Community Investment Notes
Whether our loans go to microcredit organizations around the world or stay in the DC Metro Area to help build affordable housing, the money your clients invest is improving people’s lives and the health of communities and economies.
The five key impact areas that Calvert Foundation focuses on include:
Affordable Housing: Calvert Foundation invests to improve the housing conditions of families through renovation, new construction and education. Organizations in our portfolio operate around the world to improve homes and communities.
Microcredit: We provide small loans to the entrepreneurial poor so they may start and expand small businesses and begin working themselves out of poverty. Primarily focusing on female borrowers, microcredit is viewed as a way to improve economies, health, education and communities.
Small Business: Proving jobs and economic stimulation to local communities are essential to community growth and poverty alleviation. Small business loans inspire confidence and respect in entrepreneurs that a handout never could.
Community Facilities: The community facility loans in Calvert Foundation's portfolio extend necessary services and educational resources to communities. These organizations are educating children and families, and providing customized services that only an organization familiar with the circumstances of a local community would be able to provide effectively.
Social Innovations: Investments in socially innovative ventures expand the traditional approach to poverty alleviation while strengthening communities, local businesses and families. Included in this section of our portfolio are social enterprises, coffee cooperatives and public radio.
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