Fostering Solutions & Infrastructure

Grant-funded projects to develop resources and mechanisms that facilitate the use of catalytic capital and help make transactions faster, more efficient, and more effective

*C3 is not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time

Agora Partnerships

Develop an Information Exchange Platform (IEP) focused on women-owned small- and medium-sized enterprises in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico.

Geographic Focus:
Central America

Grant Amount:
$192,179

Coalition for Green Capital

Establish an “implementing entity” for the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund enacted in the U.S. as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. This work would help to capitalize a national green bank and build a network of retail finance institutions to implement its program through investments around the country.

Geographic Focus:
United States

Grant Amount:
$180,000

Invest Appalachia (IA)

To operationalize a blended capital impact investing fund designed to catalyze community investment in the Central Appalachian region. IA’s multi-sector approach focuses on connecting national investment and philanthropy to local markets, in alignment with community needs.

Geographic Focus:
United States (Appalachia)

Grant Amount:
$100,000

KOIS

To build the Dignity in Labor platform, bringing together a consortium of service providers, lenders, and donors to develop and deploy systemic financial solutions and infrastructure that accelerate socio-economic mobility for unbanked and underbanked customer groups in India.

Geographic Focus:
India

Grant Amount:
$154,000

NABII Zambia

Working to establish a credit guarantee fund that can support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Zambia, address the key challenges associated with SME financing, and determine the extent to which the financing can be relatively quickly scaled-up.

Geographic Focus:
Zambia

Grant Amount:
$175,000

Opportunity International

Launch a vehicle that will de-risk loans for micro and small borrowers in the agriculture and education sectors in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India. These borrowers rely on loans from financial institutions to support operations and growth, but often face prohibitively high interest rates.

Geographic Focus:
Global (Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, India)

Grant Amount:
$175,000

Pacific Community Ventures

Develop a guidebook for a U.S. place-based funding model that brings together private and public investment, grant support, and community partnerships to activate catalytic capital for BIPOC entrepreneurs and fuel community wealth-building.

Geographic Focus:
United States (Oakland, Calif.)

Grant Amount:
$150,000

Rhia Ventures

Develop, test, and share an investment framework that utilizes a health, gender, and racial equity lens, particularly related to maternal and women’s health. The framework is for investors and early-to-growth-stage companies and will inform impact investments and attract more catalytic capital to the field.

Geographic Focus:
United States

Grant Amount:
$130,000

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG)

To deliver a roadmap for actionable solutions that would positively impact the multi-dimensional development of informal settlements in the Global South. The effort builds on conclusions from the GSG’s report, Informal Settlements: No Longer Invisible, proposing practical policies and principles for the design of impact financial vehicles to scale investment in tackling urban informality.

Geographic Focus:
Global South

Grant Amount:
$125,000

The Impact Investing Institute (The Institute)

To work towards an inclusive transition to net zero carbon emissions by helping increase the capacity of catalytic capital providers and local managers in the Global South to develop and launch financial products that can attract institutional capital at scale, as part of the Institute’s Just Transition Finance Challenge.

Geographic Focus:
Global South

Grant Amount:
$186,257

Total Impact Capital

Create an innovative vehicle to deploy impact notes that provide capital to scale high-impact enterprises serving low-income communities in emerging markets around the world.

Geographic Focus:
Global

Grant Amount:
$200,000

Village Capital

To develop, test, and deploy a digital financing diagnostic and matching platform to help startups identify financing mechanisms that are most appropriate for them and connect to investors who offer that type of financing.

Geographic Focus:
Global (U.S., Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America)

Grant Amount:
$175,000