Impact & Social Good Startups

CAIPA Foundation is a not-for-profit funded mainly by physician members of the Chinese-American IPA that runs community service and health awareness programs for Asian American communities through education, advocacy, and access to culturally and linguistically tailored medical services. It offers assistance under the Medicaid 1115 Waiver Program, connecting eligible members in the Greater New York area to food, housing, and community resources in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English.

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Caris Cares Incorporated is a non-profit focused on addressing waste plastic in the environment by providing a central destination for collected waste plastic. It also runs educational presentation programs on plastic waste for all grade levels and adult groups.

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The Change Up Group is a consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations address operational and fundraising challenges through strategic planning, database management, and development operations support. It serves nonprofits across a range of service areas, focusing on the balance of mission-centric messaging, fundraising objectives, and operational efficiency.

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Impala is a software platform that aggregates data on US foundations, nonprofits, and grants to support due diligence, funder prospecting, portfolio analysis, and ecosystem research. It serves foundations, nonprofits, funder networks, and philanthropy advisors with workflow tools for grantmaking and fundraising operations.

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Climate Vault offers organizations a carbon strategy portfolio combining three pathways: buying and retiring allowances from regulated compliance markets like RGGI and CARB, funding methane and super-pollutant mitigation projects, and financing vetted durable carbon removal projects. It targets companies pursuing net-zero and long-term climate goals.

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Colgan Carp Solutions harvests invasive Asian Carp from waterways in the Mississippi River Basin and processes them into fish products for the pet, food, bait, and fertilizer industries. It works with fishermen across Illinois and Kentucky to supply minced, chunked, and specialty fish products while addressing the environmental impact of the invasive species.

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CONBODY is a bodyweight, prison-style fitness program that employs formerly incarcerated individuals as instructors and provides reentry services to returning citizens. It also partners with companies for fitness and CSR programs and operates the CONBODY Foundation in support of its mission to reintegrate the formerly incarcerated community.

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Craft3 is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides loans to businesses, homeowners, and nonprofits, especially those unable to qualify for traditional bank financing. Operating since 1994, it focuses on the Pacific Northwest and addresses systemic racism, the climate crisis, and rural and tribal economies.

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Cully Green is a 23-home cohousing community developed by Orange Splot LLC on about 1.5 acres in Portland's Cully neighborhood, featuring solar/photovoltaic and energy-efficient homes. It offers intentional, multigenerational community living for residents seeking shared, value-based, lower-footprint lifestyles.

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Delta Beer Lab is a craft brewery and taproom in Madison, Wisconsin that positions itself as a community gathering space and runs a Nonprofit Partner program donating proceeds to local organizations. It combines local beer production with social and environmental advocacy.

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Dimagi provides CommCare, a digital platform for frontline workers that combines data collection with job aids, decision support, referrals, training, and client messaging, plus SureAdhere for remote treatment support. It serves social impact organizations and governments across sectors such as health, agriculture, and social services, particularly in global health and development contexts.

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The Diversity Movement provides diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting, leadership coaching, and content, programming, and products to help business leaders achieve organizational change tied to business goals. Its team includes Certified Diversity Executives, business strategists, and educators serving corporate clients.

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Durango operates an early-stage mineral exploration project in the western Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, acquired in 2023 by Durango Gold. The site was previously explored by various companies in the 1960s, Cominco in the 1990s, and Kaizen Discovery in 2015.

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eCIO is an outsourced chief investment officer and advisory service for nonprofits, endowments, foundations, and religious institutions, providing investment policy governance, asset allocation, portfolio management, and reporting. It offers a proprietary communication portal built for nonprofit investment committees and boards, and operates as a fiduciary with fee-based advisory pricing.

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Edie Parker is a consumer products brand that designs lifestyle and fashion goods, including apparel such as its "Boobs on Drugs" tee shirt. The company runs the Edie Parker Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit launched in 2019 that supports criminal justice reform and social causes.

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Eniware develops a power-free, portable sterilization device that adapts Noxilizer's nitrogen dioxide (NO2) sterilant technology to provide sterilization capacity without electricity or water. It targets health professionals delivering safe essential surgery in resource-limited settings such as rural hospitals, refugee camps, military field units, and disaster zones.

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Galileo Education operates schools, including its flagship Galileo Preparatory Academy, and provides education services led by a team with backgrounds in the education sector.

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Giving Docs is a donor-first estate planning platform that helps nonprofits build legacy giving programs by letting donors create wills and document planned gifts. Developed with behavioral scientists from Duke University's Center for Advanced Hindsight, it serves mission-driven organizations across the U.S.

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Global Water Resources is a water resource management utility providing water, wastewater, and recycled water services to the communities it serves. It uses a "Total Water Management" approach to treat and reuse wastewater as recycled water for outdoor use, focused on water conservation and sustainability.

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The Good Charcoal Company sells 100% acacia hardwood lump charcoal for grilling, sourced from harvesting invasive acacia bush in Namibia to restore native grasslands. It runs a "Doin' Good" program that sponsors free weekly BBQs for people experiencing food insecurity across the US.

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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) provides dredging services in the United States, including port deepening, channel maintenance, beach restoration, reservoir capacity restoration, and barrier island development, and also performs international projects. It operates a fleet of hopper, mechanical, and hydraulic dredges plus roughly 200 support vessels, serving infrastructure and coastline protection needs.

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Green Street Impact Partners is an investment firm founded by David Warnock and a team of operators, focused on impact-oriented investing across areas such as education, healthcare, and business services.

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Greenfield Bamboo develops and manages bamboo farms in Florida on behalf of investors, offering farm development and management services designed to enable passive investment in bamboo farming. The company handles site selection, land preparation, plant variety selection, ongoing crop care, and the harvesting, packing, and marketing of fresh bamboo shoots.

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Hakkoda is a data consultancy that applies data analytics and engineering skills to social and environmental causes through its "Data for Good" initiative, partnering with non-profits and research organizations. Its projects include supporting ocean plastic research and marine conservation efforts.

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