Backbone Funder invests in innovative solutions with a specific focus to improve lives and energize the bottom 60% of local economies.
We look for individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, for-profit entities and nonprofits working on diverse social, environmental, and impact projects.
We invest in architecture, engineering, housing, planning, research, education, healthcare, community groups, developers, universities, etc., and innovators that meet the needs of local communities, including urban centers, suburbs, inner-city, rural, and indigenous.
Imagine your community projects here...
An urban developer intends to repurpose vacant land to create a sustainable multi-use local park and community food production.
A nonprofit implementing community farms, greening of buildings, and food markets.
A tech company with rural community infrastructure technologies and projects.
Innovators’ technologies that reduce local CO2 and project implementation.
An indigenous owned heritage seed and grower company commercializing newly introduced foods.
A family business that grows seedlings to plant trees and native plants to restore parks, floods and wildfires.
A community group rehabilitates landfills and storm damaged beaches.
A local designer has projects to develop low-income and homeless housing.
Agricultural engineer is developing robotic equipment and connected technologies for farms and greenhouses.
