Ranking: 15

Industry: Finance

Mission: An infrastructure investor that builds, owns, and operates assets in sustainable energy, mobility, and water, waste, and agriculture sectors. They are working to bring about an Infrastructure Revolution that is democratized, digitized, decentralized, and decarbonized. Serving more than 400 companies, universities, school districts, cities, and nonprofits across North America.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Values & Vision Alignment

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Let’s rebuild the world together.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Generate Capital is an investment and operating platform leading the Infrastructure Transition. We partner with best-in-class project developers and technology companies to deliver reliable, affordable and sustainable resources to customers. Generate is built from the ground up to help our partners succeed and scale by providing them different types of capital and services to grow markets and rebuild the world together. We own, operate and finance community and enterprise solar, microgrids, battery storage, energy efficiency, waste-to-value and clean transportation projects. In our short history, our growing and diversified fleet of sustainable infrastructure assets has replaced nearly 3 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions, diverted over 630,000 metric tons of organic waste from landfills, and supported thousands of jobs. We are just getting started.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Generate Capital is partnering with companies, cities, technology pioneers and developers to drive the Infrastructure Transition toward what we call the 4Ds of modern infrastructure:

DECENTRALIZED: from big/monolithic/inflexible to small/distributed/modular/flexible/resilient

DECARBONIZED: from dirty to clean

DIGITIZED: from analog to digital

DEMOCRATIZED: from regulated monopolies to multiple-choice for customers

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Ranking: 37

Industry: Recycling

Mission: A recycling company that upcycles hard-to-recycle materials. They are Eliminating the Idea of Waste® through national, first-of-their-kind recycling platforms that move consumers from disposable, single-use packaging to durable, reusable packaging without sacrificing the economics and convenience. Operating in 21 countries, they have recycled over 7.7 billion pounds of waste.

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Ranking: 94

Industry: Financial Services

Mission: Arnerich Massena builds lasting legacies in service of a greater good by investing with vision, passion, and purpose. Founded in 1991, Arnerich Massena is an independent, 100% employee-owned investment advisory firm serving high net worth individuals and families, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations, trusts, and estates. 

Focused on client service and investing in change, Arnerich Massena creates portfolios that reflect top-tier research and collaborative expertise cultivated over nearly 30 years. The firm is different by design, bringing innovation and a forward-looking approach to investment research and portfolio construction. Known for successfully investing in high-impact areas like water resources, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, healthcare, and clean energy technology, Arnerich Massena has been a pioneer in the investment industry with alternative investment strategies, global portfolios, and private markets expertise. 

Arnerich Massena is dedicated to constantly seeking new opportunities that resonate with clients’ values, objectives, and the outcomes they are looking for: investing with intention. The firm strives to be a business that exemplifies both corporate citizenship and professional service, and has received awards for its innovations in corporate philanthropy.

Learn more about how we can help you align your investments with your values without sacrificing return.

Serving high net worth individuals and families, foundations, and endowments

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Ranking: 29

Industry: Banking

Mission: A socially responsible community bank that solves social and environmental problems and sparks community development. They provide financial solutions that help their community thrive, helping community partners realize success through sustainable innovation. Operating from 8 branches to serve the greater Twin Cities community, and offer further services to customers nationwide. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Entrepreneurial. Mission-focused. Innovative.

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Our success relies on the success of the communities we serve” — David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Banks

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Sunrise Banks is empowering financial wellness through accessible and affordable financial products that help low-to-moderate income consumers build credit and escape predatory debt cycles.

As a Community Development Financial Institution, Sunrise Banks makes 60% of its loans in low-income census tracts; in addition, the bank has expanded its mission nationally and globally through its fintech (financial technology) partnerships division. Sunrise partners with like-minded fintechs that help consumers obtain financial wellness through streamlined user experiences and convenient access to financial products.

Examples of Sunrise Banks’ impact include:

• A partnership with Aeon, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, and the Frey Foundation that created a Community Development Corporation (CDC) fund to retain approximately 600 units of affordable housing in the Twin Cities.
• Successfully using five prior rounds of New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) allocations — a total of $243 million — to finance projects in impoverished urban communities.
• Helping more than 95,000 individuals build their credit through our partnership with Self, a fintech focused on building consumers’ credit history.
• Committing to monitoring the greenhouse gas emissions created by our loan investments over a period of three years as a member of the Climate Change Commitment through the Global Alliance for Banking on Values.
• Donating a minimum of 2% net income to charitable organizations every year as part of the banks’ continued support of local nonprofits.

At its core, Sunrise Banks is a mission-driven institution that looks to effect positive change in underserved communities.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Sunrise will continue working to provide financial products that are accessible and affordable for all. We hope to be able to create just as much — if not more — positive change in the next ten years as we have over the last decade.

In particular, we’ve set a goal of changing 250 million lives by 2028. How do we do this? Through continued innovation that emphasizes equality and financial empowerment. By our count, we’ve currently impacted around 40 million lives.

We define changing someone’s life as creating a positive outcome for them. This could be through an Individual Tax Identification Number mortgage loan for a recent immigrant to the United States; it could be providing a Paycheck Protection Program loan to a struggling small business; or it could be packing a lunch to be served to the homeless. Our goal of changing 250 million lives is a lofty one, but we’re confident we can follow through on it. And we look forward to doing so.

