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New Summit Investments

New Summit Investments is one of the first and leading private market impact fund-of-funds. New Summit has a compelling track record guiding their research and investment strategy. Turnkey Impact …

Kachuwa Impact Fund

Kachuwa Impact Fund is a unique impact investment, appealing to both newer and seasoned investors. From the ground up, impact is the essence of organization, mission and fund. Built for …

Introduction to Regenerative Economics

The Capital Institute is offering a second edition of its online course, “Introduction to Regenerative Economics." The aim of this course is to provide a living systems approach to redesigning our …

UN Global Compact and Five Partner Organizations Ring the Bell for Gender Equality at 75 Stock Exchanges Globally

For the sixth consecutive year, a global collaboration across 75 exchanges (confirmed events as of 26 February 2020) around the world plan to ring opening or closing bells to celebrate International …

Pushing Beyond The Ordinary in Corporate Social Responsibility

We believe that over the next 10 years, effective CSR initiatives of purpose-driven companies will be characterized by three principles: business alignment, user-centricity and …

Getting Serious About SASB: Company Boards, Execs and Their Investors Are Tuning In. What About Accounting Firms?

The importance of the work over the recent years of the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board in developing industry-specific ESG disclosure recommendations was underscored with the recent letters to …

Should universities abruptly divest from fossil fuel industry stocks?

The increasingly charged and polarized politics surrounding the climate crisis have asset managers between a rock and a hard place when considering their investment strategy. Should they abruptly …

IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence

Pacific Community Ventures has worked in partnership with The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to develop IRIS+ for Impact Due Diligence. IRIS+ provides a solid foundation for investors to …

IBM Named Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel

International Business Machines has been named a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock by Dividend Channel, signifying a stock with above-average ''DividendRank'' statistics including a strong 4.2% …

CECP Launches Innovation Partnerships

NEW YORK, February 20, 2020 /3BL Media/--Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) announces Innovation Partnerships, a new model of collaboration designed to support how companies use their …

The ultimate guide to responsible investing

When it comes to investing for most people, the goal is to make money, not save the world. Nevertheless, sustainable or responsible investing (whichever term you prefer) has hit the big-time, …

Who Is the “Best Of” of Sustainable Companies in the Important Annual Rankings? Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – What Reflection for Our Company?

Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the most sustainable company of them all? That memorable line from the Walt Disney Studios’ 1930s classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is being regularly …

As SEC curtails shareholder activism, big institutional investors must act

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is trying to change the rules that govern shareholder proposals and sustainable finance luminaries are pushing back. In November, the independent federal …

Transparency That Drives Impact – Where Next for GRI

GRI continues to deliver the most effective global sustainability standards, while it is focused on doing even more to support companies to provide high quality, accessible and impactful …

Dear Larry Fink: It’s Time to Turn Your Words into Actions ~ Worth

If BlackRock shows true leadership on climate change, the whole world will follow. Larry Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, poses for a picture. Photo by Jonathan Wong / …

GIIN Releases New Report: The State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice

The Global Impact Investing Network has just published the Second Edition of The State of Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) Practice. Based on data from 278 impact investors, it provides the …

Towards Aware and Values-Centered Investing Course

Money Quotient University is pleased to offer “Towards Aware and Values-Centered Investing” to a new group of students. This ten-week, five-session course is scheduled to begin on Monday, February 10, …

Corporate Accountability at Davos a ‘Step in Right Direction’

January 22, 2020 /3BL Media/ - With global leaders gathered in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF), GRI is pressing for action and commitments that support the transition to sustainable and …

What It Means When the World’s Largest Asset Manager Rings a Warning Bell About the Financial Risks of Climate Change

BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, in his annual letter released this week to CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies wrote: “I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.” I …

Facebook – Another Moral Dilemma

A Pew Research study revealed that social media is king when it comes to the news. In the US, 72 percent of millennials read the news via their Facebook, Twitter feed, and other social networking …

Ep. 42: On “The Making of a Democratic Economy” (W/ Ted Howard and Marjorie Kelly)

This week, we sit down with Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard, co-authors of The Making of a Democratic Economy. Illuminating the principles of a democratic economy through the stories of on-the-ground …

Refugee Camps Rely on Renewables

Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp made the switch to clean energy in November 2017 with the inauguration of the largest solar power plant ever built in a refugee setting. (Photo by Yousef Al Hariri …

BlackRock CEO Letter on Sustainable Investing Is a Game Changer for the Global Investor and Corporate Community

BOSTON, January 14, 2020 /3BL Media/ - CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter released today announcing that sustainability is at the center of BlackRock’s investment practices is a major turning point for …

Hello to Year 2020 and the Start of the Third Decade of the 21st Century – Climate! Climate! Climate! is The Dominant Theme of News & Commentary!

