Impact & Social Good Startups

Gay City is Seattle's LGBTQ+ center, offering health and wellness services, a resource library, arts and culture programming, and youth education for the local LGBTQ community. It also maintains the AIDS Memorial Pathway and runs community connection projects.

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CcHUB Growth Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing between ₦10 million and ₦30 million in seed and early-stage for-profit technology startups building solutions to local challenges in Nigeria. It provides funding, business advisory, and network connections to help portfolio companies scale and attract follow-on funding.

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Generation is a global nonprofit that trains and places unemployed and underemployed adults into jobs across more than 37 professions in technology, healthcare, customer service, skilled trades, and green jobs, connecting candidates to hiring employers. Launched in 2015, it operates through a global hub and in-country affiliates across 17 countries and also conducts workforce research and advocacy.

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Generation Environment is a fintech platform that enables individuals to make tax-deductible donations to vetted environmental nonprofits while building community around modern environmentalism. The company channels philanthropic funds toward climate, nature, and environmental restoration initiatives.

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GenerationAll is a nonprofit organization addressing the generational impact of trauma, specifically sexual violence, using a systems-change approach with trauma-informed experts. It runs community programs such as "Healing Generations in Utah," a free program for survivors and their families focused on early detection and intervention of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

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Generosity Water is a sustainable water technology company that developed proprietary alkalization, treatment, and filtration technology to convert any water source into bioavailable drinking water and provide refillable, plastic-free hydration access. It is moving from water treatment into "water intelligence," offering consumers hydration tracking and metrics while supporting a social mission of safe water access for communities in need.

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Fundación Génesis Empresarial is a Guatemalan nonprofit focused on sustainable socioeconomic development, financial and technological inclusion, offering financing and support services to families, largely rural and women, across Guatemala. It also provides installment-payment products such as CuotasGénesis for consumers.

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GenPride is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides programs and services supporting the well-being and belonging of older LGBTQIA+ adults in Seattle and King County. It operates a community center in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood inside Pride Place, an LGBTQ+ affirming senior housing hub.

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GenZero is an investment platform that invests in and partners with companies working toward a net zero future, aiming to build a carbon ecosystem and generate both financial returns and climate impact.

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The Georgia Research Alliance is a nonprofit that supports university research and entrepreneurship across Georgia by funding scientists, backing research infrastructure, and helping launch and grow companies based on university inventions. It works with Georgia's research universities and their researchers to commercialize discoveries in fields such as healthcare and materials.

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Gismo Power operates in renewable energy and serves Native American communities through energy sovereignty initiatives and sustainable building training.

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GIST Impact provides AI-curated, scientifically validated data and analytics for assessing companies' environmental and social impacts, including nature and biodiversity, climate risk, and societal value quantification. It serves businesses, investors, and reporting platforms with impact data delivered via data feeds, APIs, and web apps, supporting regulatory frameworks such as CSRD and double materiality assessments.

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GiveaWhy provides AI-powered fundraising software for nonprofits that automates donor research, grant writing, and personalized outreach to acquire new donors and increase retention. The platform helps nonprofit organizations raise more funds with less manual effort and administrative work.

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GiveMeTap sells reusable water bottles and operates a network of refill locations at participating cafes and restaurants; 20% of bottle revenue funds clean water access projects in Africa through partnerships with NGOs.

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Givergy provides a fundraising platform for events and charities, with tools for live and silent auctions, mobile and sealed bidding, raffles, donations, ticketing, and event check-in. It serves nonprofits and organizations running fundraising events.

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Givers enrolls, supports, and pays family caregivers through state Medicaid programs, helping them access financial support and coaching to care for loved ones at home.

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GiveSmart provides fundraising and donor management software for nonprofits and schools, with tools for online campaigns, mobile bidding auctions, event ticketing, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donor tracking. It serves organizations ranging from large global nonprofits to smaller local operations.

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GiveWell is a nonprofit that researches and evaluates charities to identify those that save or improve the most lives per dollar, publishing its cost-effectiveness analyses and recommending a small set of top charities in global health and well-being. It also directs donations to those charities through funds and direct giving, primarily for individual donors seeking high-impact giving options.

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Tab for a Cause is a browser tab extension that raises money for charity when users open new tabs, run by a small team based in California. It operates a community-driven charitable giving product.

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Glass Half Full is a glass recycling operation that collects glass through residential, commercial, drop-off, and event pickups, and runs programs such as coastal restoration (ReCoast) and Mardi Gras beads recycling. It offers recycling services and related environmental initiatives.

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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), based at the University of Washington, produces data and evidence on global health to inform health policy and practice. It collaborates with partners worldwide on research aimed at improving population health.

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Global Cast is a Japanese company that markets and distributes infrastructure services, including telecommunications, to customers nationwide through a multi-channel sales model. It also provides sustainability support to small and mid-sized firms, including its SX Survey service for visualizing non-financial ESG data.

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Global Health Uganda (GHU) is a non-profit organization that conducts and facilitates research in child health, neurodevelopment, and interventions, running studies on conditions such as malaria and pediatric sickle cell anemia. It provides research infrastructure and grants management to support health scientists collaborating in Uganda.

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Global Partnerships is an investment fund manager that deploys capital to social enterprises providing market-based products and services for people living in poverty, focused on income generation and life improvement. The fund operates multiple investment initiatives targeting smallholder farmers, women's health access, and related impact sectors.

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