Tailored funding for small businesses, cooperatives, worker-owned enterprises, and community-owned or governed real estate projects
Fund manager education, integrated capital training, advisory services, and advocacy to expand impact investing for economic justice
2025 Impact Metrics
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Invested Locally Since Inception
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of Capital Supports Entrepreneurs of Color
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of Businesses Are Worker-Owned
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Good Jobs Sustained in Local Communities
Funding That Fuels Impact
Jeysi Zuniga, Founder and CEO of Synergy Contracting, partnered with BII to secure funding for heavy machinery and equipment, fueling the company’s expansion into painting and environmental remediation services. As Synergy has grown, it has retained its people-first focus: quality work, fair wages, and a workplace where every employee — union-represented, fully benefited, and supported for the long haul — gets to thrive.
How BII Moves Capital for Economic Justice
As an impact-first investor, we prioritize social and economic outcomes like ownership, equity, and sustainability alongside financial return to build generational wealth in communities.
Who We Fund
We invest in people, places, and enterprises building community ownership, shared wealth, and economic power.
Our investments include:
Entrepreneurs
Capital for small businesses, worker cooperatives, and Black and Latino-owned enterprises
Impact-Driven Businesses
We back ambitious entrepreneurs who are designing innovative solutions across New England that support good jobs, expand ownership, and build generational wealth.
Community-Owned Real Estate
We invest in New England real estate projects that support community ownership and governance, and increase affordability—from community land trusts to housing and business cooperatives.
Impact Fund Managers
We train and invest in visionary fund managers who are designing and launching impact funds that drive catalytic capital and resources to local communities across the U.S.
Who We Partner With
We partner with donor-advised funds, family offices, foundations, and institutional capital supporting entrepreneurs and fund managers driving inclusive economic growth.
What Our Partners and Entrepreneurs Say
“BII has been instrumental in providing us access—access to rooms, access to networks, access to education, access to capital, access to resources. It’s one of the best partnerships we have.”
Al Salas
“BII provides an unbelievable opportunity to blend my interests as an investor and wanting a return with my values and the things I care about—particularly getting capital where it doesn’t always flow naturally.”
Cheryl Carner
“I think it’s all about how we’re going to contribute to the world we live in. That’s what inspired me. It was the first way I got involved in impact investing, and I took the opportunity.”
Evren Ozargun
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Join Us in Building a Just and Sustainable Economy
Watch how BII-funded businesses transform communities through values-aligned investing, cooperative ownership, and economic justice