Investment Focus Areas

We believe we have a responsibility to make our communities stronger. That’s why we focus our work in key areas that address some of society’s greatest challenges.

Solutions to Promote Climate Justice

We invest in startups that increase access to clean energy, promote strong infrastructure, and build climate adaptation strategies for communities that face the most adverse climate impacts.

Fighting Climate Change

Climate change creates new risks and increases existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United States. These risks and vulnerabilities present growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth. People who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have less capacity to cope with extreme climate-related events, and experience far greater impacts and shocks.

Building Resilience

Climate change issues call for radical action. This action includes investing in solutions targeted at clean energy access, infrastructure resilience, financial innovation, and climate intelligence solutions. We believe that investing in solutions to promote adaptation measures and resiliency strategies that proactively protect overlooked communities will lead to improved standards of living and health outcomes.

Opportunity for All

We invest in startups that enable generational wealth-building, train and place individuals on high-income, high-growth career pathways, and reduce the footprint of the criminal justice system.

Removing Barriers

Investing in economic opportunity will eliminate barriers to increasing incomes, reducing debt, and building generational wealth for underestimated communities by breaking the poverty cycle and providing a path to financial freedom. We believe that investing in workforce development opportunities that improve access to training, capital, and other wrap-around services for underestimated, underrepresented communities will lead to improved income and career opportunities.

Breaking the Cycle

We recognize that justice is not equal and are working to build a movement that increases access to opportunity, social equity, and dignity for those impacted by the justice system. This movement includes public and private sector partnerships that can identify, nurture, and scale promising interventions to minimize justice-involvement and reduce recidivism.

Catalyzing Education for All

We invest in scalable social enterprises that advance educational equity in learning and academic achievement.

Improving Outcomes for Every Learner

Despite decades of research and interventions, disparities in educational outcomes continue to persist for many, including youth of color, children with disabilities, and those living in impoverished communities. We invest in innovations that use both broad-based solutions and targeted interventions to close these gaps in literacy, STEM, and other disciplines to ensure all students have the resources they need to succeed.

Post-Secondary and Adult Learners

We recognize that learning is becoming an increasingly necessary life-long skill for job access and economic advancement. We invest in companies that improve college access and graduation rates, and those that enable adult learners to add skills for job and career development.

Investing in Our Future

We invest in scalable social enterprises that support the multidimensionality of health and wellness for our youngest members of society.

Redefining Health and Improving Access

Health is more than just exercise and eating right; it’s also about feeling healthy in our minds and having the necessary tools to deal with the inevitable stressors of life. Unfortunately, access to healthy options and quality care is limited or unavailable for many individuals and communities. We look to solve these inequities by taking a “whole-person” approach to supporting health and wellness, with a particular focus on investing in innovations in mental, cognitive, and behavioral health and social-emotional wellness.

Championing the Early Years

Society’s most precious resource is our children. To secure our future, we must provide support as early as possible, supporting parents through pregnancy to postpartum and beyond, and children from infancy through young adulthood. This includes promoting the health of parents and providing ways for caregivers to nurture their child’s development. Dollar for dollar, the more we invest in early prevention, the greater chance for lifelong success our children will have.

Solutions to Promote Climate Justice

We invest in startups that increase access to clean energy, promote strong infrastructure, and build climate adaptation strategies for communities that face the most adverse climate impacts.

Fighting Climate Change

Climate change creates new risks and increases existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United States. These risks and vulnerabilities present growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth. People who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have less capacity to cope with extreme climate-related events, and experience far greater impacts and shocks.

Building Resilience

Climate change issues call for radical action. This action includes investing in solutions targeted at clean energy access, infrastructure resilience, financial innovation, and climate intelligence solutions. We believe that investing in solutions to promote adaptation measures and resiliency strategies that proactively protect overlooked communities will lead to improved standards of living and health outcomes.

Opportunity for All

We invest in startups that enable generational wealth-building, train and place individuals on high-income, high-growth career pathways, and reduce the footprint of the criminal justice system.

Removing Barriers

Investing in economic opportunity will eliminate barriers to increasing incomes, reducing debt, and building generational wealth for underestimated communities by breaking the poverty cycle and providing a path to financial freedom. We believe that investing in workforce development opportunities that improve access to training, capital, and other wrap-around services for underestimated, underrepresented communities will lead to improved income and career opportunities.

Breaking the Cycle

We recognize that justice is not equal and are working to build a movement that increases access to opportunity, social equity, and dignity for those impacted by the justice system. This movement includes public and private sector partnerships that can identify, nurture, and scale promising interventions to minimize justice-involvement and reduce recidivism.

Catalyzing Education for All

We invest in scalable social enterprises that advance educational equity in learning and academic achievement.

Improving Outcomes for Every Learner

Despite decades of research and interventions, disparities in educational outcomes continue to persist for many, including youth of color, children with disabilities, and those living in impoverished communities. We invest in innovations that use both broad-based solutions and targeted interventions to close these gaps in literacy, STEM, and other disciplines to ensure all students have the resources they need to succeed.

Post-Secondary and Adult Learners

We recognize that learning is becoming an increasingly necessary life-long skill for job access and economic advancement. We invest in companies that improve college access and graduation rates, and those that enable adult learners to add skills for job and career development.

Investing in Our Future

We invest in scalable social enterprises that support the multidimensionality of health and wellness for our youngest members of society.

Redefining Health and Improving Access

Health is more than just exercise and eating right; it’s also about feeling healthy in our minds and having the necessary tools to deal with the inevitable stressors of life. Unfortunately, access to healthy options and quality care is limited or unavailable for many individuals and communities. We look to solve these inequities by taking a “whole-person” approach to supporting health and wellness, with a particular focus on investing in innovations in mental, cognitive, and behavioral health and social-emotional wellness.

Championing the Early Years

Society’s most precious resource is our children. To secure our future, we must provide support as early as possible, supporting parents through pregnancy to postpartum and beyond, and children from infancy through young adulthood. This includes promoting the health of parents and providing ways for caregivers to nurture their child’s development. Dollar for dollar, the more we invest in early prevention, the greater chance for lifelong success our children will have.

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