Top Chicago, IL Social Impact Companies (92)

The Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) is an intellectual hub and incubator for data science and artificial intelligence research at the University of Chicago. We catalyze new discoveries by fusing fundamental and applied research with real-world applications.

Invenergy is a leading global privately-held developer and operator of sustainable energy solutions. We are headquartered in the Chicago and have 2000+ employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia. We have successfully developed over 175 projects, including wind, solar, and natural gas power generation as well as advanced energy storage facilities. We are innovators at heart — we design, build and...

BLUE1647 is an award-winning network of education & technology innovation platforms that foster economic development in technology and 21st Century skills through people development (classes, workshops, and events around technology), & workforce development (through youth and adult technology programs to prepare individuals for high-demand jobs)

LEAP Innovations' mission is to transform learning into a holistic, tailored experience—designed to prepare, empower and inspire all learners to ignite their unlimited potential. Think of us as the R&D hub for education innovation, bringing the best learning science and technology here to pilot, research and scale.

Bridge is the mobile money app built to make you more money easily, every single day, stress-free. But how? We help our members monetize their data through our app and card products, enabling you to share your anonymized data with third party businesses and make money. All of this is done on a strictly opt-in basis. When users connect their favorite debit...

Tgthr Collective is a growth and impact partner for purpose-driven businesses. We're passionate about building a radically better future. We partner with purpose-driven businesses to accelerate their growth while maximizing impact.

ShoppingGives is connecting cause with commerce. From DTC brands to Enterprise retailers, thousands of businesses are using ShoppingGives to launch, scale, and optimize their charitable giving strategies. Our Social Impact Stack is at the center of where purpose meets profit, and exists to empower brands to motivate giving, build loyalty, and drive bottom-line growth.

Virgil designs and delivers transformational human capital solutions that give individuals and organizations the insight needed to make better employment decisions. Virgil operates Hcareers (the leading talent recruitment brand and platform in the hospitality industry) and Virgil Careers (a career assessment and navigation platform).

Edovo is a social impact company that provides fair and honest communication services, educational and vocational programming, and re-entry preparation for justice-involved people and their loved ones. Our mission is to help everyone connected to incarceration build better lives.

Augmented Intelligence seeks to transform the social services sector by unlocking the power of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) to improve operations and practice, drive quality improvements, and help social services agencies more effectively partner with healthcare systems to improve the wellbeing of their communities.

BallotReady is an award-winning startup working to help every voter in America cast an informed vote on every race, every election. We create digital nonpartisan voter guides and build tools to help advocacy groups and campaigns inform and mobilize voters, powered by the most comprehensive database on every level of government. We’ve worked with organizations such as Snapchat, Tiktok, Spotify, and...

GOODsend is a first-of-its-kind charity platform. We leverage our iOS app, a community of individual and corporate donors, and a secure, digital payments infrastructure to send money directly to Chicagoans most impacted by COVID-19. We collect recurring and one-time donations, and disburse funds directly to individual beneficiaries every 2 weeks.

Neon One was founded with the mission of becoming the most comprehensive and authentic end-to-end technology ecosystem dedicated to empowering mission-driven organizations. We pioneer solutions for fundraising, community building, and program operations that power the future of philanthropy. The team has worked with more than 40,000 nonprofits over the last several decades—bringing an unparalleled level of industry knowledge and expertise...

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab serving Chicago's South and West Sides.

The Invisible Institute is an innovative, non-profit journalism production company based on the South Side of Chicago. We work to enhance the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable. Among the tactics we employ are investigative reporting, multimedia storytelling, human rights documentation, the curation of public information, and the orchestration of difficult public conversations. Our work coheres around a...

At The Brainchild Collective, we activate every young person’s potential to transform the world through holistic education solutions that help prepare students to live healthy and thriving lives.

Mass Interact is a Google Trusted Agency - Enhance your presence across Google with a premium-quality 360-degree Google virtual tour powered by Street View technology. We help you optimize your business for conversions and specialize in 360° Virtual Tours and digital marketing.

STIGMA is a mental health community that uses asynchronous messaging to connect you with people who share your lived experience. It is NOT a public social media site. There are no public profiles, no comment threads, no influencers... in other words, no vanity. This is a safe space to practice talking about your mental health.

Vidmob is the creative data company. Its AI-based software improves creative and media performance by helping brands and agencies derive their own custom creative best practices, and ensure that those learnings are applied across all flighted media. Vidmob’s approach to using creative data drives brand consistency, reduces creative and media waste, and increases overall business performance across the funnel. As...

The Chicago Community Trust was founded in 1915 by Norman and Albert Harris, father and son duo of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank (now BMO Harris Bank). The Trust was the fourth community foundation ever created. There are now 750 community foundations in Canada and the U.S. As our region’s community foundation, the Trust unites generous donors, committed nonprofits and...