Impact & Social Good Startups

Cadee is a Canadian operator of an online community platform for golfers. Members use it to find courses, record and compare scores, follow other players' rounds and review their own performance statistics.

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Calculus Carbon is a specialist investment bank that raises project-finance capital for Nature-based Solutions projects in the Global South, working with project sponsors and capital providers. It advises on both voluntary-market projects with investment-grade offtake and compliance-market-eligible projects across regimes such as Japan's GX-ETS, Korea's K-ETS, and Singapore's Article 6 pathway.

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California FarmLink is a Community Development Financial Institution that provides affordable financing, business education, and land access support to farmers, ranchers, and fishers with limited financial resources. It focuses on building local food systems and economic and environmental resilience in California.

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Californians for Justice is a statewide youth-powered nonprofit organization in California focused on racial justice, education equity, youth leadership, and civic engagement. It works with young people and communities, including advocacy at the State Capitol, to address racial bias in public schools.

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CalMatters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom producing investigative and explanatory journalism focused on California issues such as politics, health, the economy, justice, education, and the environment. It also builds tools like Digital Democracy to track legislative activity, and runs a College Journalism Network with student reporters.

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California Youth Connection (CYC) is a youth-led nonprofit that mobilizes young people aged 14-24 with lived experience in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, along with adult partners, to advocate for legislative and policy change. It provides its members a platform to engage decision makers in statewide policy reform across California's youth-serving systems.

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Camel Charisma (Kumbhalgarh Camel Dairy) works with camel nomads and artisans in Rajasthan, India to produce camel milk and eco-friendly camel-derived products, operating what it describes as India's first camel micro-dairy. Milk is collected from registered, monitored herds, pasteurized, frozen, and shipped to health-conscious consumers in Delhi and other metros, with the aim of creating sustainable livelihoods and preserving the region's camel heritage.

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Campground is a program operations platform that centralizes program data, workflows, and outcome tracking for social impact organizations and nonprofits. It helps teams manage participant rosters, track milestones, coordinate across partners, and report outcomes to funders and boards.

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Campspace operates a marketplace connecting travelers with outdoor accommodation on private land, emphasizing sustainable stays that reduce carbon emissions compared to conventional tourism.

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The Canada Foundation for Innovation is a Canadian organization that funds state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment at universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions across Canada. It runs funding programs, including the Canada Impact+ Research Infrastructure Fund, to support research, innovation, and commercialization.

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The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) is a corporate governance organization that represents institutional investors holding Canadian public equities, providing company-specific research, webinars, and a governance newsletter to its members. It engages with the boards of Canadian public companies and regulators to promote governance practices on behalf of institutional shareholders in Canada.

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Cancer Hope Network is a nonprofit that matches people facing cancer, and their loved ones, with trained peer mentors who have had similar cancer experiences. It offers personalized emotional support, including services for parents of children with pediatric cancer, Spanish-language mentoring, and support for those considering clinical trials.

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Cancer Lifeline is a nonprofit that provides free or reduced-cost educational presentations, experiential classes, support groups, financial assistance, and 3-day retreats for people affected by cancer. Its programs, offered in partnership with regional medical centers, deliver emotional support, exercise, nutrition, and stress-management services to patients, survivors, and caregivers.

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Cancer Pathways is a Seattle-based nonprofit that provides free support groups, education programs, and community resources for cancer patients, caregivers, and their families and friends. It serves people in Washington state and virtually across the United States, with no referral required and no cost.

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CancerCare is a nonprofit organization providing free support services for people affected by cancer, including counseling, support groups, educational workshops, resource navigation, and financial or co-payment assistance for treatment costs. It serves cancer patients and their caregivers.

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Cancer Research UK funds research across discovery, detection, prevention and treatment of cancer to improve patient outcomes and extend survival. It operates as a research funder and scientific organization serving academic and clinical researchers.

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Candid provides data and information about nonprofits and the social sector, collecting and organizing details on nonprofit activity across many subject areas. It serves analysts, advocates, and philanthropists who rely on this information for insights into the social sector.

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Cantaloupe offers happycampr hire, an AI-driven recruiting tool that automatically screens applicants, schedules interviews, and runs first-round interviews, then hands off to a company's HRIS or payroll system. It targets multi-location operators and franchises, providing turnover, retention, and pay-alignment analytics to reduce bad hires and cost-per-hire.

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CAPE Inclusion Services provides diversity, equity, and inclusion training, consulting, and committee guidance to organizations seeking to develop and execute data-driven DE&I strategies. The company also offers affirmative action and EEO compliance solutions through a partnership with Affirmity.

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Capital Markets Malaysia is an initiative that provides capacity-building programmes, ESG disclosure guides, and co-investment funding schemes to support Malaysia's capital market participants, including public listed companies, SMEs, mid-tier companies, asset managers, and financial intermediaries. It runs centres of excellence focused on developing a sustainable and responsible capital market in Malaysia.

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Caravan is a venture studio that co-founds and accelerates consumer brands and consumer tech companies at the intersection of pop culture and innovation, providing capital and operational support to entrepreneurs. It operates in partnership with entertainment agency CAA, offering portfolio companies access to the CAA ecosystem across sports, entertainment, and impact.

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CarbonClick provides a carbon offsetting solution that lets individuals and businesses purchase and trace certified offset projects, with transparency tools to track the impact of each offset. Its technology integrates into existing systems, and all projects are validated through the company's 7-Point Impact Check.

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Carbon Counts is a B Corp working on environmental impact, including EverForest, a gaming-based initiative that lets players collect tree points that contribute to planting real trees. The company participates in initiatives such as the World Economic Forum's UpLink Biodiversity Challenge and the UN Playing for the Planet program.

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Carbonext develops forest conservation and restoration projects in the Brazilian Amazon, including REDD+ carbon credit programs that keep forests standing while funding community development, jobs, and training. It offers companies carbon-related sustainability solutions supported by advanced monitoring technology and transparent auditing.

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