Companies for Causes

Impact Finance Center

Companies for Causes, an organization that helps leaders grow their ideas and solve community problems, serves as fiscal sponsor for the Impact Finance Center, a multi-university nonprofit academic center that identifies, educates, and activates individuals and organizations to better align their assets with their values. Impact Finance Center is partnering with Oweesta Corporation, an intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to the many Native-led and -focused Community Development Financial Institutions. Through this project, Impact Finance Center and Oweesta Corporation are working together to increase impact investors' awareness of Native community investment needs and opportunities, directly engage investors to understand the hurdles in making investments in Native communities, test the feasibility of paid investor education to overcome those hurdles, and report the results to the field. This project ultimately benefits Native families and small businesses, contributing to the financial autonomy of Indigenous communities.