We invest in sustainable agriculture and forestry, local food systems, renewable energy, and local community building enterprises.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and initially established as a real estate investment company in 1995 to invest in the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Highlands SRI has become increasingly drawn to innovative social enterprises that are locally focused and responding to the needs of marginalized and underfunded communities.
We recognize that a lack of access to capital for communities comprised of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color is both a symptom and a cause of a broken, extractive economic system based on racism and inequity, that this is a global phenomenon, and that low-cost, patient, integrated capital is needed to build capacity, diversify wealth systems, and promote racial and economic equity.