It is a favorite pursuit of journalists and commentators at each year-end and the start of the new calendar year to look back and look forward to identify “top stories” and significant trends of the …

Purpose – It Was the Buzzword of 2019 for The Corporate Sector & Investment Community. The Debate Will Continue in 2020

The year 2019 began with an important challenge to corporate leaders from Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock (with more than US$6 trillion in AUM). He writes …

‘Cheaper than plywood’ solar, bargain EVs and youth rising round out 2019

As the curtain closes on 2019, we take a look back at which stories resonated the most with readers in a year when we joined forces with hundreds of other news outlets around the planet to ramp up …

Pioneers Post’s top ten: Your 2019 cheat sheet for social enterprise and impact investment

This year we've covered everything from a transgender beauty salon in Pakistan, to Ethiopia's first domestic drone manufacturer. Get up to speed with our most popular social enterprise and impact …

Outlook 2020: Sustainable Investing & Stakeholder Capitalism

There’s a lot of hand-wringing in the investment world today about the meaning of sustainable investing. Most asset managers have some sort of ESG initiative underway but they struggle to define it …

Sustainable Investing Has Moved Into the Mainstream — and UBS Survey Results Send Strong Signals This is a Lasting Trend

There is no doubt now — the world’s largest asset managers are definitely focused on corporate sustainability and sustainable investing (the two go hand-in-hand) as survey after survey is telling us. …

ESG Is Good for Business: Companies Need to Let the World Know Through Their Actions

I am among the many engaged investors who welcomed the statement by the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies, redefining the purpose of a …

Record 631 Institutional Investors Managing More Than $37 Trillion in Assets Urge Governments to Step up Ambition to Tackle Global Climate Crisis

631 institutional investors managing more than $37 trillion in assets urged governments to step up efforts to tackle the global climate crisis and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, in a joint …

How Positive “Impact Bonds” Build on Strong Foundations

Praxis Mutual Fund shareholders expect us to invest with their values in mind. The Praxis Impact Bond Fund turned 25 this year and through the first half of the fund’s tenure we diligently focused on …

Canada’s second largest pension fund gets deadly serious about climate crisis

As world leaders converge at this week’s climate summit in Madrid to debate how best to shift to a net zero-economy, Michael Sabia is leaving the helm of Canada’s second-largest pension plan having …

Tax Transparency: The Time for Change is Now

On 3 April 2016, the world woke up to revelations in the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper laying bare the murky use of offshore financial services and shell companies, which some individuals and …

Ceres CEO and President Tapped to Serve on U.S. Federal Advisory Committee Focused on Tackling Climate-Related Risks in Capital Markets

November 19, 2019 /3BL Media/ - Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber has been appointed to the first-ever U.S. federal advisory committee focused on addressing the short and long-term financial and …

IRIS+ makes it easier for investors to translate their impact intentions into impact results.

All investors and companies create positive and negative effects on society and the environment. Impact investors seek to maximize the positive and minimize the negative by using the IRIS+ system to …

How to Ensure Opportunity Zone Investments Strengthen Local Communities

For two years, investors and neighborhood leaders in cities around the country have responded to economic Opportunity Zones (OZs) with hope and hesitation. The policy, part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and …

NALCAB, LiftFund and Wells Fargo Announce Launch of Largest National Loan Fund for the Growth of Latino-Owned Small Businesses

The Wells Fargo Foundation has made a historic $10 million grant to NALCAB — National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders — to support growth-oriented lending to minority-owned …

United Nations network signs landmark impact investing agreement

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) have agreed a joint plan to focus capital and solutions towards the UN Sustainable Development …

Second Sustainable Finance Week Convened by Bloomberg to Accelerate the Next $10 Trillion of Sustainable Investment

The second annual Sustainable Finance Week convened by Bloomberg will expand beyond events in New York to Toronto this year. Taking place during the first week of December, Sustainable Finance …

The Future Of The CDFI Movement

PCV CEO Bulbul Gupta Speaks On Domestic Policy Conference on Economic Inclusion and Growth at the Clinton Presidential Center On November 20, President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State …

Which of these mining companies will survive the transition away from coal?

Coal mines are in trouble. Investors continue to flee the sector, while once-giant companies like Murray Energy are declaring bankruptcy. With the coal mining sector on the ropes, now is a great time …

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