Community Investment Notes
Calvert Foundation was founded with a simple goal: to help end poverty through investment.
Our Mission
Calvert Foundation's goal is to maximize the flow of capital to disadvantaged communities in order to foster a more equitable and sustainable society.
Calvert Foundation raises investment capital from individuals and institutions, and uses it to provide affordable loans to partner nonprofits that create economic opportunities in underserved communities and markets. Our portfolio finances affordable homes, small businesses, community services, international microfinance and social innovations – all aimed at creating jobs and changing lives in places of need.
Our goal is to make every investor a community investor. We believe that investment capital is integral to a new generation of sustainable, market-based strategies to alleviate poverty. What would happen if every investor made an allocation toward community investment? Allocating about one half of one percent of the roughly $19.2 trillion in investment assets in US capital markets alone would provide nearly $100 billion for community investing. Over a 10-year term, this could create more than one billion microenterprise jobs, 160 million affordable housing units and 70 million cooperatives or nonprofit facilities. Each one of those new jobs, homes and businesses would generate a ripple effect, creating additional benefits in towns and cities across the US and around the globe, resulting in a healthier global economy for all.
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