Northlight Partners also operates as an impact investment firm that invests as a principal, as well as manages and advises social enterprises, SMEs and social impact funds. Northlight Partners supports businesses that are committed to generating positive, sustainable and demonstrable social and environmental impact while complying with a commercial imperative. Based in Denver, with broad experience in Africa and Asia, Northlight Partners is ideally suited to advise investors and to the emerging economies that are home to many of the most exciting socially entrepreneurial investment opportunities.
Representative Investments or Advisor/Board Member roles include:
- A Yogurt Dairy in Northern Uganda employing former child soldier brides returning from Kony’s Army
- A Microfinance Bank in Northern Jiangsu Region of China
- A Center of Excellence school in Murindi Rwanda
- A book publisher of leading business books by up and coming business authors
- A Cassava (Yucca) Processing Plant social venture in Nicaragua raising incomes for local farmers
- A church-owned coffee roaster in Xian, China
- A social venture delivering clean water to slums in Pakistan
- A social venture building a chicken farm to help fund slum schools in India
- A social venture Vivoblu Inc., manufacturing and selling a purpose-built water filter for people in the developing world
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