Calvert Foundation

Overview

Our program lends money at below market rates to high social-impact organizations and social enterprises. This provides the means for your donation to be leveraged twenty times over to improve the lives of those in underserved communities.

Mission

Simply: to help end poverty through investment. To do this we seek to develop community investment as a new asset class in the financial services industry by employing a range of innovative products and services.

Program

Programs include affordable housing, microcredit, small business development, social enterprise, community development, fair trade coffee and public radio.

Impact

Calvert Foundation invests in high social-impact organizations around the world. Each of these organizations focuses on solving local problems that contribute to poverty. A gift to Calvert Foundation has a tremendous impact because the money is leveraged twenty times over as loans are repaid and funds dispersed to new organizations in your targeted sector.

Countries of Operation

United States