Meloy Fund

The Meloy Fund for Sustainable Community Fisheries* was launched in 2017 by Rare, a global conservation organization dedicated to inspiring communities to adopt behaviors that protect natural resources that sustain them. Rare, as a mission-driven NGO, acts as the General Partner, and Deliberate Capital, LLC, is the fund manager.

The Meloy Fund is a first-of-its-kind impact investment fund, focused on proving the triple bottom line viability of investing in fishing and seafood-related enterprises that will lead to better management and protection of these formerly under-appreciated and undervalued natural assets.  Working in the Philippines and Indonesia, the Meloy Fund is disrupting traditional local supply chain ecosystems to provide opportunities to local fishers to secure more sustainable livelihoods. 

The Meloy Fund has been at the forefront of innovation for impact investment funds, notably recruiting a hands-on Impact Committee; creating a robust complementary technical assistance facility that brings focused grant funding to augment capital investments for each investee company; creating new impact measurement dashboard tracking; and supply chain traceability