New England Impact Investment Ecosystem Map

What is the Ecosystem Map?

The New England Impact Investing Ecosystem Map is a place-based effort to strengthen the network of New England-focused impact investors and ecosystem partners. An outgrowth of the 2025 Invest for New England Conference and developed in collaboration with a student team at BU Questrom School of Business starting in January 2026, the project aspires to be a dynamic tool designed to clear capital barriers, reveal resource concentrations, and unearth unmet community development opportunities across Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The prototype map categorizes over 200 organizations into three partner types: Impact Investors (such as foundations and banks), Intermediaries & Aggregators (such as CDFIs and community loan funds), and Investment Partners & System Supporters (such as accelerators and other technical assistance providers). The team hopes to make a prototype version of the map available in 2026 or early 2027.