YESPhilly
Youth Empowerment Services (YES) is a non-profit organization that uses art as an avenue to success for Philadelphia students who have dropped out of high school. Their Accelerated High School is a place where youth come to finish high school coursework, discover talents and dreams, and begin college or careers. As their website states, YESPhilly […]
Home Care Associates
Home Care Associates is a worker-owned company that provides skilled home care aides in the greater Philadelphia area. The direct care industry is one that employs a large percentage of BIPOC caregivers in its workforce, and many companies in the industry pay only a small portion of their hourly rate to their workers. The work […]
SosteNica
SosteNica is a non-profit financial institute that integrates environmental and educational projects with financial services, creating a holistic and long-term approach to poverty alleviation in Nicaragua. A trail blazer in its vision and actions to live gently on this planet, SosteNica creates an important model for green development. Programs center on sustainable housing and agriculture […]
Greensgrow
Greensgrow is an innovative Philadelphia-based urban farm project that works to make healthy, local food accessible to city dwellers and opens new options in food deserts. This creative nonprofit grows food on the former site of an industrial area. They run farm stands, garden centers, demonstration gardens, and educational community programs that revolve around ecology […]
Plasticoncentrates
Plasticoncentrates is a Black-owned business based in Chester, PA, an underserved community outside of Philadelphia where the Untours Foundation has worked to support community investment and job creation. This manufacturing company produces specialty color concentrates for plastics. They work in the business to business space, offering color master batches and various engineering compounds. Plasticoncentrates has […]
YKPR
Establishment of microlending institute in Indonesia.
Circle of Aunts and Uncles
Circle of Aunts and Uncles is a community loan fund in which a circle of donors select entrepreneurs together, loan them funds, and mentor them.
Nia Productions
Minority owned lawn and snow removal company.
Self Help
Credit union specializing in home mortgages to the lower middle class.
Damon Corbin
Minority owned flooring company that uses environmentally friendly carpet cleaning products.