OUR MISSION
LOCUS empowers place-focused foundations to invest their capital locally to build prosperous, vibrant communities.
Foundation leaders who care about place are looking for ways to use more of their assets for mission and impact, and to take on new roles in community and regional economic development. But many are not sure what their best role might be. To help more place-focused foundations move beyond grantmaking alone toward local investing for impact, LOCUS Impact Investing offers a broad team approach drawing on the expertise of two seasoned and effective organizations – Virginia Community Capital, a $255M CDFI bank, and the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, a national nonprofit focused on economic development philanthropy. LOCUS offers a continuum of services related to impact investing, starting with philanthropic analytic tools including our Unlock Your Transfer of Wealth™ analysis to help foundations understand economic opportunities, strategy formulation related to economic development philanthropy and continuing with executing, servicing and monitoring impact investments. Learn more about LOCUS services.
News & Events
This month, we take stock of the LOCUS journey and think ahead towards local impact investing in 2019.
This month we asked Stephanie Randolph, Impact Appalachia and Cassiopeia Foundation, to share her reflections on SOCAP18, held Oct. 23-26 in San Francisco.
With the acquisition of CRE's energizing entrepreneurial communities (e2) framework, NetWork Kansas will launch e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, a national initiative to help rural entrepreneurs and economic development professionals connect, learn, and share best practices for building sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in Kansas and across the country. We are thrilled that the e2 framework has found a new home and believe this new partnership will help more communities grow more businesses and enhance the quality of life for all residents.
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