About Marc Rand

Marc Rand is the Managing Partner of Community Capital Advisors, an impact investing consultant focused on place-based foundations. While he has experience across a broad array of investment solutions, Marc has particular expertise in designing and managing community loan funds.

Marc is the former Program Director for Loans and Affordable Housing at the Marin Community Foundation (MCF). While at MCF Marc invested more than $50 million in Marin-based nonprofits during a 12-year period with a 0% default rate. Marc also developed one of the nation’s first donor development strategies connected to impact investing and increased available MCF loan capital and increased available loan capital five-fold from $5 million to $25 million as a result.

Marc also serves as Executive Director of American Nonprofits and the Bridge to Bridge Fund that provides short-term financing to tax-exempt organizations. He was also a Senior Partner at Avivar Capital, an SEC-registered investment advisor focused on impact investing.

Marc served six years as a director, two as Board Chair, for Opportunity Fund. Opportunity Fund is a one of the nation’s most successful CDFI microlenders, having invested $138 million in underserved entrepreneurs and low-income communities in 2018 alone. Marc is a sought after expert and public speaker having contributed at several national conferences on nonprofit lending, including serving as guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of Southern California, and the Aspen Institute.

Mark, a graduate of the University of Delaware, lives with his partner in San Francisco.