Boston Impact Initiative Integrated Capital
A place-based integrated-capital fund investing in small businesses, cooperatives, worker-owned enterprises, Black- and Latino-owned enterprises, and community-owned or governed real estate across New England. It is a leading practical example of the integrated-capital approach that blends debt, equity and grant-like instruments in a single package, and thus both a capital source for community partners and a live case for research on reparative and place-based finance.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No investment amount ranges are published on the funder's site.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No published deadline or application window; the site directs interested parties to contact the fund directly by email or phone.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Geography is the firm gate: the New England region. The funder's site describes investees as entrepreneurs, impact-driven businesses, cooperatives and community-owned real estate projects, and does not state whether nonprofits are eligible or which instruments are offered, so entity eligibility must be confirmed directly with the fund (contact details are published on the site rather than an application portal). A university cannot be the investee; the realistic route for a social work researcher is as evaluation or research partner to a New England enterprise or community organization in the
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- integrated capital · place-based investing · worker ownership · racial wealth gap · community-owned real estate
- Apply at
- https://bostonimpact.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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