Top Chicago, IL Social Impact Companies (91)
BLUE1647 is an award-winning network of education & technology innovation platforms that foster economic development in technology and 21st Century skills through people development (classes, workshops, and events around technology), & workforce development (through youth and adult technology programs to prepare individuals for high-demand jobs)
Pangea offers a smarter way for people to move money around the world to friends and family. Founded in 2012, Pangea started with a mission to revolutionize the remittance industry by providing customers a powerful, easy-to-use mobile application to send money internationally. Since then, we have grown to offer additional products and services to help underbanked immigrants gain financial independence. Pangea operates as an independent subsidiary under Enova International (NYSE: ENVA). Also headquartered in Chicago, Enova is a leading financial technology company offering accessible credit to millions of customers. Together, Pangea and Enova are on a mission to help hardworking people get access to fair financial services.
Over the last 15 years, we’ve grown from a startup to a market-leading organization with over 150 team members, and we’ve created an award-winning culture that makes this company an amazing place to work. We've been ranked on multiple best places to work lists including the 2024 BuiltInChicago rankings.
We are a B Corp certified, social impact company fighting food waste around the world. It's important because the food we waste accounts for 8-10% of all CO2e emissions. We're best known for our app, which is the world's largest B2C marketplace for surplus food. Here, restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, bakeries, canteens and wholesalers in 15 countries prevent their surplus from going to waste by connecting with our millions of users. Here's what the World Economic Forum has to say about us: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/app-leftovers-fight-food-waste-togoodtogo/ We're also featured as a Europe-wide solution by Zero Waste Europe: https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/the-story-of-too-good-to-go/ Food waste is a global challenge in need of many solutions, and we run projects with businesses, households, schools and public affairs to create real, tangible impact. We are always on the look out for talented and like-minded individuals so if you're up for the challenge, check out our open positions at https://toogoodtogo.org/en/careers/opportunities
We are a documentary video production company specializing in producing videos for purpose-driven organizations. Our video services are full service- from creative concept to shooting interviews and day in the life footage as well as editing, music and sound. Our social enterprise is committed to employing young people at risk from gun violence.
At The Brainchild Collective, we activate every young person’s potential to transform the world through holistic education solutions that help prepare students to live healthy and thriving lives.
Thought Collection Publishing is an independent publisher supporting social change through publishing literary and visual artists in our nonfiction publications. Our publications are a collection of stories and art depicting expressions of our lives, a collaboration of those that want to explore the world and expand their life perspectives and w
We build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: the future of transportation is dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across cities, compliments existing transit infrastructure, and provides equitable access to efficient, affordable ways of getting around. For everyone.
Youth sports and extracurricular activities are becoming more expensive, and every day it’s pricing out more and more families from the critical benefits of participation. The technology we’re building solves this problem in an industry that has yet to be disrupted.
Nestidd buys houses, customizes them for people with disabilities, leases and maintains them - affordably. We provide superior risk-adjusted returns on invested capital by providing exceptional living spaces to premier care organizations and their clients. More than 1,000 adults with disabilities live in our homes, many of whom have never before had a place to call their own.
To deliver the world's leading and highest quality Social Wedia group sharing and collaboration platform centered around digital imagery.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks across the United States that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., serves as the nation's central bank. The role of the Federal Reserve System, since its establishment by an act of Congress in 1913 , is to foster a strong economy and a stable financial system.
Virgil designs and delivers transformational human capital solutions that give individuals and organizations the insight needed to make better employment decisions. Virgil operates Hcareers (the leading talent recruitment brand and platform in the hospitality industry) and Virgil Careers (a career assessment and navigation platform).
City Tech reinvents cities. We convene cross-sector leaders to tackle urban problems that are too big for any one group to solve on its own. We remake essential city services and infrastructure using advanced technology and then expand these solutions to other cities. To learn more, visit www.CityTech.org.
Amp Americas owns and operates one of the largest carbon negative fuels producing portfolios in the U.S. Amp makes ultra-low carbon intensity renewable natural gas (RNG) from dairy waste at 7 facilities in 3 states processing manure from over 100,000 cows. Amp operates three business units: Amp Americas Development, Amp Americas Services, and Amp Americas RNG Marketing. Amp’s dairy RNG projects produce 100% renewable natural gas from on-farm anaerobic digester to vehicle fuel projects. Amp Services leverages Amp’s expertise in managing, operating, and maintaining dairy RNG projects to provide these services to third parties. Amp RNG Marketing is the company’s RNG marketing and risk management business. We are pioneering in the renewable transportation fuel industry and our vision is to accelerate the global transition to 100% renewable fuels by harvesting energy from waste materials. Amp was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL
PiN is a renewable energy company disguised as an online gamification platform via website and mobile apps. PiN is a social enterprise that is a hybrid between online and mobile games and penny auctions. Users can win prizes through skills games, initially trivia games, with renewable energy advocacy and education built in before each game.
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OneTrust unlocks the full potential of data and AI, securely and responsibly. Our platform enforces the secure handling of company data, empowering organizations to drive innovation responsibly while mitigating risks. With a comprehensive suite of solutions spanning data and AI security, privacy, governance, risk, ethics, and compliance, OneTrust enables seamless collaboration between data teams and risk teams to enable rapid and trusted innovation. Recognized as the market leader in trust, OneTrust boasts over 300 patents and serves more than 14,000 customers globally, ranging from industry giants to small businesses.
To reach out, communicate and educate Illinois public sector employees about the pension crisis and how it will affect their retirement future. Working with public sector employees, unions, and Illinois state & local governments to fundamentally fix the retirement crisis through a permanent long-term solution.
Honest Game is reimagining a world where access to college sports is fair, equitable, anchored by data and grounded in integrity. Honest Game's SaaS product builds individualized academic roadmaps to provide real-time strategic eligibility guidance so everyone has a clear pathway to college sports and beyond. Founded in Chicago in 2019, Honest Game is seeking a Principal Engineer to support its global growth. This individual will lead all technological needs and opportunities that Honest Game currently faces our cutting edge and fast growth SaaS startup. Honest Game has created a flexible, open and collaborative work environment that’s mission driven to bring equal access to college athletics for all. When work is fun it doesn’t feel like work!
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LEAP Innovations' mission is to transform learning into a holistic, tailored experience—designed to prepare, empower and inspire all learners to ignite their unlimited potential. Think of us as the R&D hub for education innovation, bringing the best learning science and technology here to pilot, research and scale.
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