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Beneficial Returns provides growth capital to small to medium-sized social enterprises in selected countries in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Our borrowers are committed entrepreneurs focused on alleviating global poverty and protecting the environment.
Operating in Emerging Markets
Equipment Financing
Ready for Growth
Operating in Emerging Markets
We support growing social enterprises focused on delivering impact in emerging markets – where opportunities are greatest and where access to long-term financing is limited.
Equipment Financing
We finance revenue-producing and cost-saving equipment to enable our borrowers to grow in scale. This way, they can be in the best position to address societal problems.
Ready for Growth
We focus on high-impact businesses that are ready to grow their enterprise and increase the breadth and depth of their impact.
Vetted Social Enterprises
We work with borrowers who have been recognized and supported by the most respected names in social enterprise and social finance.
Why choose Beneficial Returns?
We believe that social enterprise has a vital catalytic role in driving positive outcomes for underserved people and the planet.
We seek to activate undeployed philanthropic capital through our funds to support the growth of social enterprises that use the power of business for the greater good.
We also leverage our networks freely to help our borrowers achieve their goals. We have introduced them to new clients, board members, pro bono attorneys, investors, and donors.
The relationships we foster within our community of investors and borrowers are one of our proudest achievements. We host online or in-person events where investors can meet one another and our borrowers.
Working Towards Sustainable Impact
Social enterprises that promote the use of renewable energy to improve lives and protect the environment. Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
Social enterprises that help increase job opportunities for low-income communities within Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Social enterprises that undertake activities focused on providing clean drinking water to stop the transmission of disease and help improve lives.
Social enterprises who employ sustainable agricultural practices, undertaking good stewardship of the natural systems and resources that farms rely on, including: building and maintaining healthy soil, managing water wisely, minimizing air, water, and climate pollution, and promoting biodiversity.
Ways to get
Funding
Beneficial Returns manages different pools of capital with distinct mandates, underwriting criteria and credit committees. Our goal is to provide catalytic support for social enterprises who are positively impacting lives of people and the planet.
The Reciprocity Fund
The Reciprocity Fund supports social enterprises that promote prosperity for indigenous communities in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Beneficial Returns Fund
The Beneficial Returns debt fund provides capital asset financing to outstanding social enterprises that eliminate poverty and protect the natural environment in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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Contact us to check your eligibility and see if we are the right fit for you.