fund is a philanthropic fund and coalition of philanthropies that makes grants and builds partnerships to advance workforce development, better-quality careers, and access to poverty-reducing public benefits. It focuses on improving economic security and upward mobility for families and workers in the United States.

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The Flossy Organization is a grassroots nonprofit that works to close the advocacy gap in marginalized communities through intergenerational civics training, issue-based campaigns, and grassroots mobilization. It provides education, training, and support to build a movement of community advocates, with a focus on social justice and inclusivity.

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The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is an industry membership body for impact investing, working to grow the practice's scale and effectiveness worldwide. It provides impact investors with industry information, tools, resources, and a global community through membership, events, and networking.

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The Giving Hub is an online donation platform that lets people give cash or goods to nonprofits, and provides nonprofits with tools to meet needs and connect with supporters. It is a Giving Tuesday initiative run in collaboration with Bonterra, AWS, and Amazon Business.

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The Global Fund is a multilateral partnership that finances and coordinates the global response to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, raising and investing over $4 billion annually to fight these infectious diseases in more than 100 low- and middle-income countries. It works by uniting governments, civil society, health workers, communities, and private sector partners to scale proven solutions and strengthen health systems.

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The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit focused on advancing alternative protein innovation, including plant-based meat, cultivated meat, and fermentation. It works internationally to reduce the environmental impact of meat production and modernize how meat is made.

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The Good Riders (Good Food Land, SL) is a special employment center that creates quality jobs for people with disabilities, offering last-mile delivery of food and parcels, vocational training, and contact center/telemarketing services. Founded in 2020 in Bilbao, it focuses on labor inclusion of people with disabilities into the ordinary job market.

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The Great Bubble Barrier builds Bubble Barrier systems that use a curtain of air bubbles to capture plastic waste across the full width and depth of rivers and canals, preventing it from reaching the ocean. The company also monitors plastic levels in waterways to inform policy and raise awareness about plastic pollution.

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Guardian Summit is an annual conference for funders, investors, and entrepreneurs from under-resourced communities, hosted by Camelback Ventures and its partners. The 2026 edition takes place June 9–11 at the Four Seasons Hotel in New Orleans, with a 2027 event scheduled for June 8–10.

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The Human Utility (formerly the Detroit Water Project) runs a platform that matches U.S. families struggling to afford water and other essential utility bills with donors who make payments directly to utility companies. It also analyzes utility data to design interventions targeting the underlying causes of unaffordable bills.

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The Idea Village is a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization that supports regional startups and their founders through mentorship and resources. The organization aims to foster entrepreneurship and help early-stage companies achieve rapid growth and success.

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The Industrial Commons is a nonprofit rooted in Morganton, North Carolina that builds community-owned businesses and cooperatives to create quality jobs and equitable local economies in rural Appalachia. The organization supports workers through workforce development, business incubation, capital provision, and transition to employee ownership models.

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A mental health clinic offering therapy, coaching, and community support specifically for fathers, with particular focus on men of color. The organization helps fathers reconnect with their children and address intergenerational trauma.

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The LA Local is a nonprofit news organization serving the Los Angeles region with community-focused journalism covering local neighborhoods. It provides free, independent, and nonpartisan news that aims to strengthen communities and reflect the perspectives of Angelenos.

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The Meloy Fund is an impact investment fund focused on supporting fishing and seafood enterprises in the Philippines and Indonesia that adopt sustainable practices and improve livelihoods for local fishers. The fund invests in SMEs across wild-caught seafood, mariculture, and aquaculture supply chains, alongside enabling infrastructure and sector-building initiatives.

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Washington Nature works on environmental conservation in the Columbia River Basin, pursuing habitat restoration, policy advocacy, and clean energy capacity-building in partnership with Tribes and First Nations to support salmon recovery and local communities and economies.

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The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit organization, founded in 2014, that works to steer transformative technologies toward benefiting humanity and away from large-scale risks. It focuses on AI safety and governance, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons through policy research, grantmaking, advocacy campaigns, and public communications.

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The People's Land Fund raises capital to acquire and return ancestral and agricultural lands to indigenous communities and farmers of color, focusing on land stewardship, cultural restoration, and equitable farming livelihoods.

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The Phluid Project is a Queer-owned apparel and retail business founded in 2018 that emphasizes inclusivity and community values. The company designs and sells clothing with a focus on celebrating diverse identities across body types, gender expression, and backgrounds.

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The Policy Project is a nonprofit organization that uses policy advocacy and community engagement to address systemic issues and create lasting social change at the state level.

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The Reach Trust develops mobile-first technology solutions focused on education and social inclusion in South Africa. The organization works to enable knowledge-based economic transition through programs in early childhood development and youth skills development.

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