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

This program-related investment loan supported Community Reinvestment Fund's efforts to extend Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan application support and oversight to Detroit-area nonprofits. The PPP is a newly created loan guarantee program funded through the 2020 CARES Act. View Website

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

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

This 15-month guarantee will permit the Marygrove Conservancy to obtain an unsecured line of credit of up to $3 million from IFF, a community development financial institution working in the Midwest, to serve as a bridge to cover the initial capital payments for construction of a new early childhood center, part of the cradle-to-career campus at Marygrove.   View Website

LOCUS Impact Investing is an investment advisory firm and subsidiary of Virginia Community Capital, a community development financial institution. It is the program manager for the Community Investment Guarantee Pool, a first-of-its-kind vehicle to allow organizations to pool unfunded guarantee commitments, allowing them to share risk and achieve greater societal impact. The Pool launched in January 2020 with $33.1 million in guarantee commitments from 11 organizations, including national funders, community foundations, health funders, and family offices. The Pool is expected to leverage five dollars to every dollar of guarantee commitment and will back loans in three sectors – affordable housing, small business and climate. View Website

The Arctaris Opportunity Zones Fund was created in partnership with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. It was expected to close at more than $500 million and invest via equity investments in operating businesses location in Opportunity Zones. Arctaris seeks to create living wage jobs through capital access, entrepreneur training and working training. View Website

Cook Inlet Housing Authority’s mission is to create housing opportunities that empower people and build communities. This program-related investment loan and $500,000 companion grant will help the Authority continue its Creative Placemaking work in the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage. The loan dollars will be invested in three nearby commercial developments to accelerate CIHA’s vision for a comprehensive corridor approach to community development in Spenard. View Website

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC) is a private financier of affordable housing and community development throughout Massachusetts. This program-related investment loan supports a collaboration between the Conservation Law Foundation and MHIC through which the partners expect to make at least three investments in health-oriented enterprises in New England, in each case drawing in local health insurer, hospital or other significant entity as a risk-taking co-investor. View Website

Inclusiv is an association of community-development credit unions that advocates for and provides debt and equity-like capital to its members.  It also works to improve the quality and scale of responsible and equitable financial services in underserved communities. The Inclusiv Southern Equity Fund is the first, multi-investor fund for secondary capital investments, which are subordinated loans that low-income serving community development credit unions can count toward regulatory equity minimums. Fund commitments top $40 million dollars, led by this equity investment. View Website

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC) is a private financier of affordable housing and community development throughout Massachusetts. This guarantee investment is a collaboration between the Conservation Law Foundation and MHIC through which the partners expect to make at least three investments in health-oriented enterprises in New England. Projects will be businesses and social enterprises located in low-income neighborhoods that are intended to have a positive health impact on residents. View Website

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

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 program-related investment 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

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

College Forward’s coaching program offers personalized, near-peer mentoring and a strong support network to guide motivated students to and through college. This program-related investment will allow the organization to invest deeply in its comprehensive student database, CoPilot, supporting its long-term development, marketing, and sales strategy. With CoPilot, student access and success organizations can input and analyze critical student data to deliver targeted interventions that help to ensure college completion. View Website

The community development financial institution assists in revitalizing economically distressed areas of Detroit by providing loans and technical assistance to small-business owners, developers, building owners and contractors. This guarantee supported the second-round funding for the Detroit Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. Though the proposed expansion, DDF sought to increase the fund’s total capacity to at least $19 million. The goal of the EOC Fund is to provide loans between $25,000 and $150,000 to 300 businesses owned by people of color or employing predominantly people of color based in Detroit.   View Website

East Jefferson Development Company (EJDevCo) is a for-profit development subsidiary of Jefferson-East Inc. All revenues from EJDevCo are donated back to Jefferson East Inc. to support its ongoing neighborhood revitalization work. This program-related equity investment will provide patient equity to EJDevCo to acquire key vacant and blight buildings in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, all of which are part of a larger development finance plan known as a Targeted-Redevelopment Area. This locally designated tax-increment finance district composes a cluster of parcels eligible under the Michigan Brownfield Redevelopment Finance Act. The tax capture from the TRA can be used for public-area improvements and support for predevelopment activities such as environmental assessments and remediation. This will be the first active TRA in the state of Michigan. View Website

Eastern Market has supplied Detroit-area residents with fresh food since 1891 and currently draws more than 2 million market visitors annually. The Market has an ambitious plan to both expand and preserve its historic food-centered economy. Our program-related investment loan will support the first round of acquisition and facilitate the relocation of two existing production businesses from the old market into the new district. View Website

Marygrove College is a 90-year-old private Catholic school in Northwest Detroit with a mission to train the next generation of urban leaders. This program-related investment allowed Marygrove to repay a loan from Wayne County through the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program to acquire and rehabilitate the Immaculata building for use as a community facility.  View Website

This equity investment supports the Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement Pay for Success (PFS) Project. This is the first PFS project simultaneously focused on adult education, workforce development, and employment outcomes for American immigrants. Jewish Vocational Services will provide vocational English classes, skills training, and better jobs through its tiered intervention program. View Website