Invest with Values

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

As You Sow

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Promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy.

Intentional Endowments Network

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Intentional Endowments Network is an emerging vehicle for collaboration among decision makers and stakeholders involved with various aspects of the endowment investing system.

SRI-CONNECT

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SRI-CONNECT is the global marketplace for SRI & corporate governance research. It is where institutional investors & quoted companies involved in sustainable development meet online.

Sonen Capital

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Sonen Capital is a specialized investment management firm dedicated to investors seeking financial returns with lasting social and environmental impact.

Cornerstone Capital Group

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Woman-owned financial services firm based in New York offering investment banking and strategic consulting and investment management capabilities.

The Crowd Cafe

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The CrowdCafe is an education and advocacy platform for the investment crowdfunding industry. Our goal is to promote greater awareness and understanding of the industry _ speaking to the enormous value it holds for businesses, investors and the economy at large _ by providing data-driven research, resources, and discussion. Transparency is paramount.

Crowdfunding

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Funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions or investments from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

Kiva

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Kiva. We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

Green Transition Scorecard

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THE GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® (GTS) is a time-based global tracking of the private financial system for all sectors involved with green markets, producing a transparent line of sight toward the ethical progress of wealth building as defined by the triple bottom line of planet, people and profits.

Green America: Community Investing

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Across America and around the world, many communities lack affordable housing, child care, health care, and jobs that pay a living wage. By putting your money into community development banks, credit unions, and investments, you’ll help people with low incomes lift themselves up economically and make the areas in which we all live more equitable and environmentally sustainable.

Eurosif

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Eurosif is the leading non-for-profit pan-European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) membership organisation whose mission is to promote sustainability through European financial markets.

Kiva Zip

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Kiva Zip is part of Kiva.org. It is a small project through which lenders make microfinance loans directly to borrowers in the U.S. and Kenya via the Internet. Kiva Zip was launched as a pilot in November 2011 and moved into its Alpha testing phase in September 2012.

Social Funds

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SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.

Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)

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The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is the peak industry body for professionals working in responsible investment in Australia and New Zealand. Almost every financial adviser, fund manager and consultant working in responsible investment is a member of RIAA together with many other professionals who work towards similar goals.

Community Investment Note

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Calvert Foundation – Community Investment Note, since 1995, more than 13,000 people have invested in our Community Investment Note, which earns a financial return while economically empowering communities worldwide.

CERES _ Investor Network on Climate Risk

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The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) is a network of 100 institutional investors representing more than $11 trillion in assets committed to addressing the risks and seizing the opportunities resulting from climate change and other sustainability challenges. In 2013, INCR turned 10 years old, celebrating a decade of investor action on climate risk.. In 2013, INCR turned 10 years old, celebrating a decade of investor action on climate risk.

US SIF: Community Investing

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US SIF – Community Investing, channels public and private investment to low income and other underserved communities in order to provide capital, credit and training that these communities would otherwise lack.

Responsible Investment Association –

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The Responsible Investment Association (RIA) is Canada’s leader on responsible investment (RI). RI refers to the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria into investment selection and management. We are a national, nonprofit, membership-based organization composed of financial institutions, mutual fund companies, investment firms, financial advisors, and various organizations and individuals who practice and support responsible investing. The RIA and its members strongly believe that RI is a valuable investment tool to enhance returns, reduce risk, and catalyze positive social change.

Trillium Asset Management

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Trillium Asset Management is the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing, managing equity and fixed income portfolios for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, and religious institutions since 1982. A leader in shareholder advocacy and public policy work, our goal is to deliver both impact and performance to our investors.

CDFI

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Community Development Financial Institution, a financial institution which provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations

Calvert Foundation

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Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, they connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

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The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a coalition of faith and values-driven organizations who view the management of their investments as a powerful catalyst for social change. Our membership comprises nearly 300 organizations including faith-based institutions, socially responsible asset management companies, unions, pension funds and colleges and universities that collectively represent over $100 billion in invested capital.

Calvert Foundation

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Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, we connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.

Green America – Shareholder Activism

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From dismantling apartheid in South Africa to encouraging equal treatment for gay and lesbian workers, from convincing corporations to address climate change to pressuring financial institutions to drop their predatory lending practices, shareholders around the world are using their economic power to encourage corporate responsibility. Shareholder votes on social and environmental issues are receiving historically high levels of support. In order to be resubmitted for consideration by shareholders in the coming year, resolutions need to receive at least 3% support in their first year, at least 6% in their second year, and at least 10% in their third year of facing a vote. The 2013 proxy season marked a ten-year high for proxy votes on social and environmental issues, which received 21% support on average.

Microfinance

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Financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses lacking access to banking and related services.

Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

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The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) is the leading association in Asia dedicated to promoting sustainable finance across the region. For over 10 years, ASrIA has provided leadership, helped to build capacity and leveraged the expertise to promote the development of sustainable financial markets and systems in Asia.

MicroFinance Gateway

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Since 2000, CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway has been a valuable resource for individuals and organizations working to advance financial inclusion for the world’s poor. The Gateway welcomes more than 1 million annual visitors from over 200 countries, who recognize the Gateway as the web’s leading resource for knowledge and career development opportunities in microfinance and financial inclusion.

MicroRate

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MicroRate was the first microfinance rating agency dedicated to evaluating performance and risk in microfinance institutions (MFIs), as well as evaluating microfinance funds, also known as microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs). As the oldest and most well-respected organization of its kind, MicroRate’s primary goal is to promote growth in the microfinance industry by facilitating the efficient flow of money from capital markets to MFIs through independent evaluation and increased transparency.

Go Fossil Free _

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It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the climate — so they’re building an unstoppable movement to divest from fossil fuels.

AboutMicrofinance –

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AboutMicrofinance is an aggregator and disseminator of current and authoritative information and resources on all aspects of the microfinance industry.

Africa Sustainable Investment Forum

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AfricaSIF.org is an independent, pan-African, not-for-profit network, knowledgebase and advocate promoting investment in sustainable development across the continent launched in June 2010. The AfricaSIF.org Project is run by volunteers building a network of institutions and individuals promoting sustainable investment in Africa by investors in public, private and philanthropy sectors across asset classes, countries and stakeholders from our platform @ africasif.org.

CARS – Comprehensive Ratings for CDFI Investments by Aeris

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Aeris is an information service for community investors who champion economic justice in underserved markets. Since 2004, Aeris has provided data, analysis, and advisory services that support investment in community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our proprietary CDFI ratings tool — CARS, the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System — helps investors evaluate opportunities that meet their impact goals and risk parameters.

Your Ethical Money

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An independent non-profit resource on ethical money. Learn about how and where your money is invested, search for green and ethical financial products, and find out how you can help make finance more sustainable.

USSIF

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US SIF is a membership association for professionals, firms, institutions and organizations engaged in sustainable and responsible investing. US SIF and its members advance investment practices that consider environmental, social and corporate governance criteria to generate long-term competitive financial returns and positive societal impact.

SRI

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Sustainable and Responsible Investing, or Socially Responsible Investing