New England Community Capital Ecosystem Map

What is the Ecosystem Map?

The New England Community Capital Ecosystem Map is a place-based effort to strengthen the network of New England-focused community 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.

INE 2026 BU Map Session.mp4

April 2026 Project Update

This quarterly check-in provided an update on New England’s Community Capital Ecosystem Map initiated by Questrom students at Boston University and included lessons-learned from similar mapping projects in Georgia and New Mexico. Event participants saw an emerging draft map, provided feedback on further development, and helped strategize how New England's ecosystem might be strengthened in the coming years.

Thank you to the students and volunteers who contributed to the development of the ecosystem map including Hannah Roberge, Jesse Colman, Evan Airey, Vistaar Verma, Victoria Lai, Alexander Orta, Prach Muneegorn, Francisca Ralil, Abigail Setterholm, Catherine Murray, and Aurore Kucaba.

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