Propel prioritizes early funding, experimentation, and risk-taking to fundamentally reimagine what’s possible.  We provide access to capital at critical moments for new leaders and funds, catalyzing broader support from other investors and partners to sustain and scale their work. Our approach also gives us the flexibility to support a range of strategies across for-profit, non-profit, and political organizations — ensuring the focus remains on the most efficient way to achieve impact.

 
 

 

Creating new narratives about people, power and social change to transform our politics and the economy

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Relief fund platform making it easy and tax efficient to raise money and give it to people experiencing a financial hardship

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Affordable and effective cold storage solutions for farmers and small business owners

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Improving road safety by providing the best-in-class, AI-based automotive technology to any individual with a smartphone across the world

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Sourcing dairy and eggs from small farmers at a fair price and distributing to consumers within 275 miles

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Inventory management software for small shopkeepers in emerging markets

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Smart journalism on South Asia and South Asians around the world

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Helping mission-driven organizations and campaigns manage events, recruit volunteers, and organize

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Virtual reality training for essential human skills in the workplace

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Online platform for intergenerational home sharing

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Mobile training solution for frontline workers to to help them engage with their work, expand their skills, and move up

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Matching teachers with schools they love by streamling the job search and hiring process

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Deploying sustainable farming techniques on high-potential farmland in the Global South

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Media and events brand catalyzing the transition to an economy that ensures our social, environmental, and economic systems thrive together

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Starlight helps improve the financial health of households by offering guidance to seamlessly access and navigate government programs through their trusted institutions

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Using data science to measure the impact of content and predict opinion-change

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Building a "credit agency" for cultural competencies of clinicians

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Tools for independent creatives and strategists to team up and make more

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Strategy and investment firm focused on impact, inclusive wealth creation, and serving purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organizations

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A collaborative campaign launched to increase funding and enhance efforts to drive voter turnout, while also building sustainable statewide organizing and political infrastructure in key battleground states

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Working on behalf of women of color – especially domestic workers – in order to build the civic power of this critical segment of our electorate

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Political action arm of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, working to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America

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Civic media company that protects and strengthens our democracy through a network of mission-driven local newsrooms across the country

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Color Of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization, mobilizes decision-makers to influence corporate and governmental decisions for a more just and humane world for Black Americans

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Hub for leaders in the Latinx community who are working to massively increase civic participation in all facets of American democracy and culture

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Promoting fair elections, encouraging voter participation, and educating voters about elections and their voting rights

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Connecting with moderate women to build a broader base for progress and an America that works for everyone

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Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization that goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment, from politics and criminal justice to reproductive rights and climate change

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Mobilizing millions of member-activists to win progressive victories and build a country and world where everyone can thrive

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Connecting donors to local grassroots groups that mobilize voters and build long-term power for the progressive movement

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Youth voting organization using innovative digital and field strategies to turn out young voters in key states

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Investing in innovations in progressive organizing, media, and technology

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An impact media organization that fills a key gap in the progressive movement by reaching and mobilizing parents—around both policy issues and civic engagement—explicitly through their parental identity

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A new culture forward advocacy and education campaign engaging critical Black and Latina/o voters to see the climate, clean energy and cost of living stakes in defending the IRA

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Providing funding and strategic support to state partners rooted in communities of color working to create an inclusive, multi-racial democracy

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Engaging women at a grassroots level and driving media narratives to better reflect issues faced by them

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Working to win power in state legislatures strategic for redistrictng by connecting volunteer teams with targeted races in swing districts

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Vera Action's True Line Project is a ten-year, national narrative change effort to end racialized tough-on-crime rhetoric and neutralize the politics of mass incarceration

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Watering Hole Media is a social impact media company seeking to open minds, activate change, and win for the people

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Homebase for progressive donors and organizers seeking a strategic approach to political funding that wins elections, advances transformative policy, and builds lasting power in the states

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Way to Rise is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) philanthropic strategy center and fund working toward multiracial democracy, especially where it is most undermined—in the South and Southwest

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Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, organizes working people without an union on the job to advance good jobs and democracy

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Reaching working people in their communities with good information on the issues that matter most

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Progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial movement of working people to transform America

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Empowering, educating, and assisting middle and working-class Americans in building a stronger financial future

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Backing mission-driven founders leveraging breakthrough innovations in science and technology to build a more sustainable and equitable economy

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Investing in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through co-investment in equity financing rounds and using proceeds to contribute to the long-term sustainability of Endeavor

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Providing growth capital to social enterprises creating innovative and self-sustaining solutions to the root causes of inequity in the U.S. and globally

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Impact investment platform working with local partners to create an inclusive American economy

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Asset management firm dedicated to applying a commercial framework to investing in unbanked and underserved markets

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Helping women entrepreneurs in Guatemala overcome the hurdles that can make it difficult-to-impossible for them to build successful small businesses

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Investing growth capital in companies, private equity funds, and private debt funds in emerging markets

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Investing in software and services designed to help low income communities and organizations that serve them

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Investing in early-stage enterprises delivering solutions to global, social or environmental challenges

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Debt

Providing sustainable training and employment programs for youth in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya

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Increases the flow of capital into investments that deliver financial, social, and environmental returns

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Fair-trade certified apparel manufacturer, creating jobs in Liberia and Ghana

