Green America – Fossil Free
Divest Invest
DIVEST from Fossil Fuels. INVEST in Climate Solutions.
CASE Foundation
Investing in people and ideas that can change the world.
As You Sow
Promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy.
Impact Capitalism Summit
Learn how to deploy capital to make a positive impact while still maximizing returns.
Investing for Impact
Mini-conferences designed to educate investors and investment professionals.
Intentional Endowments Network
Intentional Endowments Network is an emerging vehicle for collaboration among decision makers and stakeholders involved with various aspects of the endowment investing system.
US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends | US SIF
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Zevin Asset Management
Pioneers in Socially Responsible Investing.
Responsible Investor
ESG and sustainable finance news for institutional investors globally.
SRI-CONNECT
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
Sonen Capital is a specialized investment management firm dedicated to investors seeking financial returns with lasting social and environmental impact.
Cornerstone Capital Group
Woman-owned financial services firm based in New York offering investment banking and strategic consulting and investment management capabilities.
The Crowd Cafe
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
Funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions or investments from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.
Kiva
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
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
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.
CARS – Comprehensive Ratings for CDFI Investments by Aeris
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.
CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility
Your Ethical Money
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.
Investing in CDFIs
Some CDFIs take loans from individuals wanting to make an investment
USSIF
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
Sustainable and Responsible Investing, or Socially Responsible Investing
MicroCapital
MicroCapital publishes information on microfinance, SME investing and other forms of impact investing monthly in the MicroCapital Monitor and daily at MicroCapital.org. Since 2005, we have been covering news, events, research summaries and a range of special features on the sector. As impact investing is an emerging industry with a legacy of charity, objective news with a business orientation is scarce. MicroCapital seeks to counter this scarcity by providing candid information with the goal of encouraging rational growth of the industry.
GRI Global Reporting Initiative
GRI promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a way for organizations to become more sustainable and contribute to sustainable development.
United Nations – Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
The United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative is an international network of investors whose goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to incorporate these issues into their investment decision making and ownership practices.
Opportunity Finance Network
Opportunity Finance Network® (OFN) is the national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)—private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream.
UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF)
UKSIF is the membership association for sustainable and responsible financial services. We promote responsible investment and other forms of finance that support sustainable economic development, enhance quality of life and safeguard the environment.
Shareholder Advocacy / Activism
Seeks to change corporate behavior through proposing and representing resolutions at annual stockholder meetings
Vested –
Vested.org is the only online platform where you can invest in the causes and places that matter to you starting at $20.
First Affirmative Financial Network
First Affirmative offers asset management and consulting services to individual and institutional investors seeking to align investment decision-making with personal values and/or institutional missions.
CDFI Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions
The CDFI Coalition is the unified national voice of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our mission is to encourage fair access to financial resources for America.
Social Funds
SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.
Eurosif
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
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
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)
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
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
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.
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US SIF: Community Investing
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 –
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
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
Community Development Financial Institution, a financial institution which provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations
ICCR
Shareholder Advocacy 101: A Primer on Active Ownership
Calvert Foundation
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.
SME
Small Medium Enterprises
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
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
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.