Top Chicago, IL Social Impact Companies (24)
Over the last 13 years, we’ve grown from a startup to a market-leading organization with over 150 team members, and we’ve created an award-winning culture that makes this company an amazing place to work. We've been ranked on multiple best places to work lists including the 2024 BuiltInChicago rankings.
Elevate K-12 is passionate about creating high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students. We are on a mission to make high-quality instruction available to all students, irrespective of where they live, bringing equality to education. We take pride in creating value and opportunities for children and women.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks across the United States that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., serves as the nation's central bank. The role of the Federal Reserve System, since its establishment by an act of Congress in 1913 , is to foster a strong economy and a stable financial system.
OppFi is a tech-enabled, mission-driven specialty finance platform that broadens the reach of community banks to extend credit access to everyday Americans. We have been an Inc. 5000 company for six straight years, a Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ for four consecutive years, and the seventh fastest-growing company in Chicagoland in 2021 as measured by Crain’s Chicago Business based on a five-year growth rate. We were listed on the Forbes America 2021 list of America’s Best Startup Employers and the Built In’s 2024 Best Places to Work in Chicago. OppFi maintains an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and maintains a 4.5/5 star rating with more than 21,000 online customer reviews, making it one of the top customer-rated financial platforms online.
Pangea offers a smarter way for people to move money around the world to friends and family. Founded in 2012, Pangea started with a mission to revolutionize the remittance industry by providing customers a powerful, easy-to-use mobile application to send money internationally. Since then, we have grown to offer additional products and services to help underbanked immigrants gain financial independence. Pangea operates as an independent subsidiary under Enova International (NYSE: ENVA). Also headquartered in Chicago, Enova is a leading financial technology company offering accessible credit to millions of customers. Together, Pangea and Enova are on a mission to help hardworking people get access to fair financial services.
Invenergy is a leading global privately-held developer and operator of sustainable energy solutions. We are headquartered in the Chicago and have 2000+ employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia. We have successfully developed over 175 projects, including wind, solar, and natural gas power generation as well as advanced energy storage facilities. We are innovators at heart — we design, build and operate. We take pride in a company culture that encourages personal and professional growth, and in a workplace where our people feel a sense of ownership and belonging.
We build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: the future of transportation is dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across cities, compliments existing transit infrastructure, and provides equitable access to efficient, affordable ways of getting around. For everyone.
Motion is an independent creative agency that builds the brands of tomorrow by uncovering the cultural truths of today. With creative, content, public relations and branding at our core, Motion is filled wall-to-wall with curious thinkers, problem solvers and strategic storytellers, partnering and building relationships with brands to create what makes them truly move. For more information, visit www.agencyinmotion.com.
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Double Good is a company built on creating joy and helping others. By reimagining product-based virtual fundraising, we help expand organizations' missions by giving back 50% of every dollar sold. We make ultra-premium popcorn sold through our simple-to-use software. We've helped raise over $200 million to support organizations nationwide that tilt the playing field for all kids. Double Good is not a popcorn company nor a digital company. It is a team of makers, designers, and problem-solvers dedicated to simplifying fundraising challenges and enabling communities to thrive. The soul of Double Good lies in the mission of creating and sharing joy. We built our fundraising platform on the idea that connecting with supporters should be simple, approachable, and effective. The funds raised go on to relieve the high costs of education, extra-curricular activities, community engagement, and athletic development. We partner with purposeful organizations to benefit students and athletes facing physical, intellectual, and financial challenges. Our goal is to amplify marginalized voices and push the boundaries of access to academic and athletic activities by contributing experiences, equipment, and educational opportunities to the communities that crave them the most.
Unite Us is the nation’s leading software company bringing sectors together to improve the health and well-being of communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities.
