The North Carolina Fund™

Impact Investing & Venture Philanthropy: The North Carolina Way

The North Carolina Fund™ is a North Carolina born and managed fund committed to invigorating impact investing in North Carolina through innovative funding for pioneering and successful programs and models that move North Carolina forward.

Connecting Philanthropy to Opportunity

Mission-Related Investments and Impact Investing are not just labors of love, they are labors of passion. 

It also takes the insights and patience to engage stakeholders, meet them where they are, and take us all where we all need to go...

...Forward.

We know that trust and relationships build great partnerships. It's the North Carolina way.

Pillars of Progress

Stewardship

Stewardship is a lost art found again.

North Carolinians are blessed with natural wonders and beauty but also with a legacy of civic heroes and local genius. We are duty-bound to nurture this legacy and steward funds with the commitment and diligence befitting our North Carolina heritage. 

Maximizing and leveraging funds with an eye on impact and outcomes for the betterment of all North Carolinians is our passion. 

Innovation

Innovation sometimes hides in plain sight and is not always something new but often something tried-and-true applied in new way. 

We believe that true innovation comes only when you are committed to listening and learning, seeing the solutions within the problem, and being bold enough to execute, even the face of conventional wisdom.

IMPACT

For us, impact is making sustainable differences in people's lives and communities; progress felt now but also progress that builds the future. 

Real impact is about finding and building models and solutions that can be scaled, replicated, and shared.

Passion

Our North Carolina roots are the key to our North Carolina fruits.

We love North Carolina and are proud to call it home. 

We eat biscuits for breakfast, have BBQ and sweet tea for lunch, stop work when the our college teams are playing, and are rivals at tip-off but fight together for what's right when duty calls.