For Investors
Megan Franken, Franken Farms
Impact Investors make our vision a reality
Harvest Impact works at the intersection of well-being, food, farming and environment. We offer social finance investment options that provide a financial return while moving the needle on climate adaptation, strong local food systems and income inequality.
Three ways to invest in Harvest Impact:
- Make a community bond investment
- Make a philanthropic investment
- Become a granting partner
Buy community bonds and Harvest Impact!
Harvest Impact Community Bonds (launching in 2025) offer a risk-backed investment option that provides a financial return and supports local community economic development.
The work of our entrepreneurs ranges from food products and services, to regenerative farming, to waste reduction and recapture, water and energy conservation, with food equity, and decent work practices being centred in this work.
Are you looking for a way to align your financial investments with your concern for people and the planet?
The companies we finance eliminate food waste, reduce water consumption and carbon outputs. They regenerate the land that sustains us and in the process they create decent employment.
They are moving us towards a circular economy and we’re helping them get there with financing and support.
Your purchase of Harvest Impact community bonds will help expand our loan portfolio and accelerate the transition to a local circular economy. It’s something tangible you can do to act on the enormous challenges we all face.
Make a philanthropic Investment
The remarkable impact of social finance is made possible thanks to generous donors with the vision to help create extraordinary projects like Harvest Impact.
Philanthropic capital is a difference-maker. It helps Harvest Impact attract a broader range of investors to our community bond program, increases our pool of available loan capital and expands our reach to viable entrepreneurs who face high barriers accessing mainstream financing.
Philanthropic contributions increase Harvest Impact’s ability to experiment and innovate on how social finance can best be delivered to achieve financial, social and economic objectives. Unrestricted donations make it possible for Harvest Impact to take risks, subsidize higher cost structures, and be more patient with our borrowers than would otherwise be possible.
Become a grant-funding partner
Harvest Impact owes much to the partner organizations that share our vision for social finance.
Harvest Impact was made possible with the trust and support of grant-funding partners (foundations, corporations, governments). Grant-funding supports the human capital that makes everything work. Future grant-funding will help Harvest Impact develop and improve its programs through program evaluation (evidence) and social innovation (implementation). Importantly, grant-funders play a critical role in our ability to attract private sector investment.
As grant recipients we understand granting agencies invest with specific outcomes in mind. We aim for strategic alignment with our grant-making partners. We’ve learned how to manage and grow from their transformational seed funding, making Harvest Impact a tested and worthy partner to undertake further developments in social finance practice such as relational lending.