LEAF is humbled to receive the 2025 Impact Assets Award (IA50), a diverse group of impact fund managers who demonstrate a commitment to generating positive impact: http://bit.ly/IA502025. This recognition comes not to our team alone, but to the entrepreneurs and cooperatives whose courage make our work possible.
Awards celebrate outcomes, but rarely illuminate the journey. Behind this recognition stand the shopkeepers, chefs, childcare providers, and craftspeople who dared to believe in their capacity for ownership when traditional finance told them otherwise. They trusted LEAF not because we offered easy solutions, but because we offered honest partnership through the complex terrain of business development.
When the Barbosa family began and grew a neighborhood grocery, when the owners of Just Book-ish created a bookstore and a community’s cultural space, they demonstrated that economic transformation happens not through policies alone, but through persistence and working together.
This award strengthens our resolve to continue building an economy worthy of our highest aspirations—one loan, one business, one neighborhood at a time. The path remains challenging, as it must. But we face these challenges emboldened by the knowledge that we walk not alone, but alongside all who believe that a brighter economy is possible.
With deepest gratitude to our partners, investors, and the visionary entrepreneurs who make this work both necessary and possible.
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IA 50 DESCRIPTION
The ImpactAssets 50™ (IA 50) is the definitive guide to impact investing fund managers globally. The publicly available database is composed of experienced and emerging private debt and equity impact investment fund managers committed to generating positive impact. The IA 50 provides a gateway into the world of impact investing for investors and their financial advisors, offering an easy way to identify experienced impact investment firms and explore the landscape of potential investment options. The IA 50 is intended to illustrate the breadth of impact investment fund managers operating today. Firms have been selected to demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
The IA 50 is not an index or investable platform and does not constitute an offering or solicitation to buy or sell securities or a private placement, or recommend specific products. Nor is this an endorsement of any of the listed fund managers. It is not a replacement for due diligence. Additional details on the selection process are available here.