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We fund market-based solutions benefiting underserved communities.Solutions that improve rural livelihoods by increasing agricultural incomes, expanding access to basic financial services and enhancing the availability of energy, affordable housing, and other critical goods and services. Ceniarth is a single-family office focused on funding market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities. Through a range of investing activity, we provide capital to enable the deployment of products, services, and support that directly impact marginalized, primarily rural, populations. We aim to finance enterprises and intermediaries in ways that lead to long term growth and sustained benefits to communities. We fund non-profits, for-profits, and hybrid organizations.Founded in 2013 by Diane Isenberg, Ceniarth works in conjunction with the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation. Our ability to leverage program-related investments and grants, in addition to unrestricted investment capital, allows us to think flexibly and creatively to address funding gaps. Our goal is to apply the right, most efficient form of capital for a given need in order to produce measurable impacts. Our long-term goal is to deploy the entirety of our capital, in all its forms, in the most direct pursuit of our mission as possible.We organize our work around three different capital deployment strategies that aim to capture the inherent risk, return, and impact tradeoffs that we see in pursuing investments with a primary intention of generating impacts in deeply underserved places. In general, we do not benchmark our activities against commercial, market-rates of return. Rather, we simply aim to maximize our desired impact while preserving our ability to recycle our capital base over time.Our work is global and addresses both developing economies, as well as persistently low-income regions in more developed markets. Our professional team is a small, but global organization with professionals currently based in London, New York, and San Francisco.
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