Empowering Local Business
“Our mission is to leverage the capital, capabilities and connections of our partners to uplift businesses owned by and hiring from historically marginalized communities.”
Core Values
1. Entrepreneurship: Reward risk-taking, persistence and hard work.
2. Servant leadership: “Pay it forward”, volunteer-led organization
3. Connecting: Bridge between impact investors & business community
4. Community impact: Closing the wealth gap and creating jobs
Our Goal
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Build a $3M evergreen loan fund, generate $100M in community wealth and 1,000 jobs over the next 10 years.
Our Belief
At NLP, we firmly believe that entrepreneurship is a key solution for closing the wealth gap and creating jobs. We work with business owners and support communities facing under-employment and lower socioeconomic conditions.
Our Founders
Jim Anderson and Eric Jackson, co-founders of NLP, believe in the power of collaboration in philanthropy. They recognized the need to bring like-minded individuals together to support business owners working to address economic disparities.
Our Team​​
Next Level Partners is 100% volunteer led. We are a zero-overhead, no-fee model supported by like-minded individuals and businesses who believe in this mission.
What our Partners are Saying
“NLP is a different form of philanthropy, we seek to create opportunity, not charity.”
“Impact investing through donor-advised funds & tremendous advisory services... this is NLP’s secret sauce.”
“We believe the best social program is a job.”
