Drawdown Fund managed by Tiger Grass Capital
Utah, United States
July 2019
Equity investing - Developed Markets
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United States
At the Drawdown Fund, our people are our greatest strength. We come from all walks of life but share the common purpose of creating a sustainable future for our planet. We know what it takes to build businesses from the ground up, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, but always adding to our reservoir of knowledge. We believe everyone has something to contribute and we can all learn from each other. We are a purpose-built team, encompassing a rich diversity of backgrounds that allows us to tackle challenges from multiple angles. Honesty and humility shape our work culture, and we continuously strive to grow through relentless curiosity and candid conversation. Our dedicated investment team has a combined experience of 50 years in sustainability, climate solutions, and growth investing, ensuring our strategies are always expertly guided. We take immense pride in being co-founded by the visionary Paul Hawken, whose robust climate models and research further inform our decisions and actions. Both our team and network include a mix of operators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors who actively engage to drive value and customer adoption at every step. Our fund, driven by our unmatched knowledge, experience, network, and mission alignment, is committed to generating supe
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 24.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 24.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 34.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 25.9
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 15.5
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 40.3
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.