Introducing the Christian Investing Council
As Christian and values-based investing have grown, new questions and issues have arisen.
Learn how charitable giving thought leaders launched the Christian Investing Council (CIC) to help investors align their financial decisions with their Christian beliefs, values, and mission.
Protecting Lives through Preventative Intelligence
Dark Watch, a global risk intelligence and security company, is building an AI-powered risk intelligence system that protects communities by helping businesses identify potentially dangerous or high-risk individuals.
Dark Watch's Pre-Arrival Intelligence™ platform analyzes signals from more than 1,400 intelligence sources and 450 million global profiles in real time, helping operators identify elevated-risk patterns before incidents occur.
Edovo: Providing Hope and Transformative Opportunity
Edovo is a nonprofit organization that provides free educational, vocational, and rehabilitative programming to incarcerated individuals through secure tablet networks.
Operating in over 1,250 correctional facilities nationwide, it offers learners access to more than 25,000 hours of coursework, podcasts, and treatment resources to help lower recidivism and support successful re-entry into society.
Renew Capital: Building Africa’s Financial Future
Renew Capital is a pan-African investment firm. They are focused on supporting entrepreneurs and platforms that help build the next generation of financial infrastructure in Africa.
By connecting technology, data, and capital, these businesses can expand access to credit, savings, payments, and other financial products that help businesses grow.
Changing Lives Through Housing
Lumen Flats Knoxville, an Elmington development, is dedicated to providing stable housing and wraparound support services for young adults aging out of the foster care system in Tennessee.
They recently celebrated the opening of their first development for these young adults with the Knoxville community.
The project is a landmark collaboration that solves a significant problem and offers a brighter future for fostered youth.
Helping Students Realize Their Potential Through Access & Opportunity
Melsoft Academy is bridging the tech skills gap in South Africa, equipping learners with world-class training, practical career pathways, and the skills to compete in the global digital economy.
NeighborHealth Center: When Partnership Becomes A Lifeline
NeighborHealth Center, Raleigh, NC, is dedicated to caring for the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—through excellent, patient-centered healthcare. When the gap between care delivered and dollars received was too wide for sustainability, survival required a fundamental operational adjustment, short-term financial intervention, and prayerful decision-making.
Forte: Strengthening Workplace Culture with Mental Fitness
Forte is a proactive mental fitness service strengthening workplace culture through human connection, interactive resources, and actionable data.
They provide more than a typical wellness solution; they act as a partner who understands the values and complexity of mission-focused work.
Learn more about Forte’s approach to mental fitness and their success story with Hope International.
Invest Credit: Improving Lives Through Accessible Financial Services
A guest post from Invest Credit, one of Impact Foundation’s Portfolio Companies.
Invest Credit’s mission is to build trustworthy relationships with their clients by providing excellent financial services that empower them to realize their dreams for their businesses and families. Their vision is to spur social, financial, and spiritual transformation.
Reforming Education and Supporting Educational Equity
Using mentoring, coaching, and urban education reform, Clever Characters empowers adults who impact children—parents, school staff, and community-based mentors.
They strive to help adults support the social-emotional and mental health of students, through training experiences and short educational videos.
Transformational Prayer: A Personal Journey
PRAYR is more than just a faith tool—it's an avenue for building strong Christ-centered communities. Ministries are excited to use PRAYR to rally their members, coordinate efforts, and provide consistent peer-to-peer support where you know you are being lifted in prayer. It streamlines communication and facilitates groups, ensuring that prayers remain prominent and those who are in need are never forgotten.
Peregrine Turbine Technologies
Peregrine's technological innovations bring real value to the power decentralization effort across the globe, and the company believes that distributed generation is the model of the future.
Providing Hope for Education: Hartwell University
In 2021, after prayer, research, and development, Matthew Flippen and a team of expert educators launched Hartwell University, an affordable, online private Christian University to address teacher shortages.
Hartwell is equipping, encouraging, and preparing a growing number of future educators.
The Totalfit Approach: Unleashing the Power of Meaningful Fitness
Totalfit recognizes that we cannot train our bodies like machines. By engaging the body, mind, and spirit simultaneously, we can unlock the desired destination of optimal health.
Connecting the Dots on the Other Global Pandemic
Girls First Finance (GFF) supports young women's education and professional development worldwide, starting in Africa, through student loans and personal empowerment tools. Girls can apply for affordable higher education loans through the GFF mobile app. The eligibility criteria ensure that vulnerable girls are not excluded from consideration due to poverty. The pilot phase of the app launched in Kenya in 2022 and will expand to other African countries and regions after 2023.
Machine Learning Technology to Protect Kids Online
Canopy is the best way for busy parents to keep their kids safe online.
Filter out inappropriate content on your kid’s smartphone, schedule breaks from screentime, and know if your kid has left home or school. And that’s just the beginning. Canopy gives families everything they need to thrive in the digital world.
Building Bridges of Opportunity
“We decided that day that we were going to take back everything the earthquake had stolen,” Julie says. They built a job-training center out of a tarp and plywood they’d found in the streets. They began cutting up rubber with razor blades. They went to work, every day, and others joined them. After 10 months, they’d created a prototype.
Ten years later, it’s a real company.
Think Native: Leveraging Technology for Human Flourishing
Imagine you just received a life-changing medical diagnosis. You stumble out of the doctor’s office thinking, “What do I do? How will I get through this?” Then imagine immediately finding yourself connected with someone who walked through the exact same journey. That’s just one kind of powerful connection the peer support platform Think Native facilitates daily.
LivFul: Justice Through Health Innovation
“When will I feel safe? When will things go back to normal? When the curve flattens? When a vaccine is created?”
As the world continues to reel in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic fallout, those in the developed world are particularly shaken by this microbial threat and all the uncertainty surrounding it. But in many parts of the globe, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, these kinds of dangers are normal parts of daily life.
Abide: Sharing God’s Comfort During COVID
A pandemic, racial injustice, economic uncertainty, prolonged isolation — it does not take long to come up with a list of factors contributing to the current increase in mental health crises across the United States. Jokes about “quarantinis” lose their humor as studies continue to point to an increase in substance abuse, domestic violence, depression and hopelessness in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and the events sparked by the death of George Floyd.