Top Seattle, WA Social Impact Companies (13)
We are optimists on a mission to create a world where every person has the chance to live a healthy, productive life. In developing countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.
Upstream USA works to expand opportunity by reducing unplanned pregnancy across the U.S. We work in partnership with health centers to strengthen reproductive care and autonomy by increasing equitable access to the full range of contraceptive options. Founded in 2014, Upstream is on track to achieve nationwide impact at scale. Our goal through 2024 is to partner with health centers that serve over 1 million women across four states. This ambitious plan for growth has received generous support from philanthropic individuals and foundations, including a $60 million lead investment by Blue Meridian Partners. Our unique approach has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, CNN, Vox, and Marie Claire. Following our first statewide intervention in Delaware, a leading national research center estimates a 24% decrease in unplanned pregnancies among Title X patients between 2014 and 2017. Patient surveys conducted at our partner healthcare centers affirm that Upstream-trained providers are empowering patients to make their own decisions about their contraceptive care.
Our purpose is to accelerate mission-driven work, and in 2023, the Submittable community made a world of difference. Thousands of organizations across sectors have used Submittable for over a decade, and our customers have shown us what they need to do their best work. 💫We’re honored to support our customers' work and consistently inspired by their impact and programs that are changing lives across the country and around the globe. 💸 Submittable distributed $1.3B in funds on behalf of our clients in 2023 💸
Founded by Melinda French Gates, Pivotal Ventures accelerates social progress in the United States by removing barriers that hold people back. Pivotal Ventures expands opportunity and accelerates equality in the United States through high-impact investments, partnerships, and advocacy. We focus on areas where social progress has stalled—and where we can have the biggest impact. Like Melinda, we’re clear-eyed about the stubborn problems our country faces. But we also see those problems as potential turning points in our nation’s story. Our impatience with the status quo is fueled by an optimism that progress is always possible—especially when we seize the moment together. We do not review or return unsolicited requests for funding or other types of support. For media inquiries, please reach out to [email protected]
Syndio is a tech startup with ambition. We were founded on the belief that companies must do more than just say employees are their most valuable asset — they need to prove it. Using our technology to empower, data to inform, and expertise to inspire, we help some of the world's leading companies embed workplace equity into their core business.
We are reversing climate change. Nori is a platform that makes it easy to fund carbon removal from the atmosphere. A platform that allows businesses to help repair our planet by removing any carbon emissions they can’t yet avoid creating. We've started with supporting regenerative agriculture projects that store carbon in the soil.
We are strategic advisors dedicated to creating a thriving future for people and communities around the world. We partner with private and community foundations, individual and venture philanthropists, government agencies, multilaterals, NGOs, and mission driven private sector organizations. We engage marginalized people and communities to understand underlying attitudes, preferences, behaviors, and needs. We develop strategies for impact, and conduct rigorous evaluations and analysis to inform strategic choices. We design and activate multi-stakeholder partnerships around shared goals and action plans. We work across, and focus exclusively on, the social sector, bringing experience and expertise in Global Health, Shared Prosperity, US Health, Climate and Environment, and Democracy and Governance.
Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry. Our mission is to transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste. We use machine learning + automation to move millions of truckloads to benefit the shipper and carrier marketplace and eliminate carbon waste for our planet. The industry is huge and so is the opportunity to change the way freight moves across America.
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Imperative is a platform that helps hybrid organizations build employee connection through high-impact conversations & relationships — the kind that used to only be possible when face-to-face. For over a decade, we’ve been dedicated to fixing what’s broken about today’s workplace: the lack of connection and belonging among employees. We believe that meaningful human connection at work is the key to unlocking transformational benefits both to the business and individual employees. Founded by serial social entrepreneur and leading expert on the science of purpose and fulfillment at work, Aaron Hurst, we know what it takes to create, launch and scale an enterprise-wide solution for employee connection and team building. The Imperative Platform is a streamlined conversation experience that combines AI-powered employee matching, science-backed conversations and data-driven insights—strengthening teams, breaking down silos, improving collaboration and reducing turnover. Imperative is a B Corporation and a Seattle-based tech start-up funded by Voyager Capital and Court Lorenzini, founding CEO of DocuSign. Imperative is the first fully automated peer coaching technology platform.
DroneSeed offers full lifecycle services for forestry management by using an efficient, cost-competitive fleet of drones to reduce reliance on manual labor. Founded in 2016 by eco-tech startup veterans DroneSeed first won the Beaverton, Oregon $100K Challenge. Shortly after, they were one of the nine startups out of 1,000 applicants to be selected for the TechStars Seattle program. Currently, DroneSeed is conducting several paid pilot programs, including a watershed restoration project with water utility Clean Water Services.
DESC works to end the homelessness of vulnerable people, particularly those living with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders. Through partnerships and an integrated array of comprehensive services, treatment and housing, we give people the opportunity to reach their highest potential. DESC is the largest multi-service agency serving homeless adults in the Pacific Northwest, reaching over 9,000 people annually with an array of state-licensed mental health and substance abuse treatment programs—including street outreach and engagement, crisis diversion and respite, case management, short-term and ongoing care, psychiatric assessment and treatment, supported employment, individual and group substance abuse counseling, 468 emergency shelter beds, and over 1,100 units of permanent supportive housing. DESC adheres to the Housing First philosophy, the belief that housing is a basic human right, not a reward for clinical success and once the chaos of homelessness is eliminated from a person's life, clinical and social stabilization occur faster and are more enduring. DESC's innovative programs have earned recognition regionally and nationally. Every day at DESC we see what innovative clinical care and supportive housing can do: people who have been homeless for years regain their health, their dignity and their humanity. They reconnect with parents, children, brothers, sisters. They make friends, rediscover interests, and find work or other meaningful activity. And when they recover their lives, the quality of life is improved for all of us. Our community becomes a better place in which to live and work.
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At Possible, we believe financial health is something everyone deserves. It’s our mission to help you and your community, break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility for generations to come. We’re unwavering in our commitment to this mission, and love building products and services that prove changing the industry for the better is, in fact, Possible.
We're transforming the food supply chain by helping grocery stores increase profit margins and sales volume while simultaneously minimizing food and beverage waste. Using machine learning, Shelf Engine forecasts demand for highly perishable foods and automates the entire ordering process, saving retailers money and reducing risk by buying back any unsold items. Launched in 2015, Seattle-based Shelf Engine manages orders for leading retailers at thousands of locations nationwide.
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