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Social Investments Made

A database of all social investments made since 2009. We update this listing several times a year as new investments are committed.

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PosiGen

PosiGen is a solar panel installation company that offers residential solar and energy efficiency services to low-to-moderate-income homeowners. Kresge's loan will help PosiGen succeed and scale its work in existing and new markets. View Website

Amount

$812,957 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

People’s Solar Energy Fund

The People's Solar Energy Fund aggregates community solar projects in low and moderate-income communities across the country to secure financing at scale with a path to local ownership. These high-impact investments contribute to wealth building, job creation, racial justice, resilience, and a more democratic economy. Kresge's loan will expand availability of pre-development capital of communiy-based solar developers and others. View Website

Amount

$1 million program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Albany, NY

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Greenprint Partners

Greenprint Partners' mission is to use natural techniques to create the sustainable and equitable infrastructure that improves communities and the environment. This loan bridged several government-funded projects. View Website

Amount

$500,000 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Cooperative Energy Futures

CEF envisions a future where teams of people in every community are working to produce, manage and wisely use the energy that they need to thrive. They do that by equipping members to build socially-just climate solutions through projects that ensure community ownership, enable participation by households of all incomes and create pathways into the solar workforce for local community members. View Website

Amount

$1 million program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Cadence OneFive

This loan provides financial support for software designed primarily for owners of large portfolios of affordable housing developments, which facilitates building decarbonization planning and execution at the portfolio level. View Website

Amount

$500,000 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

New York, NY

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Together New Orleans

This loan supports predevelopment financing, working capital and construction financing for solar + storage systems installed on power resiliency centers and community solar, primarily in Orleans Parish or surrounding parishes, as part of the Community Lighthouse project View Website

Amount

$2 million program-related investment

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities, Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Working Power Impact Fund

This subsidiary of Urban Ingenuity will receive a $1.1 million program-related investment loan to bring community solar to environmental justice groups and affordable housing developments. View Website

Amount

$1.1 million program-related investment

Year

2022

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

RE-volv

This guarantee supports long-term debt financing from a traditional banking institution via a 20% credit enhancement. RE-volv will use the loan from a credit provider benefiting from the proposed guarantee as long-term debt which, together with tax equity, will provide the permanent take-out financing for projects developed with Kresge's related PRI capital. View Website

Amount

$1 million guarantee

Year

2022

Location

San Franscisco

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

RE-volv

This program-related investment loan will provide predevelopment and construction financing for solar systems primarily for houses of worship, especially those in partnership with the Department of Energy, Green the Church (a membership organization of Black churches focused on power building and promoting sustainable practices), and Interfaith Power & Light. View Website

Amount

$1.5 million program-related investment

Year

2022

Location

San Franscisco

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Collective Energy Company

This guarantee will provide credit enhancement to Capital Fund, a CDFI that specializes in providing financing to community health centers. A loan from Capital Fund will provide Collective Energy with long-term debt, which will help to provide the permanent/take-out financing for projects developed with Kresge's related PRI capital. View Website

Amount

$1 million guarantee

Year

2022

Location

Ojai, California

Program

Environment, Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity

Collective Energy Company

Geography Served: National

Project:

This loan aims to enable Collective Energy to finance predevelopment and construction activities for solar+storage projects at community health centers. View Website

Amount

$2 million program-related investment

Year

2022

Location

Ojai, California

Program

Environment, Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity

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Michigan Saves

This loan will allow Michigan Saves to carry out a project lending directly to homeowners, small businesses and nonprofits located in low- and moderate-income areas of Detroit for energy retrofitting, building electrification and solar panel installation. The loan will allow Michigan Saves to address a critical market gap, as areas of Detroit and other low-to-moderate income areas of the state do not get their fair share of lending capital for this purpose. View Website

Amount

$2.5M loan

Year

2021

Location

Lansing, MI

Program

Detroit, Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

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BlocPower

This guarantee supports BlocPower’s goals of increasing energy retrofitting and “electrification” (elimination of on-site fossil fuel combustion) in the most disinvested city neighborhoods by supporting its ability to attract significant capital market investment. The guarantee also will support the first “whole-of-city” approach to these issues through BlocPower’s partnership with Ithaca, New York . View Website

Amount

$3 million guarantee

Year

2021

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Greenprint Partners

The purpose of this convertible note is to enable Greenprint Partners to make certain enterprise-level investments such as hiring its first Chief Financial Officer, completing a strategic planning process, and developing new markets. Greenprint’s mission and focus is to bring the benefits of green stormwater infrastructure to communities that are often overlooked and not prioritized for water infrastructure-related investments. View Website

Amount

$750,000 loan

Year

2020

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

PosiGen

Geography Served: Louisiana, Connecticut and New Jersey

Project:

The investment will contribute to the continued growth of PosiGen, as the company works to close the clean-energy-affordability gap by making solar and energy efficiency available to all homeowners. View Website

Amount

$5 million loan

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

New York City Energy Efficiency Corp.

Geography Served: National

Project: Financing Resilient Power

Financing Resilient Power is a guarantee facility that will increase climate resilience in low-income communities. Backed by this Kresge guarantee, NYCEEC will make investments in solar + storage and stand-alone solar PV projects in multi-family affordable housing, other supportive housing, commercial facilities and mixed-use projects, among others. View Website

Amount

$3 million guarantee

Year

2018

Location

New York, New York

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

City of Baltimore

Geography Served: Baltimore, Maryland

Project: Baltimore Stormwater Environmental Impact Subordinate Revenue Notes

This program-related investment loan supported the purchase of Baltimore Stormwater Environmental Impact Subordinate Revenue Notes from the City of Baltimore. This work is an outgrowth and continuation of grant-funded work with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) to advance green infrastructure and innovative financing mechanisms in climate-vulnerable, underserved communities in the Chesapeake Bay Region. The project will include construction of more than 100 green infrastructure sites, which will vastly increase the use of this climate change resiliency measure in Baltimore, where currently there are just a handful of sites. View Website

Amount

Up to $4 million loan

Year

2019

Location

Baltimore, Maryland

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

Inclusive Prosperity Capital

Geography Served: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic; eventually National

Project: Increasing financing for climate resilience

Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC) addresses the green energy financing gap by increasing access to capital for low-to-moderate income communities and nontraditional credits like nonprofits, faith-based organizations, housing authorities, schools, and small businesses. This guarantee will help IPC attract private capital investments to support its financing of clean energy and other climate resilience projects. Projects will include third-party solar for housing authorities, community facilities, and municipal buildings, and it will also support clean energy for affordable single- and multi-family developments. IPC will also work in partnership with developers operating in underserved markets with technology solutions or business model innovations that have yet to reach adequate scale to attract investment from the capital markets. View Website

Amount

Up to $10 million guarantee

Year

2018

Location

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Greenprint Partners

Fresh Coast Capital (FCC) is a mission-driven project developer that helps cities develop and finance community-focused green storm water infrastructure with intentional community engagement. This program-related investment will provide critical growth capital to FCC, helping the company to accelerate the development of its team, lines of business, and customer base. View Website

Amount

$750,000 loan

Year

2017

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Saint Paul Port Authority

Geography Served: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

Project: Kresge Community Finance

Saint Paul Port Authority (SPPA) is a Development Finance Agency (DFA) that works to improve people’s lives by building vibrant economic communities through good paying jobs and property tax revenue. This loan will be used to finance energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects in low-income communities in Minneapolis-St. Paul. View Website

Amount

$3 million loan

Year

2017

Location

St. Paul, Minnesota

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

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