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Providing an onshore, socially responsible alternative to business process outsourcing (BPO)

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Supplying agricultural businesses in the Global South with financial capital and training to help them grow

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Grants

Unlocking capital for agricultural small and medium enterprises

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Serving a global movement of people using business as a force for good

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Network of leaders (re)building an economy that includes everyone by shifting capital into communities, uplifting local leaders, and accelerating the development of equitable economies

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Providing sustainable training and employment programs for youth in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya

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Investing deeply in emerging leaders through seed-funding and leadership development

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Advocating for the rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals through re-entry support, mentorship, and civic engagement to drive policy reform in Connecticut

Full Citizens Coalition

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Ensuring rural women and men living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on

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Supporting historically marginalized entrepreneurs to access the resources needed to start and run successful businesses

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Supplying agricultural businesses in the Global South with financial capital and training to help them grow

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Building a large-scale grassroots movement that brings resources, dignity, and opportunity to urban slum dwellers to urban slum dwellers

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Investing in early-stage enterprises delivering solutions to global, social or environmental challenges

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Providing affordable eyeglasses, vision screening, and training to learners and earners who who would otherwise not have access to them

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Teaching practical skills, building a community of changemakers, and forging pathways for student entrepreneurs and innovators

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Propel Democracy

Community-based electoral and power-building organization providing direct COVID-19 financial relief to those most in need

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Technology transforming qualitative data into actionable insights that inform and inspire

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Using the power of year-round political engagement and elections to change our economic, justice, and political systems

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A progressive ecosystem of nearly 60 formal partner organizations and an expanding web of network allies committed to building independent power for an anti-racist, inclusive democracy.

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Strengthening the power and impact of the progressive movement by building people power in creative, networked, and forward-looking ways

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Diverse coalition of leading progressive organizations representing millions of Americans and committed to advancing policy reforms that restore power to the people

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Dynamic "think-and-do" tank with a focus on voting rights protection and progressive economic solutions

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Mobilizing Black people in the US to build civic power and strengthen an affirming political vision

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Building long-term power in communities that have been historically undercounted in the decennial census, underrepresented at the polls, and whose communities are often torn apart in redistricting

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Strategy development, coordination, and collaboration among leading national social justice organizations

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Convening filmmakers with change makers around urgent issues to catalyze coalitions and create campaigns for social good

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Grassroots movement of thousands of local groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda

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Coalition of over 30 grassroots civil rights and social justice groups from around the country calling for bold structural change to ensure our democracy works for all Americans

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First sustained, national effort to effect reform in the criminal justice system by electing better prosecutors

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Political, digital, and grassroots hub for Latino and Chicano organizing and movement building

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Membership cooperative working to advance the progressive movement through common infrastructure, tools, and technology

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Community-based electoral and power-building organization providing direct COVID-19 financial relief to those most in need

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Organization gathering individuals and foundations committed to contributing at least 1% of their net worth towards the protection and improvement of our democracy

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Resourcing the infrastructure of progressive organizations working to recruit, train, support, and elect candidates

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Building a moral agenda rooted in our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country

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Think tank and campus network that believes in an economy and democracy by the people, for the people

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Mobilizing resources to win all the Houses—including the White House, the Senate, and the state houses key to rolling back Republican gerrymandering

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Campaign hub to inspire Black and Latinx voters and counter digital voter suppression in the 2020 cycle

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Campaign led by Color of Change PAC, SEIU, Planned Parenthood Votes and Community Change Action to mobilize voters to win elections and build lasting local level power

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With more than 3 million members in urban and suburban communities, Working America works for good jobs, a fair economy and a democracy that represents all of us

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Reaching working people in their communities with good information on the issues that matter most

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Propel Justice

Combat mass incarceration by paying bail for people in need, reuniting families, and restoring the presumption of innocence

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Improving community safety by investing in local youth and the physical landscape of the neighborhood

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Working to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system by performing original research and helping launch reforms around the world

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Providing immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to individuals who have recently returned home from incarceration

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Providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated young people to further their social and professional development through the power of work

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Provider of services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated mothers in New York State

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Defending the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice

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Dedicated to cutting the U.S. prison population in half by 2030 while building a network of formerly incarcerated advocates to lead justice system reform

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Nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization seeking to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system

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Independent commission on New York City criminal justice and incarceration reform, including Closing Rikers Island

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Creating opportunities for people affected by the criminal justice system to further develop their strengths and lead lives of responsibility and contribution

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Working urgently to build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities

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Bringing the transformative power of liberal arts into Connecticut’s prisons through a full degree-granting academic program

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Education & Workforce

Ensuring that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college

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Providing support to academically advanced students from low-income neighborhoods and racially isolated schools

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Empowering high-achieving, low-income high school students to make the leap to our best colleges and universities

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Empowering young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to make healthy decisions

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Nurturing the inherent potential in every child and family by equipping them to transform their own lives and strengthen their communities

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Providing transformative nature immersion experiences that cultivate character, confidence, passion and perseverance in New York’s youth

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Food Assistance

New York City’s largest food rescue organization, helping to feed the more than 1.5 million New Yorkers who are struggling to put meals on their table

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Working to end hunger throughout New York City

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Enacting policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure all Americans have sufficient access to nutritious food

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Working to end hunger and poverty in Ocean Hill, Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant, three of the lowest-income areas in New York City

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