Good for the People.
Good for the Planet.

Rural Beacon Initiative partners with those most impacted by the climate crisis today to build the most impactful solutions of tomorrow.

About Us

Rural Beacon Initiative (RBI) is a North Carolina-based social enterprise, committed to advancing business sustainability and local ownership in regenerative and renewable supply chains.

Our Work

Deployed Projects

Effectuating innovative models of sustainability through our flagship hub

Consultations and Education

Empowering partners with support necessary to develop place-based projects

Strategic Convenings

Convening interdisciplinary group of stakeholder to ideate climate solutions

Our Partners

Justice40: A Time for Righteous Investment

Justice40: A Time for Righteous Investment

Justice 40 is a Community Engagement Project between the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice.


Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice

Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice

The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate justice connects the dots on environmental, transportation, climate, energy, economic, health and racial justice.



Foodshed Capital

Foodshed Capital

Foodshed Capital exists to build more equitable, regenerative foodsheds. They prioritize borrowers who have historically faced difficulty accessing capital through traditional lenders, particularly low-income, BIPOC, female, immigrant, LGBTQ, or indigenous individuals.



Croatan Institute

Croatan Institute

Croatan Institute is an independent nonprofit research and action institute whose mission is to build social equity and ecological resilience through reparative capital.





Providence Omnistructure

Providence Omnistructure

Providence Omnistructure is a social enterprise delivering connectivity for abundance. Providence accomplishes this audacious mission by maximizing social impacts, building digital infrastructure, curating content and delivering connectivity necessary for thriving, future-ready communities.


Modernist Communication Strategies

Modernist Communication Strategies

Modernist Communication Strategies is a mission-driven marketing and communications agency focused on helping social entrepreneurs catalyze groundbreaking ideas with digital marketing strategy.


Coalition for Green Capital

Coalition for Green Capital

Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) is a non-profit with a mission to halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies. CGC achieves this by advocating for, creating, and implementing Green Bank finance institutions.


Good Solar USA

Good Solar USA

Good Solar provides education, advocacy, and consulting services in the renewable energy industry to and for the benefit of nonprofit and other tax-exempt organizations and low- and moderate-income communities.



Mana Group

Mana Group

Mana Group provides strategic guidance as the trusted voice between national and rural stakeholders for a sustained clean energy economy.






“If there is to be a future, each of us is met with a moral and generational obligation not to despair, but to continue to work to effect change; not just to strive for it, but to see it enacted. In doing so, we redeem ourselves and prove ourselves worthy of this great human experiment.”

William J. Barber III, Founder