Our Partners

We welcome any nonprofit or for-profit committed to local investment to become a partner. If your organization is interested, please contact Jen Risley at jen@main-street-journal.com

  • Abrams+Angell works with progressive small businesses in any sector, providing guidance to increase effectiveness and achieve social, environmental, and financial goals.

  • AMIBA is a non-profit membership organization of local business alliances, affiliates and supporters.

  • Candide Group directs capital away from an extractive global economy towards investments dedicated to social justice and sustainability.

  • Capital Institute is building the foundation for a regenerative economy.

  • Community-Vision Solutions is a Real Estate and Community Development Benefit LLC with a mission to initiate, facilitate, and agitate for the common good.

  • Council Fire is a global management consultancy that helps purpose-driven organizations thrive by creating lasting economic, social, and environmental value.

  • Crowdfund Better provides crowdfunding strategy and education to entrepreneurs, creatives, nonprofits, and small businesses.

  • Crowdfund Capital Advisors is the ultimate authority in online investment.

  • Democracy Collaborative is a research and development lab that aims to demonstrate in theory and in practice the principles of a democratic economy, offering a vision of what that economy can be, designing models that demonstrate how it operates, and building in coalition with others the pathways to a new reality.

  • Exit to Community Collective offers a path for startups to become owned and controlled by users, workers, and stakeholders who value and depend on the startup. E2C is a project of MEDLab at the University of Colorado Boulder and Zebras Unite,

  • Fair Food Network connects people to the power of food to improve health, ignite local economies, and open opportunities for all.

  • Impact Finance Center is a multi-university nonprofit academic center that identifies, trains, and activates individuals and organizations to become impact investors, helping them better align their assets with their values.

  • ImpactPHL is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to growing the Greater Philadelphia region’s impact economy.

  • The Initiative for Local Capital is an innovation lab that aims to create democratic investment opportunities, educational tools and resources, and inclusive networks that support all members of a community to invest where their hearts and homes are.

  • The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has a vision of thriving, diverse, equitable communities. To reach this vision, they build local power to fight corporate control.

  • Jenny Kassan is a business attorney with decades of experience. She is also a certified transformational coach, social entrepreneur, and finance innovator. Her formula for mission-aligned capital raising has helped diverse entrepreneurs throughout the country raise millions of dollars on their own terms.

  • Mission Driven Finance deploys finance as a tool for change. The funds and structured products they use are designed to close financial gaps in order to close opportunity gaps: impact investment opportunities that are simple, transformative, and aligned.

  • NC3 aims to democratize financial systems, where empowered citizen investors catalyze the growth of locally-rooted ventures creating economic opportunity for all. They are especially committed to the intentional inclusion of communities and entrepreneurs historically excluded due to class, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.

  • Natural Investments is a national portfolio management firm that actively seeks to balance the need for financial return with the desire to improve life for others and for the Earth. They have been leaders in socially and environmentally responsible investing for over three decades.

  • The Next Egg is a resource and community for people who want to channel their retirement savings out of Wall Street and into life-sustaining enterprises in local communities. They host monthly webinars and offer expertise on tools for self-directing retirement savings, including various forms of IRAs and 401(k)s.

  • Neighborhood Associates is a non-profit ally to 6,000 residents in 10 affordable housing communities across the U.S. They partner with civic groups, local nonprofits, researchers, developers, and property managers to advance resident-led, urban neighborhoods that are safe, green, healthy, just, prosperous, resilient, and above all, civically engaged.

  • Neighborhood Economics partners with cities and communities fueled by the urgency of interlinked crises (such as climate change, social unrest, and racial disparities) and is motivated by a common moral hunger.

  • New Majority Capital provides resources and capital to under-represented entrepreneurs to acquire and run existing small businesses.

  • Nonprofit Quarterly is a nonprofit magazine publication providing research-based articles and resources to educate the nonprofit sector.

  • Ownership America is a public policy and grassroots advocacy organization founded to turn Americans into owners by organizing and mobilizing a diverse, cross-partisan coalition of ownership advocates. They produce applied policy research on opportunities to create owners with a focus on assets and wealth.

  • Ownership Matters is a biweekly newsletter for the founders and funders of the emerging solidarity economy.

  • Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) is a nonprofit organization that advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.

  • PathLight Law (formally Cutting Edge Capital) provides a broad range of services for social enterprises, nonprofits, cooperatives, and community investment funds. Focusing on strategies for raising community capital, they work with clients in every phase of their journey – from formation through financing to supporting ongoing operations and growth planning.

  • Project Equity works with partners around the country to raise awareness about employee ownership as an exit strategy for business owners, and as an important approach for increasing employee engagement and wellbeing. They offer consulting and support to companies that want to transition to employee ownership, as well as to the new employee-owners to ensure that they, and their businesses, thrive after the transition.

  • Project for Public Spaces brings public spaces to life by planning and designing them with the people who use them every day.

  • Prospera Partners offers strategic facilitation and workshops for small businesses, social entrepreneurs and nonprofits in order to create real change for communities.

  • Raise Green is the marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions

  • Revalue is a values-based investment advisory firm that serves investors searching for a way to make the world a better place, while still earning the return they need.

  • Rising Tide Capital is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform lives and communities through entrepreneurship.

  • Schumacher Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to envision a just and regenerative economy, apply the concepts locally, and then share the results for broad replication.

  • Shelterforce is the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of community development, affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization.

  • Slow Money is a non-profit organization dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that “bring money back down to earth.”

  • SOCAP is the thought leadership platform for the accelerating movement towards a more just and sustainable economy. They convene a global ecosystem and marketplace – social entrepreneurs, investors, foundation and nonprofit leaders, government and policy leaders, creators, corporations, academics, and beyond – through live and digital experiences that educate, spur conversation, and inspire investment in positive impact.

  • Sun Valley Institute for Resilience attracts and mobilizes mission-driven capital for innovative projects advancing community resilience in Central and Southern Idaho. Investments target the buildout of regenerative, renewable and sustainable practices related to food and farm, land, water and energy use.

  • The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, hosts impact crowdfunding events to support diverse founders and social entrepreneurs in their efforts to strengthen communities.

  • Transform Finance is a research and implementation partner that envisions a world where capital is aligned with social justice values and is accessible to activists and community leaders as a tool for transformative social change.

  • Uwharrie Bank puts community ahead of profit. By understanding and meeting the financial needs of their customers, they enhance the economic vitality of every community they serve.

  • Village Well is Australia’s leading creative placemaking consultancy that works with a range of clients and stakeholders – including property developers and owners, government agencies, and community groups and institutions – to create a just and regenerative world with more inclusive, resilient and thriving communities and places.

  • Zebras Unite is a founder-led, cooperatively owned movement creating the culture, capital & community for the next economy.