Vidmob is the creative data company. Its AI-based software improves creative and media performance by helping brands and agencies derive their own custom creative best practices, and ensure that those learnings are applied across all flighted media. Vidmob’s approach to using creative data drives brand consistency, reduces creative and media waste, and increases overall business performance across the funnel. As the industry pioneer and leader in creative data, the power of Vidmob’s platform lies in its integrations across the digital ad ecosystem, its analysis of every creative attribute – combined with their associated performance – for over 18 million ad creatives and its unique approach combining human insight and machine data. A portion of every dollar Vidmob receives helps provide access to technology through product donation and technology education through its 501 (c)(3) Vidmob Gives. The company has received over $210 million in venture funding, backed by industry leaders like Adobe, and has received numerous awards including Ad Age’s Best Places to Work and Digiday’s Most Innovative Technology Award.
Granicus provides technology and services that empowers government organizations to create seamless digital experiences for the people they serve. By offering the industry’s leading cloud-based solutions for communications, content management, meeting and agenda management, and digital services to more than 5,500 public sector organizations, Granicus helps turn government missions into quantifiable realities.
Community Solar: The Easiest Way to Tap into Clean Energy We’re bringing clean energy to homeowners and communities everywhere, and helping them save up to 15% on electricity costs without installing rooftop solar panels.
BallotReady is an award-winning startup working to help every voter in America cast an informed vote on every race, every election. We create digital nonpartisan voter guides and build tools to help advocacy groups and campaigns inform and mobilize voters, powered by the most comprehensive database on every level of government. We’ve worked with organizations such as Snapchat, Tiktok, Spotify, and the Miami Heat to inform and turn out over 35 million voters. Now, we’re focused on the upcoming midterms in 2022 and innovative methods for empowering communities to hold elected officials accountable and take effective action year-round.
Trajektory helps the world's biggest brands evaluate their sponsorship impact. We're focused on solving a variety of data and reporting issues that plague teams, leagues, events, and agencies in the area most crucial to local revenue growth in sports: sponsorship. Our mission is to provide stress-free data management that visualizes, assesses, and accurately values your partnership data in real-time. Our tools help groups better activate sponsorships by saving them time with our automated data-cleaning technology and provide unparalleled insights with our advanced demographics and proprietary valuation methodology. Based in downtown Chicago, IL, Trajektory was founded by a group of former industry executives from throughout the sports, media, and entertainment industries. Reach out to us at [email protected]
At NowPow, we use technology to power entire communities by connecting people with the vital services they need to stay well, meet basic needs, manage with illness and care for others.
Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National park. Our novel fermentation technology produces a sustainable source of complete protein using only a fraction of the resources required by traditional agriculture. As the challenge to feed the world’s expanding population grows, our mission is to create amazing food and materials that provide sustainable choices and nurture the planet.
ShoppingGives is connecting cause with commerce. From DTC brands to Enterprise retailers, thousands of businesses are using ShoppingGives to launch, scale, and optimize their charitable giving strategies. Our Social Impact Stack is at the center of where purpose meets profit, and exists to empower brands to motivate giving, build loyalty, and drive bottom-line growth.
Bridge Legal's software platform, Bridgify, automates marketing, intake, casework up, and business intelligence for consumer law firms and their funders. We believe that individuals should have an equal opportunity to access the justice system to exercise their rights as large corporations have. We believe that if people are unaware of their rights or are unable to protect their rights, then their rights do not exist. We believe that technology and AI will enable attorneys to serve a far greater number of clients than ever before, and bridge the justice gap. Through our software, we enable our law firm clients to fight for the rights of the “little guy” with AI, automation, analytics and workflow. When people who have been injured or wronged have nowhere else to turn, they turn to a plaintiff’s attorney. We’re building the tools these lawyers need to fight for the rights of their clients at scale and hold corporations financially responsible for the harm they cause everyday people.
Bridge is the mobile money app built to make you more money easily, every single day, stress-free. But how? We help our members monetize their data through our app and card products, enabling you to share your anonymized data with third party businesses and make money. All of this is done on a strictly opt-in basis. When users connect their favorite debit or credit card, they earn cash back on every purchase. There are no restrictions on the cash back, no limits on how much a member can earn, or how many cards members can link, and no weeks or months of waiting for them to receive their cash back. Then, we connect members with surveys they take to make money right now. Some members are earning over $200 per month from surveys alone, and we're expanding opportunities and ways to earn as fast as we can.
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