Portfolio
Impact Multiplier
We meet the demands of complex challenges with creativity, a high tolerance for risk, a willingness to be catalytic with capital, and an emphasis on developing the next generation.
Our endowment is 100% mission-aligned, from the program work we perform alongside amazing partners to direct investments, alternatives, and public equities. We work to find and fund solutions that help more people thrive.
projects and companies we are proud to be a part of
Leadership Experience (LX)
The Leadership Experience (LX) envisions a future in which Christian marketplace leaders are known and supported through durable friendships that glorify God, friendships that produce contagious generosity and lives of integrity. We didn't invest in LX from the outside; we helped build it. Access Ventures became involved in 2015, and the vision solidified when the founding board incorporated LX as a nonprofit in 2019. We remain a committed strategic partner today.
CreativeMornings Louisville
CreativeMornings is the world's largest face-to-face creative community with free monthly breakfast talks held in cities around the globe. We founded, funded, and anchored the Louisville chapter, launching it in 2015 as a natural outgrowth of our creative-economy work in Shelby Park. What began as a way to find and connect the city's creatives became one of the most beloved recurring events in Louisville.
Hot Chicken Takeover
Hot Chicken Takeover (HCT) was a Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 2014 by Joe DeLoss and was one of the country's most compelling examples of "fair-chance" employment. We were early investors in HCT, and we exited our position before the founder departed and sold the business. The company has since closed, but the model it demonstrated remains one we're proud to have backed.