Top Chicago, IL Social Impact Companies (91)
GOODsend is a first-of-its-kind charity platform. We leverage our iOS app, a community of individual and corporate donors, and a secure, digital payments infrastructure to send money directly to Chicagoans most impacted by COVID-19. We collect recurring and one-time donations, and disburse funds directly to individual beneficiaries every 2 weeks.
BLUE1647 is an award-winning network of education & technology innovation platforms that foster economic development in technology and 21st Century skills through people development (classes, workshops, and events around technology), & workforce development (through youth and adult technology programs to prepare individuals for high-demand jobs)
By creating a free, non-profit mobile application, Connect & Care aims to simplify and strengthen the ability of mobile users to donate to international non-profits, while informing and broadening the users’ knowledge of the world around them.
OneGoal's mission is to close the degree divide in America. We partner with high schools and colleges in low-income communities to make postsecondary planning, preparation, and support an integral part of the high school experience, and continue the support through the transition into college or other postsecondary pathways.
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Flowers for Dreams is the artisan flower service. Made to order and crafted locally, all bouquets start at just $35 with free hand delivery in Chicago & to Milwaukee. Every purchase benefits an amazing local charity. Named one of Business Insider's 20 Most Inspiring Companies in America.
The Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) is a member-driven non-profit, nonpartisan organization that cultivates technology-based economic development throughout Illinois. Authorized by state statute in 1989 as Illinois’ technology adviser, we serve as a convener, catalyst, and champion for Illinois’ research, science, and technology communities. By providing our members and partners with a shared voice, the ISTC delivers measurable economic impact and positions Illinois as a national innovation leader. Our mission is to measure, connect, and enrich the Illinois innovation economy. The Illinois Science & Technology Institute (ISTI), our 501c3-affiliate, focuses on Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) education, connecting companies with classrooms to better prepare the next generation of problem solvers. ISTC members represent leaders in the state’s innovation ecosystem and include major Illinois research universities, federal labs, Fortune 500 corporations, and civic organizations.
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.
We help business women do tech and tech women do business. Mission: Evolve the conversation of female entrepreneurism beyond the issue of ‘changing the ratio,’ and towards actively advancing the quality of their businesses, networks and resources. https://angel.co/ms-tech
Tgthr Collective is a growth and impact partner for purpose-driven businesses. We're passionate about building a radically better future. We partner with purpose-driven businesses to accelerate their growth while maximizing impact.
Alliance Chicago's Mission is to improve personal, community and public health through innovative collaboration. Its efforts are focused in three core areas: Healthcare Collaboration, Health Information Technology, Health Research & Education.
We are a cinematic production company in Chicago, founded and led by an Emmy Award-Winning Producer. We harness more than twenty years of broadcast storytelling experience to help people and companies share their stories with the world.
To deliver the world's leading and highest quality Social Wedia group sharing and collaboration platform centered around digital imagery.
VelocityEHS is a new kind of EHS software company, helping you reach your environmental, health, safety and sustainability goals faster. Our VelocityEHS platform delivers simple and intuitive solutions that are more affordable, faster to implement, and that provide the best user experience.
Nestidd buys houses, customizes them for people with disabilities, leases and maintains them - affordably. We provide superior risk-adjusted returns on invested capital by providing exceptional living spaces to premier care organizations and their clients. More than 1,000 adults with disabilities live in our homes, many of whom have never before had a place to call their own.
Parliament Collective Intelligence is a burgeoning data impact consultancy helping to transform how we attend to social sector problems in public education, mental health, workforce and community development, technology access, and data-informed philanthropy. We help our clients do better at using data and technology to achieve their missions and drive progress on the social issues they care about most. Just as corporate leaders use Business Intelligence to drive success, it is incumbent that social sector leaders, nonprofits, government agencies, social entrepreneurs and funders must develop these same capabilities and adopt these same mindsets to solve complex social problems. Parliament’s identity is rooted in Collective Intelligence – helping our clients use data to harness the highest-levels of understanding to create change. We serve clients in these ways: DATA STRATEGY & INSIGHTS: Armed with more than 25 years of social sector leadership and collective impact expertise, Parliament offers data strategy and insights consulting to clients striving to drive change in the social sector. Social sector leaders are often awash in data that doesn’t seem to help them understand and communicate about their sector or drive their mission forward. We help clients leverage their data assets and identify data they should be capturing, always with an eye toward better achieving their missions. Using data well demands a thoughtful data strategy. Once we understand clients’ current data landscape, we help them develop strategies and a data infrastructure that helps them better collect and manage data on an ongoing basis. At the end of the day, data is a resource that should provide the social sector with insights and understanding. We work with clients to ensure that their data serves them instead of them serving their data. Through technology and consulting support, we ensure that our clients are able to actually use their data on an ongoing basis for strategy and action. DATA PLATFORMS: Parliament creates data platforms and scalable cost-effective software solutions to drive our clients’ success. Our Collective Intelligence products aggregate data to help on the ground actors in public education, public health, environment, workforce development and beyond identify, map, track, and address inequalities. In short, we create systems that change systems.
Energize Ventures is a leading global alternative investment manager focused on accelerating digital transformation in energy and sustainable industry. Founded in 2016, Energize has funded 20 companies to-date and is backed by strategic and institutional LPs including CDPQ, Invenergy, Schneider Electric, General Electric, Caterpillar, and more. With an unmatched depth and breadth of industry and operational expertise, Energize works in partnership with its portfolio companies to realize their full potential from early commercialization to growth scaling and into the public markets. For more information on Energize Ventures, please visit www.energize.vc.
Augmented Intelligence seeks to transform the social services sector by unlocking the power of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) to improve operations and practice, drive quality improvements, and help social services agencies more effectively partner with healthcare systems to improve the wellbeing of their communities.
Honest Game is reimagining a world where access to college sports is fair, equitable, anchored by data and grounded in integrity. Honest Game's SaaS product builds individualized academic roadmaps to provide real-time strategic eligibility guidance so everyone has a clear pathway to college sports and beyond. Founded in Chicago in 2019, Honest Game is seeking a Principal Engineer to support its global growth. This individual will lead all technological needs and opportunities that Honest Game currently faces our cutting edge and fast growth SaaS startup. Honest Game has created a flexible, open and collaborative work environment that’s mission driven to bring equal access to college athletics for all. When work is fun it doesn’t feel like work!
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.
Global warming is perhaps the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced, yet few Americans are giving the issue the attention it deserves. Part of the problem is that humans are poor at reacting to "slow-burn" future problems and part is that scientists & activists for the past 30 years have been using ineffective language and communications messaging
