Impact & Social Good Startups

CHAKO Zanzibar is a social enterprise that collects glass and plastic waste from hotels, resorts, restaurants, and bars and upcycles it into handcrafted glassware, home décor, terrazzo products, and custom items for consumers and business clients. Based near the Kidichi spice farms in Zanzibar, it also trains local artisans and runs workshop tours and sustainability awareness programs.

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Challenge Works manages the Longitude Prize, a historically-rooted awards program addressing global challenges through competitive grants. The organization convenes expert boards to identify and evaluate solutions to pressing scientific and industrial problems.

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Chancen is a financial inclusion NGO that provides education financing solutions for underserved youth in Africa, particularly women, rural, and low-income individuals, enabling access to quality higher education and training aligned with job market demands. The organization uses an income-linked repayment model designed to increase graduate lifetime earnings and establish education finance as an investable asset class.

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Change Finance was a sustainable investing company founded in 2016 that built values-aligned financial products, including its flagship ETF (CHGX) focused on socially responsible and sustainable investing. The company has wound down operations, and its ETF now continues as the Stance Sustainable Beta Fund under Stance Capital.

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The Changing Markets Foundation is a nonprofit organization that designs and supports advocacy campaigns to shift market demand toward sustainable products and away from environmentally and socially harmful companies. It works with NGO coalitions, conducts research and supply-chain investigations, and leverages market forces to accelerate solutions to sustainability challenges including climate change, resource scarcity, and corporate greenwashing.

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Chargerzilla operates a community-driven platform that connects EV drivers with charging infrastructure across North America, including residential, private, and commercial charging stations. The platform uses AI to optimize charging costs and grid management while helping property owners generate income from their chargers.

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Charity: Water is a nonprofit organization that funds and implements water infrastructure projects to provide clean and safe water to underserved communities across multiple countries.

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A nonprofit foundation that works to improve California's health care system with a focus on equity and access for low-income residents and underserved communities. The organization partners with health care safety-net providers to advance data-driven improvements and policy initiatives.

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Chhaya is a digital-first micro-insurance enabler offering affordable, plain-language insurance plans and fast claims through a mobile app and web portal. It targets the emerging middle class and underserved communities with low-cost policies and quick purchase and claims processes.

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Child Care Aware of Washington provides resources for families seeking child care and for child care providers, and advocates for solutions to the child care crisis in Washington State through its Child Care for WA campaign.

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Akin is a nonprofit serving children and families across Washington state, offering a spectrum of tailored support services to improve family health and well-being. It works with local organizations, schools, and community leaders to reduce barriers to care and address multi-generational inequity.

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Child's Dream is a charitable, not-for-profit organization operating in Southeast Asia that provides basic and higher education as well as health services. The organization operates across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand with headquarters in Chiang Mai.

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Chill.com publishes wellness content focused on stress, recovery, sleep, and gut health, with references to supplements for supporting the body under sustained stress. The site addresses consumers seeking to manage burnout and recover from chronic stress.

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Chime offers fee-free consumer banking products—including basic banking, credit-building tools, and low-cost liquidity—built on a vertically integrated, cloud-native platform with in-house payments, ledger, and data capabilities, delivered through bank partnerships and monetized via interchange fees. It also provides Chime Workplace, a no-cost enterprise offering that lets employers give employees early pay access, credit building, and savings tools, serving everyday consumers across all 50 U.S. states.

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CISC is a community organization offering wrap-around social services, including support for survivors, youth and children's culturally and linguistically responsive programs, immigrant family assistance, elder care, and help accessing affordable healthcare coverage. It serves immigrant families, youth, and older adults throughout King County using bilingual staff.

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CHIP connects individuals with Black and Latinx financial professionals including advisors, lawyers, and other financial experts. The platform aims to bridge access gaps and help underrepresented communities build wealth and close the racial wealth gap.

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ChirpMe operated a dating service for consumers. Rather than matching solely on profile attributes, it paired users according to shared hobbies and activities.

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Chispa Project is a nonprofit that establishes school libraries and delivers books to schools and organizations in Honduras, using a community-driven approach to build children's access to reading materials. It also trains teachers and provides ongoing support to sustain the libraries it creates.

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Chive Charities operates a platform that represents charities in New Zealand, aiming to present each charity in a clear and consistent way with information that is easy to find. It serves as a central directory for people looking for charities across New Zealand.

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Zhongho Nongxin (中和农信) provides rural financial and community services to farmers and rural households across China, with operations covering over 100,000 villages in more than 500 counties across 21 provincial-level regions. It also runs charitable programs offering emergency financial aid to families facing temporary hardship in its service areas.

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ChromaOm runs an online marketplace for digital design assets such as fonts, graphics, and stock photography. Independent creators list their files for sale, and designers and other content producers buy them for use in their own projects.

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Chrysalis leads educational reform in India's K-12 system through its Thinkroom programme, which develops critical and creative thinking skills in students. The organization serves as a knowledge partner and problem-solver for private organizations and governments across the educational ecosystem.

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Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for social and charitable campaigns, enabling organizers to raise funds for causes while providing supporters a way to contribute to community impact.

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CIC is a venture capital firm that invests in and advises entrepreneurs building life sciences and deep tech companies, positioning itself within a science and technology ecosystem. It emphasizes impact and ESG alongside financial returns.

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