Top San Francisco, California Social Impact Companies (13)
All Raise is on a mission to accelerate the success of female and non-binary founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Born out of a grassroots movement in 2017, our programs arm women with access, guidance, and support to advance their professional growth. When the architects of tomorrow better reflect the world, our world is better served.
Coursera was founded by Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to people around the world. Now more than 76 million learners, 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and more than 6,400 campuses, businesses, and governments come to Coursera to access world-class learning.
Tides envisions a world of shared prosperity and social justice founded on equality and human rights, a sustainable environment, healthy individuals and communities, and quality education. Tides accelerates the pace of social change, working with innovative partners to solve society’s toughest problems. We cross boundaries and link sectors, communities and cultures. We act with empathy and respect. We engage with those whose lives are affected. We embrace risk. We prioritize ideas that can scale.
Martie is a discount online grocery startup that saves perfectly good food from going to landfill, and offers it to shoppers at 40-70% off retail prices. Over 108B pounds of food ends up in landfill each year, and our model aims to change that. By redistributing these foods, we can get quality food into more homes and really save people money. With no subscriptions or memberships, there are no commitments or traps to shopping with Martie - just great deals. At launch, Martie has over 400+ items from 300+ well-known brands, but aims to scale to have a rotating selection of over 4,000 items, everyday. Martie also has a call center in English and Spanish for shoppers who might not want to shop online. Martie is the "Smartie Way To Save!"
GoodGuide provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies. GoodGuide's mission is to help consumers make purchasing decisions that reflect their preferences and values. We believe that better information can transform the marketplace: as more consumers buy better products, retailers and manufacturers face compelling incentives to make products that are safe, environmentally sustainable and produced using ethical sourcing of raw materials and labor.
At Nebia we build innovative and impactful products that improve how people use water in their daily lives. Through thoughtful reinvention of everyday interactions, we empower people everywhere to collectively make a greater impact with their most basic daily rituals. We started with the shower. The Nebia shower embodies the highest standards of experience, design, engineering and water and energy use. With water savings up to 70% compared to traditional showers, Nebia was designed to make a meaningful impact without compromising on experience. At the heart of our products is our unwavering dedication to developing groundbreaking sustainable solutions that stand the test of time. Every new iteration is made to solve a complex engineering challenge that has limited innovation for over a century. Our investment in R&D and product development is second only to our investment in the people who are making it possible. After several years working behind the scenes, we are extremely proud of what we have recently achieved: - $3M+ raised on Kickstarter in 1 month (Summer 2015) - 8,500+ backers - #25 most funded project on Kickstarter of all time - #7 most funded design project on Kickstarter of all time - Top 10 most upvoted project on Product Hunt of all time - 500+ articles worldwide
Goodly makes it easy for companies to offer student loan debt repayment as an employee benefit. Companies that offer this simple to use platform cut down the time that their employees would otherwise be in debt by an average of 8 years. This benefit can be used as a powerful tool for recruiting and retention while fostering diversity, inclusion and
Crowdpac is the first crowdfunding platform designed for politics - helping candidates, organizations and ordinary citizens fund the change they want to see. We use the best technology and objective data to boost political participation, helping citizens to vote, by understanding the candidates on their ballot; to fund political change through crowdfunding tools, and helping anyone run for office by raising money and mobilizing support independent of big donors and special interests. Crowdpac is your political machine.
Station A is a software company with a mission to automate clean energy development to enable a carbon-neutral future. Our platform provides clean energy buyers and providers the insight they need to take any building to zero carbon emissions. Our marketplace facilitates the origination, design, and execution of clean energy projects.
HandUp lets you donate directly to homeless people and others in need in your neighborhood. We ensure that 100% of your donation goes toward basics like food, medical care, and housing through our nonprofit partners. HandUp launched in August 2013 and is currently based in San Francisco. See http://handup.us for more
Trans Lifeline connects trans people to the community, resources, and support they need to survive and thrive--building a resilient trans community through trans-led direct services. Trans Lifeline’s Hotline provides peer support and crisis support. Our Microgrants program provides low-barrier grants to trans people in need of legal name changes and updated government IDs, HRT, as well as funds for trans people who are incarcerated. By providing care and financial redistribution, Trans Lifeline identifies the trans community’s most pressing needs and brings that expertise to broader gender and racial justice movements.
Transformations of the Human (ToftH) was founded in 2021, by Tobias Rees and Kim Newman, as a California non-profit educational organization (501c3). It is designed to introduce a new practice to the world, one that does not yet exist and has only recently become possible: the practice of doing philosophy. ToftH is composed of the ToftH School (“the School”) and ToftH Research Corporation (“TRC”), a for-profit subsidiary. The ToftH Research Corporation (TRC) is an AI product insight company. We combine our unique proprietary method for identifying the new –– doing philosophy –– and a novel approach to UXR to provide insights for tech companies on how to build powerful AI products. TRC was established in support of two goals: (i) to build a company on the basis of ToftH-style work that can generate revenue and fund ToftH School; (ii) to prove that by building products in terms of their philosophical newness, one can produce new value and markets. The main work streams of TRC include consulting with external clients, and internal research and product development. Our work combines philosophy, art and technology in order to build PArT projects, products, practitioners and companies for the new.
At Shef, we're bringing the sharing economy to the table. We believe in providing our Shefs (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents) the opportunity to make a meaningful income from their very own kitchens. We also believe that every person should have access to a healthy, homemade meal at an affordable price.
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