SDS’s innovative impact funds provide transformational capital to projects and companies — each with a distinct geographic focus and investment strategy targeting specific returns and impact goals — with an overarching focus on alleviating poverty, achieving racial equity, and promoting economic mobility in diverse low-income communities. Our mission is to engage the private sector in the battle against poverty.

Generating positive impacts for low-income people and communities of color is central to SDS’s fund management philosophy. As a fiduciary, our passion for impacts does not override our responsibility as stewards of our investors’ capital. We continuously improve and implement best practices for originations, due diligence, underwriting (pricing-to-risk), and asset management. We generate market rates-of-return by investing where others do not: lower-middle market investments in impoverished, highly distressed urban and rural communities.

Below we have listed the six core values of SDS, which are core to our daily ethos:

- Impact Driven: Impact is in our DNA. It is in everything we do. We are here to make a difference.

- Exceptional Performance: Accountability is our foundation. Responsiveness is our strength. Our work ethic is our driving force.

- Solutions-Focused: We proactively identify issues, problems, and gaps, employing innovative thinking to create new products and internal improvements.

- Deep Integrity: We do the right thing – always. We only get one chance with our reputation.

- A True Team: We are successful because we communicate and collaborate. We trust and respect each other.