About Us
Whether you are a nonprofit seeking to grow your impact, or a minority-owned small business looking to grow your revenue, we will walk alongside you to achieve your goals.
Our mission is your mission
Serving nonprofits
Incorporated as a nonprofit and operating like a true social enterprise, Mission Edge specializes in fiscal sponsorship, accounting, and HR services. We are dedicated to helping nonprofits scale their organization and ultimately create more positive social change via their missions.
Transforming small businesses
In the Impact Lab we create lasting change by supporting low-to-moderate income earners and people of color with focused CFO expertise so they can use their small businesses as a vehicle for upward socioeconomic mobility.
Our Story
We were founded in 2011 as a response to what our CEO and co-founder Ken Davenport flagged as a fundamental challenge for nonprofits: how to afford quality accounting so that they could better run their organizations. By hiring good accountants on an outsourced basis, the belief was that we could provide strong operational support at an affordable cost, while freeing the nonprofit to focus on what they do best: serving the community. And Mission Edge was born!
Our core accounting practice soon evolved to include Human Resources support and Fiscal Sponsorship. Since then, we have added philanthropically supported programming in the Impact Lab that helps small business owners who identify as low-to-moderate income earners or people of color grow their businesses and improve their livelihoods.
Our growth trajectory is in total alignment with what we try to show our clients: that financial sustainability is essential, and that experimentation and growth to serve the community is a journey worth taking.
Our Values
Be Transparent
We know that an honest and open culture is fundamental, so we share information and feedback early and often.
Never Settle
Our entrepreneurial culture means we just don’t settle for the present state of things when we know there is a better way.
Enjoy the Journey
We know lasting social impact doesn’t happen over night, so we value the journey as much as the destination.
Leverage Our Circle
We’re humble and know we aren’t experts at everything, so we foster and leverage relationships in our network.
Teach by Doing
We believe actions speak louder than words, so we are models through our behavior, both for our clients and with our coworkers.