Impact & Social Good Startups

The Clarion County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is a regional economic development organization supporting business owners, workers, and job creators in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. It promotes the area for living and business expansion, including programs such as a Regional Facade Program.

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Cleantech Group provides market intelligence, innovation advisory, advocacy, and events focused on global cleantech innovation, drawing on proprietary data and an innovation network. It serves corporations, investors, financial and professional services, government and public sector bodies, foundations and non-profits, and cleantech start-ups and scale-ups.

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Cleantech Open is a non-profit business accelerator for early-stage clean technology startups, providing training to entrepreneurs building clean and sustainable technologies. Since 2005 it has trained over 4,000 entrepreneurs from more than 2,100 startups across cleantech innovation hubs in the U.S. and globally.

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Clear Frontier Ag acquires and converts conventional farmland to certified organic and regenerative farming across the Midwest, partnering with family farms to generate financial returns while delivering environmental and social impact. The company manages a portfolio of farmland focused on capturing organic crop price premiums while improving soil health, reducing chemical inputs, and supporting rural communities.

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Clearspace advocates for reduced screen time in childhood and promotes outdoor activity and unstructured play. The organization engages parents through a community focused on supporting healthier childhood development.

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Clever Leaves produces pharmaceutical-grade cannabis extracts and flowers, holding EU-GMP certification and exporting to over 15 countries. It supplies partners in the medical cannabis industry, emphasizing regulatory compliance, large-scale cultivation capacity, and environmentally sustainable growing practices.

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Click Learning is an NGO that helps under-resourced primary schools in South Africa improve foundational literacy and numeracy skills through online learning programmes tailored for young learners. The organization also creates employment for unemployed youth who support school implementation of these programmes.

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Climate-KIC works on place-based climate transformations and climate entrepreneurship programmes, running initiatives such as NetZeroCities and an Adaptation Innovation Cluster in Tanzania. It supports local climate action and resilience, with a focus on European cities and other regions.

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Climate Dividends is a non-profit initiative offering a standardised extra-financial mechanism and public protocol to measure a company's avoided or removed CO2 emissions and attribute that positive decarbonisation contribution to its shareholders and investors. It serves companies and investment funds seeking to quantify, audit, and communicate their climate impact through a transparent registry and third-party verification.

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Climate Engagement Canada is a finance-led initiative that facilitates dialogue between the finance sector and industry to support a transition to a net zero economy. It engages investors and companies in Canada around climate action.

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Climate Hero Club maintains a directory that features people and companies working on climate and sustainability, and builds a community around them.

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ClimateIC (Climate Innovation Capital) is a venture firm that invests in mid-stage, commercially proven climate technology companies across buildings, industrials, energy and power, agriculture and food, transportation, and waste and recycling. It targets cost-competitive solutions that reduce carbon while supporting the decarbonization of the global economy.

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A directory listing Australian climate tech companies that use scalable technology to address climate change, alongside organisations supporting the country's climate tech ecosystem.

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ClimateTrade operates a carbon marketplace and sustainability platform that enables individuals and companies to calculate their carbon footprint, purchase verified carbon credits, and fund certified sustainability projects globally. The platform serves businesses and consumers seeking to achieve carbon neutrality through traceable funding to reforestation, renewable energy, biodiversity, and community projects.

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Climate Breakthrough is a nonprofit that runs the Climate Breakthrough Award, a global philanthropy program providing selected individuals with $4 million in multiyear, flexible funding to develop and scale bold initiatives for policy, economic, and social transformation addressing the climate crisis. It serves visionary climate strategists worldwide, blending large-scale innovation approaches with an entrepreneurial, venture-style support model.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Climatescape is a community-driven database and index of organizations working on climate solutions, including companies, investors, and NGOs. The platform provides open access to a comprehensive directory of climate tech players to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.

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ClimeCo provides decarbonization and sustainability services, helping organizations reduce, avoid, or remove greenhouse gas emissions. Its work spans carbon reduction projects and environmental restoration, such as mangrove restoration initiatives.

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Closed Loop Center runs pilots and programs to test and scale reuse and compostable packaging systems, including a citywide cup reuse system, working to reduce single-use materials. It evaluates material innovations across focus areas to address packaging and waste challenges.

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Clothes Bin® is a franchise business that places and services clothing and shoe recycling bins in community locations, using its BLIP® bin-monitoring technology to track capacity and optimize collection routes. It offers a semi-absentee franchise model to individual operators across the United States who want to run a recycling collection business.

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Clyn is a work organization and collaboration tool that manages multiple data types including blog posts, allowing teams and individual users to organize, track, and share their work in a centralized platform.

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Coalfield Development runs workforce development and job-training programs in West Virginia, using an "earn and learn" model to prepare and place workers. Its offerings span training initiatives such as PATH and WRAPS alongside social-enterprise programs in areas like agriculture and land restoration.

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CoderDojo runs free community coding clubs where young people learn programming and computing skills, supported by resources, training, and events for club volunteers and organizers. It operates as part of the Code Club community, offering tools to start, manage, and recruit for local clubs.

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Coliba Africa collects and recycles plastic waste across West Africa, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire, with a focus on employing informal waste collectors and women. The company operates collection boxes in urban areas and runs a processing facility to produce rPET (recycled PET) flakes for industrial use.

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CollegeSpring is a nonprofit that partners with schools, districts, and community organizations to deliver teacher-led, in-school test prep with a curriculum and learning management system covering SAT, ACT, and TSIA2 exams. It provides lesson plans, practice tests, and analytics to help students improve English and math skills and meet college and career readiness requirements, operating across the United States.

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