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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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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

TruFund Financial Services

This investment supports TruFund’s Impact Developers Fund (IMD), which was established to support BIPOC and women-owned housing developers across the U.S. who lack access to affordable capital and support from conventional sources. IDF aims to build and support the ecosystem of BIPOC and women-owned housing developers by providing critical balance sheet equity capital and technical assistance. View Website

Amount

$3M equity investment

Year

2022

Location

New York, NY

Program

American Cities, Detroit

Focus Area

Pathway Lending

The Memphis Medical District Investment Fund seeks to remedy the appraisal gap in mixed-use commercial real estate in the market by forward-committing permanent financing based on a loan-to-cost ratio paired with a flexible construction loan. The goal is to pull forward what would be15-20 years of development in the district into the next 5-7 years. View Website

Amount

$6M guarantee

Year

2021

Location

Nashville, TN

Program

American Cities, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Fresno Housing Authority

This program-related investment loan will allow the Fresno Housing Authority the flexible capital needed to pursue a robust pipeline of Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects in Fresno between 2020 and 2022 and to test new ideas and objectives, including Black homeownership, motel conversion, and Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH). View Website

Amount

$2 million loan

Year

2020

Location

Fresno, CA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

NewCorp

Geography Served: New Orleans, LA

Project: BuildNOLA Mobilization Fund

The BuildNOLA Mobilization Fund launched in 2016 as a pilot to test the efficacy of a revolving loan pool to support Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) working on public sector projects with a focus on African American-owned DBEs. This guarantee, converted from a prior approved program-related investment loan, will support a $10 million fully capitalized fund that over the long-term will strengthen disadvantaged businesses’ ability to bid and execute on a pipeline of public contracts, access roles as prime contractors and, over time, build wealth among these business owners and their employees.   View Website

Amount

Up to $2 million guarantee

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities, Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Pathway Lending

Geography Served: Memphis, TN

Project: Memphis Small Business Mezzanine Fund

Pathways Lending is a CDFI that provides lending solutions and educational services to support the development, growth, and preservation of underserved small businesses, affordable housing, and sustainable communities. With this program-related investment loan, Pathways will team with Epicenter Memphis, an entrepreneur hub focused on the underserved, to provide Pathway’s small business investment services to black-led businesses in Memphis, helping them to grow their businesses and drive social and economic mobility for business owners, their employees and communities. View Website

Amount

Up to $2.5 million loan

Year

2018

Location

Nashville, TN

Program

American Cities, Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Aura Mortgage Advisors

Geography Served: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Chicago and urban areas of New Jersey

Project: Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods (SUN)

Aura Mortgage Advisors helps families who have a steady income – but can’t make their monthly mortgage payments due to hardship – remain in their homes. This guarantee supported SUN’s application to the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program (BGP). The successful application unlocked $100 million of long-term fixed-rate financing to scale SUN and encouraged the BGP to adjust its structure and underwriting criteria to permit a wider range of community development projects for financing. View Website

Amount

$3 million guarantee

Year

2017

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area