Sunrise will also continue to leverage responsible technology to better serve our clients. Every industry, including banking, is shifting to a digital-first landscape and we will continue to create fintech partnerships in order to keep up with technological trends and provide the best service possible locally and across the globe.

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Ranking: 17

Industry: Packaging

Mission: A green packaging supplier that creates certified compostable foodservice ware made from plants. Their products use less water and energy to manufacture, and are designed to transform waste into healthy, new soil through composting. Donate 25% of profits to global grassroots social and environmental programs and to offsetting carbon emissions from raw material to delivery.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Integrity, Community, Excellence

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Through our plant-based compostable products, carbon offsets, and donations of 25% of profits to organizations working to alleviate environmental damage and humanitarian crisis, we are using business for a better world.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Our products are plant-based and compostable, and intended to replace plastic and styrofoam foodservice ware which are often difficult to recycle. We donate 25% of profits from the sale of these products to fund social and environmental projects around the world, with more than $2.1 million allocated for donations in 2020.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

We envision a thriving world where everyone’s basic needs are met with a beneficial impact on the environment.

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Ranking: 56

Industry: Computer Software

Mission: A fundraising software provider that helps small nonprofits cultivate donor relationships and advance their missions. They work additionally with corporate partners to implement effective cause initiatives and charitable giving programs backed by a proven donation engine. Providing trusted support to over 400,000 nonprofit leaders.  

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Ranking: 91

Industry: Investment Management

Mission: A national portfolio management firm promoting sound investments for a prosperous planet. They actively seek to balance the need for financial return with the desire to improve life for others and for the Earth. Promoting socially responsible investing across 12 states and reaching many more through their published materials. 

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Innovative, Cooperative, Dynamic

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.” — Edward O. Wilson

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

We channel over $1 billion in investment capital to ethical, just, and regenerative companies, enterprises, infrastructure, and initiatives that foster local economic power, social and racial justice, ecologically sound practices, and a responsible corporate economy. The results we achieve empower people of color and women, diminish atmospheric carbon, foster a healthy food system, revitalize communities, and contribute to an ecologically wise and socially just way of life.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Humanity acts from a place of benevolence, channeling its time, energy, money, and other resources to care for all people and regenerate all natural systems on the planet.

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Ranking: 72

Industry: Medical/Tech

Mission: A women‘s health medical device company focused on minimally invasive applications. They develop and market differentiated surgical implants specifically for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse. On a mission to alleviate 1 million women in underserved communities suffering from pelvic floor disorders by 2025. 

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“Caldera Medical is a unique company where the key to success is a Culture where the employees share an unwavering passion for the Mission to Improve the Quality of Life for Women over profit or individualistic gain.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

Caldera Medical’s Mission is to Improve the Quality of Life for Women and everything we do is in support of this. Caldera launched a humanitarian effort in 2016 aptly named Women’s Health Initiative with a goal of ending the incapacitation and suffering of one million women with pelvic floor disorders in underserved populations around the world by 2025. Women in these developing countries have more advanced conditions due to decreased access to healthcare and are often ostracized from their communities because of these issues. In just the past couple of years Caldera has sponsored over 60 humanitarian trips globally to train local physicians in developing countries how to perform pelvic floor surgery that allows women to return to a normal life.

Caldera Medical and its employees also give back to our local communities in Los Angeles every quarter by donating our time and money to a local charity. Most recently we have worked with Habitat for Humanity and Manna Food Bank.

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Ranking: 28

Industry: Utilities

Mission: A Women Business Enterprise and leading professional services firm in the field of oil, gas, and utilities. They provide environmentally conscious solutions powered by the latest technology. Advocating for gender diversity and workforce equality in the energy industry by addressing barriers and driving change for positive impact.

What 3 words best describe your company culture?

Accountable, Trendsetter, Innovative

What quote best exemplifies your company?

“We successfully collaborate with utilities and oil & gas operators in designing and executing tangible solutions that provide real, quantifiable results and ongoing benefits- long after a project’s completion for cleaner, safer energy with significantly lower carbon-foot print thus making the earth a better place to live- community by community and project by project.”

How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?

To minimize the environmental and social impact, Paxon Energy & Infrastructure conducts depressurization of the pipeline during gas maintenance projects. Instead of releasing Natural Gas to the atmosphere, the Zero Emission equipment moves the gas out of the pipeline being depressurized into another section of the pipeline system. This way, Paxon’s Research & Development (R&D) team on behalf of our utility clients can perform a “blowdown” while minimizing the amount of Methane blown to the atmosphere or CO2 generated thus reducing Greenhouse Gases.

What is your company’s vision for the future?

Our company’s vision is to proactively focus on opportunities on next-generation tools and continually challenge the gas utilities and agencies with their emissions reduction programs and the efforts needed to develop sound government policy for GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions regulation.

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Ranking: 5

Industry: Food & Beverage

Mission: A producer of plant-based meat substitutes creating alternatives to meat made without GMOs, synthetically produced ingredients, antibiotics, or hormones. Their products offer protein levels greater than or equal to their animal-based counterparts and tackle four growing global issues: human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare.

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