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Viva Farms: Fighting for a farming future

Since 2009, Viva Farms has given emerging farmers the resources they need to build successful farming businesses. With the new administration freezing the federal funding they depend on, how can they continue their vital work?

Sunwealth: Inviting everyone to share the benefits of solar power

How can we finance the clean energy revolution? Sunwealth’s answer: community solar projects that invite everyone’s participation in the new energy economy.

David Brower Center: RSF Funding Supports a Home for the Environmental Movement

A longtime partnership with RSF helped create this vital space for community, arts, and environmental activism “Movements don’t happen because of just [...]

Mission-aligned finance supports Goodr’s two-pronged approach to solving hunger and food waste

On a winter Monday in 2016, Jasmine Crowe-Houston woke up to the news that she had gone viral. Since 2013, Crowe-Houston had been cooking food for people [...]

Pioneering public Waldorf School nurtures community connections

Sebastopol Charter School’s decades-long relationship with RSF enables sustainable growth and impact Deep community integration and mutually nourishing [...]

Community-led fund supports Southern Black farmers and revitalizes rural communities

The fund, initiated by an RSF Social Finance donor-advised fund holder, hands power to local leaders who distribute grants based on trust, communication, and a [...]

Regenerative finance helps Living Lands Trust expand biodynamic farming

In 2013, Living Lands Trust found itself in a bind: 76 acres of biodynamic farmland in Wisconsin adjacent to fields it had already protected for regenerative [...]

Credit Facility Accelerates Growth of Regenerative Farming

Improved biodiversity, carbon drawdown, rural economic development, better water quality—the impact of regenerative agriculture is powerful and systemic. And [...]

RSF Social Finance Invests $5 Million in Sunwealth to Increase Access to Solar, Create Meaningful Energy Savings, and Spur Green Jobs

SAN FRANCISCO—RSF Social Finance has provided a $5 million debt loan to clean energy investment firm Sunwealth to support a portfolio of 26 community-based [...]

Geos Institute gives communities the tools to weather climate change

Local conditions require communities to adapt differently to climate change. But many struggle to identify the best ways to protect themselves from rising [...]

Working Capital Helps Berkeley Winemaker Weather Wildfires and Drought

A $150,000 line of credit from RSF gives Tracey Rogers Brandt, owner of natural winery Donkey & Goat, peace of mind in the face of climate-related [...]

RSF is Lead Investor in New Majority Capital

RSF is pleased to share that we are one of the lead investors in New Majority Capital (NMC). NMC is closing the wealth and gender gap via small business [...]

Working Capital Aids Education Technology Company’s Growth to Acquisition Stage

Miriam Altman-Reyes and Alexandra Meis founded Kinvolved in 2013 because they were passionate about a mission: making sure kids showed up for school. Miriam, a [...]

The Organic Trade Association Cultivates Impact and Diversity With RSF’s Help

When Stephanie Jerger joined the staff of the Organic Trade Association in 2014, one of her first tasks was to fill out an RSF Social Finance impact [...]

Flexible Financing Helps Washington Incubator Seed the Next Generation of Farmers

Five years ago, Viva Farms faced a painful problem: The Skagit County, Washington, farm [...]